Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-07

hsGGs. o., ihat to-day He might sppea
TO scm9 OTTER ore Of eur five senses
! Ay, the nosirll shall discover His pres
ence. He comes upon Us like spice gale:
from heaven. Yea, His garments smell
OF punsens, lasting, and all.peryssivt
myrrh.
On, that you all knew His sweetI es
How soon you would turn from your
J novels. II the philosopher iesped out Of
mis- bath in trer II Of by, and cispped
his hands, and rushed through the
, streets because he has found the solution
of q mathematical problem, how will you
feel leaping from the fountain OF q
S1ylor's mercy and pardon, washed clean
and made white 81 snow, when the ques-
ton has been solved: chow can my
soul be sIysc?" Naked, frost bitten,
storm dashed soul, let Jssus this hour
throw around thee the garments tbs;
smell Of Dyrrh ard aloes and .csseia, out
Of the ivory palaces"
Your second curiosity is to know WHY
the robes OF Jesus are ordorous with
sloes. There is some difference OF opins
ion about where these aloes grow, what
is the color of the flower, what is the
particular appearance OF the herb. SUI
ALOKs MEAN BITTERNESS
the world over, and when Christ comes
with garments bearing that particular
odor, they suggest TO me the bitterness
ct Skvlor's suherings. We're there
nights on the mountains, nights on the
ses, nights in the desert? Who
ever had such hard reception
uri 1st trial in oyer and terminer smother,
s touI-m 1uthed, yelling mob the last.
Was there G space On His back IS wide as
your two e jgsrs whers He WAS not whips
ped? Was there space On His brow an
inch sq1are where He WAS not cut
OF the briers? When the spike struck At
the irstep, did II no! go clear through to
the hollow OF the FOOT? o., long, deep,
bitter pilgrimage. Aloes! AIoesl
John leaned his mead on Christ, but
who did Christ lean OIL? Eve thousand
men fed by the Savior; who fed Jesus?
TIE sympathy Of the SAvior's heart going
cut to the leper and the adulteress; but
who soothed Christi Denied both cradle
and death bed, he hsd a f plaza neither
TO be born nor 10 die. a
poor babe! A poor lad! A
poor young man! No. so much
as 3 taper TO cheer his dying hours. Even
the candle Of the sun Eauffed out. Oh,
WAS II not sloes? All cur sins, sorroWs,
baTesgsmelss, Losses, ard sill the sgonies
Of earth and bell picked up as In one
n i-,-.sr and sQIietzse INTO one cup, and
that pressed to His lips, until the scrid,
nauseating, bitter drsught was swal-
lowed With distorted conference, and
shudder from head to foot, and gurg-
ling strangulation. Aioes! Aloes
Nothing but aloes. All this for Himself?
all this to get the fame in the world oil
being martyr? All this in
SPIRIT OF sTuBBoRNEss
because he did not like Caesar? No, no !
All this beet use He wanted to pluck you
! and me from hell. Becsuse He wanted to
raise yvG srd me to heaven. Because we
were lost ard he wanted US f5und Bscaus e
re were blind and He wanted US to see.
Because We we're serfs and He wanted Us
msnumitted. On, ye in whose cup OF life
tae secceaIire has predominated; oh, ye
who have had bright AMI sparkling bsyer-
sgee, how do you feel toward Him who In
your stead, and to purchase your Olsen,
thrsllment, took the aloes, the nns,yory
aloes, the bitter alec?
Your third curiosity is to know why
these garments OF Christ are odorous
with cassis. TEis WAS plan. that grew
in Iadia and the sd igirg Islands. You
do not csre to hear what kiad Of 6 flower
1t had or what kind OF STALK. II is
enough for me to tell you that 1t wss
used incidentally. In thst land and in
that age, where they knew bu. little about
pharmacy, cassia WAS used 10 ares. many
forms OF disease. So when Ia my text we
tind Christ coming with garments that
smell CT csssia, 1t suggests to me the
healing and curative power OF the Son Of
G2d. "Oh," you ssy, "low you have a
supeifuous idea. We are not SICK. Why
do we want cassiA? We are athletic
Our respiration is perfect. Oar limbs are
1.-the, snd in these cool days We feel we
could bound like the roe.n beg to Diff
fer, my brother, from you. None of you
can be better in physical health than 1
am, and yet must say we are all sick.
have taken the diagnosis Of your case,
snd have examined all the best authori.
ties on the subject, and have come now
to tell you that you are full Of wounds
and bruises AMI pu!refying sores which
have not been bound up, or Modified with
ointment. The marssmus of sin is on US
-:he palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy. The
man that is Expiring tonight on Fulton
street.-The allopathic and home )pathic
doctors having given him up, and his
friends now standing ground to take
HIS LAST WORDS,
is no more certainly dying IS to his body
than you aud are dying unless we have
taken the medicine from Gods apothe-
CARY. All the leaves OF this Bible are
only go many prescriptions from
the Divine Physician, written,
not il LSir, Ike the
prescriptions Of earthly physicians, but
written in plain & lglish, SO that man,
though fool, may rot err therein.
Thank G ID that the Savior's garments
smell Of csssis.
Suppose inst man were sick and there
WAS phisl on bis mantle piece with med.
icine be knew woR'd cure him and he re.
fnsed to take 1t, what would you say CT
him? He Is suicide. And what do you
say OF tnst meu who, rick in sin, hiss the
hea!irg medicine Of Gods grace offered
him and refuses to take It? II he dies he
ia ; suicide. People talk ss. though God
teok msn and led him out to darkness
and desth, IS though He brought him up
to the cliffs and then pushed him OF. Oh,
no When man is lost 1t is not because
God pushes him ca; 1t is because he
jumps OF In olden times suicide was
buried at ths cross roads, and the peo-
pie were accustomed to throw stones upon
his grave. Sd 1t seems to me there may
De in this house man who Is destroying
his own soul, and IS Though the angels Of
God were here to bury hin at the point
where the roads of life and death Cross
each other, throwing upon the grave the
broken lsw and CREST pile Of misim-
proved privileges. SO that those going
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