The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-05

say of him? He is suicide. And what
do you say of that man who, sick in sin.
has the healing medicine OF Gods grace
offered him and refuses to take it? 1t
he dies, he is suicide. Pcople talk as
though God took man and led him out
to darkness and death, az though ds
brought him up to the cliffs and then
pushed him off. Oh, no! When man
is lost, it is not because God pushes him
off; it is because he jumps off. In olden
times suicide was buried at the cross
roads, and the people were accustomed
to throw stones upon his grave. So it
seems to me there may be at this time
a man who is destroying his soul, and
as though the angels of God were 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 great pile of misimproved
privileges so that those going by may
look at the fearful mound and learn
what suicide it 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 q mother holding up her little
child, crying: "Cure this Group, Lord
Jesus! Cure this scarlet fever!" And
| others: "Cure this ophthalmia! Give
ease and rest to this spinal distress!
Straighten this club foot!" Christ
made every house where He stopped
dispensary. do not believe that in the
10 centuries which have gone By since.
His heart has got hard. feel that we
! can come now with all our wounds OF
soul and get His benediction. 0 Jesus,
here we are! We want healing. We
want sight. We want health. We want
life. 1.-The whole need not physician,
but they that are sick" Blessed be
God that Jesus Christ comes through
this assemblage now, His garments
smelling OF myrrh"-that means fra.
grance-"and aloes'-they mean bitter
sacriticial memories-"and cassia"-
|
According to my text, He comes 'out
of the ivory palaces" You know, or.
if you do not know, will tell you now
that some of the palaces of olden time
were adorned with ivory. Ahab and
Solomon had their homes furnished
with it. The tusks of African and Ash
attic elephants were twisted into all!
manners of shapes, and there were
stairs of ivory and chairs of ivory and
tables of ivory and pillars OF ivory and
windows of ivory and fountains OF
ivory that dropped into basins of ivory
and rooms that had ceilings of ivory.
Oh, white and overmastering beauty.
; Green tree branches sweeping the
| white curbs. Tapestry trailing the
| snowy floors. Brackets of light fash
5 ing on the lustrous surroundings. Sill
: very music ripping on the beach OF the
e arches. The mere thought of it almost
} stuns my brain, and you say: "Oh, il
r ] could only have walked over such
0 floors! If / could have thrown myself
: in such chair! If could have hearc
t the drip and dash of those fountains!'
= You shall have something better thar
f that if you only let Christ Introduce
j.. you. From that place He came, and tt
t that place He proposes to transport you
l. for His garments smell OF myrrh ant
d aoes and cassia out of the ivory pal
a aces" What place Heaven must be
a The Tuileries of the French, the Wind
i! sor castle of the English, the Spanis]
l. alba mbra, the Russian kremlin, ar
e mere dungeons compared with it! No
Il so many castles on either side of tn
d Rhine as on both sides of the river of Go'
= the ivory palaces. One for the an
u gels, insutferably bright, winged, fir
0 eyed, tempest charioted; one for tn
,e martyrs, with blood red robes from ur
j. der the altar; one for the King, tn
d steps of His palace the crown of tn
ID church militant; one for the singer:
e who lead the one hundred and fort
r. and four thousand; one for you rar
10 somed from sin; one for me, plucke
v from the burning. Oh, the ivory pa
d aces.
81 To-Day IT seems 10 me as II the VII
S, dows of those palaces were illumine
for some great victory, and l look an
~ see climbing the stairs OF ivory an
Is walking on floors of ivory and lookin
III from the windows Of ivory some whol
S. we knew and loved on earth. Yes,
Il know them. There are father an
1t mother. not 50 years and 70 years Z
as when they left us. but bithe and youn
in as when on their wedding day. AT
le there are brothers and sisters. merrit
r than when we used to romp across tt
in meadows together. The cough gon
r The cancer cured. The erysipel;
is healed. The hearIreak over. Oh, no
of fair they are in the*.>ory palaces! Ar
w your dear little children that went OF
re from you-Christ did not let one
We them drop as He lifted them. He d
It. not wrench one OF them from you. n
ol They went as from one they loved we
=" to one whom they loved better. 1t
III. should take your little child and pre-
al its soft face against my rough chez
We might keep it little while; but wh'
sis you. the mother, came along it wou
be struggle to so with you. And so u
| stood holding your dying child whit