Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-09-21
A SUMNER SERMON
Discourse Full of the Breath Of
Hills and Fields.
DIR. Taimasc Applies His Text 40 the
world I'm which We Ltve-The
Need OF olive branches In
Every Dap Life.

fields and is summer sermon: text,
Nehemiah viii. -, go forth unto the
mount and fetch olive branches and
pine branches and myrtle branches
and palm branches and branches of
thick trees 70 make booths"
IL seems as If Mount Olivet were
unmoored. The people have gone in
20 the mountain and have cut of
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 com Portable homes and dwell
for seven DAYS in these booths OF
arbors. Why do they DO that2 Well,
IL is great festal time. II is the
feast of tabernacles. and these peo-
pie are going 10 celebrate the desert
travel of their fathers and their de-
liverance 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
IL suggest .ve--I will not say they are
necessarily typical, but highly sug-
| gestiyc-of our march toward Heaven
/ and Of the fact that we are only hv-
| ing temp varily here, as % were, IN
/ booths or arbors. on our way TO the
/ Canaan OF eternal rest And what
was said 90 the Jews literally may
/ be said ficurativcly % all this au-
/ cieuce. Go forth unto the mountain
I and fetch olive branches and pine
branches and myrtle branches and
| palm branches and branches OF thick
| trees 90 make booths.
Yes. we are only here In a tenn
| porary residence. We arc marching
on The merchant princes who used
10 live in Bowling Green, New York
have passed away, and their resi-
ccnces are now the fields OF cheap
merchants. Where are the men who
50 years ago owned Washington auc
/ New York; Passed on There rs no
use in our driving our stakes too
I deep into the earth; we are on the
| march The generations that have
/ preceded us have gone 20 far on tha'
We canao1 o%sn hosx tAe sound Of
their footsteps. Eney hevc gone
over the hill. and we are 20 follow
them. But. blessed be Sod, We arr
not IN this world left out OF doors
and unshcltered. There are Gospe
booths or Gospel erbors in which Gu
souls are 10 be comforted. Go t0rtl
unto the mountain and fetch olv
branches and pine branches an'
myrtle branches and palm hranche
and branches OF thick trees and bull
booths.
Well. now we are rcadyto con~truc
q Gospel arbor or Gospel booth, an
how shall We construct it2 Well. W
must get all the tree branches an
build. According 20 my text, "
must go mp into the mount an
bring olive branches. What doe
/ that mean? The olive tree grow
ia warm climates. and 30 reaches IN
height % 30 or D. feet. a straigl
stem and then an offshoot from Ga,
stem. And then people come, an
20 they strip oil these branches SOM
times. and when In time OF war q
general OF one army takes one
these olive branches and goes out
the general OF another army, VIII
does that meant Why, IL means n
saddle the war chargers il meal
" hang up the war knapsacks- II is b
beautiful way Of saying Peacei
rosy. II we are to-day going
succeed in building this Gosp-l arb
~ Ne must go int the mount OF God
(. blessing and fetch the olive branch'
and whatever elEe we must have !
must have at least two oil
branches. peace with God and pea
p. with man. When l say peace wi
! God, do not mean 90 represent G.
as an angry chieftain, having
p, / crudgc against rs, but ! do mean
!. affirm that there IS no more ants
onisn between a hound and a ha
-. between a hawk and a puilet,
tween elephant and swine. than the
49, Is hostility between holiness and 5
- And II God is all holiness and we 1
all sin there must be a treaty, tn
must be a stretching forth of Of
I branches.
be There is a great lawsuit < )ing
now. and ia j. d lawsuit which man
81 | bringing against his Maker. II
~ lawsuit Is now on the calendar. III
the human versus the Divine. Il is
no | auity versus the immaculate, IL
on weakness versus Omnipotence. \
s.- began IL. God did not begin the Il
d. suit. We began Il. We assaulted
Maker, and the sooner we end
part OF the struggle, In which
~ finite attempts TO overthrow the
finite and omnipotent~-the sooner
re. end il the better. Travellers tell
there is no such place as Mo
Calvary, that il - only hill, only
Insignificant hill. but 1 persist
he calling Il the mount Of Gods d.