The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-08-05

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sea. nights In the DESERT Who ever
had such a hari reception as Jesus
had? A hostelry the first. an unjust
trial In oyer and terminer another, a
foul-mouthed. Yelling mob the last.
Was there a space on His back as wide
as your two Singers where be was not
whippedf Was there a space on His
brow an Inch SQUARE, where he was not
cut Of the hriers9 When the spike
struck at the ins,ep. did 1t not 60 clean
through to the hollow Of the foot9 Oh.
long, deep. bitter pilgrimage Aloes,
aloesl
John leaned bis head on Christ. but
who did Christ lean onP Five thousand
men fed by the Saviour. Who fed
Jesus7 The sympathy Of a Saviour's
heart going OF, TO the leper and the
adultress; but Who soothed Christ? He
had a fl place neither TO be born nor TO
die. A poor babe! A poor lad A poor
young mani Not SO much as a taper 10
cheer His dying hours Even the can
die Of the sun snuffed out. Was it not
all aloes7 Our sins. sorrows, bereave-
msnts. losses and all the Agonies Of
earth and he'll picked up as in one clas-
ter and squeezed into one cup that
pressed to His lips until the acid, nau-
seating. bitter draft was swallowed
with = distorted countenanee and a
shudder from head to foot and a
gurgling strangulation. Aloesl Al0esl
Nothing but aloesl All this for Him.
self? AL this to get the fame in the
world Of being a martyr? All this in
= spirit Of ~stubborness, because be did
not like Caesar? No. no. All this be-
cause He wanted to pluck me and you
from he'll. Because He wanted 10
raise me and you to HeGvCn. Because
we were lost. and He wanted Us found.
Because vi were blind. and He wanted
Us TO see. Because we were serfs, and
He wanted US manumitted. o We
In whose cup Of life the saechar-
inc has predominated; q We who
have had bright and sparkling bev-
erages, how do you feel toward
Him who in your stead and TO purchase
your dis~lnthraIlment took the aloes,
the unEayory aloes, the bitter aloes2
Your third curiosity is to know why
these garments Of Christ are odorous
with cassia. This was a plant which
grew in India and the adjoining islands.
You do not care TO hear what kind Of a
flower 1t had or what kind Of a stalk. 1t
Is enough for me to tell you that II was
used incidentally. In that land and in
that age, where they knew but little
about pharmacy, cassia was used TO ar
rest many forms Of disease. So, when In
my text we find Christ coming with gar
mepts that smell Of cassia, II suggests
to me the healing and curative power OF
the Son Of God. "0h." you say, NOW
you have = superfuous ideal We are
not sick. Why do We want caSsia2 We
are athletic. Our respiration is perfect.
Our limbs are 1.-the. and on bright cool
days We feel We could bound like a roe"
| beg 10 differ, my brother, from you.
None Of you a be better In physical
health than | am, and yet | must say we
are all sick. have taken the diagnosis
u your case and have examined all the
best authorities on the subject, and |
have to tell you that you are full of
wounds and bruises and putrefying
sores, which have not been bound up
OF Modified with ointment" The
marasmus Of sin is on US. the palsy, the
iropsy, the leprosy. The man that is
expiring tonight in the next street.
the allopathie and homeopathic doctors
have given him up and his friends now
standing around TO take his last words
is no more certainly dying as 10 his
body than you and are dying unless
we have taken the medicine from Gods
apothecary. All the leaves OF this Bible
are only 80 many prescriptions from
the Divine Physician, written, not in
Latin, like the Prescriptions Of earthly
physicians but written in plain Eng
liSh so that a man, though a fool, need
lot err therein" Thank God that the
Sayiour's garments smell of cassial
Suppose a man we're sick, and there
was a phial on his m~antelpisce with
medicine he knew would cure him, and
be refused to take IT, what would you
say Of him? He is a suicide. And what
do yo1 say of that man who, sick in sin,
has the healing medicine of Gods grace
offered him and refuses to take It? II
he dies, he Is O suicide. People talk as
though God took a man and led him out
to darkness and death, as though He
brought him up to the cliffs and then
pushed him of. Oh, moi When a man
Is lost, 1t Is not because God pushes him
on; It'll because he jumps of. In olden
times a suicide was buried at the cross
roads, and the people were accustomed
to throw stones upon his grave. So IL
seems to me there may be at this time
a mar who is destroying his soul, and
as though the angels of God we're here
to bury him at the point where the
roads Of life and death cross each other,
throwing upon the grave the broken
law and q great pile of misimproyed
privileges 80 that those going by MAY
look at the fearful mound and learn
what a suicide 1t 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 we're sick and thos,
who, being 30 sick they could not walk
were brought by their friends. Here
see a mother holding up her it'll,
child, crying; Cure this group, LORD
Jesusl Cure this scarlet. feyerl" AND
others: Cure this ophthalmial Civ
ease and rest to this spinal distress
straighten this club footl" Chris
made every house where He stopped {
dlspensary. do not believe that In tn,
10 centuries which have gone by since
His heart has got hard. / feel that WI
can come nov with all our wounds o
soul and get His benediction. o Jesus
here We arel We want healing. w,
want sight. We want health. We wan.
life. 1.-THE whole need not a physician
but they that are sick" Blessed b,
God that Jesus Christ comes through
this assemblage now, His garment
smelling Of myrrh"-that means fra
grance-"and ~Gloes"-they mean bite
sacrificial memories-"and c%assia"-
that means medicine and cure.
According TO my text, He comes lou
OF the ivory palaces" You know, or
II you do not know, | will tell you nov
that some Of the palaces Of olden tim
were adorned with ivory. Ahab ant
Solomon had their homes furnished
with 1t. The tusks Of African and Ash
attic elephants were twisted into al
manners Of shapes, and there wer,
stairs Of ivory and chairs Of ivory an,
tables Of Ivory and pillars Of ivory an,
windows Of ivory and fountains o