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Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. Mow to Order by Mall. «If Ww, are not sold in your town, send order direct . Blows sent usnall on; heavy RELIGION IS EVERGREEN. The Olive Branch of Peace, the Pine Eranch of Consolation, the Palm Branch of Usefulness and Pa ictory, Temporary Residence. [Copyright 1981.1 Wasnixaron, DD. C.—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of the breath of the hills and fields and is a summer sermon; text, Nehemiah, viii, 15, “Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches It seems as if Mount Olivet were un- The people have gone into the and put them on their shoulders, and they come forth now into the streets of Jeru- salem and on the housetops and they homes and dwell for booths or arbors. Well. it is a great It is the feast of tabernacles, their comfortable seven days in these deliverance from their troubles, the expe- the desert, they lived in booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also became highly suggestive—of our march toward heaven and of the {act 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 into the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths. ‘es, we are only here in a temporary residence. We are marching on. The merchant princes who used to live in Bowling Green, New York, have passed away, and their residences are now the fields of cheap merchants. Where are the men who fifty years ago owned Wash- ington and New York? Passed on. There is no use in onr 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 hills, and we are to follow them. But, blessed be God, we are not in this world left out of doors and unsheltered. There are gospel booths or gospel arbors in which our souls are to be comforted. Go forth unto the mountain and feteh olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches and ranches of thick trees and build booths. Well, now, we are to-day to construct a shall we construct it? Well, we must get all the tree branches and build. Ae- cording to my text, we must go up into the mount and bring olive branches. What does that mean? The olive tree grows in warm climates and it reaches the height of twenty or twentv-two feet, a straight stem, and then an offshoot from that stem ‘And then people come and they strip off these branches sometimes, and when in time of war the general of one army takes one of these olive branches and goes out to the general of another army, what does that mean? Why, it means unsaddle the war chargers; it means hang up the war knapsacks. It is but a beautiful way of Now, if we are to-day going to succeed in bailding this gospel arbor we must go into the mount of God's 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 I say peace with God, 1 do not mean to represent Cod as an angry chieftain having a grudge against us, but I do mean to affirm that there is no more antagonism between a hound and a hare. between a hawk and a pullet, between ele shant and swine than there is hostility De holiness and sin. And if God ix all holiness and we are all readjustment, there must be a reconstruction, there must he a treaty, there must be a stretching forth of olive branches. There is a great lawsuit going on now, and it is a lawsuit which man is bringing against his Maker: that lawsuit is now on the calendar, It is the human versus the divine; it is iniquity versus the immacu- Jate: it is weakness versus omnipotence, Man began it: God did not begin the law- We began it; we assaulted our Ma- Trav- it the mount of God's divine mercy and And all we have to do is to get rid of but of the war; we want to get rid of this hostility. All we have to do is just to get throne, Lord Jesus Christ! Oh, it does not make much difference what the world thinks of you! But come ipto the warm, intimate, glowing and everlasting relationshin with the God of Peace through our Why do 1 A ord Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on in 10,000 years of war against God we could makes a halleluiah seem stupid, wheels of the chariot of His omnipotence, but the moment we bring this olive branch heaven come on our side. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ, and no other kind of peace is worth anything. But then we must have that other olive branch—peace with man. Now, it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There are gun- powdery Christians all around us, and one match of provocation will set them off. 1t is easy enough to get up a quarrel. But my brother, do you not think you had better have your horns sawed off ?! Had not you better make an apology? Had not you better submit to a little humilia- tion? “Oh” you say, “until that man takes the first flop I will never be at peace with him! Nothing will be done until he is ready to take the first step.” You are a pretty Christian. When would this world be saved if Christ had net taken the first tep? wrong: Christ was in the right, all rig and forever right. and yet irat step. And instead of going and . ting a knotty scourge with which to ,e our antagonist, jour enemy, you had bet- er get up on the radiant mount where Christ suffered for His enemies and just take an olive branch, not Stripping off the woft, cool, nt leaves, leaving them all on, and then try on that gospe switch, It will not hurt them, and it will save you, Peace with God; peace with man, If you cannot take those two doe trines, you are no Christian. Wot a oth Sort. 1 aye fn mountain an eto bra and branches.” ays v Svergromn, ten the phy, to i t ; breath van putin t will fluence of the pine. There is health in it, and this pine Pe ch of the text suggests the helpfulness of our holy religion. It is full of health, health for all, health for the