The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-09
rALMAGE'E SERMON.
SOhject, "Aromntics at
Christ's Tomb

SUb.lect; 'Aromntics at
Christ's Tomb
TEXTS; "Brtneino the spices whieh then
noa prepares. Luke xiv, l; "The tram.
pet snon sound'"-I Corinthians w.. Sc.
=, Enchanting work have before mo this
OF the text, who brought aromatics to the
mausoleum OF Christ, am going to unroll
rrankincense and balm and altar OF roses and
cardamon from the East Indies, and odors
from Arabia, and, when we can inhale no
more OF the perfume, then we will talk
OF sweet sounds and hear from the
music , that shall wake the dead. Hav-
whole scene, need only in four or five
sentences say; Christ was lying fat on His
back, lneless amidst sculptured rocks, rocks
over Him, rocks under Him, and door of
rocks all bounded by the flowers and fountains
OF Joseph's country seat. Then bright inn
mortal, having descended from heaven, quick
and flashing as falling meteor, picks up the
door OF rock aud puts II aside as though it
were chair and sits ON it, Then Christ UNI
wraps Himself of His mortuary apparel and
takes tho turhan from His head and folds
1t up deliberately and lays ii down in one
place and then puts tho slroud In another
place and comes out and finds that the soldiers
who had been on guard are lying around,
pallid and in dead s,yoon, their swords bent
and useless. The Industrious prisoner Of the
tomb is discharged and five hundred people
see him at once. An especial congress of
ecclesiastics called, pay bride to the resuscj-
tated soldiers to soy that there was no resur-
rection and that while they were overcome of
slumber the Christians had played resurrec-
tionists and stolen the corpse The Marys
are at the tomb with aromatics
Why did not these women of the text
bring thorns and nettles for these would
more thoroughly have expressed the piercing
sorrows OF themselves and their Lord? Why
did they not bring some national ensign,
such as that Of the Roman eagle, typical of
conquest? No, they bring aromatics sug-
gestive to me of the fact that the Gospel
is to sweeten and deodorize the world
putrefaction and malodor that Christ
is going to roll over it waves of frankincense
and sprinkle it all over with sweet smelling
myrrh. Thousands of years before this Solo
mon had said that Christ was lily and
Isaiah had declared that under the Gospel the
desert would bloom like the rose but the
world was slow to take the floral hint. And
so now the women of the text bring hands
full and arms full of redolence and perhaps I'M
Willingly confirm and emphasize the lesson of
deterioration. When Christ's Gospel has
conquered the earth the last offense to the
olfactories will have left the world; sweet,
pure air will have blown through every home,
and churches will be freed from the curse of
i'll ventilation and the world will become two
great gardens, the empurpled and emblazoned
and emparadised hemispheres Sin is buzz
holiness is flower. If you are trying
to reform the world open the
windows of that tenement house and
pour through it draught of Gods pure at
mosphere and set a geranium CT a heliotrope
on the window sill; cleanse the air and you
will help cleanse the soul. How dare this
world so often insult that feature OF the
human face which God has made the most
prominent feature in human physiognomys
To prove how He Himself loves aromatics I
bring the fact that there ore millions of
flowers on prairies and in mountain fast
nesses the fragrance of which no human
being ever breathes, and He must have
grown them there for His own regalement.
And for the compliment the world paid
Christ by giving, Him a sepulche,' in
Joseph's garden He will yet make the
whole earth a garden Yes, He expressed
His delight with fragrance in tho first
book of the Bible, when He said: 'The
Lord smelled sweet savor;" and He filled
the dir of the ancient tabernacle and temple
with sweet Incense and there are small
bottles of perfume in heaven described
~ neVeIauon as goioen VlaiS 1uil OIL doors:
isaei a.. anuiosial soSpei WHICH VIM we,
,aa;LL au a,o LII Ine Moriu an louihess aho
last menhitic GAS Glad am I that the tbon vrI
the world had chiefly snilTes for tbe Sav;onT,s
feet and thorns for the Saviour's brow, the
magi put frankincense upon His cradle and
the Marys brought frankincense for His
grave.
Notice also that Christ's mausoleum was
Opened by concussion. twas great earth
make that nuts its twisted kav into the in.
volved and iabvrintbina locl If that tomb
COncussioni That is the mower that onans aIj
The tomhs that are onened ~ ali Ton,b ~
soul and tomb of nations. Concussion between
Enpiand and the thirteen coion;es and 10Th
COMES free government in America Concus.
sion between France and Germany. and forth
comes republicanism for France, Concus-
sion among the rocks Oh Mount Sinai. and
on two of them was left a perfect law for ali
ages, Conclusion among the rocks around
Calvary and the crucifxion was made the
moro overwhelming. Conclusion between
the United States and Mexico and vast
area of country becomes ours. Conclusion
between England and France, and most OF
this continent west of the Mississippi becomes
the property of the American Union. Con-
cussion between iceberg and iceberg. between
bowlder and bowlder, and q thousand con-
cussions put this world into shape for mans
residence. Conclusion between David and
his enemies, and out came the psalms which
otherwise would never have been written
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son' ever Ieheia' european wal. "n'cn
the world has been expecting Tor the last
twenty years, should come, concusslon So
WIDE and concusslon SO tremendous would
not leave throne IN Europe standing as II
now Is. The nations OF the earth are
tired OF having their Kings born to
them, and they would after while
elect their Kings, and there would be an
Italian Republic and German Republic and
a Russian Republic and an Austrian Repub.
lie, and out OF the cracks and crevlces and
chasms OF that conclusion would come resur'
rection for oil Europe. Stagnation is death
full; conclusion is Messianic.
Notice also what the angel did with the