Connecticut western news., 1901-09-05

WASHINGTON, Sept. This discourse of pr. Talmage is full of the breath of the hills and fields and Is a summer sermon; text, Nehemiah, viii, 15, "Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myr- tie branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths
 It seems as if Mount Olivet were un- moored. The people have gone into the mountain and have cut off tree branches and put them on their shoulders, and they come forth now into the streets of Jerusalem and on the housetops and they twist these tree branches into ar bors or booths. Then the people come forth from their comfortable homes and dwell for seven days in these booths or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, 1t Is a great festal time. It Is the feast of tabernacles, and these people are go- ing to celebrate the desert travel of their fathers and their deliverance from their troubles, the experience of their fathers when, travelling in the desert, they lived In booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also became highly suggestive-I will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestive-of our march toward heaven and of the fact that we are only living temporarily here, as 1t were, in booths or arbors, on our way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And what was said to the Jews literally may be said figuratively to all this audience. Go t1,o toi branches and pine branches and myr- tie branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths.
 Yes, we are only here in temporary residence. We are marching on. The merchant princes who used to live In Bowling Green, New York, have pass ed away, and their residences are now the fields of cheap merchants. Where are the men who 50 years ago owned Washington and New York? Passed on. There Is no use in our driving our stakes too deep into the earth; we are on the march. The generations that have preceded us have gone so far on that we cannot even hear the sound of their footsteps. They have gone over the hills, and we are to follow them. But, blessed be God, we are not in this world left out of doors and unshel- tered. There are gospel booths or gos- pei arbors in which our souls are to be comforted. Go forth unto the noun tain and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches and branches of thick trees and build booths.
 We'll, now, we are today to construct a gospel arbor or gospel booth, and how shall we construct 1t? Well, we must get all the tree branches and build. According to my text, we must go up into the mount and bring olive branches. What does that mean? The olive tree grows in warm climates and 1t reaches the height of 20 or 9 feet, q straight stem, and then an offshoot from that stem. And then people come and they strip off these branches some times, and when in time of war the general of one army takes one of these olive branches and goes out to the gen. eral of another army, what does that mean? Why, 1t means unsaddle the war chargers; it means hang up the war knapsacks. It Is but beautiful way of saying, Peace!
 Peace With God, Peace With Man.
 Now. If we are today going to sue ceed in building this gospel arbor we must go into the mount of Gods bless ing and fetch the olive branches, and whatever else we must have we must have at least two olive branches peace with God and peace with man When I say peace with God, do not mean to represent God as an angry chieftain having grudge against us, but do mean to affirm that there is no more antagonism between a hound and hare, between hawk and pull let, between elephant and swine than there Is hostility between holiness and sin. And If God Is all holiness and we are all sin there must be a readjust- ment, there must be a reconstruction, there must be treaty, there must be stretching forth of olive branches.
 There is great lawsuit going on now, and 1t Is lawsuit which man Is bringing against his Maker; that law suit is now on the calendar. 1t Is the human versus the divine; it Is iniquity versus the immaculate; 1t Is weakness versus onnipotence. Man began it; God did not begin the lawsuit. We be gan 1t; we assaulted our Maker, and the sooner we end this part of the struggle in which the finite attempts to overthrow the infinite and omnipo- tent-the sooner we end 1t the better. Travellers tell us there Is no such place as Mount Calvary; that 1t Is only hill, only an insignificant hill, but I persist in calling it the mount of Gods divine mercy and love, far grander than any other place on earth, grander than the Alps or the Himalayas, and there are no other hills as compared with 1t; and l have noticed in every sect where the cross of Christ Is set forth 1t Is planted with olive branches. And all we have to do Is to get rid of this war between God and ourselves, of which we are all tired. We want to back out of the war; we want to get rid of this hos tility. All we have to do Is just to get up on the mount of Gods blessing and pluck these olive branches and wave them before the throne. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ!
 Oh, 1t does not make much difference what the world thinks of youl But come into the warm, intimate, glowing and everlasting relationship with the God of the whole universe; that Is the doy that makes halleluiah seem stu.
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