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y. I. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., Of Brook.
preached in Chicago on his way home
n a tour Of the C~hautauquas in Missouri
Kansas. The doctor had an enormous
ience. His subject was Sour Experien.
and his text; when Jesus therefore
NJ received the vinegar. John XIX, 80,
sermon was as follow:
Me brigands of Jerusalem had done their
Fk. 1t was almost shutdown. and Jesus
dying. Persons on erpcihxion often lin
q on from day TO day-crying, begging,
sing; but Christ had been exhausted by
otInaltreat Aent. Pillowless, poorlyfed,
ged-as bent over and tied to a lew post,
bare back was intiamed with the seorlrpes
rsticed with pieces of lead and bone
now for whole hours the weight of His
f1y hung on tendons, and, according to
Tom, n violent stroke under the armpits
been given by the executioner. Dizzy.
poning, nauseated, feyerish-a world OF
my is compressed in the two words: II
rst!' . skies of Judea, let a drop of rain
ke on His burning tongue. O world, with
ing rivers, and sparkling lakes, and spray
fountains, give Jesus something to drink.
here be any pity in earth, or heaven, or
M let 1t now be demonstrated in behalf of
royal sufferer. The wealthy women of
nsalem used to have a fund of money
which they provided wine for those
Die who died in c~rucifxion--a powerful
Rlate to deaden the pain; but Christ
nld not take it. He wanted TO die
s. aer, and so He refused the win Eut
rward they go to a cup Of vinegar and
n sponge in it, and put it on q stick of
op, and then press il against the hot lips
hrist. You say the wine was an anes-
ati c, and intended to relieve or deaden the
I'D. BUT the vinegar was an insult. lam
Posed to adopt the theory of the old En-
commentators, who believed that in
Y otits being an opiate to sooth, it was
y pgar TO insult. Malaga and Burgundy
grand dukes and duchesses, and costly
) from royal watts for bloated imperials;
Singing acids for a dying Christ. He
fipk the vinegar.
some lives the saccharine seems to pre-.
INMATE. Life is sunshine on a bank Of
ers. A thousand hands to elan ap-
val. In December or in January, looking
pss their table, they see all their family
ent. Health rubicund. Skies hamboy-
Days resilient. But in a great many
there are not so many sugars as acids.
annoyances, and the vexations, and the
appointments ofliie overpower the sue.
es. There is gravel in almost every
6@ An Arabian legend says that there
D worm in Solomon's staff, knawing its
t4epgth away; inc there is q weak spot in
\ earthly support that Q man leans on,
George of England forgot all the
ndeur of his throne because,
day in an interview, Beau
fFnmmell called him by his first name aud
Pressed him as q servant crying, George,
the bellp' Miss Langdon, honored all
AA World over for her poetic genius, is SO
fried over the evil reports set a1oat re-
ding her, that she is found dead, with an
aytpty bottle of prussie acid in her hand.
1smith said that his life was a wretched
and that all that want and contempt
~ bring to it had been brought, and cries
What, then, is there formidable in a
Correggio's fine painting is hung up
d tavern sign. Hogarth cannot sell his
paintings except through a rattle. An
Delsart makes the great freseo in the
of the Annunciata. at Florence, and
for pay a sack of corn; and there are
9~tleyances and yexntions in high places as
rs in low places, showing that in a great
tsADg lives the sours are greater than the
efs. when Jesus therefore had received
s~inegar.'
IS absurd to suppose that a man who
always been well can sympathize With
who are sick; Or that one who has al
been honored can appreciate the
of those who are despised: or
one who has been born to a
t fortuue can understand the dis
and the straits of those who are
itute. The fact that Christ Himself took
pinegar makes Him able to sympathize
ay and forever with all those whose cup
Ifd with sharp acids of this life. He took
yinegari
the first place, there is the sourness of
ayai. Thetreachery ofJudas hurt Christ's
ifnQs more than all the friendship of His
pies hid Him good. You hayehad many
as; but there was one friend upon whom
put especial stress. You toasted him.
loaned him money. You befriended
IN the dark passes Of life, when he espe-
needed a friend. Afterward, he turned
Hn you, and he took adyana
Of your former intimac. He
6 against you. He talked against you.
microscopized your faults. He flung con-
BIZ at you when You ought to have re-
ed nothing but gratitude. At first, you
d not sleep at nights. Then you went
d with a sense Of having been stung.
difficulty win never be healed for though
aial friends may arbitrate IN the matter
tyfN you shall shake hands the old cordiality
never come back. Now | commend to all
the sympathy ofa betrayed Christ. Why,
sold him for less than ourtwenty dollars.
all forsuok Him, and fed. They cut
N to the quick. He drank that cup Of be-
Soi to the dregs. He took the vinegar.
here Is also the sOuFness of pain. There
some of you who have not seen q well
for many years. BY keeping out Of
gifts, and by carefully studying diete-
Won continue to this time; but O, the
laches, and the s~ideachas, and the back
80, and the heartaches which have been
accompaniment all the way through
have struggled under q heavy mortgage
kysical disabilities; and instead Of the
dity that once characterized you. it is
only with great effort that you keep
from irritability and sharp retort.
Entities OF respiratiousIof DIGESTION Of
notion make up the great obstacle Ia
life, and you tug and sweat
4 the pathway, and wonder
the exhaustion viii end.
fiends, the brightest crowns in heaven
hot be given to those who, in stirrups,
Nj to the cavalry charge, while the gen
bpplauded. and the sound Of clashing
rang through the land; but the bright
Gowns III heaven. ! believe, win be given
nose who trudged on amid chronic ally
y which unnerved their strength, yet all
me maintaining their faith III God. IL
mparptiveiy easY TO light IN a Tsgi1neFt
thousand men, charging up the parapets
b sound ofmerfial music; but i is not
Ky to endure when no one but the nurse
HE doctor are this witnesses Of the Chris
fortitude, Besides that you never
any pains worse than Christ :.
sharpness that stgng through His
through His hands, through His feet
gh His heard, were as great az yours
sDly. He wns ais sick and as weary. Not
tye, or mnscle. or ligaBlept escaped, All
angs Of oil the nations Of an the ages
fessed into one sour cup. He tobk the
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