The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, November 01, 1897, Image 5
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THIS LEDGEH: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOYEMBEU 18, 1807.
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I
DR.
TALMAGE ON
TURE.
GOD IN NA-
Thr Orchard* of Ad»m. of Solomon, of
I'lliitc ami of St. John—Th« Pomolocy
of the liible—The Country Verau* the
1 City.
[Copyright. 1897. by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washington, Nov. 14.—Dr. Tuhnage
finds the divine Land in all the domin
ions of the natural world, and this ser
mon presents religion in its most radi
ant attractiveness. The text is Genesis
i, 11, “The fruit tree yielding fruit aft
er his kind ”
It is Wednesday morning in paradise.
The birds did not sing their opening
piece, nor the fish take their first swim
until the following Friday The solar
ami lunar lights did not break through
the thick, chaotic fog of the world’s
manufacture until Thursday. Before ;
that there was light, hut it was electric
light or phosphorescent light, not the j
light of sun or moon But the botanic
al and poniological productions came on
whole orchard.
Forbidden Fruit.
Yonder is a man with many styles of
innocent entertainment and amusement.
He walks, he rides, he plays tenpins in
private »lleys. ho has bocks on his ta
ble. pictures on his wall and occasional
outings, concerts, lectures, baseball tick-
its and the innumerable delights of
friendship, bet he wants a key to the
place of dissolute convocation He wants
association with some member of a high
family as reckless as he is ullluent He
wants, instead of a quiet Sabbath, one
of carousal He wants the stimulus of
strong drinks. He wants the permis
sions of a profligate life. The one mem-
1 bership, the one bad habit, the one ca-
‘ rousal, robs him of all the possibilities
and innocent enjoyments and noble in
spirations of a lifetime. By one mouth
ful of forbidden fruit he loses a whole
i orchard of fruit unforbirideu.
You see what an expensive thing is
sin It costs 1,000 times more than it
is worth. As some of all kinds of quad-
; rupeds and all kinds of winged crea
tures passed before our progenitor t' at
he might announce a name, from eaj..)
to bat, and trom lion to mole, so 1 uup-
Wednesday—first the flowers ami then Pf° there were in paradise specimens
the fruits. The veil of tog is lifted, and ot ^ klud " f f f l ? ,rea A,ld l “ lh f
I enormous orchard there was not only
there stand the orchards. Watch the
sudden maturity of the fruit. In our
time pear trees must have two years be-
euough for the original family of two.
but enough Iruit fell ripe to the ground
loro they bear fruit, and peach tree's i and ULNLr
th,„. v t iirs .,,,,1 mil it whole towns and villages if they had
three >ears, ami apple trees five years,
but hero instantly a complete orchard
springs into life, all the branches bear
ing Irmt The insectilo torces, which
have been doing their worst to destroy
the fruits for <>.000 years, had not yet
begun their invasion. Thocurculio had
not yet stung the plum, nor the cater
pillar hurt the apple, nor had the phyl
loxera plague, which has devastated the
vine-yards of America and France, as
sailed the grapes, nor the borer perforat
ed thu wood, nor the aphides ruined the
cherry, nor the grub punctured the nec
tarine. nor the blight struck the pear.
There stood the first orchard, with a
existed But the infatuated couple turn
ed away from all these otheT trees and
faced this tree, and truit of that they
will have though it cost them all paia-
dise.
