The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-09-13
A SUMMER SERMON,
Discourse Full of the Breath Q,
Hills and Fields.

| Gr. TnImaGo Applies His Text to thk
World I'm Which Wc Livc--The
Need OF OIivo Rranchcs in e
Every Dny Lifo. s.
Copyright. 1901. by Louis Illopsch. N. III
b l Washington, Sept. l.
This discourse Of Dir. Talmage 10
1ull Of tho breath Of the hills and
nelds and is u summer sermon: toxt,
Nehemiah viii, f5, go forth unto tile
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 Oliyct wero
unmoored. The people havo gono in
| TO tho mountain and have cut OF
tree branches and put them on their
shoulders, and they como forth now
into tho streets Of Jerusalem and on
tho house tops, and they twist these
tree branches into arbors or booths.
Then tho 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 fcstal time. 1t is tho
| feast of tabernaclcs, and these peo-
| pie are going to celebrate the desert
travel of their fathers and their de-
liverance from their troubles, the ex-
! pcrience Of their fathers when, travel
ing in the desert, they lived In booths
| on their way to tho land Of Canaan.
| Aud SO these booths also became high
| ly suggcstiyo-I will not say they are
necessarily typical, but highly sug-
| gestivc-of our march toward Heaven
| and OF tho fact that we are only liv.
Ing temporarily here, as It wcre, in
booths or arbors, on our way to tho
Canaan Of eternal rest. Aud what
| was said to the Jews literally may
be said fgurativcly to all this au-
dlence. Go forth unto the mountain
branches and myrtle branches and
trees to make booths.
Yes, we are only here In tenn
porary residence. we ore marching
on. The merchant princes who used
to i've In Bowling Green. New York,
haYe passed away, and their resi-
dences are now tho fields Of cheap
merchants. Whcro are tho mon who
80 years ago owned Washington and
New York? Passed on. Thcro Is no
use In our driving our stakes too
deep into the earth; we arc on tho
march. Tho generations that have
proceeded us have gone 50 far on thai
wo cannot oven hear the sound Of
their footsteps. Thoy have gone
over tho hill, and we are to follow
them. But, blessed bc God, we are
not in this world left out Of doors
and unsheltcred. Ihere are Gospel
booths or Gospel arbors in which our
souls are to DO comforted Go forth
unto the mountain and fetch olive
branches and pine branches and
myrtle branches and palm branches
and branches Of thick trees and build
| booths. s==3ss8i M
Well, now we r8e ready to construct
n Gospel arbor or Gospel booths and
how shall we construct It lWelx;,SSwa
must get all tho tree branch es| and
build. According to my text, we
bring olive branches b What tsla les
that Hean7 The olive tree wa
in warm climat d
height Of 70 or ~ feet, a s. trass o;
Btem and then IN ofYsh % Z front that
stem. And then people q zone sSg MD
they strip Of these branches sople- ~
| times, and when In time OF war fhe
| general of one army takes ponsaiof
these olive branches and goes out TO
the general Of another army, what
does that mean? Why, It means un-
saddle tho war chargers. 1T means
hang up the war knapsaclss. It is but
o beautiful way Of saying, Peacel =
Now, If we are to-day going to
succeed in building this Gospsl arbor
wo must go into tho mount Of Coda
blessing and fetoh the olivo branches,
and whatever else we must have we
must have at least two olive
branches, peace with God and peace
with man. When say peace with
God, do not mean to represent God
as on angry chieftain, having q
grudge against us, but do mean to
nfarm that there is no moro antag~
oniem between hound and hare,
tween elephant and swine, than there
10 hostility between holiness and sin.
| And IL God Ia oil holiness and we ore
uu SID LuST9 "uSC % u UTe0Cy, LnSr0
| must be q stretching forth of olive
| branches. III
There Is great lawsuit going on
now, and 1t Is lawsuit which man 10
bringing against his Maker. That
lawsuit is now on the calendar. It 10
! the human versus the Divine, 1t Is ini-
! quity versus the immaculate, 1t 10
weakness versus onnipotence. Man
began 1t. God did not begin the law
suit. We began it. We assaulted our
Maker, and the sooner we end this
part Of tho struggle, in which the
finite attempts to overthrow the in
finite and omnipotent-the sooner we
end It the better. Travellers tell us
there is no such place as Mount
Calvary, that it Is only a hill, only an
insignificant hill, but persist in
| csping 1t the mount Of Gods divine
! mercy ana love, far grander than
any other place on earth, grandcr
than the Alps or the 1Iimalayas, end
there are no other hills as compared
with 1t, and / have noticed in every
sect where tho GROSS OF Christ Is set
forth it 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. Wo want to back out OF tho
war, we want to get rid OF this hos
tllity. All we havs to do IS just to
get up on the mount OF Gods bless