Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-09-07

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WAsuINGToN Sept. 1.-This discourse
of DIR. Talmage Is full of the breath or
the hills and fields and is a summer
sermon: text Nehemiah, will, 10, GO
forth unto the mountain and fetch oiiVe
branches and pine branches ana myr-
,,e branches and palm branches ana
branches of thick trees to make booths.
IL seems rs If Mount Olivet were un-
noorcd. The people have gone into the
maintain and have cut off tree branches
and nut them on their shoulders, and
they come forth now Into the streets
of Jerusalem and on the housetops ana
thew twist these tree branches into ar
bors or booths. Then the people come
forth from their comfortable homes ana
dwell for seven days In these booths OF
arbors. Why do they do thatf wen,
II Is a great festal time. II Is the fease
Of tabernacles, and these people are go
ing TO celebrate the desert travei OF
their fathers and their deliverance from
their troubles, the experience or tnelr
fathers when, travelling In the DESERT
they lived In booths on their way 10 tue
land of Canaan. And so these booths
also became highly suggestlve-l VIII
not saw they are necessarily typical, but
highly suggcstIve-of our march towaru
heayen and Of the fact that we are
only living temporarily here, as II were'
in booths or arbors. on our way 10 tne
Canaan of eternal rest. And what was
said 10 the Jews literally may De salu
dguratlyely TO all this audience uo
forth into the mountain and fetch oliVe
branches and pine branches and myr-
tie branches and palm branches ana
branches of thick trees to make booths
Yes. we are only here In temporary
residence. We are marching on. Inc
merchant princes who used to live III
Bowling Green, New York, have pass
cd away. and their residences are now
the fields OF cheap merchants. Where
are the men who 80 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
or 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 thls
world left out OF doors and unshei-
,-fed. There are gospel booths or gos'
pel arbors in which our souls are 10 De
cemforted. Go forth unto the noun
trln and fetch olive branches. and pine
blanches. and myrtle branches, ano
palm branches and branches OF thicS
treos and build booths.
4 ,yell now, we are today to construct
tn1ospel arb5. or gospel booth. and DO"
shall we construct 1t? Well. we mus
get all the tree branches and build
According TO my text, we must go vi
into the mount and bring oliv'
branches. What does that mean! Inc
olive tree grows In warm climates anC
II reaches the height Of 20 or y feet
straight stem, and then an onshoo
from that stem. And then people come
md they strip Off these branches some
times. and when In time of war I'M
general Of one army takes one OF thes'
olive branches and goes out TO the gen
oral Of another army, what does tina
mean? Why, 1t means unsaddle IN
war chargers; II means hang up tn
war knapsacks. 1t Is but a Deautitu
,, way Of saying, Peace!
, Peace with God. Peace With Man.
Now. II we are today going to sue
: ceed In building this gospel arDor W
! must go into the mount OF Gods Diess
ing and fetch the olive branches. an
whatever else we must have we mus
have at least two olive branches
peace with God and peace with maj
When | say peace with God, do nc
mean to represent God as an angr
chieftain having a grudge against Vi
y but do mean to affirm that there
no more antagonism between noun
y and n hare. between hawk and pu
LET. between elephant and swine tina
there Is hostility between holiness an
sin. And II God Is all holiness ana
are all sin there must be q read1us
ment. there must be reconstructlol
there must be treaty, there must be
stretching forth Of olive branches.
There is great lawsuit going Q
now, and 1t Is lawsuit which man
bringing against his Maker; that Law
suit is now on the calendar. 1t Is IL
human versus the divine; it Is iniqui'
| versus the immaculate; It Is weakne'
versus omnipotence Man began
God did not begin the lawsuit. We b
10 gan It: we assaulted our Maker, al
70 the sooner we end this part OF Il
struggle In which the finite attemp
10 overthrow the infinite and omnip
tent-tbe sooner we end Ii the bette
u Travellers tell us there is no such pla
as Mount Calvary; that ii Is only hl
N only an insignificant hill. but ! persi
as In calling II the mount OF Gods diyil
ri mercy and love. far grandcr than al
| OIDpT DlHcc vi tuItu. tH"" -
10 Alps or the Himalayas. and there a
no other hills "a compared with 1t; al
b. have noticed In every sect where I
q. cross Of CHRIST is set forth 1t is plant
~ with Olive . hes. And all we ha
- TO do Is to; II Of this war betwe
God and ourselves. OF which we
all tired. We want to back out of t
war; we want to get rid Of this ht
tillty. All we have to do is just to
up on the mount Of Gods blessing a
pluck these olive branches and wa
them before the throne. Peace throu
our Lord Jesus Christi
,s Oh. It does not make much differer
what the world thinks OF you! L
come into the warm. intimate, glowi
and everlasting relationship with
God of the whole universe; that is
10Y rnar makes halIeluiah seem s
Did. Why do we want to have pei
through our Lord Jesus Christ? w
. If we had gone on In 10000 years
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