Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-03

FIRE, such foot to trsmple our enemies,
such heart to embrace al our nscessi-
ties? 1 struggle for some metaphor
with which 10 express Him. He
is not like the bursting forth Of
G full crchestrs; th1t is too loud. He is
not like the sea when dashed to rage by
the tempest; thst Is too boisterous. BE
Is not ike the mountain, its brow
wreathed with the lightnings; that is too
solitary. Give US softer type, 9 gentler
comparison. We have seemed to see
Him with cur eyes, and to hear Him with
our ears, and to touch Him With our
hands. Oh, that to-day he might appear
to some other one of our five senses
Ay, the nostril shall discover His pres
eucs. He comes upon Us like spice gales
from heaven. Yes, His garments smell
OF pungent, lasting, snd all pervasive
myrrh.
Oh, that you ell knew His sweetness.
How soon you would turn from your
novels. Ii the philosopher lesped out Of
mis- bath in frer ~ Of joy, and clepped
his hands, snd rushed through the
streets because he has found the solution
of q mathematical problem, how will you
feel leaping from the fountain OF .
Savior's mercy and pardon, washed clean
and made white as snow, when the ques-
ton has been solved: "How can my
soul be ssved?" Naked, frost bitten,
storm dashed soul, let Jesus this hour
throw around thee the garments that
smell Of Dyrrh and sloes sud cassia, out
OF the ivory palaces"
Your second curiosity is TO know why
the robes CT Jesus ere ordorous with
aloes. There is some difference OF opins
ion about where these sloes grow, what
is the color OF the flower, what is the
particular appearance Of the h.rb. SAT-
fee it for you and NE 20 know that
ALoRs MEAN BITTERNESS
the world over, snd when Christ comes
with garments bearing ttst particular
odor, they suggest TO me the bitterness
CT SiyIor's suferipgs. Were there
ever such nights SIS Jesus lived through
nights on the mountains, nights on the
sea, rights in the desert? Who
ever had such hard reception
as Jesusshsd? A hostelry the first, IN
unjust trial in oyer and tarminer another,
6 toul-m outhed, yelling mob the last.
Was there & space on His back as wide as
your two flgers where He was not Whipa
ped? Was there space On His brow an
WuctC hC Who AOs SUb
OF the briers? When the spike struck at
the instep, did it not 60 clear through to
the hollow of the foo;? On, long. deep,
bitter pilgrimage. Alces! Aloes!
John leaned his head on Christ, but
who did Christ lean OF? Eve Thousand
men fed by the Savior; who fed Jesus?
TIE sympathy OF the SsvIor's heart going
out to the leper snd the adulteress; but
who soothed Christi Denied both cradle
and death bed, He had e. plaza neither
to be born nor to die. a
poor baoel A poor lsd! A
poor young man! Not 30 much
as taper to cheer his dying hours. Even
the candle of the sun snufed out. On,
WAS Il not aloes? All our sine, SORROWS,
bereivements, losses, spd all the agoniss
of earth end hell picked up as In one
cluster and squst I'd into one cup, aud
that pressed to Ills lips, until the acrid,
nauseating, bitter drsugat was swal-
lowed with distorted countenance, and
g shuddar from head TO foot, and gurg-
ling strargulation. Aloes! Aloes! !
Nothing but sloes. All this for Himself?
All this TO get the fame in the world OF
being msrtyI? All this in
SPIRIT oF STUBBoRNEss
because he old not like Csessl? Nc! no!
All this because He wanted to pluck you
and me from hell. Becaus He wanted to
raise you and me to heaven. Because we
were lost and He wanted US fund Bscsu. e
We were blind and He wanted Us TO see
Because We were serfs and He wanted us
msnumiited. Oh, ye in whose cup OF life
the sacchsrine has pfedo minated; oh, ye
who have had bright and sparkling bsver-
ages, how do You feel toward Him who in
your stead, and to purchase your disen>
thrsllment, took the aloes, the nnslvoTy
sloes, the bitter aloe.?
Your third curiosity is to know why
these garments of Christ are odorous
with cassia. Tris was plant that grew
In India and the adj .icirg Islands. You
do not care to hear what kind of q flower
1t had or what kind Of stalk. II IL
enough for me to tell you that Il WAS
used incidentally. In thst land and in
that age, where they knew but little shout
pharmacy, cassis was used TO arre 8. many
forms Of disease. So when in my text We
find Christ coming with garments that
smell Of cassis, It suggests to me the
healing sud curative power OF the Son of
God. "O1," you say, "low you have q
supeIfuous idea. We sre not sick. Why
do We wasn't cassi,? We are athletic.
Our respiration Is perfect Our limbs are
1.-the, and In these cool dsys we feel we
could bound like the roe" 1 beg to diff
fer, my brother, from you. Nome of you
can be better in physical health than 1
am, and yet must ssy We are all sick. l
have taken the diagnosis Of your crse,
and have examined sill the best authori-
ties on the subject, snd have come now
to tell you thss you are fall of wounds
snd bruises AMI purifying sores which
have lot been bound up, or molli6ed with
ointment. The msrasmus of sin Ia on us
The palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy. The
man that is expiring to- night on Fulton
street.-The sllopathic and hon CO ,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 are dying unless we have
taken the medicine from Gods spoihe-
cary. All the leaves OF this Bible are
only go many prescriptions from
the Divine Physician, written,
not in Latin, like the
prescriptions Of earthly physicians, bat
written in plain English, so that 8 man,
though q fool, may not err therein.
Thank G2d that the SIVior's garments
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