The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-03-31
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"LIEE'S ACIDITIES" LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
when Jesus Therefore Had Received
the vinogsr"-From John, Chapter
xix, Verse so - Some Palm Sunday
Thoughts for Christians.

cinXton often fingered on from day -
day-crying. begging, cursing; but
Christ had been exhausted by years of
maltreatment. Pillowless, poorly fed,
hogged-as bent over and tied to low
post, his bare back was inflamed with
the scourges intensified with pieces Of
lead and bone-and now for whole
hours, the weight of his body hung on
delicate terdons, and. according to GUS
tom, a violent stroke under the arm
pits had been given by the eXecutioner.
Dizzy, nauseated. feverish-a world OF
agony is compressed in the two words:
II thirst" skies of Judea, let drop
of rain strike on his burning tongue!
world, with rolling rivers and spark
ling lakes, and spraying fountains, give
Jesus something to drink! If there be
any pity in earth or heaven or hell, Let
1t now be demonstrated in behalf ot
this royal sufferer.
The wealthy women OF Jerusalem
used to have a fund OF money with
which they provided wine for those
people who died in crucifixion-a DOW
CIlul ODldlt W uGAAOh NhO PeNAA'
Christ would not take y. He wanted
to die sober. and so he refused the
wine. But afterwards they go to cup
of vinegar and soaked a sponge N It,
and put 1t on a stick of hyssop, and
then press it against the hot lips OF
Christ. You say the wine was an
anaesthetic and intended TO relieve or
deeden the pain. But the vinegar was
an insult.
In some lives the saccharine seems
to predominant. Life Is sunshine on
bank OF flowers. A thousand hands to
clap approval. In December or in jan
uary. looking across their table. they
see all their family present. Health
rubicund. Skies famboyant. DAYS
resilient. But In great many cases
there are not so many sugars as acids.
The annoyances. and the vexations'
and the disappointments of life over
power the successes. There is a greNei
In almost every shoe. An Arabian leg
end says that there was a worm Ia
Solomon's staff, gnawing its strength
away: and there is a weak spot in
every earthly support that a man leans
on. King George OF England forgot all
the grandeurs of his throne because,
one day, in an interview, Beau Brum-
mel called him by his first name, ard
addressed him as a servant. crying:
George, ring the bell!" Miss Lang
don, honored all the world over for
her poetic genius, is so worried over
the evil reports set afloat regarding
her, that she is found dead. with an
empty bottle of prussic acid in her
hand Goldsmith said that his life was
a wretched being. and that all that
want and contempt could bring to II
had been brought. and cries ont:
What, then, is there formidable N
,jail?" Correggio's fine painting Is
hung up TO- a tavern sign. Hogarth
cannot sell his best painting except
through rattle. Andrew Delsart
makes the great fresco In the church
of the Annunciata, at Florence, a2d
gets for pay a sack of corn; and there
are annoyances and vexations in high
places as we'll as in low places, show
ing that In a great many lives are the
sours greater than the sweets. When
Jesus therefore had received the vin-
egar."
II is absurd to suppose that man
who has always been we'll can sympa-
thize with those who are sick. or that
one who has always been honored can
appreciate the sorrow OF those who
are despise6, or that one who has been
born to great fortune can understand
the distress and the straits of those
who are destitute. The fact that
Christ himself took the vinegar makes
him able TO sympathize today and for
ever with all those whose cup is filled
with tho sharp acids of this life. He
took the vinegar!
In the first place, there was the sour
ness of betrayal. The treachery of
Judas hurt Christs feelings more than
all the friendship of his disciples did
him good. You have had many
friends; but there was one friend upon
whom you put especial stress. You
Toasted him. You loaned him money.
You befriended him In the dark passes
of life. when he especially needed
friend. Afterward he turned upon you,
and he tool. advantage of your former
intimacies. He wrote against you. He
talked against you He microscopized
your faults. He flung contempt at you
when you ought to have received moth.
ing but gratitude. At first you could
not sleep at nights. Then you went
about with a sense OF having been
stung. That difficulty will never be
healed, for though mutual friends mas
arbitrate in the matter until you shall
shake hands, the old cordiality will
never come back. Now / commend TO
all such the sympathy of n betrayed
Christ why they sold him for less
than our twenty dollars! They all for
sock him and fled. They cut him TO
the quick. He drank that cup to the
dregs. He took the vinegar.
There is also the soreness of main
There are some of you who have n,
seen a we'll day for many years. BY
keeping out of draughts, and by care
fully studying dietetics, you continue