Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-13

earth and hell picked up as in one c,,'s.
Ter ana squeezed INTO one cup, and that
pressed TO His lips, until the acrid
nauseatlng, bitter draught was swallowed
win distorted countenance, and a shudder
from head to foot, and gurgling strangula-
ton. Aloes Aloesl Nothing but aloes.
Ali this for Himself! All this to oct the
fame in the world of being martyr9 All
this in the spirit OF stubbornness. because ba
did not like Cesari mol moi All this because
lie wanted 70 pluck you and me from hell.
Because he wanted to raise you and me ~
Heaven. Because we were lost and He
wanted us found. Because we We're Hind
and tie wanted us to see. Because we W ere
serfs and He wanted us manumitted. Oh. We
IN whose cup of life the saccharine has nre-
dominated; oh, ye who have had bright and
sparkling beverages, how do you feel toward
HIM who IN your stead, tSd to purchase
your disenthrailment, took the aloes, the un
savory aloes, the bitter aloesl
our third curiosity is to know why these
garments of Christ are odorous with cassia.
This was plant that grew in India and the
ad joining islands. You do not care to hear
what KIND OF a Hover it had or what kind of
stalk. 1t is enough for me to tell you that
1t was used incidentally. In that
land and in that age, where they
knew but little about pharmacy, cassia was
used to arrest many forms of disease So
when IN my text we find Christ coming with
me the healing aud curative power OF the
Son of God. Oh you say, now you ha We
a superliuous idea. We are not sick Why
90 % want cassiai We are athletic
Our respiration 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
better in physical health than am, and yet l
must say we are all sick. have taken the
diagnosis of your case, and have ex-
ahmed all the best authorities on the sub
iect, 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 allopathc and hom9o-
pathic doctors having given him up, and his
friends now standing around to take his last
words-ls no more certainly dying as to his
body than you and are dying unless we
have taken the medicine froIr Gods apothe-
cary. All the leaves Of this Bible are
only so many prescriptions from the Di.
vine Physician, written, not in Latin, like the
prescriptions of earthly physicians, but writ.
ten IN plain English. so that man, though a
fool. need not err therein. Thank God that
the Saviour's garments smell of cassia.
Suppose man We're sick and there was a
phial ON his mantel piece with medicine he
knew would cure him, and he refused TO take
~ Wuhb Wouiu you say OF nltnf lie is
suicide. And what do you say of that man
who. sick in sin, has the healing medicine OF
Gods grace offered him, and refuses to take
It'll II he dies he is a suicide. People
talk as though God took man and red him
out TO darkn SIS and death, as though He
brought him up to the cliffs and then pushed
him OIL. Oh no. When man is lost II is
not because God pushes him oil; il is because
he jumps Off. In olden times a suicide was
buried at the cross roads, and the PEG.
pie were accustome Co throw stones upon
his grave. So il seems to me there may he
in this house a man who is destroying his
own soul. and rs though the angels os
Col were here TO bury him at the
point where the roads of life and death cross
each other, throwing upon the grave the
broken law and great pile of mismproved
privileges SO that those going may look at
the fearful mount, and learn what suicide
il is when an immortal soul, for which Jesus
died, puts itself out of the way.
When Christ trod this planet with foot of
flesh, the people rushed after Him-people
who were sick, and those who, being so sick
they could not walk, were brought by their
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 ophtdamia 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 centuries that have gone
by since His heart has got hard / feel hat
we can come now with all our wounds of soul
and get His benediction. . Jesus, here we
are We want healing. We want sight.
We want health We want life. The
whole need not a physician. but they that
are sick. Blessed be God that Jesus Christ
comes through this assemblage now, His
garments smelling of myrrh''-that means
fragrance "and aloesn--they mean bitter
sacriicia memories" and cassia 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 l will
tell you now, that some OF the palaces of
olden time were adorned with ivory. |
Ahab and Solomon had their homes fur.
nshed with it. The tuSSs of African and |
Asiatic elephants were twisted into all man
ners of shapes, and there were stairs of worry |
and chairs of ivory, and tables OF ivory, ana |
floors of ivory, and pillars of ivory, and |
windows of ivory, and fountains that |
dropped into basins OF ivory, and rooms
that had ceilings of ivory. Oh. white and |
beauty. Green tree branches
sweeping the white curbs. Tapestry trailing |
the snowy floors. Brackets of light flashing
on the lustrous surroundings Siivery music
ripping to the beach of the arches, The
mere thought of it almost stuns my BRAIN,
and you say:
.'0h, if could only have walked over such
floors If | could have thrown mySeiI IN
such chairl If could have heard the drip
and dash of those fountainsl" You shall
have something better than that II you
only let Christ introduce Won. From that
place He came, and to that place He proposes
TO transport you, for His garments smell
Of myrrh, and aloes, and cassla, out oil the
ivory palaces"
Oh. what place heaven must be- Inc
Tuileries of the French, the Windsor Caste
Of the English, the Spanish Alhambra, tne
Russian Kremlin are dungeons compared with
it Not so many castles on either SIDE tne
Rhine as on both sides of the river of Goa tine
ivory palaces One for the angels, INSURER
ably bright, winged, fire-eyed, tempest
charioted: one for the martyrs, with blood
red robes from under the altar one Tor the
King, the steps of His palace the crowns OF
the church militant; one for the singers, VINO
lead the one hundred and forty and Tour
thousand; one for you ransomed from SIN;
one for me, piucked from the burning On,
,he ivory palaces
To-day it seems to me as if the windows OF
those palaces were iliumined for some grea1
victory, and l look and see climbing the
stairs of ivory, and walking on floors Oh