West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-12-13

Your third curiosity is 10 know whv tbsss
garments OF Christ are odorous with cassia-
ms was q plant that grew I'm India and the
adjoining islands. You do not care 10 hear
what kind OF q flower &c had or what kind OF
= stalk IL Is enough for me 70 tell you that
II was used incidentally. In that
lane and in that age, where they
knew but little about. pharmacy, cassia was
used 10 arrest many forms OF disease. So
when in my text we find Christ coming with
garments that smell Of cassia, it suggests 10
me the healing and curative power OF the
BON Oh Sod. oh you say, now you ha We
y Supernuous Idea We are not sick. Why
TO we want cassiai We are athletic.
Our respiration is perfect. Our limbs are
1.-THE, and In these cool days we feel we could
bound like the roe" / beg TO differ, my
brother, from you. None OF you can be
better In physical health than 1 am, and yet /
must say we are all sick. Ihave taken the
diagnosis OF your case, and have ex.
amined all the best authorities on the sub-
Ject, and l have come now to tell you that
YOU are full Of wounds and iruises and
putrefying sores which have not been bound
up, or Modified with ointment. The maras-
mus OF sin ls on us--the palsy, the dropsy, thu
leprosy. The man that is expiring tonight
on tulton street.-the allopathic and hom0o-
pathic doctors having given him up, and his
friends now standing around TO take his last
words-is no more certainly dying as TO his
body than you and i are dying unless we
have taken the medicine from Gods apothe-
~ M tbO AtaNo " Jill DIDl0 HIM
only so many prescriptions from the ID
vine Physician, written, not in Latin, like the
prescriptions of earthly physicians, but writ.
Ten In plain English. so that a man, though q
TOOL. need not err therein. Thank God tina
the Saviour's garments smell Of cassia.
suppose a man were sick, and there was q
Phial on his mantel piece with medicine ne
knew would cure him, and he refused TO take
u, what would you say OF himl He is a
suicide. And what do you say OF that man
who. sick in sin, has the healing medicine of
Gods grace offered him, and refuses to take
~, III ne dies he is a suicide. People
talk as though God took a man and led him
out to darkns ss and death, as though He
brought him up to the cliffs and then pushed
him OF. Oh, no. When a man is lost II ia
not because God pushes him OFF; it is because
he jumps of: In olden times a suicide was
buried at the cross roads. and the peo-
pie were accustomed to throw stones upon
his grave. So it seems to me there may be
IN this house a man who is destroying his
own soul. and as though the angels or
God were here to bury him at the
point where the roads OF life and death cross
each other, throwing upon the grave the
broken law and a great pile of misimpt owed
privileges, so that those going may look at
the fearful mount, and learn what q suicide
~ Is when an immortal soul, for which Jesus
died, puts itself out OF the way.
When Christ trod this planet with foot OF
flesh, the people rushed after Him-peoplo
who were sick, and those who, being SO sick
they could not walk, were brought bv their
friends. Here / SEQ a mother holding up her
little child and saying; Cure this Group, Lord
Jesus Cure this scarlet fever" And Others
saving; "Cure this ophtAalmia. Give ease and
rest TO this spinal distress. S~traighten this
club-foot" Christ made every house where
he stopped a d~ispensary. / do not believe
that IN the nineteen centuries that have gone
by since His heart has got hard. feel That
we can come now with all our wounds of soul
and get His benediction. o Jesus, here we
are. We want healing. We want sight.
whole need not a physician, but they that
are sick Blessed be God that Jesus Christ
comes through this assemblage now. His
nTgSSaTrmaneGnts smelling OF myErh"-that means
sacrihcial memories" and cassia that
means medicine and cure; and according to
my text, de comes Tout Of the ivory
palaces"
You know, or il you dc rot know I will
tell you now, that some OF the palaces of
oiden time were adorned with ivory.
Ahab and Solomon had their homes fur
nished with it. The tusks of African and
AsiatIc elephants were twisted into all man.
ners OF shapes, and there were stairs Of ivory,
and chairs OF ivory, and tables of ivory, and
noors or ivory, and pillars of ivory, and
windows of ivory, and fountains that
dropped into basins of ivory, and rooms
that had ceilings of ivory. oh, white and
overmastering beauty. Green tree branches
sweeping the white curbs. Tapestry trailing
the snowy floors. Brackets Of light flashing
- - ~ AOhhANAllho EDtiN6II JUS
ripping to the beach of the arches. The
mere thought OF it almost stuns my brain,
and you say:
"oh, if Icould only have walked over such
noorsl IL l could have thrown myself in
such a chairl IL l could have heard the drip
and dash OF those fountainsl" You shall
have something better than that il you
only let Christ introduce you. From that
place de came, and TO that place He proposes
to transport you, for His garments smell
OF mYrrh, and aloes, and cassIa, out Of the
ivory palaces"
oh. what a place heaven must bel The
Iuileries OF the French, tho Windsor Castle
Of The English, the Spanish Alhambra, the
russian kremiin are dungeons compared with
ltl Not so many castles on either side the
Rhine as on both sides Of the river of God the
ivory palacesi One for the angels, ~insuffer-
ably bright, winged, fire-eyed, tempest
charioted; one for the martyrs, with blood
red rote s, from under the altar: one for the
King, the steps OF His palace the crowns OF
tne caurch militant; one for the singers, who
lead the one hundred and forty and four
thousand; one for you ransomed from sin;
one for me, plucked from the burning. oh,
The ivory palacesl
To-day IL seems 10 me as II the windows OF
those palaces were iilumined for some great
victory, and l look and see climbing the
stairs OF ivory, and walking on floors Of
ivory, and looking from the window Of
ivory, some whom we knew and loved on
earth. Yes i know them. There are father
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y nine years, as when they left ia, but
5lithe and young as when on their marriage
day. And there are brothers and sisters. mer.
rior than when We used 20 romp across the
meadoW together. The cough gone. The can
Ger cured. The erysipelas healed. The heart
break over. oh, how fair they arein the ivory
paiacesl And your dear little children that
went out from you-ChTist did not let one of
them drop as He lifted them. He did NOT
wrench one Of them from you. No. They
went a. from one they loved well % One whom
they Lowell better. III / should take your
little child and press It's soft face
against my rough cheek, / might keep IL a
little while: bot when you, the mother, came
along, 10 would struggle 70 90 with you. And
- you stood holding your dying child when
Jesus passed by In the room, and the little
one spranR out 20 greet Him That is all.
Your Christian dead did not 20 down into
tho dust and the gravel and the
mud Though Il rained oil that funeral day,
and the water came up 10 the wheels hub as
you drove out 70 the cemetery, 10 made no
difference 70 them, for they stepped from
the home hero % the horne there. right into
ne ivory palaces. All is well with them.
All Is we'll
IL is not a dead weight that you NE
when you carry a Christian ont Jesus makes
we bed mp soft with velvet promises. and
re says. Put her down hero very gently.
Fut that head, which will never ache again.
on this pillow 81 halleluiahs. Send up word
mat me procession is coming. Ring the tells.
iungl Open your gates, ye ivory palacesl1
Aud - your loved ones are thore. They are
Just ~ certainly there, having died IN Christ.
a5 that you are here. There "a only ono thina
mMWM thee WALH LODI g.