The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-06
A SUMMER SERMON.
Discourse Full of the Breath of
Hills and Fields.
DR.. TaImaRe Applies His Text 20 the
World in which We Live-The
Need of olive Branches in
Every Day Life.

This discourse of DR.. Talmage is
full of the breath of the hills and
fields and is a summer sermon: text,
Nehemiah viii, IS, go forth unto the
mount and fetch olive branches and
pine branches and myrtle branches
and palm branches and branches of
thick trees to make booths"
1t seems as if Mount Olivet were
unmoored. The people have gone i'm
to 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 house tops, and they twist these
tree branches into arbors 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,
it is a great festal time. 1t is the
feast of tabernacles, and these peo-
pie are going to celebrate the desert
travel of their fathers and their Ce-
Hverance from their troubles, the eX-
perience of their fathers when, travel
ing in the desert, they lived in booths
on their way to the land of Canaan.
And so these booths also became high
ly suggestive will not say they are
necessarily typical, but highly sug-
gestive-of our march toward Heaven
and of the fact that we are only liv-
ing temporarily here, as it 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 au-
dience. Go forth unto the mountain
and fetch olive branches and pine
branches and myrtle branches and
palm branches and branches of thick
trees to make booths.
Yes, we are only here in a tenn
porary residence. We are marching
on. The merchant princes who used
to live in Bowling Green, New York,
have passed away, and their resi-
dences are now the fields of cheap
merchants. Where are the men who
so 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 hill, and we are to follow
them. But, blessed be God. we are
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