The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1902-06-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A TALK FULL OF THE SUMNER
SPIRIT.
"Go Forth Unto the Mount and Fetch
Olive Branches and Pine Branches and
Myrtle Branches and Palm Branches
to Make Booths."-Neh. 8:15.

copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N VI
Washington, Sept. 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 un-
moored. The people have gone into
the mountain and have cut OF tree
branches and put them on their shoul-
ders, and they core 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 or arbors. Why
do they do that? Well. it is great
festal time. 1t is the feast of tab-r-
nacles, and these people are going to
celebrate the desert travel of their
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
Il 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 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 audience. Go forth unto the
mountain and fetch olive branches and
pine banches and myrtle branches
and palm branches and branches OF
thick trees to make booths.
We Need Olive Branches.
| Now, if we are today going to sue
coed in building this gospel arbor we
must go into the mount of Gods
blessing 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 l say peace with God, | do not
mean to represent God as an angry
chieftain, having a grudge against us,
but I do mean to affirm that there is
no more antagon:sm between hound
and a hare, between a hawk and
pullet. between elephant and swine,
than there is hostility between holt
ness and SIM And if God is all holl-
ness and we are all sin there must be
a treaty, there must be stretching
forth of olive branches.
There is a great lawsuit going on
now, and it 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 imaculate, it is weakness
versus omnipotence. Man began it
God did not begin the lawsuit. We be
gan it. 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 it the better
Travellers tell us there is no such place
as Mount Calvary, that it is only {
hill. only an Insignificant hill, but
persist in calling it the mount of God:
divine mercy and love far grande
than any other place on earth, grande
than the Alps or the Himalayas, ant
there are no other hills as compared
with it. and l have noticed in ever.
sect where the cross of Christ is Sc
forth it is planted with olive branches
And all we have to do is to get rid o
this war between God and ourselves
of which we are all tired. We wan
to back out of the war; we want t
get rid of this hostility. All We hav
to do is just to get up on the noun
of Gods blessing and pluck these div
branches and wave than before tn
throne. Peace through our Lord Jesu
Christ!
Health for Mind and Soul.
2 But my text goes further. 1t says
GO up into the mountain and fetc
olive branches and pine branches.
t Now, what is suggested by the pin
branch? The pine tree is healthy,
3 is aromatic, it is evergreen. HOY
]. often the physician says to his invali
e patients: go and have a breath c
the pines. That will invigorate you.
4 | WHY do such thousands of people &
e south every year? 1t is not merely t
4 60 to warmer climate, but to get tn
q influence of the pine. There is healt
y in it, and this pine branch of the tex
!. suggests the helpfulness of our hol
: religion. 1t is full of health-healt
e for all. health for the mind. health fo
t the soul. / knew an aged man VIII
( had no capital Of physical health. H
s had had all the diseases you could in
: agins. He did not eat enough to kee
n a child alive He lived on a beverae
O of hosannas He lived high, for b
i dined every day with the King. II
was kept alive simply by the force {
our holy religion. 1t is healthy II
Ugion-healthy for the eye, health
>, for the hands, healthy ft
- the feet, healthy for the hear
= healthy for the liver, healthy for tt
a spleen, healthy for the whole man.
gives a man such peace, such quie
ness, such independence of circun
stances, such holy equipoise. Oh TIL
:. we all possessed it, that we possesst
~.