Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-08-02

an eye TO see our neea. such lip to kiss
away our sorrow, such a hand to snatch
US out of the fire. such foot to trample
our enemies. such n heart TO embrace
ali our necessities? l struggle for some
metaphor with which to express Him
lie is not like the bursting forth of a
full orchestra; that is too loud. lie is
not like the sea when dashed TO rage by
the tempest: that is too boisterous.
lie Is not like the mountain. its brow
wreathed with the lightnings: that is
too solitary. Give Us softer TYNE n
gentler comparison. We have seemed
To SEE Him with our eyes and to hear
INN with our ears and TO touch Him
with our hands. Oh, that to-day He
might appear TO some other one OF our
five senses, Ave. the nostril shall dis
cover His presence. lie comes upon us
like spice gales from Heaven. Yea. His
garments smell of lasting and all per
Vasive myrrh.
Would that you all knew his sweet
ness. How soon YOU would turn from
all other attractions! If tie philoso-
pher leaped out OF his bath in n frenzy
OF JOY and clapped his haLds and rushed
through the streets because he he'd
found the solution of mathematical
problem, how will you feel leaping
from the fountain of Saviour's mercy
and pardon, washed clean and made
white as snow, when the question has
been solved: How can my sour Joe
saved?" Naked. frostbitten, storm
dashed soul. let Jesus this hour throw
O. H..
OF myrrh and aloes and cassia out of
the ivory palaces"
Your second curiosity is 10 know WHY
the robes of Jesus are odorous with
alocs. There IL some difference OF opin-
ion about where these aloes grow. what
is the color of the flower. what is the
particular appearance OF the herb. Suf-
flee IL for YOU and me 10 know that
aloes mean bitterness the world over.
and when Christ comes with garments
bearing that particular odor they sug-
gest TO me the bitterness of Sa-
viour's suffcrings. Were there ever
such nights as Jesus lived through
nights on the mountains. nights ON the
sea, nights i'm the desert? Who ever
had such n hard reception as Jesus
had? \ hosiery the first. an unjust
trial in oyer and terminer another. n
foul-mouthed, yelling mob the last.
Was there space on His back as wide
as your two fingers where he was not
whipped? Was there n space on His
brow an inch square where he was not
cut of the briers? When the spike
struck at the instep, did il not 60 clean
through TO the hollow of the foot? oh.
long. deep, bitter pilgrimage! Aloes.
aloes!
John leaned his head on Christ. but
who did Christ lean on? Fivethousand
men fed by the Saviour. Who fed
Jesus? The sympathy of Saviour's
heart going out TO the leper and the
adultress; but who soothed Christ? lie
had Il fit place neither to be born nor to
die. poor babe! A poor lad! a poor
young man! Not so much as a taper to
cheer His dying hours. Even the can
die of the sun snuffed out. Was il not
all alocs? Our sins, sorrows. bereave-
ments, losses and all the agonies of
earth and hell picked up as in one clus-
ter and squeezed into one cup that
pressed to His lips until the acid. nau-
seating, bitter draft was swallowed
with distorted countenance and "a
shudder from head TO foot and n
gurgling strangulation. Aloes! Aloe!
Nothing but aloes! All this for Him
self? All this to get the fame in the
world of being martyr? All this in
a spirit of stubboTness, because he did
not like Caesar? No, no, All this he.
cause lie wanted 10 pluck ne and you
from hell. Because He wanted 10
raise me and you TO Heaven. Hccause
we were lost, and He wanted us found.
Because we were blind, and He wanted
us TO see. Because we were serfs. and
lie wanted us manumitted. o We
I'm whose cup of life the sacchar-
inc has predominated; o We who
have had bright and sparkling bev-
erages, how do you feel toward
him who in your stead and 10 pun base
your disinthrallment took the aloes.
the unsavory aloes, the bitter aloes?
Your third curiosity is 10 know why
these garments of Christ are odorous
with cassia. This was "A plant which
grew IN India and the ad Joining islands.
on do not care 10 hear what kind Of a
Tower II had OF what kind Of stalk. IL
Is enough for me TO tell you that il was
used incidentally. In that land and in
mat age. where they knew but little
ABOUT pharmacy, cassia was used TO ar
rest many forms Of disease. SO. when in
my text we find Christ coming with gar
nlents that smell of cassia, il suggests
TO me the healing and curative power Of
the Son OF God. oh" you say. now
you have superfuous idea! We are
not sick. Why do we want cassia? We
are athletic. Our respiration is perfect.
Our limbs are 1.-THE. and on bright cool
days We feel we could bound like roe"
! Deg 10 dllfcr. my brother, from you.
None OF you can he better in physical
health than am, and yet must say we
are all sick. have taken the diagnosis
Of your case and have examined all the