mind, health for the soul. 1 knew an aged man who had no eanital of physical health. He had had all the diseases you could imagine. He did not eat enough to every day with the King: he was kept alive simply by the force of our holy reli- gion. It is a healthy religion, healthy for the eye, healthy for the hand, healthy for the feet, healthy for the heart, healthy for the liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy for the whole man. It gives a man such peace, such quietness, such independence of circumstances, such holy equipoise. Oh, that we all possessed it; that we possessed And some one says. “My business is to manufacture horseshoe nails.” Then manufacture horseshoe nails to the glory of God. There is nothing for vou to do that you ought to do but for the glory of God. Usefulness is typified by the palm tree. Ah, we do not want in the church any more people that are merely weeping wil- lows, sighing into the water, standing and admiring their long lashes in the glassy spring! No wild cherry dropping bitter fruit, We want palm trees, something for man. I am tired and sick of this flat, tame, insipid, satin slippered, 18 worth nothing for this world, and it is destruction for eternity. Give me 500 men and women fully consecrated to Chriet, and we will take this city for God in three vears; give me 10.000 men and women fully up to the Christian standard; in. ten wears 10000 of them would take the whole earth for God. But when are we going to begin? We all want to be useful. There is not a man in the pews that does not want to be useful. When are we going to be- gin? Ledyard, the great traveler, was brought before the Geographical Society of Great Britain, and wanted him to make some explorations in Africa, and they showed 1 the perils and all they 1 him all the hard work and a'l the exposure, and after they had tald him what they want. ed nim to do in Africa they said to him, “Now, Ledyard, nn are vou i start?’ He said, “To-morrow mor The learned men were astonished. They thought he would take weeks or months to get ready. Well, now, vou tell me you want to be useful in Christian service. Vhen are vou going to begin? Oh. that you had the decision to say, "Now: now!” Oh. go into the mount and gather the palm branches! But the palm branches also mean vie tory. Well, now, we are by nature the servants of satan. He stole us: he has his eye on us; he wants to keep us. But word comes from our Father that if we will try to break loose from this doing of wrong our Father will help us, and some day we rouse wp, and we look the black face, and we fly at him, and we wrestle him down, and we put our heel on his neck, and we grind him in the dust, and we say, “Victory, vie- tory, through our Lord Jesus Christ!” Ob, what a grand thing it is sin underfoot and a wasted life behind our vacks! “Blessed is he whose trans gression is forgiven and whose sin is covered.” Some one says, “How about the fu- ture?’ What, says the man, I feel so sick and worn out with the ailments of life. You are going to be more than conqueror. But, says the man, I am so tempted, I am so pursued in , You are going to be more than conqueror. I, who have so many ailments and heart aches, going to be more than conqueror? Yes, unless you are so seli-conceited that you want to manage all the affairs of your life yourself instead of letting God manage them Do you want to drive and have God take a back seat? “Oh, no.” you say: “I want God to be my lead- er.” Well, then, you will be more than conqueror. Your last sickness will come, and the physicians in the next room will be talking about what they will do for you. What difference will it make what they do for you? You are going to be well. everlastingly well, And when the spirit has fled the body your friends will be talking as to where they shall bury you. What difference does it make to yout where they bury vou? The angel of the resurrection can pick you out of the dust anywhere, and all the cemeteries of the carth are in God's care. Oh, you are going to be more than conqueror! Do you not think we had better begin now to celebrate the coming victory? In the old meeting house at Somerville my father used to Jead the singing. and he had the old fashioned tuning fork. and he would strike it upon his knee and then put the tuning fork to his ear to catch the right pitch and start the hymn. But, friend, do you not think we had better be catching the nitch of the everlastin song, the song of victory, when we sha be more than conquerors? Had we not better begin the rehearsal on earth? My text brings us one step furiher and branches of thick trees. Now you know very well der the head of branches of thick trees branches would not stand. The first blast then, the booth or arbor must have four stout poles to hold up the arbor or booth, and hence for the building of the arbor for this world we must have stout branches of thick trees. in the gospel arbor. Christianity, not. one easily upset. The storms of life will come upon us, and we want strong doctrine: not only love, but justice; not only warning. omnipotent gospel. branches of thick trees, a schoolhouse. The village was so bad it wae called Sodom, and it was said to nted, and that too, And the people in the schoolhouse sat their teeth in anger, and before down on t el; not only an invitation, but a warning, an omnipotent truthy trees, my friends, Jou see 1 have one or two points, not because forgot to present them, but becausy have not time to present them. | of peace, oH Hh Hine bland: of ergreen conso y, here palm tree oh of usefulness lye Yetory and here are the stout branches f to of ried , air is ith the gladness of God. the arbor, e into the th. 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