This story of Eden is rejected by
some as an improbability if not an im
possibility. but nothing on earth is easi
er for me to believe than the truth of
this Edcuic story, for 1 have seen the
same thing in this year of our Lord
1 could call them by name, if it
were politic and righteous to do so. the
men who Lave sacrificed a paradise on
earih and a paradise in heart n tor one
sin Their house went. Their library
that I may sleep—I lie awake often and
long—but to hold communion with my
1 God. ” It means what the old colored ,
. man said w hen he was accosted by the
colporteur, “Uncle Jack, how are you?” |
! “I is very painful in my knee, hut,
thank my heavenly Master, I’m cause ,
{ to be thankful. My good Muster just
gib me nuf to make mo bumble.’’ |
••And do you enjoy religion as much
now, Uncle Jack, as when you could go
to church and class meetings?’’ “Yes, I
joys him more. Dcu I truss to de peo
ple, to de meetings, to de sanneut, and
when 1 hear do hymn sing and de pray
1 feels glad. But all dis ain’t like de
good Lord in de heart, God’s love here. ” j
It means sunrise instead of sundown. It ;
means the Memnon statue made to sing
at the stroke of the morning light. It j
means Christ at the wedding in Cana. |
It means thj “time of the singing of
birds is pome." It means Jeremiah's .
“well wateied garden. “ It means Da- |
vid’s “oil of gladness.’’ It means Isai
ah’s “bride and bridegroom.” it means !
Luke’s bad boy come home to his fa- j
tber’s house Worldly joy killed Leo X j
wheu be hea*d that Milan was captured
Talva died cf joy when the Roman sen
ate honored him. Diagora died of joy i
because Ins three sons were crowned at
the Olympian games ISophoeles died of .
joy over his literary successes, and re- j
ligious joy has been too much for many
a Christian, and his soul has sped aivay
on the wing of hosannas
An old a ad poor musician played
so well one night before Ins king that
the nest morning when the musician
; awoke ho found his table covered with
! golden cups and plates, and a princely
j robe lying across the hack of a chair.
! and rich ly caparisoned horses were paw-
orchard a tree which, though stripped
of all its leases and struck through by
m iron bolt as long as your arm, never
theless boro the richest fruit that was
ever gathered. Like the trees of the first
orchard, this was planted, blossomed
and bore fruit all ia one day.
Paul was impulsive and vehement of
nature, and he laid hold of that tree
with both arms and shook it ti’.l the
ground all round looked like an orchard
the morning after an autoirual equinox,
and, careful lest he step on some of -the
fruit, gathered up a basketful of it for
the Galatians, crying out, “The fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance. " The other two
trees of Pilate’s orchard were leaded,
the one with the hard fruits of obduracy
and tbo otner with the tender fruit of
repentance, but the center tree (bow
will I ever forget the day 1 sat on the
exact place where it was planted)—the
center tree of that orchard yields the
antidote for the poisoned nations. There
is in old England the hollow of a tree
where a king hid, and there is in New
England a tree in which a document of
national importance was kept inviolate,
and there have been tra s of great girtli
and immense shade and vast wealth of
fruitage, hut no other tree bad such
value of reminiscence, or depth of root,
or spread of branch, or infinitude pf
fruitage as the center tree of Pilate’s
orchard Before 1 pass this day from
under it 1 would like to drop on both
knees and with both bauds outspread
and uplifted toward the heavens cry out
with all the nations of earth and her,v-
eu: “1 believe in God. the Father Al
mighty. Maker of Leaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Sou, our
Lord, who was conceived by the Holy
perfection ot rind, and an exquisiteness ,
* . j i . . i went Their good name went Their
of color, and u lusciou«mess ot taste ; ^ ,
and an aILnonce of production which it
may take thousands of years more of
study of the science of fruits to repro
duce.
The OrthKrda.
Why was the orchard created two
days before the lish amt birds and three
days before the cattle? Among other
things, to impress the world with a les
son it is too slupid to learn—that fruit
diet ns healthier than meat da t, and
that the former must precede the latter
The reason there are in the world so
many of thu imbruted and sensual is
that they have not improved by the
mighty, unnoticed fact that the or
chards of paradise preceded the herds
and aviaries and lish ponds. Oh. those
fruit hearing trees on the banks of tho
Euphrates and the Gihon and the Hid
dekel! 1 wonder not that the ancient
i Romans, ignorant of our God. adored
Pomona, tho goddess of fruits, and that
all tbo sylvan deities were said to wor-
field of usefulness went Their health
, went Th nr immortal soul went My
friends, there is just one sin that will
1 turn you out of paradise if you do not
! quit it You know what it is, and
i God knows, and you had better drop
j the hand and arm lilted toward that
j bending l ough before yon pluck your
! own ruin. When Adam stood on tiptoe
1 and took in his right hand that one
i round peach or apricot or apple, sc tun
reached up and pulled down the round,
beautiful world of our present residence.
