Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-09


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
i am, and yet must say we are all
sick. / have taken the diagnosis of
your case, and have examined all the
best authorities on the subject, and i
have come now totel you that you are
full of wounds and bruises and putre-
flying sores which have not been bound
up or Modified with ointment. The
marasmus of sin is on us-the palsy,
the dropsy, the leprosy. The man that
is expiring tonight on Fulton street.
the heallopathic and homeopathic 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 apothecary. All the leaves
Of this Bible are only 50 many pre-
scriptions from the divine physician,
written. not in Latin. like the preScrip-
tons of earthly physicians, but writ
ten in plain English, so that man,
though fool, need not err therein.
Thank God that the Saviour's gar
ments smell Of cassia.
Suppose man were Sick, and there
was phial on his mautelpiece with
medicine he knew woull cure him,
and he refused TO take II, what would
you say of him2 He a suicide.
And what do you say of n Il man who,
sick in sin, has the healing medicine
of Gods grace offered am, and re-
fuses to take itl II he dieS ne is sui
eide. People talk as though God took
q man and led him out TO darkness and
death, as though he brought him upto
the cliffs and then pushed him off.
Oh, no. When a man is lost 1t
is not because God pushes him
off; it is because he jumps off. In
olden times a suicide was buried
at the cross roads, and the people
were accustomed 10 throw stones upon
his grave. So il seems 10 me there
may be in this house a man who is de-
stroying his own soul, and as though
the angels of God were here 10 bury
him at the point where the roads of
life and death cross each other, throw
ing upon the grave the broken law and
a great pile of misimproved privileges,
so that those going may look at the
fearful mound, and learn what sui
eide il is when an immortal soul, for
which Jesus died, puts itself out Of the
way.
SOME OF THE CURES BROUGHT ABOUT
| BY CHRIST.
| When Christ trod this planet with
foot of flesh, the people rushed after
him-people who were sick, and those
who, being so sick they could not
walk, were brought by their friends.
Here see a mother holding up her
little child and saying: Cure this
Group, Lord Jesus. Cure this scarlet
fever" And others saying: Cure
this ophthalmia. Give ease and rest
to this spinal distress. Straighten this
club foot Christ made every house
where he stopped a dispensary. / do
not believe that in the nineteen CEN
turies 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 benedic-
ton. . Jesus, here We are. We want
healing. We want sight We want
health. We want life. The whole
need not a physician, but they that
are sick. Blessed be God that Jesus
Christ comes through this assemblage
now, his garments smelling of
myrrh means fragrance-''and
aloes es'-they mean bitter slcrificial
memories-''a cassia"-that means
medicine and cure. and according to
to my text, he comes ''out of the ivory
palaces
You know, or if you do not know /
will tell you now, that some of the
palaces of olden time were adorned
with ivory. Ahab and solomon had
their homes furnished with il. The
tusks Of African and Asiatic elephants
were twisted into all manners of
shapes. and there Were stairs Of ivory,
and chairs Of ivory, and tables of
ivory. .hnd floors of ivory, and pillars of
ivory. and windows of ivory, and foun-
tains 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 flash,
ing on the lustrous surroundings. Sill
very music ripping b the beach
Of the arches The mere thought
Of il almost stuns my brain. aud YOU
say: "Oh, if | could only huv,
walked over such floors. II / coulC
have heard the drip and dash Of thos,
fountains You shall have some
thing byttcr than that if you only le
Christ introduce you. From tha
place he came, and TO that place h'
proposes 10 transport you, for hi
"GrmrutS smell uf myrfh. and aloes
aud cassi1 cut of the ivory palaces
THE GRANDEUR ASp MAgYHTcENcE ol
? HEAVEN.
: Oh, what Il place heaven must be
p Tie TuiivIic5 ~ the French, The Wind
r sor castle Of the English. the Spanisl
Alhambra. the Russian Krcmlin, dun
geons compared with IT, Not 80 man,
y castles ON either side the Rhine as oI
; both sides of the river OF God the iyor
1 palaces. One for the angels, insuffel
= ably bright, winged, fire eyed. tempes
q chariotcl. one for the martyrs. wit
4 blood red robes, from under the alta,
N one for the king, the steps Of his palac
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