Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-07
Special to the Gazette.

mi = Were .s present T., and nd
XM I byorgsn and cornet,
M II united In singing
'A~5 William Co1per's
hymn:
There is fountain filed with blood
Drawn from Emanuel's veins:
And sinners plunged beneat, that food
Lose all their guilty stains.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Tslmsge, DID,,
preached 81 eloquent sermon on "The
Fragrance of the Gospel" taking for his
tex: "All thy garments smell Of myrrb
and sloes and cassia cut Of the ivory
palaces "-PSslms XIV, s. He said:
Among the grand sdornments Of the
city OF Paris is the church otNotre Dame,
with iss grea. to wecs and elaborated rose
windows and scuipturing Of the last
Judgment, with the trumpeting angels
and rising dead; its b.ttlemenis Of quar-
telfoil; Its sacristy, with ribbed ceiling
sid s!Stues Of saints. But there YVES
nothing in all that building which more
wildly appealed to my plain republican
tastes than the costly vestments which
laid in osken presses-robes that ha
been embroidered with gold and been
worn By popes and archbishops en- great
occasions, There was robe that had
been Worn by P.us VII. At the GROWING
q the frs. Napoleon. There WAS also a
vestmert tha. had been worn st the bsp-
tism Of Napoleon II. AS our guide opened
the osken presses al0 brought out these
vesImeu!s OF fabulous cost, aud lifted
them up, the fragrance cf The pungen..
aroma'ics in which they had been pre-
selyed, filed the place with O sweetness
that was almost oppresi i've. Nothing
that had been deIe In stone more wildly
impressed me than these things that had
been il cloth, snd embroidery, and per-
fume. But to day open the drawer Ct
this text. and l look upon the kingly
robes Of Christ, aud es lift them, fash.
ing with eternal jswels, the whole house
is
FILLED WITH The AROMA
ct these garments, which "smell OF m7rrh
ana aloes aud cassia on. Of the ivory pal
aces"
In my text the King steps forth. His
robes rustic and blsz, So He sdvaL css.
His pomp and power and glory over
master the spe ctator. More brilliant is
He than Q leensVashti, mcv ne amid the
Persian spiince; than Marie Autoiuette
On the dsy when Louis WI put upon Ter
the necklace Of 800 diamonds; than Anne
Boleyn the Gay when Henry VIII wei
coined her to his palace; al beauty and
all pomp forgotten, while We stand In the
presence OF this imperial glory, King G;
Zion, King Of earth, King OF heaven, King
forever! His garments not worn ont. not
dust .bedrsggled; pus radlslt sid jaw
elled and redolent. II seems IS IL they
must have been pressed hundred yesrs
amid the fowers OF heaven. The ward.
robes from which they hsVs been taken
must have been sweet with clusters Of
campfire and frarkincense,a and su manner
Of prt cicus word. Do you not iuhale the
odnrs? Ay, sy. They smell Ct my1ra
and alces and cassis, out CT the ivory rel-
Sces.
Your first curiosity is to know why the
robes Ct Carist s,e odorous with Dyrrh.
This WAS 3 b.ight-leaied AbYssinisn
plant. Il was trfoiiated. The Greeks,
Egyptians, Romans and jews bought and
sold Ii at = high price. The first preseat
thSt WAS ever given to Christ was sprig
Of myrrb. thrown on his MANTLE bed In
Bethlehem, and the las. gift that Christ
ever had was myfrh pressed into the cup
OF His cruc!ixion. The natives would
take stone and bruise the tree, and then
Il would exude gum thst would estu>
rate all the ground beneath. This gum
was used for purposes Of merchandise
One piece OF il, no larger than 8 chestnut,
Would whelm whole room with odors
l. WAS put in closets, in chests, In draw
ers, in rooms, and its perfume adhered
almost interminsbly to anything that was
anywhere near It. So when in my text
read that Christ's garments smell OF
myrrb, Immediately conclude
THE K1oUIsITE tweKTNKss
OF JeEus. know thstto msDy ne is only
like aIy historical person; another John
Howard; another philanthrc pic O5erlir;
smother Confucious; 3 grand suit jecs for
Q painting; heroic theme for
poem; 3 beautiful form for s.atue;
but 10 those who have heard His
voice, and felt His pardon, snd received
His bepediciioD, He is music, and light,
and warmth, and thrill, and eternal ffas
GRANGE. Sweet 50 friend sticking to
you when sll else betrsy. Lifting you up
while others try to push you down. Not
so much like morning glories, that bloom
only when the sun is coming up, nor Ike
flour -o'clocks," that bloom only when
the sun is gong dow, but like myrrh
perpetuaiiy eromstlc-the same morning,
noon and night-yesierdsy, today, foT-
ever. It seems Is II we cannot wear
Him ont We put On Him ell ouf bur-
denR, { I'll ct Him with all our grisfs, and
set Him foremost in all our battles, aud
yet He Is ready to lift snd to sympnthizs
and to help We hkye-so imposed upon
Him that,oue wouldzhink in eternal at
front He would quit our soul; and yet
to-day he addresses us with the same
tenderness, dawns upon us with the came
smile, pities Us with the same compassion.
There Is no name like His for us. Il is
more imperial than Ca lar's, more ma.
steal than Beethoven's, more coneuerirg
than Cnsrlemague's, more eloquent than
Clcero's. II throbs with ali life. Il
weeps with all pathos. II grosns with
zion. It breRths with all perfume. Who
like Jesus to set broken bone, to pity g
homeless orphan, to nurse sick ma8, 10
take 3 prodigal back without any scoid.
ing, to sillumine . cemetery eli Epio1ed
with graves, to make queen unto God
out OF the lost woman Of the street, 20
catch the
TYAEs OF HUMAN SORROW
in lschIymasory that shall never be
brokenf Who has such an eye to see our
needs. sach lip to kiss away our sor-
row, such hand to snatch rs cut Of the
fire, such foot to trampls our enemies,
such heart to embrace all our necessi.
tiesf / struggle for some metaphor
with which to express Him. he
Is not like the bursting forth OF
full orchestra; that Is too loud. Ha is
not like the sea when lashed to rage By
the tempest; that Is too boisterouz. he
is mot Ike the mountain, lis brow