* Overworked artist, overwrought mer-
1 chant, ambitious politician, avaricious
; speculator, he*for take that- warning
' from Adam’s orchard and stop before
' you put out lor that one thing morn.
Solomon's Orchard.
But I turn from Adam s orchard to
Solomon’s orchard With his own hand
he writes, “J made me gardens and or-
ohards.Not. do; eudiHg on the natural
fall of rain, h-- imcnfe.l those orel urd.s
ing at the doorway to take him through Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, «ufTcr-
tho street m imposing equipage. It was
only a touch of what comes to every
man who makes the Lord his portion,
for he lias waiting for him, direct from
bis King, robes, banquets, chariots, man
sions, triumphs, and it is only a ques
tion ot time when he shall wear them,
drink them, ride in them, live in them
and celebrate them.
ftcligion For All Timrn.
You think
for a tuncrul. Oh. yes!
orchard meaus more. Religion is a
ed under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
dead and buried. He descended into
hell. The third day ho rose from tho
dead. He ascended into-heaven and sit*
teth on the right hand of God tho Fa
ther Almighty From thence ho shall
come to judge the quick and the .lead."
St. John** Orchard.
Now, in this discourse of tho pomolo
gy of the Bible, or God amid tho or-
... j ». • , chards, having shown you Adam’s or-
rehgion is a good thing . . . .. , , . i . ,,
... , i> ,'L , , chard and Solomon s orchard anti Pi-
(Jb. yes! But Solomon s . . „ , . , , „ , ■ . ...
J ‘ late s orchard, 1 now take you into St.
. ,i.i John 8 orchard, and I will stop there,
good thing now, when yon tiro in health .. . . ’
* ^ ^ lor having seen that you will wont to
and prosperity and tho appetite is good
for citrons uid apples and apricots
and pomegranates. Come in without
wasting any time in talking about them
and take tho luxuries of religion. Hap
py yourself U.et, you can make others ! ^ all Amm
happy Make just one person happy ev- ^ closc8
wo nothing more. St. John himself,
having koui that orchard, discharged a
whole volley of Come! Come! Cornel
and then pronounced tho benediction:
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ bo
Then tho bnii-
the book, and
ery day. mid m HO year* you will have ! ^ ^ ^ Tbo dtar (jkl ' t „ 0 k
u- V > '’ A ' ) * V c, "' ' J ' i .»/* opened with Adam’s orchard and clor* s
Wellington said after the battle of \\a- i , _ , , _ , ,
of foliage are dropped cut of the air,
and all their beauty is adjourned until
the blossoming of the next May time.
But 12 crops in the heavenly orchard
during that which on earth we call a
year mean abundance perpetually.
The Heavenly Orchard.
While there is enough of the pomp of
the city about heaven for those who
like tho city best, I thank God there is
enough in the Bible about country scen
ery in heaven to please those of us who
were bom in the country and never got
over it. Now you may have streets of
gold in heaven. Give mo tho orchards
with 12 manner cf fruits and yielding
their fruit every mouth, r.nd the leaves
cf tho trees are for “the healing cf the
nations, and there shall bo no more
curse, but the throne of God and of the
Lamb shall ho in it, and his servants
shall serve him, and they shall see his
face, and his name shall bo in their
foreheads, and there shall be no night
there, and they need no candle, neither
light of the sun, for the Lord God giv-
eth them light, and they shall reign
forever and ever. ” But just think of a
place so brilliant that tho noonday sun
shall be removed from the mantle of
tho sky because it is too feeble a taper.
