The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-07
AN ELOQUENT SERMON.
Delivered at Calvary Church
Last Night by the POpu ar
Young Rector, &. T.
Brady.

6led at the calvary church last nignt
to listen to an abe sermon delivered
By the eloquent young rector OF the
church e. T. Brady, entitled "The
kiss that betrsyeth." The text was
taken from Proverbs q, chapter aud
part of the sixth verse. "The kisses
Of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs ~, pit. of '. 6.-"The kisses OF
IN enemy are aeceitful"
When two friends meet, they kiss
When the husband leaves his wife,
they kiss. When the child comes into
= the arms of its mother, they kiss.
When happiness crosses the threshold,
he is accompanied by the kisses of re-
i0ieipg, and when SORROW knocks with
sadness upon the door, behind her
even as the silver sunlight lines the
gray cloud on the far of hillside are the
kisies of sympathy and tenderness.
The young husband kisses his bride.
and the aged grandsire kisses the face
chat smiled upon him 10 youthful
freshness before the altsr in days Of
auld lang syne. When the baby is
born be is
s.a KISSED IN GREETING
And when the old man dies some one
lays upon his still face the long long
kiss Of farewell.
Yet the habit Of kissing is not q
general one, it is not naturally in
stinctive method of sslutation or mani.
festation Of feeling common t, the
whole inhabited world. 1t is prac,i.
scally unknown to half the human
race. On the other hand. while the
custom may not lay claim to univers-
atty. for all practical purposes, as far
Is We are personally concerned, or as
far as our experience leads us, or may
consider the practice general, since it
IL especially peculiar to the Aryan aud
Semitic branches Of the human family,
from the first Of which We get our an.
scestry and language and fros the
latter our religion. Our ancestors
always kissed sod presumably our de-
cendsnts will continue the practice.
The earliest written records contain |
nentiou of the cuat"m among these |
peoples and the oldest and most relia-
bic traditions and all other evidences
authenticate and attest the fidelity of
che written records. In Genesis, we
read how Isaac kissed Jacob. his son,
ere be blessed him and died; and in
Homer's Odessy, when the battered
and shattered Ulysses comes back
after his battle bene ,ih the walls of
Troy and his wanderings in many
lands, to the halls of his an
cestors palace, his two faithful
friends, Phi'etius and Enneaus fell
upon his neck and kissed him. So to
L have not doubt did weary web
weaving Penelope, his wife. The an.
cient habit constantly referred to in
history obtains to day and kissing coz
fains both the moot l.
SACRED AND VALUED METHOD. II
OF salvation. manifestation of affection
or evidence of regard and respect, but
that is not all.
Now, the kiss. end by the way it is ..
An Anglo Saxon word, purely leu.
tonic, having no connection With the {
rom nce dialect nor with either Latin
or Greek, though romance is some. 8
times ass Jciated Herewith of many
kinds. Let US illustrate from the b. I
bic. All human experience is found :
there. l can see something to admire
in that Turkish cnnqueror, who ordered =
all the books in the great library at d
Alexandria to be destroyed. saying if Q
they agree with the Koran they were K
superauous, if they disagreed, perni- 3
cious and in either case food for the o
flames. Vandalism is but searching II
for the truth in the mind of the Mo. >
hammedan SULTAN, which gives Q sub :,
linn lty 10 his remark. To our Bible, then q
let US turn in our consideration of the
subject. l.;
A kiss is first sign of reverence - :,
and subj ction to q superior as when :;
Samuel after amounting young Saul, ,: ,:
kissed him in submission of the L. rd's u
Second, an index of spirit y
nal submission and alteration to =.
Christ as when David says "kiss the . .
'on lest he be angry and when Mary 8
washed the Masters feet with her I:
.ears and kissed them and wiped :.
hem with the hairs of her head. -
Third, it is token of human aHec- -
ion and love, as Isaac kissing Jacob r
Ind Essu or Shulamith in the book of r. r.
he canticles that ancient love story ::
aging ''let him kiss me with the -
Kisses of bis mouth" OF when the ia u
her Of the prodigal son fell upon his 6 6
leck and kissed him. Fourth, il is a Il y
TOKEN OF DIVINE LOVE. II;