The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-12-06

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tons Of earthly physicians, but writ
ten in plain English, SO that a man,
though fool, need not err therein.
Thank God that the Eaviour's gar
ments smell OF cassia.
Suppose q man were sick, and there
was phial on his manteSpiecs with
medicine be knew would cure him,
and he refused to take it, what would
you say Of hma he Is a suicide.
And what do ysu say OF that man who,
sick in sin, has the healing medicine
Of Gods grace offered him, and re-
fuses to take it, II he dies he Is sui
eide. People talk as though God took
a 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 a man Is lost it
is not because God pushes him
off; it is because hs Jumps off In
olden times q suieide was buried
at the cross roads, and the people
were accustomed to throw stones upon
his grave. So it seems to me there
may be in this house 4 man who is de-
stroying 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 each other, throw
ing upon the Grave the broken law and
a great pile Of misimpr6ved privileges,
so that those going may look at the
fearful mound, and learn what a sui
eide it Is when an immortal soul, for
which Jesus died, puts itself out Of the
way.
SOME OF THE CURES BROUGHT ABOUT
BY CHRIST
When Christ trod this planet with
foot OF Resh, the people rushed after
him-people who were sick, and those
whe, bsing 80 sick they could not
walk, were brought by their friends.
Here l see a mother holding up her
little child and saying: "Cure this
Group, Lord Jesus. Care this scarlet
fever" And sthepe saying: Cure
this ophthalnia. 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 CEN
turies 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 benedic-
ton. o Jesus, here we are. We want
healing. We want sight We want
health. We want life. The whole
need not a physician, bat they that
| are sick. Blessed be God that Jesus
Christ comes through this assemblage
now, his garments smelling of
| myrrh"-that means fragrancs-''and
aloes"-they mean bitter sacriticial
| memories and cassias-that means
| medicine and cure. and according to
to my text, he comes tout of the iyory
| 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 furnished with it. The
tusks Of African and Asiatc elephants
we're twisted into all manners pl
shapes, and there were stairs ofivory,
and chairs of ivory, and tables OF
ivory, land floors Of ivory and pillars OF
ivory, and windows Of ivory, and foun
tains that dropped into basins of ivory,
and rooms that had ceilings OF ivory
| Oh, white and overmastering beauty
Green tree branches sweeping. the
white eurbs. Tapestry trailing tbs
snowy floors Brackets OF light flash
ing on the lustrous surroundings Sill
very music rippling to the beach
of the arches. The mere though
of it almost stuns my brain, and YOU
say: "Oh, if l could only hav
L -oIl->l ~xrra. eu,oh Gooxst ,o,, II
have heard the drip and dash of thos'
fountainsl" You shall have some
thing better than that if you only lie
! Christ introduce you. From tina
place he camo, and to that place h
proposes to transport you, for hi
garments smell OF myrrh, and aloes
and cassia, out Of the ivory palaces"
THE GRANDEUR AND MAGNIgIcENcE o.
HEAVEN.
| Oh, what place heaven must be
| The Tuileries Of the French, the Wind
sor castle of the English, the Spanisl
| Alhambra, the Russian Kremlin, dun
geons compared with it Not SO man,
castles on either side the Rhine as OF
, both sides of the river of God the ivor,
palacesl One for the angels, insuffel
ably bright winged, fire eyed, tempes
charioted; one for the martyrs, wit
blood red robes, from under the altar
) one for the king, the steps of his palac
the crowns of the church militant; on
for the singers, who lead tho one hun
r dred and forty and four thousand; on
for YOU ransomed from sin; one fo
: me, plucked from the burning. Oh
the ivory palacesl
Today it seems to aac as if the wiz
dows OF those palaces were illunine
: for some great victory, and | look en-
: see climbing the stairs of ivory, an
, walking on floors of ivory, and lool
ing from the windows of ivory, som
! whom we knew and loved on eartl
! Yes, I know them. There are fathe
and mother, not 80 years and 70 year
y as when they left us. but blithe an
, . young as when on their marriage da,
;. And there are brothers and sister
i merrier than when we used to rom
! across tho meadows together TI
q cough gone. The cancer cured. ri
y erysipe1as healed. The heart hrea
!, over. Oh, how fair they are in Il
y u ivory palacesl And your dear lit
2 | SlluCISu tIldt Wcllt Out tIOln yOu-
- Christ did not let one Of them drop {
= he lifted them. He did not wrene
! one of them from you. No. The
went as from one they loved well
:, one whom they loved better II
n should take your little child and pre-
Il its soft face against my rough ehee
# might keep il iittle While: b
'e when you, the mother, came elong,
! would struggle to 90 with yoiI Al
"a 80 you stood holding your dyil
a child Xheu jesus paased by ip Il
i room, sand the little one spal
~ ~ out to greet him. That IS a
" y. Your CHRISTIAN dead did p =,
u go down into the dtst and Z
= gravel aud the mud 4hpnA
RS rained all tbat funeral day, and t
Is water came DIP to tho wheels hub
St you drove out to the cemetery, it ua
% as no difference to them, for they stepp
10 from the home here to the homo thei
,ee right INTO the ivory palaces All
ee we'll with them. All Il well.
-. 1t is not dead weight that yeu |
n when you carry Christian OF
n, Jesus makes the bed up soft with v