Yet most of all am 1 impressed with
the fact that I am not yet lit for that
place, nor you either. By tho recon
structing and sanctifying grace of Christ
we need to be made all over. And let
uV be getting our passports ready if we
want to get into that country. An earth
ly passport is a personal matter, telling
our height, our girth, the crlor cf cur
hair, our features, our complexion and
our age. 1 cannot get into a foreign
port on your passport, nor can you get
in on mine. Each one of us for himself
needs a divine signature, written by the
wounded hand of the Sou of God, to
get into the heavenly orchard, under the
laden branches of which, in God’s good
time, we may meet tho Adam of tho
first orchard and the Solomon of the
second orchard, and the St. John of the
last orchard, to sit down under the tree
of which rho church in tho book of
Canticles speaks when it says: “As tho
appk? tree among the trees of the wood,
so is my beloved among the sons. I sat
down under his shadow with great/de
light, and his fruit was sweet to my
taste,” and there it may be found that
today we learned the danger of hanker
ing after one thing more, and that re
ligion is a luxury, and that there is a
divine antidote for all poisons, and Iliac
wo had created in us an appetite for
heaven, and that it was a wholesome
and saving thing for us to have dis
coursed on the pomology of the Bible,
or God among tho orchards.
ship her. and tint grow
as k-i t! mplrs You have thanked God
B/r bn :ul a tliGUfuml limes Have you
thankul him for iho iru.ts which he
iiiaci the (i -r course / f food in th.- mean
of the world :; table? The aculs <d those
fruit.- to beep the work; s mMe from be-
were set iq'art i Rieeos of the aqurhurt that vvat< i d
those ganb n.s I Lave .-eui, the n-y.j -
voirs are as > i-rfect as when thousands
of years ago i iei nd, trowel Mucoth-
ow r
um
mg nit
d-
a id tb' ir s-,
'M.S to !.< A I| it
from ticing ton sour?
At this autumn:.! i
chards breathe anti glow, th •
moult, that t!:'..- c. ,i: .-nil, o:
©at roti, cr the yellow, or I
the Ir-tfer r :>no;»r. win!'- rh'.>
0
on how tlie or-
i,
uv<
1 1
pink, or
v. i: may
I'OEiili !< S ‘
fill the ini
ct nc<
Ml these
\. :t , i invitation and rcmim -
yon pa-.> rkroii’ h ihe orchard
autumnal <!:.v- and look no
tin.
4 «.
rtx
ed the moi
No orchard <1
probably over
slaked. The 1:
is . r >S2 fv (t Ion;
?c. t dec p Tin
lers to when ho .-ays,
of water, to va.!i r i
that bring' th torth
use d to ride out to i
breakfast. Hr .. !
something to think
Jesiq Inns, tho !:t
I :r gr. v
n or n.o'!
it-' thirst
4‘ o.c
l-ft (t '
cVvoirs
.. “I n-
n-i
an
id
1;
rrfaef s.
rn li; .o
so well
• reservoirs
i-le and LO
olonicii re
do- n-o p ■: is
: !i the v.-< od
i-( In:, "ii
hard I ••!• r •
ipt-eti;e and
dl the »:■ y
■res nts li’.ni
tcrloo. siiul when bo was m pursuit cf
tho French w ith his advance guard, and ]
Colonel Harv.-y said to hiiu, “General, j
you had better not go any farther, h r
you may be shot at by some straggler ;
from tho Lushes. " And Wellington re- |
plied: “L<-t them fire away The battle
m won and i::y life is of no value now ’’ j
My friends, we. ought never to be m-k- i
less. I at ii ihror.gh th pardi.uuig and
<• - aing gr. - ul Christ, you have gum- i
ed t he vu Tory over sin and tioaiii av.d
hell you t--. <1 l( r nothing on the (Vdtli |
cr under ihe earth. Let all the sharp- [
t*hooters e.f [-< i tiitiou blaze away You |
may iicic on m joy triumphant lu ll- j
gi- a for the t'^:eral I Oh, yes. but re- j
ligmu for th.e wMkimg breal fast, re- i
iigiou f. r the brightest spring niorni-.g
and autuiMi s most goigeous suns t.
