The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-04

say OF MN : lie Is SUICIDE. Nnd WnaB
DO you say of that man who, sick in sin,
/ has the healing medicine of Gods grace
offered him and refuses to take 1t? II
he dies, he is a suicide. People talk as
| though tod took Il man and led him out
to darkness and death, as though He
/ brought him up TO the cliffs and then
| pushed him off. oh. no! When a man
| is lost, il is not because God pushes him
| off; il is because he jumps OIL. In olden
times a 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 a 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
who, being SO sick they could not walk,
were brought by their friends Here
see 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 distressl
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 gen His benediction. o Jesus,
here we are! We want healing We
want sight. We want health We want
life. "The whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick" Blessed be
God that Jesus Christ comes through
this asscmblage now, His garments
smelling of myrrh"-that means fra
grance-"and aloes"-they mean bitter
sacritical memories" cassia"-
that means medicine and cure.
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 commissioning beauty!
Green tree branches sweeping the
white curbs. Tapestry trailing the
snowy floors. Brackets of light flash
ing on the lustrous surroundings. Sill
very music ripping on the beach of the
arches. The mere thought of it almost
stuns my brain, and YOU say: "Oh, if
| could only have walked over such
floors Ii l could have thrown myself
in such a chair If could have heard
the drip and dash Of those fountains"
You shall have something better than
that if YOU only let Christ introduce
YOU From that place He came, and to
that place lie proposes 10 transport you.
for lis garments smell of mNrrh and
AUS anu 'hSNlb hhl OIL lllt lAbIN IIaI-
aces" What place Heaven must be!
The Tuileries of the French. the Wind
Sor castle of the English. the Spanish
alhambru, the Russian krcmliu, are
mere dungeons com pared with it, Not
So many castles ON either side of the
lhineaso on both sides of the river of God
the ivory palaces. One for the am
gels. iusuilcrably bright. winged. fire
eyed, tempest chariot,d: one for the
martyrs, with blood red robes from UNI
der the altar; one for the King, the
steps of His palace the crown of the
church militant; one for the singers,
who lead the one hundred and forty
and four thousand, one for YOU ran
somcd from sin; one for me- pluckod
from the burning. Oh, the ivory pal
aces.
To-day it seems TO me as If the win
doWs of those palaces were illumined
for some great victory, and | look and
see climbing the stairs of ivory and
walking on floors of ivory and looking
from the windows of ivory some whom
we knew and loved on earth. Yes.
| know them. There are father and
mother not So years and 20 years as
when they left us but blithe and young
as when on their wedding day. And
there are brothers and sisters. merrier
than when we used 20 romp across the
meadows together The cough gone.
The cancer cured. The erysipeas
healed The heartbreak over. Oh, how
fair they are in the ivory palaces And
your dear little children that went out
from you-Christ did not let one of
them drop as lie lifted them. lie did
not wrench one of them from you. No.
They went as from one they loved well
TO one whom they loved better. If /
should take your little child and press
IT'S soft face against my rough cheek,
might keep it II little while; but when
you, the mother. came along il would