The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-02-15

! W Aui " WOUNDS and bruises and
pltret Ylng soreS which have not been hound
1p, or Modified with ointment. The msras-
nus OF SIN Is on us-the palsy, the dropsy. the
fiepros'l- The man that is expiring tonight
on fulton street.-The allopathic AID bomoeo-
pathlc doctors having given him up, and his
lIlelui now standing around to take his last
MoIas.ls no more certainly dying as to his
body than you and 1 are dying unless we
nave Iaken the medicine from Gods aputhe-
cary. An the leaves Of this Bible are
only 50 many prescriptions from the Di
wins l,hysiclan, written, not in Latin like the
prescriptions of earthly physicians, but writ.
zen IN pain English, so that man, though a
100, Heed not err therein Thank God that
the Sigyiour's garments smell of cassia.
suppose a man were sick, and there was d
phial on his mantel piece with medicine hs
knew would cure MIN, and he refused TO take
IL, what would you say of himi He is a
suicide. And what do you say Of that man
who, Tuck in sin, has the healing medicine OF
Gods grace offered him, and refuses to take
lti IL he dies he is a suicide People
talk az though God took man and led him
out to darkness and death, as though He
brought him up to the cliffs and then pushed
him OF. Oh, no. When man is lost it is
not because God pushes him off; it is because
he Jumps of. In Olden times a suicide wai
! buried at the cross roads, and the PEG
/ pie were accustomed to throw stones upon
I his grave So it seems to me there may be
IN this house man who is destroying his
own soul and as though the angels OF
God were here to bury him at the
: point where the roads Of lie and death cross
each bther, throwing upon the grave the
broken law and great pile of misimproved
privileges, so that those going may look az
the fearful mound, and learn what a 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 fevern And others
4 saying; Cure this ophtAalmia- Give ease and
rest to this spinal distress Straighten this
club-footn Christ made every house where
He stoDped dispensary. ] do not believe
7 that in the nineteen centuries that have gone
by since His heart has got hard. feel that
we can come now with all our won ds of soul
and get Bis benediction. o Jesus, here we
are. We want healing. We want sight.
We want health We want life. The
whole need not q physician but they that
are sick. Blessed be God that Jesus Christ
comes through this assemblage row, His
garments smelling of myrrhn-that means
ragrance-"and aloes'-uhey mean bitter
sacrihcial 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 will
tell you now, that some OF the palaces of
olden time were adorned with ivory.
Ahab and Solomon had their homes fur
nished with it The tusks of African and
Asiatlc elephants were twisted into all man
ners of shapes, and there were stairs Of ivory,
and chairs of ivory, and tables of ivory, and
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
overmastering beauty. Green tree branches
sweeping the white curbs. Tapestry trailing
the snowy floors. Brackets Of light flashing
On the lustrous surroundings Silvery music
ripping to the beach Of the arches The
mere thought OF it almost stuns my brain,
and you say:
"0h, if Icsald only have walked over such
foorsl II I could have thrown myself in
/ such chairl If ! could have heard the drip
and dash Of those fountainsm You shall
! have something better than that if you
/ only let Christ introduce you From that
( place He came, and to that place He proposes
| to transport you, for His garments smell
I of mYrrh, and aloes, and cassla, out of the
ivory palaces
on. what place heaven must bel The
/ Tuileries Of the French, the Windsor Castle
I Of the English, the Spanish Alhambra, the
D Russian KreIqlin are dungeons compared with
I i'll Not SO many castles on either side the
Rhine as on both sides of the river Of God the
( ivory paiacesi One for the angels. insuffer-
( ably bright, winged, fre-eyed, tempest
charioted; one for the martyrs, with blood
red robes, from under the altar; one for the
King the steps OF His palace the crowns Of
! the church militant; one for the singers. who
lead the one hundred and forty and four
! thousand; one for gOu REASONED from sin;
one for me, pincked from the burning. oh,
The ivory palaces!
To-day it seems to me as if the windows Of
I those palaces were illumined for some great
{ victory. and I look and see climbing the
{ stairs Of ivory, and walking on floors Of
( ivory, and looking from the windows of
ivory, some whom We knew and loved on
/ earth Yes. ] know them. There are father
and mother, not eighty-two years and seven
/ ty nine years, as when they left US, but
blithe and young as when on their marriage
I dav. And there are brothers aud sisters, mer-
rier than when we used TO romp across the
meadows together. The cough gone. The can
! Ger cured. The erYsipelas healed. The heart
I break over Oh, how fir they are in the ivory
/ palacasi And your dear little children that
l went out from you-Christ did not let one OF
them drop as BE lifted them He did not
wrench one of them from you. No. They
went as from one they loved well to Ore whom
I they loved better II | should take your
Y AAEIt Elllu Alll pres. us SUI ldcc
against my rough cheek. I might keep it a
little while: but when you the mother, came
along, ii would struggle to 90 with you. And
so you stood holding your dying child when
Jesus passed by in the room, and the little
one sprang out TO greet Him That is all.
Your Christian dead did not 90 down into
the dust and the gravel and the
mud. Though 1t rained all that funeral day,
and the water came up to the wheels hub as
you drove out to the cemetery, 1t made no
difference to them, for they stepped from
the home here to the home there, right into
the ivory palaces All is well with them
AL is we'll
It is not a dead weight that you lift
WREN you carry Christian out. Jesus makes
tie bed up soft with velvet promises, and
He says: Put her down here very gently.
Put that head, which viii never ache again,
On this pillow Of halleluiahs- Send up word
that the procession is coming. Ring the els.
RiDgi Open your gates, ye ivory palacesl"
And 50 your loved ones are there. They are
just rs certainly there. having died in Christ,
As that you are here. There Is only one thing
more they want Indeed, there is one thing
in heaven they have not got They
want it What is it, Your company.
Bui. oh my BROTHER, unless you change
your tack you cannot reach that harbor.
Yen mil.ht well take the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, EXPECTING in that direction to
reach Toronto, IS t. 60 on in the way some
OF you are gong and yet eXp ect TO reach the
ivory palaces Your loved ones are looking
cut OF the windows Of Heaven now, and
vet you seem to turn your back
Upon them You do not seem TO
know the sound of their voices as
well as YOU used to, or to be moved by the
sight OF their dear faces. Call louder, We de-
parted cues Call louder from the ivory
palaces When think Of that place, and
think OF my entering it, feel awkward;
feel as sometimes when have been exposed
to the weather, and my shoes have been be-
mired, and my coat is sOiled. and my hair is dis
heveled, and l stop in front Of some fine resi-
dence whore have an Grand / feel not fit
to go in as am and sit among polished guests.
So some OF Us feel aboutheaven. We need to be
washed-we need to be rehabilitated before we
go into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, let the
surges Of Thy pardoning mercy roll over US
] want not only to wash my hands and my
feet. but. like some skilled diver, standing
OF the pier-head. who leaps into the waves
and comes up at a far-distant point from
where he went in. 50 I want to 90 down an d
50 want to come up. 0 Jesus, wash me
in the waves of Thy salvation.
And hers ask you TO solve a mystery that 1
has been depressing me for thirty years i |
have asked It Of doctors Of divinity who have /
been studying theology half century, and !
they have given me no satisfactory /
answer. have turned over all the /
books in my library, but got no solution to /