R-ligion for the day vvhtn the slot !;s 1
t j jest i-s mu !i a-; when stocks are
with St. John’s orchard. St. John went
into this orchard through a stone gate,
the black basalt of the isle of Ratmos,
to which ho had l een exiled. That or
chard which he saw was and is in heav
en.
One person will err in rpeakiug of
beav. n as ail material, and auothir pi r-
sen describes heaven as all ligvi ; ivo
and spiiitual, and both ar- w* ug
Heaven is !, ith n a'crial and spiritra!,
as vveaio bc.tli matenal and spiiiti !'!.
While much of the Bibb- .avaunt o'
a
heaven Is to Le tidren l.guraMvt'ly
sj,.rit .'lully, it ; pl.'iu to metuat !na
has also a mati rtt.l cxisteuei-. Christ
aaid, “1 go to j n ; aro a place for you. ’’
materia:? (,o v, l.oliai
i,rid building, the jvatis-
a bevvikk r-
Is not a place
done all the v.
fi.'s • f S'.ars
ist as to
tek
4 i
down Hi In
ea v as well ,
tho temper;."
res
tlGIl 1
.(j
ion v.ln n
lor the last gasp; v.
aro is normal us well
a-irenom,
! ! tomai.t
: n
in
tn es l::d< n with
-t on li.i nroand
,. !i 1 lie arms < -1
you hear thnn:
tb whi !i i> t o! 1 v r- [ c.
your ai-es arc and t!i« r
shake tluit semis down a
raid fire on :-.!l Hd' <,!' you Rile up in
baskets and barrels :.ml bins in id on '
shelves and tables -
lie:
pi t “ ca
i tli
-I. t'j'o-
i ovva r o;
ill
, ii.;'
id
But theso oiehurds have
tin: d.-.iiie supply
at
d!
least
Cgiits,
CO
tin
been under tho
c ut lines—tho
• winters, tho
did
«
assault ot
nto:m, the
inseetivora. Whutmit t (Ik first orchard
have been? And yet :t ts the < xylorer’s
ev iitenco that on the she of that orchard
there is not an apricot, or an apple, cr
an oine—nulling but desert and deso
lation There i , not enough to forago
tho explorer s lior-i), i mch less ii> Ii o l
his own hunger, in other words, that
fir-t or. hard i :i 1- 4 ( rclnml Hov
tho proprietor cm: tint proprietress <
all ttiar intereoluii.ination < t Iruitago
let the neli splendor slip their ] os..', s-
eion? It was ns now most of tho or
chards aro lost—namely, by wanting
more. Aoo ; they l:c.'l t'> al! tho fig
trees, apricots, v.: Ii. it- almonds, rqi-
ples— bushels on bushel and were for
bidden ii 0 use of (ady on- tree 111 tbo !
orel-: id rsot satisfied with all but one, i
they reached for that and lost tho whole
orchard
Go right down through tho business ;
marts of the great cities and find among
tho weighers and clerks and subordi- 1
nates men who onco commanded tho j
commercial world. They had a whole !
orchard of successes, but they wanted
just one more tiling—one more house or 1
one more country seat or one more store j
or one more railroad or one more million.
They < lurched for that and lost all they
hud gamed. For one more tree they lost
a whole orchard. There aro business
men all around us worried nearly to j
death The docu r tells them they ought
to stop Insomnia or indigestion or ach
ing at the base of the brain or ungovern
able nerves tel! them they ought to step.
