Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-03


CT flesh, the people rushed sfser Him
people who were sick, and those who, be.
ing so sick they could not wall, were
brought by their ifisnds. Here l see
mother holding up her little child and
saying: "Cure this Group, Lord Jesus.
Cure this scsrlea flvsr." And Others
sayirg: "Cure this oph.halmi.
Give ease and rest to this
spinal distress. S.rsigbten this
club foot" Christ made every house
where He stopped dispensary. I do not
believe that IN the nineteen Centuries that
have gone by since, His heart has got
hard. l feel that We csn come now
with
ALL OUR wogAps
Of soul snd GET HIS oeaedic ion. o Jesus,
here we are. We want healire. We want
sight. We want heath We Hans life,
The whole need not physician, but they
thst are sick. Blessed be Goo shat Jesus
Christ comes though this assemoisge
now, His garments smelling OF myrrh"
that means frsgrSnce-''and sloes''-
they mean otter sacrif ;isl memories
"and csssia"-ths: means medicine and
cure; and according to my text, He comes
! 'iout OF the ivory palaces"
You know, or If you do not know l will
tell you now, that me of the palaces of
olden times were adorned with ivory.
Ahab snd Solomon had their homes fur
nished with IL. The tusks of African and
Asistic elephants were twisted into sll
manners OF shspes, and there were stairs
of ivory, and chairs of ivory, and tables
OF ivory, and foors OF ivory, and pillars
of ivory, and windows OF Ivory, and foun-
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and rooms that had ceilings Of ivory. On
white and oVermasterirg beauty. Green
tree-brsnches sweeping the white curos.
Tapestry trailing the snowy floors.
Brackets OF light flashing on the lustrous
surroundings. SilVery music rippllr g to
the beach Of the arches. The mere
thought OF 1t almost etuns my brsin, and
you ssy: "Ob, II could only have
walked over such floors! II could have
thrown myself in such q chairl II l
could have heard the drip and dash of
those f)untsins!" You shsll have some
thing better than sthlt /; you only lei
Christ iItroiuce you. From that place
he came, and to that place He prop oses
to transport you, for His
garments smell of myrrb, and
sloes, and cRssia, out OF the ivory
psleces.
On, what place heaven must be! The
Tu1leries Of the French, the Windsor
Castle Of the English, the
SPANISH ALEXANDRA,
the Russian Kremlin, dungeons compared
with Ii, Mt 60 many castles on either
side Of the Rhine as on both sides of the
river Of God the ivory palaces! One for
the angels, insufsrably bright, winged,
fire. eyed, tempest.chsrioted; one for the
martyrs, with blood-red robes, from IN
der the eltsI; one io. 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 thou-
sand; one for you rknsomed from sin;
ore fer me, plucked from the burning
On, the ivory palaces
Today 1t seens to me as II
the windows CT those palaces
were illumined for some G eat viG>
tory, ard l look and see climbing the
stairs Of ivory, sad walking on f ,ors Of
ivory, and looking from the windows OF
ivory, some whom we knew end loved On
earth. Yee, I know them. Tlere are
father and mother, no. eigthty-two and
seventy-rins years, as when they left US,
but bli.hs and yourg ss Waen On their
marriage day. And there are brothers
and sisters merrier than when we used to
romp scross the meadows together. The
cough gone. The cancer cured. The
erysipelss healed. The hesrt-bresk over
Or, how fs they are in the ivory pal.
acesl And your dear little children that
went cut from ycC-Christ did not let
enc of them drop as He lifted them. he
did n 0t wrench one Of them from you.
Nd. They went as from one they loved
well to One whom they loved better. II
1 should take your tile Child and p ess
Its soft face against my rough cheek,
might keep 1t little while; but when
you, the mother, came along, 1t would
struggle to 60 with you. And 80 you
stood
HOLDING YOUR DYING CHILD
when ,sus passed BY in the room, and
the little one spraug cut to greet Him.
Thst is all. Your Christian dead did not
60 down into the dust and the gravel and
the mud. Though il rained all that funer-
81 day, and the water csme up to the
wheels hub as you drove out to the Gem
etery, 1t mads no difference to them, for
they stepped from the home here to the
home there, right into the ivory palaces
ALI Is well with them. All Is well.
Il is not dead weight that you lif;
when you carry q Christian out. Jesus
makes the bed up soft with velvet prom
Uses, and He says: "Plt her down here
very gently. Pat thst head, which will
never ache again. on this pillow of halle
lujshs. Send up word that the procee-
sion ia coming. Ring the bells. Ring!
Open your gates, Ye ivory pslaces!"
Aud 80 your loved ones are there. They
are just as certainly there, having died in
Christ, IS that you are here. There is
only one thing more they want. Indeed,
there is one thing in heaven they have
not got. They want II. What is II?
Your company. But, oh, my brother,
unless you change your tack you cannot
reach that harbor. You might as well
take the Baltimore and Ohio Rsilrosd,
expecting In that direction to reach To-
ronto, IS to go On in the wEy some CT you
are going, snd vet expect to reach 1he
ivory palaces. Your loved ones are lock-
ing cut of the windows of heaven now,
and Jet YOU seem to turn your back upon
them. You Go not seem to know the
sound OF their voices as well SO you used
to, or to be moved BY the sight OF their
dear fsces. Call louder, ye departed
ones. Csll louder from the ivory pal
aces. When I think Ct that place, and
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