Mountains of Spices
“My Lord and King,” said Grace and Glory, “what is true love? How can it be recognized?”
“I am love,” said the King very clearly. “If you want to see the pattern of true love, look at me, for I am the expression of the law of love on which the universe is founded.”
Mountains of Spices
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Mountains of Spices
Copyright © 1977 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published with the permission of The Church’s Ministry Among the Jews (Olive Press), London, England.
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-27144
ISBN 978-0-8423-4611-5, Living Books edition
Printed in the United States of America
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Make haste, my Beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Cant. 8:14
Contents
Preface to the Allegory
Chapter 1 Mrs. Dismal Forebodings
Chapter 2 Mountain of Pomegranates
(Love) The Law of Love
Chapter 3 Gloomy and Spiteful
Chapter 4 Mountain of Camphire (Joy)
The Victory of Love
Chapter 5 Bitterness and Murmuring
Chapter 6 Mountain of Spikenard (Peace)
The Atonement Made by Love
Chapter 7 To the Rescue of Self-Pity
Chapter 8 Mountain of Saffron (Longsuffering)
The Suffering of Love
Chapter 9 Death of Old Lord Fearing
Chapter 10 Mountain of Calamus (Gentleness)
The Terror of Love
Chapter 11 Umbrage and Resentment
Chapter 12 Mountain of Cinnamon (Goodness)
The Judgment of Love
Chapter 13 Craven Fear and Moody
Chapter 14 Mountain of Frankincense (Faith)
The Response of Faith to Love
Chapter 15 Pride and Superiority
Chapter 16 Mountain of Myrrh (Meekness)
Heaven Is the Kingdom of Love
Chapter 17 Mountain of Aloes (Self-Control)
Self-Controlled by Love
Chapter 18 Last Scene on the Mountains of Spices
Preface to the Allegory
Here are a few words of explanation to the reader about this book.
Years ago when I was starting out as a young missionary in Palestine I was struck one morning by a correspondence between the ninefold fruit of the Spirit in Gal. 5:22-23, and the nine spices mentioned in the description of the “garden enclosed” and the “orchard of pomegranates” in Canticles 4:13-14. During many happy “quiet times” I studied, with the help of Canon Tristram’s Flora of the Bible and another book called From Cedar to Hyssop, all the details I could discover about the trees and plants listed in these verses and the lessons to be learned by comparing them with “the fruit of the Spirit.”
When, years later, therefore, I came to write this sequel to Hinds’ Feet on High Places, the lessons of those dear earlier quiet times returned to my memory. As, however, the spice trees growing on the High Places of this book are allegorical and not literal, I have not hesitated to adapt, and in some instances to alter slightly, some of the details concerning the actual spices named. The descriptions, therefore, of the heavenly spices on the high places must not be taken as strictly accurate. I have allowed myself a little artistic license!