They.really have enough for themselves
tnd their families. Talk with them
j befit their overwork and urge more
prudence and longer rest, and they say:
“Yes. you aro right. Alter 1 have ac-
as
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a h ’ ,! lk. |-
di-t ■ mu' i t
king, in ".l
chariot, i:< <.r
a*-' lev s (•!;. -
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long hair p-
spi ilt! -1 in
had taken 1
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hen it mu lies 104
it uu.y be 1 hold thing to say. hut
id by
1 ter t
in
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th
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white-, n-do in I 1 •;
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f J'\ 1 i::o pur; !c. \\ hose
i-i d witli gold dust,
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peo
it, that if all
to beilei 0? e
! into everlasting h
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, KiiGi:
r, at o.
pint ••
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re
meat to teioe
v !:ero 111
memlons
eu true ljo(!) tos a t:
and a spiritual m main
Cod put all the finv. :.
clous stein
and all the
t; .t no • -an or vvoc:;-.n could afford to
do v.: iiout it Why was it that 1:1 tin-
j. '-.iLie ot tho prod leal son the lir.gi r
nag v.as ( rdered put upon the n turned
w ai l rev s htuid l-oforo tb< shoes were
ordered h r his tind feet? Ar**tn t si;< s
ami a)! thi
ot ours H
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V.* c ,
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Isjro 1‘: m.
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i inphaKis on the tad
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treis
And vvivl-’r;- to <! . nbe »! love t f tho
church l< i hi r I. 1 o writes. “(1 •
fort in-.; with ; fi 1 J sick of
love, "tind de. irn.ig to make refereyco
to tlm whit** hair of thu o' - legt nai'inii,
and just bek-ro ha ving 1:
I Jo." 01.:s f lb: ml t;
ho nays of th •; o d muu. “The aliin ud
t 'i i- shall floarisfi. ' . he walnuts and
the pon-< granaies and the uiaudt-tb. s
| and tin- 1; mako Rnlomou writing • n
divinely ; rrunged fruit basket.
The (.usury <if ItcUgiou.
What mean Solomon’s orchards and !
Solomon s gardens, for they hucmi to
T-iiiigle, the two into one, flowers under
foot and pnmegrarati s over bead? To
me they suggest that religion is u lux
ury All along the world has looked up
on religion chiefly as a dire necessity— ,
a lifeboat from tbo shipwreck, a ladder
from tho conflagration, a soft lauding
place after vvo have been shoved olf tho ,
precipice of this planet. Asa conse
quence so many have said, “Wo will
await preparation for the future until j
the crash of tho shipwreck, until tho
conflagration i» in full blaze, until vvo
reach the blink of the precipice." No
doubt religion in inexpressibly Impor
tant for the last exigency But what do
the apples, and the figs, and the melons,
tmi the ponn granules, and the citron,
ami tlie olives of Solomon's orchard
mean? Luxury They mean that our re
ligion is the lu <■!" !* the at' malic, tho
1 do not !
ii
and all tin
music, and
c. hards 1:1 t..i
jvv mi;' ii was lit
; ativo 1 «
iv; 1 ' 10 .vs ol tr> ■.- each
, and 11 ilif.. r« d 1. .a oth-
- in the fact lh.it the tr> >
micr of fruits T,. le.. j i d
: r.; <f onr eo’.. ; :i: :. Hi!! ; y it
12 di!i' :; ot kinds of fruit a m eu :
G * :iJ:es : .t * c.: 1 1 iij
fruit in * -tii
which n the
1 i:tii p: Ik ;]i.
-:.ie kit d of
. 1.
to
t ra
la^cn,
itierour !• mds
nit.
ty in heavviily juy Jr
ops of ike -an:e 1 md 11
unuuucu in heav '..nJy
comphshed ono more thing that 1 have
on my .mud 1 will hand over my bum- I ‘iho^ri^resc^.'tho
ii''Sh to my sous and go to huropo and
that t ” Oi:r ha.lety vvo rm: t have it
when tin icier of ihe next vverkl is
op-M d. pd r bumuu iiutu.i- will t;;l;o
the nsl: and say, “1 vvili wait until t: ''
doer hr;, .ti* to open. ‘ But show tb . :
the r:;«! int truth, that tlie fahleid (.'od’s
love and pardon ik now laid v. iili
the Iruitr vv.hieli the orchards <>f GikI
I->vo and p.,riiou amt helpfi-.lii'-ss can
Hipjly. and tin y will come m and sit
down with all tne other banqtv.-fers,
t-irrstrlal and eelestiab Ufi, fcleli on
the citrons, and tho applos, and tho
Walnuts, and tho pomegranates of Hoio-
luou's orchard.
