Milford chronicle., 1888-12-07

nights on the mountains, nights on the sea,
nights in the desertl Who ever had such
hard reception as Jesus hadl A hostelry the
first, an unjust trial in oyer and terminer an
other, a foul mouthed, yelling mob the last.
Was there a space on his back as wide as
your two fingers where be was not whippedi
Was there a space on his brow an lncn
square where he was not cut Of the briers!
When the spike struck at the instep did It
not go clear through to the hollow Of the
footl Oh, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage.
Aloesl Aloesl
John leaned his head on Christ, but who
did Christ lean ont Five thousand men fed
by the Saviour; who fed Jesusl The sym
pathy Of a Saviour's heart gong out TO the
leper and the adulteress; but who soothed
Christi Denied both cradle and death bed,
he had q flt place neither 70 be born nor TO
die A poor babel A poor ladl poor
Young mani Not 50 much as a taper to
cheer his diving hours. Even the candle OF
the sun snuffed out Oh, was it not all aloesi
All our sins, sorrows, bereavements, losses,
and all the agonies Of earth and he'll picked
up as in one cluster and squeezed into one
cup, and that pressed to his lips, until the
acrid, nauseating, bitter draught was
swallowed with q distorted counte-
nance, and a shudder from head to
foot, and gurgling strangulation. Aloesi
Aloesl Nothing but aloes All this for HIM
selfl All this to get the fame in the world OF
being a martyrl All this in a spirit OF stl1-
bornness, because he did not like Caesarf MOI
mol All this because he wanted to pluck you
and me from hell Because he wanted to
raise you and me to heaven. Because we
were lost and he wanted us found. Because
we were blind and he wanted us to see. Be
cause we were serfs and he wanted US manu-
mitted, Oh, ye in whose cup Of life the sac
char1ne has predominated oh, ye who have
had bright and sparkling beverages, how 40
you feel toward him who in your stead, and 10
purchase your disenthrallment, took the
aloes, the unsavory alOes the bitter aloesi
THE PECULIAR QUALITIES OF CAssIA.
Your third curiosity is to know why these
garments of Christ are odorous with cassia.
This was plant that grew in India and the
adjoining islands. You do not care to hear
what kind of a flower it had or what kind OF
a stalk. It is enough for me to tell you that
it was used incidentally. In that land ana
IN that age, where they knew but little about
pharmacy, eassia was used to arrest many
forms of disease So when in my text we
find Christ coming with garments that smell
of cassia, it suggests to me the healing ano
curative power of the Son Of God. "Oh,"
you say, ''now you have a superfuous
idea. We ere not sick. Why do we want
cassia2 We are athletic. Our respipse
ton 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 bet
ter in physical health than / am, and yet }
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diagnosis of your case, and have examined
all the best authorities on the subject, and l
have come now TO tell you that you are full
Of wounds and bruises and putrefying sores
which have not been bound up or Modified
with ointment. Tho marasmus Of sin is on
us-the palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy. The
man that is expiring tonight on Fultol
street.-the allonethio and homeopathic doc
tors have given MIN up, and bis friends
now standing around to take his last words
lis no more certainly dying as to his body
than YOU and are dying unless we have
taken the medicine from Gods apothecary
An the leaves Of this Bible are only so many
prescriptions from the divine physician
written, not in Latin, like the prescriptions
Of earthly physicians, but written in plain
English, 50 that a man, though a fool, need
garments smell of cassia,
Suppose q man were sick, and there was q
phial on his mantelpieoe with medicine he
knew would cure him, and he refused to take
it, what would you say Of himf He is u sui
eide. And what do you say OF that mar
who, sick in sin, has the healing medicine ol
Gods grace offered him, and refuses to take
! ita If he dies he is a suicide. People talk as
| though God took a man and led him out tC
darkness and death, as though he brought
| him up to the cliffs and then pushed him OF
| Oh. no. When a man is lost it is not because
God pushes him off; it is because he jumps
| off. In olden times a suicide was buried a
/ the cross roads and the people wer'
accustomed to throw stones upon his grave
| So it seems to mo there may be in this hous
| man who is destroying his own soul, pn'
as though the angels Of God wero here f
/ bury him at tho point where the roads o
! life and death cross each other, thrown:
/ upon the grave the broken law and grea
pile of misimproved privileges, SO that tnos
] going NAV look at the fearful mound ant
learn what a suicide it is when an immorta
soul, Tor which Jesus died, puts itself out o
the way
SOME OF THE CURES BROUGHT ABOUT Bl
CHRIST.
When Christ trod this planet with foot o
flesh, the people rushed after him-peopl
who were sick, and those who, being SO sio
they could not walk, were brought by thei
friends. Here / see a mother holding up be
little child and sayingi "Cure this crouI
Lord Jesus. Cure this scarlet fever" Am
others saving: Cure this Ophthalmia. Civ
ease and rest to this spinal distres;
Straighten this club foot.n Christ mad
every house where he stopped dispensaIy
do not believe that in the nineteen cent?
ries that have gone by since, his heart has SO
hard. / feel that We can come now with a
our wounds Of soul and get his benediC
ton. o, Jesus, here we are. We want hea
ing. We want sight. We want healtt
We want life The whole need not a phys
clan, but they that are sick. Blessed be Go
that Jesus Christ comes through this assen
blage now, his garments smelling {
myrrhn-that means fragrance-'and a oe;
they mean bitter sacrihcial memories
ssand cassian-that means medicine and cur
and, according to my text, he comes ''out {
the ivory palaces"
You know, or if you do not know wi
tell You now, that some Of the palaces
olden time were adorned with ivory. Aha
and Solomon had their homes furnished wit
1t. The tusks or African ana Asiaulc el
plants were twisted into all manners
shapes, and there were stairs of ivory, an
chairs Of ivory, and tables of ivory, al
floors Of ivory, and pillars Of ivory, and Wi
dows Of ivory, and fountains that drops
into basins Of ivory, and rooms that had ceI
Ings OF ivory. On, white and overmasterin
beauty Green tree branches sweeping III
. white furbs Tapest1.y trailing the snow
! floors. Brackets Of lights flashing on the Ia
trous surroundings. Silvery music ripping
the beach of the arches. The mere thought of
almost stuns my brain, and you says "Oh,
, could only have walked over such tloor
II / could have thrown myself in such
: chairl If l could have heard the drip an
I dash of those fountainsl" You shall hay
. something better than that if you only i
! Christ introduce you. From that place
came and to that place he proposes to tran
mort Won for his garments smell of myrTl