Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-03-31
THE CUP OF VINEGAR.
DR.. TALMAeE plscOURSES ON THE
AClDlTlES OF LIFE.
Lessons Drawn From the Bitter Ex-

Lessons Drawn From the Bitter Ex-
periences Of the savIour's Crucifix-
ION - Comfort and Peace For the
Poor. Distressed and Unfortunate.
copyright, 1899. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON March 26.-From the
pathetic scene Of Christ's last hour of
suffering DR. Talmage in this sermon
draws lessons of comfort for people in
trouble; text John xix. 30, "When
Jesus therefore had received the vine
gar
The brigands Of Jerusalem had done
their work It was almost sundown.
and Jesus was dying Persons in cruci-
fxion often fingered on from day to day,
crying, begging, cursing, but Christ
had been exhausted by years of NAL
treatment Pillowless, poorly fed, fog
ged-as bent over and tied to low
post his bare back was inhamed with
the scourges intensified with pieces OF
lead and bone-and now for whole
hours the weight Of his body hung on
delicate tendons, and. according to Gus
tom, a violent stroke under the armpits
had been given by the executioner
Dizzy. nauseated. feyerish-a world Of
agony is compressed in the two words,
Il thirstp O skies Of Judaa let drop
Of rain strike on his burning tonguel
O world, with rolling rivers and spar
king lakes and spraying fountains, give
Jesus something to drink If there be
any pity in earth or heaven or hell. let
il now be demonstrated in behalf Of his
royal sufferer.
The wealthy women Of Jerusalem
used TO have O fund Of money with
which they provided wine for those
people who died in crucifxion, pow
erful opiate to deaden the pain, but
Christ would not take it. He wanted to
die sober. and so he refused the wine.
But afterward they go to a cup Of
vinegar and soak a sponge in it and
put it on stick Of hyssop and then
press it against the hot lips of Christ.
You say the wine was an anasthetic
and intended to relieve or deaden 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 January.
looking across their table, they see all
their family present Health rubicund-
Skies hamboyant Days resilient. But
in a great many cases there are not so
many sugars as acids The annoyances
and the vexations and the disappoint-
ments Of life oyerpower tho successes
There is n gravel in almost every shoe
An Arabian legend says that there was
worm in Solomons staff, gnawing
its strength away, and there Is 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
Brummel called him by his first name
and addressed him as a servant, cry
ing, George, ring the bellP Miss
Langdon, honored all the world over for
her poetic genius. is so worried over
the evil reports set afoat regarding her
that she is found dead, with an empty
bottle Of prussic acid in her hand. Gold
smith said that his life was a wretched
being and that all that want md con
tempt could bring to it had beer
brought and cries out, "What, then, /;
there formidable in jail1' CorreggiO'
fine painting is hung up for tayerr
sign. Hogarth cannot sell his bes'
painting except through a rattle. An
dre del Sarto makes the great fresco IL
the Church Of the Annunciata at Flor
ence and gets for pay a sack Of corn
and there are annoyancos and vexationI
in high places as well rs in low places
showing that in a great many lives arr
the sours greater than the sweets
"When Jesus therefore had received
the vinegar
Christ's sympathy.
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