In I'fiatcN Orctisrd.
But having introduced you to Adam’s
orchard ai d earned you awhile through
Hohuni 11 s orchard, 1 want to take a
walk with yon through Rilate'sorchard
of three trees on a hill 70 feet high, tea
rumutes walk from the gate of Jerusa
lem After I had road that our great
grandfather uud great-grandmother hud
bei ii driven out ot the first orchard, l
made up my mind that the l/ird would
not he defeated in that way 1 said to
myself that when tin y had been poi
soned by the fruit of tbal one true, some
where. somehow there would bo pro
vided an antidote for tho poison. I said
“Where is the other treo that will undo
tho work of that tree? Where is the
other orchard that will repair the dam-
trans!:
nii
ytar A™ ;
crops of the
ye:.r Net
,iih t - 1 t"
H it im :-:i ! !
dcclar.-* m r.;
it me:.ns 12 e:
fruit, it «!' c lan-s
joy, Mi'l tl ' y are both truo-
Variety? Oh. ycsl N.t a:: (ternity
with nothing but mi-.a; that i:r.i;< ,m
vvik’.li tt u prof nc< -.-d Not; n ct'rnity
of pron rsinii on vvhito horses, that
would be too long in the Guru* s. Not
an 11' rnity ol >vntchmg tbei.wr, that
wo-.J-l |,o t o i.meh ol the pu tute: ['i".
Not an et'. iiiify of plucking frm * ft'-m
the tree ol life; thatwould bo too liueli
of tho In av: lily orchartl But all man
ner i t vanetie.s, and i will till, you *ol
at least 12 of those varii ties. Joy of di
vine worship, joy over the victories of
the Lamb who was slain, joy over the
rep ntant tanners, joy of recounting om
own rescue, joy of embracing old tru-iid*.
joy at recognition of patriarchs, aposth *,
evuugelisti'* and martyrs, joy ut ringing
Imriuouic.s. joy of rekuitting I rokcu
tricnd*hips, joy at the explanation of
Rrovidrntiul mysteries, joy at walking
tho boulevards of gold, joy at looking
at walls green with emerald uud blue
with sapphire and crimson with jasjs-r
and uflush with amethyst, entered
through swinging gates, their posts,
their lunges and their panels of richest
pearl; joy that tbwe ts to tw no subsi
dence, no reaction, no terminus to tho
felicity AM that makes 12 different
joys, 12 manner of fruits Ro much tor
variety Hut if you take the other inter
pretation and say it means 12 crops a
year 1 am with you still, for that meaus
ago received 111 tbo first orchard?’' And abundance That will be the first place
ficit the kind of exhausting hfo 1 have
been living for tho last 110 years. “ Some
morning you open your paper, and, look-
fig at the death column, you find lie
suddenly departed this life, in trying
cent, the foliagi-d, tlie umbrageous
They mean what Edward Ruysou meant
when ho declared, “If my happiness
aontiunes to increase, 1 cannot support
it much longer " it means what Hnpn
1 rend on until 1 found the orchard and
ns center tree as mighty for cure us this
cue bad been for ruin, uud as tbo one
tree in Adam 's orchard had its branches
laden with the rod fruit of caruage, and
the pale fruit of sutlenug, and the spot
ted fruit of decay, and thu bitter fruit
Putlmanji, u Hindoo convert, meant j ol disappointment, 1 found in Rilale s
w- ever got into where there is enough
of everything, enough of health, enough
of light, enough of supernal association,
enough of love, enough of knowledge,
enough of joy The orchards of thfr
lower world put out all their energies
for a few days in autumn, and then,
having yu-l led ono crop, their huuucra
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