Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-08-05

wounds and bruises and putrefying
sores. which have not been bound up
or molhfed with ointment" The
usarasnus of sin IL on Us. the palsy, the
drocsy. the leprosy. The man that Is
expiring tonight IN the next street
the auopathic and homeopathic doctors
have given him up and his friends now
standing around 10 take his last words
is no more certainly dying as TO his
body than YOU and | are dying unless
,ve have taken the medicine from Gods
opothecary All the leaves Of this Bible
are only so many prescriptions from
the Divine Physician. written. not In
Latin. like the prescriptions OF earthly
physicians. but written in plain Eng
lish so that "man. though a fool. need .
not err therein" Thank God that the
Savsour's garments smell Of cassial
Supposs a man were sick. and there I
was phial on his mantelpisce with /
medicine he knew would cure him. and +
SO refused 10 take Il. what would you
say Of him? lie Is a suicide. And what
do YOU say OF that man who, sick in sin.
has the healing medicine OF Gods grace
offered him and refuses 20 take it2 IL
ne dies. he Is suicide People talk as
though God took man and led him out
10 darkness and death. as though He
brought him up TO the cliIfs anc then
F pushed him OF. Oh. mol W hen msn
is lost. IL Is not because God pushes him
/ of: IL Is because he jumps Of In olden
times a suicide was buried at the cross
roads. and the people were accustomed
10 throw stones upon his grave. So II
seems 20 me there may be az this time
a man who is destroying his soul. and
as though the angels OF God were here
70 bury him at the point where the
roads of life and death cross each other,
throwing upon the grave the broken
law and a great pile OF misimproved
privileges so that those going by may
look at 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 a mother holding up her little
child. crying: Cure this Group. Lord
Jesusl Cure this scarlet feYeri" And
others: Cure this ophthalmisi Civ,
ease and rest 20 this spinal distreSsl
Straighten this club fcOtl" Chris
made every house where He stopped :
diSneusarv. I do not believe that in th'
10 centuries which have gone by since
His heart has got hard. feel that w
can ccme now with all our wounds o
soul and get His benehction. q Jesus
here we arel We want healing. W
want sight. We want health. We wan
( life. The whole need not physician
but they that are sick." Blessed b
: God that Jesus Christ comes throug
= this assemblage now. His garment
smelling OF myrrh'-that means FRA
" grance-"and aloes"-they mean bite
l. sacrihcial memories-"and cassia"-
= that means medicine and cure.
According 10 my text, He comes ''or
= Of the ivory palaces" You know. o.
- il You do not know. 7 will tell you no
:. that some OF the palaces of olden tin
were adorned with ivory. Ahab an
Solomon had their homes furnishe
with IL. The tusks OF African and As
attic elephants were twisted into a
=, manners OF shapes. and there WEI
stairs of ivory and chairs OF ivory ar
] ldpltH OF lNOl anu liil4AH ~ ifci y al
windows of ivory and fountains
80 ivory that dropped into basins of ivol
and rooms that had ceilings of ivor
:. Oh, white &nd overmastering beaut
Green tree branches sweeping q
"a white curbs. Tapestry trailing q
snowy floors. Brackets of light fias
ing on the lustrous surroundings. ;
-, very music ripping on the beach of z
: arches The mere thought of IL aimc
r. stuns my brain. and you say: "Oh.
l could only have walked over su
,;s fioorSl If l oould have thrown mys
80. in such a chair. IL l could have hea
-, the drip and dash OF those fountains
a. You shall have something better IN
,se that If you only let Christ introdu
"A you. From that place He came, and
.ed that place He proposes 10 transport "
nd for His garments smell of myrrh a
:. aloes and cassia out OF the ivory p
aces" What a place Heaven must
r. The Tuileries of the French. the VIII
.x- sor castle of the English, the Span
"a alhambra. the Russian kremlin,
80 mere dungeons compared with i'll
- so many castles on either side of
Rhine as on both sides OF the river of G
INV the ivory palaces. One for the
ons gels. insufferably bright, winged. 1
ich eyed. tempest charioted; one for
- martyrs, with blood red robes from