The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-08
REV. DIR. TALMAGR
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN
DAY SERMON.
ubject: Aromatics at Christ's
Tomb"

TEXTS: "B,;nging the spices ,rhich they
lad prepdrsC.'-Luiie XIV. !: The trltn,-
bet shall soand,"-I Corinthians zv., So.
Enchanting work have I before ME this
caster morning, for initiating these women
the text, who brought aromaticS to the
tpausolem of Christ 7 am going to unrol
ankincense and balm and altar of roses and
ardamon from the East Indies, and odors
rom Arabia, and, when we can inhale no
bore of the perfume, then We will talk
Pf sweet sounds and hear from the
hg on other Casters described the
Ehole scene, l need only in four or five
&entences say: Christ was lying fiat on His
lack, Ifeless, amidst sculptured rocks, rocks
bver Him, rocks under Him, and door Of
locks all bounded by the flowers and fountains
q Joseph's country seat. Then a bright I'M
hortal, having descended from heaven, quick
loor Of rock and puts it aside as though it
we're chair and sits on it. Then Christ un-
wraps Himself of His mortuary apparel and
akes the turban from His head and folds
up deliberately and lays it down in one
blace and then puts the shroud in another
3e and comes out and finds that the soldiers
had been ON guard are lying around,
5alld and IN dead swocn, their swords bent
md useless. The illustrious prisoner of the
omb is discharged and five hundred people
Zee him at once. An especial congress of
cclesiastics called, pay bribe to the resusci-
hted soldiers to say that there was no resur-
lumber the Christians had played resurrec-
ionists and stolen the corpse. The Marys
re at the tomb with aromatics.
4 Why did not these women of the text
bring thor-ls and nettleS for these would
nore thoroughly have expressed the piercing
prrows Of themselves and their Lord? Why
I'D they not bring. some national ensign,
uch as that of the Roman eagle, typical OF
conquest? No, they bring aromatics sug-
to sweeten and deodorize the world.
The world has so much of
butrefaction and malodor that Christ
s. going to roll over it waves of frankinccnse
Ind sprinkle it all over with sweet smelling
Fnyrrh. Thousands of years before this Solo
hon had said that Christ was lily and
Isaiah had declared that under the Gospel the
&esert would bloom like the rose, but the
iorld was slow to take the floral hint. And
now the women of the text bring hands
II and arms full Of redolencc and perhaps un-
ittingly confirm and emphasize the lesson Of
[eodorization. When Christs Gospel has
lfactories will have left the world sweet,
lure air will have blown through every home,
Ind churches will be freed from the curse OF
8l ventilation and the world will become two
reat gardens, the empurpled and emblazoncd
Ind empaladised hemisphcres. Sin is buZ-
ard, holiness g dove Sin is nightshade,
Holiness issa flower If you are trying
reform the world open the
indows of that tenement house and
bur through 1t draught of Gods pure at
hosphere aad set geranium or heliotropc
the window sill; cleanse the air and you
bill help cleanse the soul. How dare this
Forld SO often insult that feature of the
nman face which God has made the most
Prominent feature in human physiognomy?
10 prove how He Himself loves aromatlcs |
bring the fact that there are millions of
lowers on prairies and in mountain fast
[esses the fragrance of which no human
being ever breathes, and He must have
rown them there for His own regalement.
md for the compliment the world paid
christ by giving Him sepulcher in
bseph's garden He will yet make the
Fhofe earth garden Yes, He expressed
Ills delight with fragrance in the first
kook Of the Bible, when He said: "The
lord smened q sweet savor;" and He filed
he air of the ancient tabernacle and temple
bottles Of perfume in heaven described
b Revelation as golden vials full of odors.
preach an ambrosial gospel which will yet
Etirpate from the world all Toulness and
nncidity and the last noiSomcneSS and the
hst mephitic gas. Glad am I that though
lie world had chiefly spikes for the Saviour's
eet and thorns for the Savioar's brow, the
hagi put frankincense upon His cradle and
2he MaryS brought frankincense for His
rave.
4 Notice also that Christs mausoleum was
opened by conclusion: It was a great earth
uake that puts its twisted key into the i'll
Folved and labyrinthine lccli Of that tomb.
1oncussion! That is the power that opens all
he tombs that are opened at all. Tomb of
oul and tomb of nations. Conclusion between
England and the thirteen colonies. and forth
omes free government in America. Concus-
Ion between France and Germany, and forth
lomes repubGcanism for France. Concus-
Sion among the rocks Oh Mount Sinai, and
IN two Of them was left perfect law for all
ges. Conclusion among the rocks around
calvary and the crucitixion was made the
nore Overwhelming. Conclusion between
rea of country becomes ours. Conclusion
Between England and France, and most of
his continent west of the Mississippi becomes
1he property of the American Union. Con-
kussson between iceberg and iceberg between
kowlder and bowlder. and thousand coll
ussions put this world into shape for mans
Residence. Conclusion between David and
bis enemies, and out came the psalms which
otherwise would never have been written.
;oncussion between Gods will and mans
Yill, and, ours overthrown, we are new
reatures in Christ Jesus. Conclusion of mis-
fortune and trial for many Of the good,
Ind out comes their especial conservation
Do not therefore be frightened when you see
(he great upheavals, the great agitations, the
reat earthquakes whether among the rocks
Eience. Out Of them God viii bring best
esults and most magnificent CONSEQUENCES.
Hear the crash all round the Lords
(arcophagus and see the glorious re-
lpimation of its dead inhabitant. Coqcus-
fon! If ever general European war, which
he world has been expecting for the last
wenty years, should come conclusion SO
ide and a conclusion so tremendous would
lot leave q throne in Europe standing as it
tred of having their Kings born to
hem, and they would after a while
beet their Kings, and there would be an
italian Republic and German Republic and
i Russian Republic and an Austrian Repub-
lie. and out Of the cracks and crevices and
1hasns Of that conclusion would come resur-
lection for all Europe. Stagnatiop Is death
hui; conclusion is Messianic.
Notice also what the angel did with the
lone after he had rolled it away from the
nouth of the Saviour's mausoleum. The book
AVS he rolled away the stone from the door
md sat upon it. All of us ministers nave nave
reached a sermon about the angels rolling
[way the stone, but we did not remark
Xpon the sublime fact that he sat upon
Why? Certainly not because he
las tired. The angels are a fatigue,
ess race, and that one could have shouidered
very rock around that tomb and carried 1t
way and not been besweated. He sat upon
think, to show you and to show me that