. Christian herald and signs of our times. THE GARDEN OF GOD. A Sermon Preached by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, , at Washington, D. C, on theText: Isaiah 58: 11, Thou skalt be like a watered «HE Bible is a greatpoem. We havein it fault lessrhythm and boldimagery and star-tling antithesisand rapturous ly-ric and sweet pas-toral and instruc-t i v e narrativeand devotional psalm ; thoughts expressed*; stvle more solemn than that of Mont*eomer\ more bold than that of Milton,more terribTe than that of Dante, morenatural than that of Wordsworth, moreimpassioned than that of Pollock, moretend
. Christian herald and signs of our times. THE GARDEN OF GOD. A Sermon Preached by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, , at Washington, D. C, on theText: Isaiah 58: 11, Thou skalt be like a watered «HE Bible is a greatpoem. We havein it fault lessrhythm and boldimagery and star-tling antithesisand rapturous ly-ric and sweet pas-toral and instruc-t i v e narrativeand devotional psalm ; thoughts expressed*; stvle more solemn than that of Mont*eomer\ more bold than that of Milton,more terribTe than that of Dante, morenatural than that of Wordsworth, moreimpassioned than that of Pollock, moretender than that of Cowper, more weirdthan that of Spenser. This great poem inngs all the gems ofthe earth into .£S coronet, and it weavesjudgment into its garlands,and pours eternal harmonies in its this Bcok touches it makesbeautiful, from the plain stones of thesummer threshing-floor to the daughtersof Nahor filling the trough for the camels;from the fish-poos of Heshbon up to thePsalmist praising God with the diapasonof storm and whirlwind, and Jobs imag-ery of Orion, Arcturus, and the Pleiades. My text leads us into a scene of summerredolence. The world has had a greatma
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