Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-12-08
ACCoMAC e. II. VA SATURDAY, DECEMBER s. 1858

him at=the point where the roads Of
life and death cross each other, throw.
ing upon the grave the broken law and
agreat pile of misimproved privileges,
so that those going may look at the
fearful mound, and learn what sui.
eide it is when an immortal soul, for
which Jesus died, puts itself out of the
way.
SOME OF THE CURE. DROUGHT ABOUT
BY CHRIST.
When Christ trod this planet with
foot of flesh, the people rushed after
him-peoplc 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 dispensary. do
not believe that in the nineteen cen
turtles that have gone by since his
heart has got hard I feel that we
come slo ttlllssal sonr wounds
ss g BE- benedias
lesns If
sheatmg We Want sig lit. We want
health. We want Life. The whole
need not q physician, but they that
ore sick. Blessed be God that Jesus
Christ comes through this assemblage
now, his garments smelling of
myrrh"-that means fragrance-''and
aloes'-thoy mean bitter sacriflcial
memorics-'and 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 I
will tell you now, that some of the
palaces of oldcn time were adorned
with ivory. Ahab and Solomon had
their homes furnished with it. 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, ,and floors fivory, 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 ovcrmustcring 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 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 floors! If l could
have heard the drip and dash of those
founteins!" You shall have some
thing better than that if you only let
Christ introduce you. From that
place he came, and to that place lie
proposes to transport you, for his
garments smell of myrrh, and aloes,
and cassia, out of the ivory palaces.
THE GRANDEUR AND MAGNIFICENCE OF
HEAVEN.
Oh, what q place heaven must be!
The Tuileries of the French, the Wind
sor castle of the English, the Spanish
the Russian Krcmlin, dun
gcons compared with it! Not SO many
castles OH either sitlo the Rhine as on
both sides Of the river of God the ivory
palaces One for the angels. insuffcr-
ably bright, winged, fire eyed, tempest
charioted; ono for the martyrs, with
blood bio. foF Fea rossT fE9a gRA6fr Hhe a@ta8SE
FFo5r the singers, who lead the one hun
for y8A, ff4shis;omed from 1' sin; one for
me, plucked from the burning. Oh,
the ivory palaces!
Today it seems to me as if the win.
lows of those palaces were illumined
for some great victory, and look and
see climbing the stairs Of ivory, and
walking on floors of ivory, and look
ing from the windows Of ivory, some
whom we knew and loved on earth
Yes, I know them. There are father
md mother, not 81 years and ~ years,
as when they left us, but blithc and
young as when OH thcirmarriagc day.
And there are brothers and sisters,
merier than when we used to romp
across the meadows together; The
couch gone. The cancer cured. The
crysipelas healed. The heart break
over. Oh, how fair they arc i'll the
ivory palacesl And your dear little
children that went out from you
Christ did not let one of them drop as
he lifted them. He did not wrench
one of them from you. No. They
went as from one they loved well to
one whom they loved better. If |
should take your little child and press
its soft face against my rough cheek,
I might keep it Il little while; but
when you, the mother, came along, it
would struggle to go with you. And
so YOU stood holding your dying
child when Jesus passed by in the
room, and the little ono .spran1g
out TO greet linn. That is all:
Your Christian dead did not
po down into the dust and the
Gravel and the mud Though it
Famed al that funeral day, and the
water came up to the wheels Kub as
YOU drove out to the cemetery, it mado
no difference 10 them, for they stepped
from the homo here TO the homo there,
right into the ivory palaces. All is
we'll with them. All is well. -.
1t is not a dead weight that you lit
when you carry Christian out.
Jesus makes the bed up soft with vel
vcs promises, and he says: Put her
down here very gently. Put that lat
this pillow Of hallclujabs. Send up
word that the procession IS coming.
Ring the bells. Ring! open your en
gates, we ivory palacesf And a., SO
yollr loved ones are there. They
are lust as certainly there, hay,
inc died in Christ, as that
YOU arc here. There is only one thing
more they want. Indeed, there is one
thing in heaven they have not got.
U1I,o wont II What is it? Your COM