News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

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Suppose a man were sick, and there was a
phial on his mantel piece with medicine he
knew would cure him, and he refused to take
it, what would you say of him? He is a
suicide. And what do you say of that man
who, sick in sin, has the healing medicine of
Gods grace offered him, and refuses to take
it? If he dies he is a suicide. People
talk as though God took a man and led him
out to arknesS and death, as though He
brought him up to the cliffs and then pushed
him off. Oh, no. When a man is lost it is
not because God pushes him of; it is because
he jumps off. In olden times a suicide was
buried at the cross roads, and the peo-
pie were accustomel to throw stones Upon
his grave. So it seems to me there may be
in this house a man who is destroying his
own soul, and as though the angels os
Col were here to bury him at the
point where the roads of life and death cross
each other, throwing 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 a suicide
it is when an immortal soul, for which Jesus
died, puts itself out of the way.
When Chrilt troi 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 l see n mother holding up her
little child and saying: 'Cure this Group, Lord
Jesus. Cure this scarlet fever And Others
saying: Cur this ophtAalmia- Give ease and
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club-foot." Christ made every house where
He stopped a d~ispensary. l do not believe
that in the nineteen centuries 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 benedictiOn- y 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 Col that Jesus Christ
comes through this assemblage now, His
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fragrance-"and aloeSn-they mean bitter
Sacrifcial memorieS-'and cassia THAT
means medicine and cure; and according to
text, He comes tout of the ivory
palaces"
You know, or if you do not know 1 will
tell you now, that some of the palaces of
Olden time were adorned with ivory.
Ahab and Solomon had their homes fur
nished with it. The tusks of African and
Aslatlc elephants were twisted into all man
nerS of shapes and there were stairs of ivory,
and chairs of ivory, and tables of ivory, and
floors of ivory, and pillars of ivory, and
windows of ivory, and founta MS 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 flashing
on the luStrouS surroundings. Silvery music
rippling to the beach of the arches. The
mere thought of it almost stuns my brain,
and you say:
-'Oh, if could only have walked over such
t1oorsi If | could have thrown myself in
a chair! If | could nave heard the drip
and dash of those fountains!" You shal.
have something better than that if you
only let Christ introduce Won. From that
place He came, and to that place He proposes
to transport you, for His garments smell
OF myrrh, and aloes, and cassla, out of the
ivory palaces"
Oh. what a place heaven must be- The
of rha Erannh fhn ~ ~ lcAr Easrln
the English, the Spanish Alhambra, the
Russian kremlm are dungeons compared with
Not so many castles on either side the
Rhine as on both sides of the river OF God the
palaces! One for the angels. insuffer-
ably bright, winged, fire-eyed, tempest
one for the martyrs, with blood
red rO' es, from under the altar: one for the
King, the steps OF His palace the crowns of
The church militant; one for the singers, who
cad the one hundred and forty and four
one for you Tansomed from sin;
me for me-, piucked from the burning. Oh,
he ivory palaces
To-day it seems to me as il the windows of
hose palaces were il umined for some great
ami | look and see climbing the
tairs of ivory, and walking on floors of
vory, some whom we knew and loved on
arth- Yes. / know them. There are father
nj mother, net eighty two years an seven
V nine years, as when they left us, but
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ay. And there are brothers and sisters, mer-
Ter than VIXEN we used TO romp across the
meadows together. The cough gone. TIL can
er cured. The erysipelaS healed. TIL heart
over. Oh, how fair they are in the ivory
'%alaces! And your dear little children that
vent out from ~you-ChTist did not let one of
hem drop as He lifted them. He did not
wrench one of them from you. No. They
vent as from one they loved well to Ore whom
hey Lowell better. If l should take your
title child AMI press its soft face
Igalnst my rough cheek, / might keep it a
title while; but when you, the mother, came
it would struggle to go with YOU. And
70 you stood holding your dying child when
|esus nassed-hy in-the room, and the 1itt;e
our CHRISTIAN dead did not 90 down doaf II into
he dust and the gravel and ths
Though it rained ali thai funeral day,
nd the water came up to the wheels hub as
on drove out TO the cemetery, it made no
Inference to them, for they stepped from
le home here to the home there, right into
le ivory palaces. All is well with them.
II is well.
1t is not a dead weight tina you lift
rem you carry a Christian out. Jesus makes
he bed up soft with velvet promises, and
Ie says: Put her down here very gently.
ut that head, which will never ache again,
n this pillow of hallelu abs. Send I'D word
hat the procession is coming. Ring the ellis.
ing! open your gates, We ivory palacesl"
md so your loved ones are there. They are
ust as certainly there, having died in Christ,
5 that you are here. There is only one thing
lore they want. Indeed, there is one thing
4 heaven they have not got. They
amt it. What is it. Your company.
oh, my brother, unless you change
our tack you cannot reach that harbor.
'Ou might as well take the Baltimore and
)hio Railroad, expecting in that direction to
each Toronto. as to go on in the way some
{ You are going and yet expect to reach the
rory palaces Your loved ones are looking
of the windows of Heaven now, and
ct you seem to turn your back
the sound of their voices as
'eil as you used to, or to be novel by the
ght of their dear faces. Call louder, We de-
ones Call louder from the ivory
alaces, When 1 think of that place,
link of my entering it, L feel awkward; 7
eel as sometimes when 1 have been exposed
the weather, and my shoes have been be-
Ilred, and my coat is soiled and my hair is dis
eveled, and | stop in front of some fine resi-
snce where l nave an errand. / feel not fit,
GO in aS1 am and sit among polished guests.
9 some of us feel about heaven. Weneed to he
need to be rehabilitated before We
} into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, let the
Urges of Thy pardoning mercy roll over us.
want not only to wash my hands AMI my
but, like some skilled diver, standing
/ the pier-head. who leaps into the waves
I'd comes up at a far-distant point from
here he went in. so I want 90 go down an d
| want to come 10. o Jesus, wash me
the waves of Thy salvation.
And here [ ask you to solve a mystery that
Is been expressing me for thirty years. 1
i've asked it of doctors of divinity who have
zen studying theology half a century, and
have given me no satisfactory
lswer. | have turned over all the
,oks in my library, but got no solution to
e question, and to-day | come and ask You
r an explanation. By what logic was
hrist induced to exchange the ivory palaces
heaven for the crucifixiOn agonies of eartha
shall take the first thousand million years
heaven to study out that problem.
.eanwhile and now, taking it as the tender
{ and mightiest of al facts that
hrist did come, that He came with the
likes in His feet, came with thOrnS in His
ow, came with spears in His heart, to save
VI and to save me. God so loved thu
orld that He gave His only begotten Son,
at wbosoever believeth in Him should not
irish, but have everlasting life" o Christ,
helm this audience with Thy compassion.
them down like summer grain with the
irvesting sickle of Thy grace. Ride through
day the conqueror, Thy garments smelling
IF myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the
DRY palaces"
o, sinner, fling everything else away and
Ike Christi TAX Him now not tomorrow.
1ring the night following this very day
may be an excitement in your dwelling,
Id a tremulous pouring out of drops from
l unsteady and affrighted hand, and before
morrow morning your chance may be
)ne.
DIR. GEFFCKEN's imprisonment in the
[oabit Prison in Berlin is described as
comfortable one. He occupies two