The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-02

Myrrh- That Is what they Pnt into His
cup when He was dying. Myrrh- That
is what they put under His head in tao
wilderness. MyEril- That is what they
strewed His way with ali the way from
the cattle pen in Bethlehem to tbs
msusoleuza at JOseph,s country seat
Afyrrh. Yea, says the Psaluaist: IAN
thy garments smell of nyrrh-'' That is
what the wise men wrapped In the
swaddling clothes of the babe. That is
what the Marys twisted in the shroud
of a crucified Christ The myrrh- o,
the height, the depth, the length, the
breadth of the Saviour's sorrovv. Wen
might the wise men shake out the
myrrh-
But ! notice also from another sack
they shake out the franckineense. Clear
up to the rafters of the barn the air is
filed with perfume, and the hostlers
and the cameI-dFivers in the furthest
part OF the building inhale it, and it
floats out upon the air until passers-by
wonder who in that rough place could
have by accident dropped a box of
alabaster- Franlkineense. That is what
they burned in the censor in the ancient
temple. Franlkincense. That means
worship. Franlxincense. That Is to
fill all the homes, and all the churches,
and all the capitals, and all the nations,
from cellar of stalactited cave clear
up to the silvery rafters of the starlit
DOME Franl1incense. That Is what
we shake ont from our hearts to-day, SO
that the nostrils of Christ once Grim
soned with the hemorrhage of the cross,
shall be flooded with the perfume of a
song, and sermon, and Offertory, and
Misunderstanding, and decoration.
Here is metal pan and the handle
by which it was held In the inside of
this metal pan We're put living Goals, on
the top of them a perforated cover In
a square box the franlxincense was
brought to the temple. This franklin
cense was taken out and sprinlkled over
the living Goals and then the perforated
cover was put on, and when they were
all ready for worship then the cover
was lifted from this censor and from all
the other censers, and the psrfumed
smoke arose until it hung amid
all the folds and dropped amid all
the affairs, and then rose ia great
columns of praise outside or above
the temple, rising clear up toward
censers to-day of Christmas franklin
cense. Here is the one censor of earthly
franltincense. On that we put our
thanks for the mercies of the past year,
the mercies of all our past lives, indi-
viduaI mereies, family mercies, social
mercies, National mercies, and our
hearts burning with gratitude send aloft
the incense of praise toward the Throne
OF Christ. Bring on more incense, and
higher and higher let the columns of
praise ascend. Let them wreath all
these pillars and hover amid all these
arches and then soar to the Throne. But
here is the other censor of heavenly
Thanksgiving and worship. Let them
bring all their franl1incense-the cheru-
bin bring theirs and the seraPhim theirs
and the one hundred and forty and fOuE
Thousand theirs, and all the eternities
| theirs, and let them smoke with per
fume on this heavenly censor until the
cloud canopies the Throne of God
| Then take these two censers-the cen.
ser of earthly frankincense and the
censor of heavenly frankincence-and
1 swing them before the Throne, and
then clash them together in one great
/ hallelujah unto Him to whom the wise
men of the East brought the gold, ant
the myrrh and the frankincense
Blessed be His glorious name forever