KEV, OF. BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. THE Subject: ““Maytime Thoughts.” Texr: “A fountain of gardens, a well of Nuing waters and streams from Leb Hon, Me Solomon's Song iv., 15. Boma of the finest gardens of olden times were to be found at the foot of Mount Le- banon., Snow descended and winter whitened the top of the mountain. Then when the warm spring weather came the snows melted and poured down the side of the mountain and gave great luxuriance to the gardens at the foot, and you see now the allusion of my text when it speaks of the fountain of gar- dens and streams from Lebanon. Again and again the church is represented as o garden all up and down the word of God, and it is a figure specially suggestive at this season of the year, whon the ps 1 he orchards are about to put forth t and the alr is filled with bird voi: A mother w } the love of God, and so after the ground had garden, sha too and scattered these all acrossthe bed of the garden, Wed by, and the rains and the sunshine had done their work, and one day the child me in and sald, “Mother, some quickly to the gar- den—come now The mother followed tho child to the garden, and the little child said “Look here, mother. Sea! It is spelled all over the ground in #1 rs, ‘God is Love.'"™ Oh, my friends, wa had faith enough we could see Gospel lessons all around and abe shells the beac ot on the wave, lessons in stars or lessons in flowers all over the earth, Well, my friend there a been created, There magne, and you ren ordered realm and dec what kind of those gardens, decreed that the throughout his realm ¢ and he specially decreed that the Alpine pyrana and French stone, the 1088011 child with spriug-time, in the Seas letters ks passed only lessons in kles , You know very well that beautiful gardens gard of Charle- this king some was tl arden i den spoken of in my t+ dens with the streams Walter Scott had the ; life to build Abbotsf gardens round about it. that he yrd and | sould not comple desired it. At his last ps after laying out ese W that palace of heart broke, hi almost an {mn A few years ago, wi those gardens and 1 th pense they had of that man's | the crimson man 8 broken 1} now of a garder Who can calculate been | nr 1] and the ery garden, and garden of the ® sometimes # with n ynparatively glorious | violets all the y Christians ing fs of th wn fs he stan urtain xl by ¢ ranut r between the thorns an Lord 1 find the Mexi. = within, thorns with- SHAD Ness he LY t saner, but n them r of the love God, are hard mez nen to very apt to strike strike them, yet within and attraction, while cutalde so completely unfortunate, Mexican enctus all the time, Said a placid elder to a Christian minister, ‘Doctor you would do better to control your temeer.” “Ah sald minister to the placid sider, “1 oot wre temper in fiv minutes than you in five years.” These people, gifted men, who have re it fXARpOrS tion of manner and seam to be very different from what they should be wl have in their sonis that which commends them to the Lord, Mexican eactus the time. So a “Do m think man sald to me I ought to be a member of the church? lent temper ACN A Yi Was crossing erday 1 It was very early in the n the han IRIY back when you them all loveliness the trol me all YOArY ago IL Jersey Clty orning, and nilkman putting a large quantity rinto his ean, and | “That is th, sir," and he got off the cart and in. we, and I knocked him down, Well" eal “do you think I could ever become a Christian?” That man had in his soul the grace of the Lord Jesus, but outside he was full of thorns, and fall of brambles, and fall of exasperations, but he could not hear the story of a Baviour s merey told without hav. ing the tears roll down his chook, There was loveliness within, but roughness outside, Mexioan enctus all the time, ut I remember in boyhood that we had in our father's garden what we ealled the Giant of Battle, a peculiar rose, very red and very flery. Buggestive flower, It was called the (ant of Battle, And so in the garden of the Lord we find that kind of flower-the Pauls tnd Martin Luthers, the Wyellifs, the John w in other men ald TALNAGE, | | sympathy, passive ~beautiful snowdrop, but I don't like | takes in his ardor for the | rather than that kind of natere which spends | its whole life in doing but one thing, and i that Is keeping equilibrium, There are snow- i eympathy, | eentury plant, | person in this house who has ever seen more the snowdrop, beautiful na the snowdrop and as eold as the snowdrop. No special That kind of man never loses his patiencs: ha never weeps, he never flashes with anger; he never utters o rash word, Always cold, always precise, always um, I would rather have one Glant of Bat- tie than 5000 snowdrops, (Give me a man who may make some mis- Lord's service drops in all the churches men without any Yery good ; they are in the en of the Lord ; therefore I know they pan { ought