The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-12-20

oOuUl ilhc tho NO bth " my
brother from you None Of you can be
better in physical health than am, and yet
must say we are all sick. have taken the
diagnosis of your case, and have eX-
ahmed all the best authorities on the sub
ject, and 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 The maras.
mus OF sin is on us-the palsy, the dropsy, the
leprosy. The man that is expiring tonight
on Fulton street.-the allopathic and hompo-
pathic doctors having given him up, and his
friends now standing around to take his last
words-is no more certainly dying as to his
Gary. All the leaves oI TINS bi0le ar,
only so many prescriptions from the Di
vine Physician, written, not in Latin, like thu
prescriptions of earthly physicians, but writ
ten in plain English, so that man, though
fool, need not err therein. Thank God tina
the Saviour's garments smell of cassa.
Suppose a man were sick, and there was
phial on his mantel piece with medicine h,
knew would cure him, and he refused to TAX,
it, what would You say of hims He is
suicide. And what do you say of that man
Gods grace offered him. and refuses to take
its II he dies he is suicide. People
talk as though God took man and led him
out to darkness and death, as though He
brought him up to the cliffs and then pushed
him off. Oh, no. When man is lost it ID
not because God pushes him off; it Is because
he jumps off. In olden times suicide wal
buried at the cross roads, and the PEG
pie wero accustomed to throw stones upon
his grave. So it seems to me there may be
in this house man who is destroying his
own soul, and as though the angels OF
God were here to bury him at the
point where the roads of life and death cross
oh nth fhrnyvinu ri
broken law and great pile of misimproved
privileges, so that those going may look at
| the fearful mount, and learn what a suicide
| it is when an immortal soul, for which Jesus
died, puts it2ef out Of the way.
When Chrirt trod this planet with foot OF
| 6esh the people rushed after Him-people
| who were sick. and those who being SO sick
| they could not walk, were brought by theii
| friends Here | see mother holding up her
| little child and saying: "Cure this Group, Lord
Jesus. Cure this scarlet fever" And Others
saying: Cure this ophtAalmia. Give ease and
rest to this spinal distress. Straighten this
| cmb-foot" Christ made every house where
He stopped dispensary. 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. Q Jesus here we
are. We want healing. We want sight
We want health. We want life The
|
are sick Blessed he Col that Jesus Christ
comes through this assemblage now, His
| garments smelling of myrrh'-that means
| fragrance and aloeS"-they mean bitter
| sacrilicial memories" and cassla that
means medicine and cure; and according to
my text, He comes tout 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 fur
nished with it. The tusks of African and
Asiatic 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
dropped into basins of ivory, and rooms
that had ceilings OF ivory. Oh, white and
overmasterng beauty. Green tree branches
sweeping the white curbs Tapestry trailing
the snowy floors. Brackets of light flashing
on the lustrous surroundings. Silvery 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 | could have thrown myself in
such chair If could have heard the drip
and dash of those fountains!" You shall
have something better than that if you
only let Christ introduce you. From that
| piuN0 llc SdIic, anu w pace llc oposCo
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
Tuieries of the French, the Windsor Castle
OF the English, the Spanish ALEXANDRIA, the
Russian Kremlin are dungeons compared with
It'll Not so many castles on either side the
Rhine as on both sides of the river OF GOD the
ivory palaces One for the angels, insutler-
ably bright, winged, fire-eyed, tempest
charioted; one for the martyrs, with blood
red robes, from under the altar; one for the
King, the steps of His palace the crowns OF
the church militant; one for the singers, who
lead the one hundred and forty and four
thousand; one for you ransomed from sin
one for me, pucked from the burning Oh
the ivory Dalacesi
To-day it seems to me as if the windows oil
those palaces were ilumined for some great
victory, and | look and see climbing the
stairs Of ivory and walking on floors o.
ivory, and looking from the windows O
ivory, some whom we knew and loved Oh
earth. Yes | know them. There are fathe
and mother, not eighty two years and seven
ty nine years, as when they left us, bu
blithe and young as when on their marrlag
day. And there are brothers and sisters, mer
rier than when we used to romp across TIL
meadows together The cough gone The can
Ger cured. The erysipelas healed. The heart
break over. Oh, how fair they are in the ivor
palaces! And your dear little children tina
went out from you-Christ did not let one {
them drop as He lifted them. He did nc
wrench one of them from you No. The
} they loved better. If should take You
little child and press its soft fac
} against my rough check, | might keep it
little while: but when you, the mother, cam
along, it would struggle to go with you An,
50 you stood holding your dying child whel
Jesus passed by in the room and the littl
} one sprang out to greet Him. That is all
the dust and the gravel and tn
: mud. Though it rained all that funeral day
. and the water came up to the wheels hub a
you Grove out to the cemetery, it made n
difference to them, for they stepped iron
the home here to the home there, right int
the ivory palaces. All is well with them
All is well.
1t is not a dead weight that you lif
WREN You carry Christian out Jesus make
the bed up soft with velvet promises, an
he says: Put her down here very gently
) Put that head, which viii never ache again
} on this pillow of hallelu abs. Send up wor
! that the procession is coming. Ring the ellis
, Ring Open your gates, ye ivory palaces!
) And so your loved ones are there. They ar
just as certainly there, having died in Chris
as that you are here There is only one thin
more they want. Indeed, there is one thin
, i'll heaven they have not got. The
, want it. What is it, Your company
: But, oh, my brother, unless you chang
, your tack you cannot reach that harbol
You might as well take the Baltimore an
: Ohio Railroad expecting in that direction
reach Toronto. as to go on in the way som
; of you are going and yet expect to reach tn
D ivory palaces. Your loved ones are lookin
out of the windows of Heaven now, an
yet you seem to turn your bac
! upon them. You do not seem I
know the sound of their voices
well as you used to, or to be moved by til
sight of their dear faces Call louder, We d,
parted ones. Call louder from the ivor,
palaces When think of that place, an
. think or my entering 1t, feel awkward;
5 feel as sometimes when have been expose;
/ to the weather, and my shoes have been bs
9 mired, and my coat is soiled aud my hair is di
} heveled, and ! stop in front of some fine res
dence where | have an errand | feel not
to go in as | am and sit among polished guest
So some of us feel about heaven. We need to +!
washed-we need to be rehabli,ated before "
go into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, let I'll
surges of Thy pardoning mercy roll over u
want not only to wash my hands and m
feet, but, like some skilled diver, standin
. on the pier-head who leaps into the wave
\ and comes up at far-distant point frol
, where he went IN, so want to go down an
a so want to come up. o Jesus wash m
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