Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-12-08

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rtrugTg5lc ror ro1nc meta pnor with WHICH
to express him. He is not like the
bursting forth of full orchestra; that
{ is too loud. He is not like the sea
when lashcd to rage by the tempest;
that is too boistcrous. He is not like
the mountain, its brow wrcatlled with
the lightnings; that is too solitary.
Give us softer type, gcntlcr com
parison. We have seemed to see him
with our eyes, and to hear him
with our ears, and to touch him with
our hands. Oh, that today he might
appear to some other one of our five
senses Ay, the nostril shall discover
his presence. Hc comes upon us like
spice gales from heaven. Yea, his
garments smell of pungent, lasting
and all pcrvasiyc myrrh.
Oh, that you all knew his sweetness.
How soon you would turn from your
novels! If the philosopher leaped out
of his bath i'll q frenzy of Joy, and
clapped his hands, and rushed through
the streets, because he had found the
solution of mathematical problem,
EhfoW vii ssyou eaping from the
fountain Saw drss mere nd 5at
ii,don washed ear sliadlo white
Easssno W bens ffll1e questlo shas been
doW so1l1 be saFesla't
Naked frost bitten, storm dashed soul; Z
letsJ Jesus this hour throw around thee
the garments that smell of myrrh,
and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory
palaces. /"
THE BITTERNESS OF THE sAvIoUR's SUI
FERIEGS.
Your second curiosity is to know
why the robes of Jesus arc odorous
with aloes. There is some difference
of opinion about where these alocs
grow, what is the color of the flower,
what is the particular appearance of
the herb. Suffice it for you and me to
know that aloes mean bitterness the
world over, and when Christ comes
with garments bearing that particular
odor, they suggest to me the bitterness
of Saviours sufcrings. Were there
ever such nightsas Jesus lived through
nights on the mountains, nights on
the sea, nights in the desert2 Who
ever had such hard reception as
Jesus had? A hosiery the first,
an unjust trial in oyer and ter
miner another, a foul mouthed,
yelling mob the last. Was there u
space on his back as wide as your two
fingers where he was not whipped2
Was there space OH his brow an inch
square where he was not cut of the
briers2 When the spike struck at tue
instep, did it not 60 clear through to
the hollow Of the foot2 Oh, long, deep,
bitter pilgrimage. Aloes Aloesl
John leaned his head on Christ, but
who did Christ lean on2 Five thou
sand men fed by the Saviour; who fed
Jesus2 The sympathy Of Saviour's
heart going out to the leper and the
adulteress; but who soothed Christi |
Denied both cradle and death bed,
he had fit place neither to be born
nor to die. A poor babel A poor lad
A poor young man! Not SO much
MS taper to cheer his dying hours.
Even the candle of the sun snuffcd
out. Oh, was it not all aloes2 All
our sins, sorrows, bereavements, losses,
and all the agonies of earth and hell
picked up us III one cluster and
into one cup, and that pressed
to his lips, until the acrid, nauseating,
bitter draught was swallowed with
distorted countenance, and shudder
from head to foot, and q gurgliag
A Att f6is to sec ct III iam5 II tRs 15 8f
of being q martyr2 all this i'll
spirit of stubbornness, because he
did not like Caesar2 No! mol All this
because he wanted TO pluck you and
me from hell. Because he wanted to
raise YOU and mo to heaven. Because
we were lost and he wanted us found;
Because VIC were blind and ne wanted
us to see. Because we were serfs and
he wanted us manumitted. Oh, yc in
whose cup of life the saccharinc has
prcdominated; oh, yc who have had
bright and sparkling beverages, how
do you feel toward him who III your
stead, and to purchase your olsen
took the aloes, the I'M
savory aloes, the bitter aloes2
TIE PECULIAR QUALITIES OF cAssIA.
Your third curiosity is TO know why
these garments of Christ are odorous
with cassia. This was a plant that /
grow in India and tic adjoining /
Islands. You do not care 10 hear what
kind OF q flower it had or what kind
Of a stalk. II is enough for INC to tell
YOU that il was used incidentally. In
t.lat land and in that age, where they
knew but little about pharmacy, cassla |
v.as used to arrest many forms OF sls,
case. So when in my text we find
Christ coming with garments that
smell of cassia, it suggests to me the
healing and curative power OF the Son /
of God. oh" you say, nov you
lave supcriluous idea. Wo ere |
rot sick. Why do VIC want cassia2 :
We arc athletic. Our respiration
is perfect. Our limbs are 1.-the,
and in these cooldoy.; VIC feel we could
bound like the roc" l beg to dltTer,
my brother, from you. None OF you
can be better III physical health than
am, and yet must say wo orc al!
sick. lave taken the diagnosis OF
your case, and have examined all tho
best authorities on the subject, and
have come now totcll you that you ere
full of wounds and bruises and putre-
fyine sores which have not been bound
up or Modified with ointment. Tho
marasmus of sin is on us-the palsy,
the dropsy, the lcprosy.-T man that
is expiring tonight OH Fulton street
the atlopatllic and homeopathic doctors
having given him up, and his friends
now standing around to take his last
worls-is no more certainly dying as
to his body than you and are dying
unless we have taken the medicine
from Gods spothecary. All the leaves
of this Bible are only SO many pre-
scriptions from the divine physician,
written, not III Latin, like the prescnp-