to be there, but always snowdrops, You have seen in some places perhaps a I do not suppose there is a than one century plant in full bloom, and when you see the century plant your )~ tions are stirred. You look at it and sa) “This flower has been gathering up its beauty for a whole century, and it will not bloom again for another hundred year,” Well, 1 have to tell you that in f en garden of church, spoken of in my text, there is a con tury plant, In on gathered up ite bloom ages of eternity, and 19 centuries ago | forth ita glory. It is notonly a century but a passion flower Christ, a crimson flo and blood on the les Jesus, the centur Ow this the fron , Bad winds , and winds from the east, 1 the west, and scatter tho wer through all Nations, Eis worth, if all the Nations know, Pure the whole earth would love Him ton Thou, the Chri R e of Ory | y further and sa is ag cause of no ail the ages, l myrrh at the ARCOS, the ! npared to a garden A irrigation, Ther garden without garden in the Rocky mountains, ant those n luxuriano like the gar- barrenness world, but ym whenoe river the ne oily « 4 vA streams wash untains UU oan bled at my foe of Christ, pardon frou fort fr Bir : in this th ers turned « the piace bw Ms water and thre 1 hear His » 128 the lfting « a o My i Ter the little well ] tortid : i Mo and A the He has a right to fare of the Garde { we say © “The Thy will be noticed that king's garden there is a high wa wi at the wall of a King's ‘How 1 would Hk» to ses and while you were er opened the gate age swept through it, and ¥ f the garden, but only y gates closed bless God that this garden all sides ; that they by ¥ in. Oh, how losert when the garden! How nu s soaking in the garden faction which they ean ne 0 t was 80 with Theodore Hook, wh laugh while he was ; wiore on a certain day, when his revelry he caught a glin of own face and his own apparel in the mirror, sald : “That Is true, 1k just as I am-lost, body, mind, soul and estato, lost I And so it was with Shenstone about his gor den, of which I spoke in the beginning of my sermon, He sat down amid all its beauty and wrung his hands and sald, “I have my way to happiness ; I am frantie everything ; 1 hate myself as a mad man ought to Alas, 50 many io the gardens of this world are looking for that flower they never can find excopt in the garden of Christ ! nol grow oponed ns in ¢ f ) je ok omt Substantial comfort wii In sature’'s barren sol All we ean boast til Curist we know Ie vanity and toll How many have tried all the fountains of this world's pleasure, but never tasted of the | stream from Lebanon! How many have re- veled in other gardens to their soul's ruin, but never plucked one flower from the garden of our God! 1 swing open all the gates of the garden and invite you in, whatever your his tory, whatever your sins, whatever your temp- tations, whatever your trouble, The invita tion comes no more to one than to all" “Whosoever will, let Lim come,” The flowers of earthly gardens soon fade, tut, blessed be God, there are garlands that never wither, and through the grace of Christ Jesus we may enter into the joys which are vided for us at God's Ht hand. Oh, come into the garden, An bar, as be b ih por , but it is a gar. and struggles of this life, a garden all of heaven, slope opie Taras ne Death, Tike & narrow That heavenly land no Tur cheapest way to get all the delicacies of the scason is to eat hash. | that ‘wine is a mocker, str I hate | | (Prov SCHOOL | | SABBATH INTERNATIONAL MAY LESSON FOI “1. Text: » Lesson “Against xiii. 20-35 Prov. Intemper Gold. xx. 1 ance,” Prov. en Text: Commentary. SOFrow? bailing? Who hath tells Wha hath Who hath without cause I'he Golden Text ng drink d thereby out ROrrow 29. “Who hath woe? Who hath contentions Who hath wounds redness of eyes?” ing, and whosoever is de wise, Yot there are fof who seem to | refer the woe contention, At least t prefer tl and strong drink, eve eh it bring eive witt and for the One things. d i Woes O i t Al wWaln who have to do 3 ! \ to them ti that they tinue COW or olme rye t {rot ot 1 to be kept fr fe my ways be keg Te thought doath shall King, that to « with Chri to fear that ens he asleep In danger shall I a fusing t I felt it not, Whe it yet again | 34 they make their faces harder i W refuse to return (Jer, » and we will fill oursely and to-morrow shall be as this day and much abundant (Isa ivi. 12 Of such It will doultiess bhoocome tra He that fen reproved, hardensth his neck be destroyed, and that with remedy xxix, 1 And yet God Is not willing that any should perish, but that all should ome to repentance, Heo has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but ories hioploring. ly, Turn ye, turn ye ; why will yo de (11 Pet, Hi, 9: Beek, xxxill,, 11)7 How deceitful and desperately wicked is the human heart Lesson Keiper, and me irink, } Ong mom bed nig suddenly . 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