The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-12-06
BEAUTY OF THE GOSPEL.
DR.. TALMAGE DdSCOURSES ElO-
oUENTLY ON DIVINE SCRIPTURE.

ousNrLY ON DIVINE SCRIPTURE.
The Cathedrai Of NoArs Dame In Pssas
Made the sasjsst q . st.iafing Com
psrisaa-The Symbolic Myrrh. Aloes and
Cassia-some Rich Metaphors.
BROOKLYN, Dec. New members
were received at the Tabernacle this
morning, making the conmunicant
membership four thousand one hun
dred and ninety-two. Multitudes OF |
strangers from all parts OF the earth |
were present, and all together, led on |
by organ and cornet, united In singing |
William Cowper's hymn:
There is fountain filed with blood
Drawn from Emanue's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that food
Lose all their guilty stains.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
preached an eloquent sermon on 1.-The |
fragrance of the Gospel" " taking for
his text: ''All thy garments smell of
myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out OF
the ivory palaces. Psalms xiv, 8.
He said
Among the grand adornments of the
city Of Paris il the Church OF Notre
Dame, with its great towers and elab-
GRATED rose windows and sculpturing
of tho last Judgment, with the tE1lm-
peting angels and rising dead, its bat |
Elements of quarterfoil, its sacristy,
with ribbed ceiling and statues Of
saints But there was nothing in all |
that building which more vividly ap-
pealed to my plain republican tastes
than the costly vestmsnts which laid
in oaken presses-robes that had been
embroidered with gold, and beap worn
by popes and archbishops on great oc-
casions. There was q robe that had
been worn by Plus VII at the crpwn-
ing of the first Napoleon, There was
also vestment that had been worn
at the baptism of Napoleon IL As
our guide opened the oaken
presses and brought out these vest
ments of fabulous cost, and lifted
them up, the fragrance Of the pungent
aromaticSin which they had been pre-
served filed the place with a sweet
ness that was almost oppressive.
Nothing that had been done in stone
more wildly impressed me than these
things that had been done In cloth,
and embroidery, and perfume. But
today | open the drawer of this text,
and look upon the kingly robes of
Christ, and as lift them, flashing with
eternal jewels, tho whole house is filled
with the aroma of these garments,
which ''smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of tho ivory palaces"
In my text the king steps forth.
His robes rustic and blaze as he ad-
yances. His pomp and power and
glory oyermaster the spectator. More
brilliant is he than Queen Vashti, NOV
ing amid the Persian princes; than
Marie AntOinetto on the day when
Louis XVI put upon her the necklace
of eight hundred diamonds; than Anne
Boleyn tho day when Henry VIII vel
coined her to his palace; all beauty
and all pomp forgotten, while we
stand in the presence of this imperial
King of heaven, King foreverl
dust bedraggled; but radiant and
jewsled and redole9t. 1t seems
as if they must have Been pressed a
hundred years amid the flowers OF
heaven The wardrobes from which
they have been taken must have been
sweet with clusters of campfire and
a;ons rgood To von not inbaIe fbs
odors7 Ay, ay. They smell of myrrh,
and aloes, and cassia, out OF the
ivory palaces
THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF
MYRRE
Your first curiosity is to know why
thd robes of Christ are odorous with
myrrh. This was bright leafed
Abyssinian plant. 1t was trifoliated
The Greeks Eo-Dvtians. Romans and
Jews BOUGHT and sold it at a high
nrice. The first present that was ever
given 10 Chris; was n sprip of myrrh.
fhrown on his ;nfantiia bed In Beth
iebem and fhc last gift that Christ
ever had VS. IirTrh pressed into the
cun r. -,5.c;ljyion. The natives
woi,l N, and bruise the tree,
onJ .Yde a gum that
wo,l 10 ground be-
neoH' yas used for
nnrn, ....jso. One piece
Of xii; i IN chestnut, would
mhaI,, g. ........ room with odors. II
w. 1 49,, IN c,csets in chests in draw.
oms r ,.oon,e and Its perfume adhered
eis, - ;re4a,,,,;,,oblv '1 fo anvtbino that
a or1-Irbnra near Il SO when in
was ~ ~ T rood ihot Cbrist's garment:
iny 1I'N .,,,(,,rb ;nmediatelv con
i1 o1iieI ~ ~ sn,,;ai+o sweetness of Jesus
ipuo TilIour rn1 tI,ot fa nisnv he is only lik,
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sng Itg,.d r,sI' nnotbar ,oIr nb;lanthron;c Ober
~ anofher Confi,cills, a grand sub
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