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

III ~ z W ste our llttfl SUN u III W Is lst
away our sorrow. such a hand to snatch
us out of the fire. such a foot TO trample
our enemies, such a heart to embrace
all our necessities? | struggle for some
metaphor with which to express Him
lie is not like the bursting forth of n
full orchestral that is too loud. He is
not like the sea when dashed to rage by
the tempest; that is too boisteruus.
lie is not like the mountain. its brow
wreathed with the lightnings; that is
too solitary. Give rs Il softer type, a
gentler comparison. We have seemed
to see Him with our eyes and to hear
Him with our ears and to touch Him
with our hands. Oh. that to-day lie
might appear to some other one OF our
five senses! Aye, 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 the philoso-
pher leaped out of his bath in frenzy
of Joy and clapped his haLds and rushed
through the streets because he he'd
found the SOLUTION of a mathematical
problem. how will YOU feel leapiug
from the fountain of a Saviour's mercy
and pardon. washed clean and made
white as snow, when the question las
been solved: How car my soui be
.aved?" Naked. frosthitteu. storm
| dashed soul. let Jesus this hour throw
around thee the garments that smell
of mvrrh and aloes and cassia out of
the ivory palaces"
Yo,r ,acord curinsit,. is toI.po,, why
the robes of Jesus are odorous with
aloes. There is 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 to know that
aloes mean bitterness the world over,
and when Christ comes with garments
bearing that particular odor they sug-
/ rest TO me the bitterness of a Sa-
viour's sufTerinrs. Were there ever
1 such nights as Jesus lived through
| nights on the mountains. nights on the
sea. nights in the desert? who ever
| had such hard reception as Jesus
| had? A hosiery the first. an unjust
/ trial in over and terminer another, a
| fou-mouthed. yelling mob the last.
| Was there a space on His back as wide
as your two fingers where he was not
/ whipped? Was there a space on His
| brow an inch square where he was not
| cut of the briers2 When the spike
/ struck AT the iustcp. did it not 60 clean
| through TO the hollow of the foot? Oh.
/ long, deep. bitter pilgrimage. Aloes.
| aloes,
/ John leaned his head Oh Christ. hut
who did Christ lean opq Five tbousopd
men fed Inv the Soyio,ir Who fed
| Jesus2 The syupotbv of q Soyiour's
/ heart gojng ont +, the leper and the
adultress: but who sootbed Christ? He
/ had a fit place neither tn he horn TO
die. A poor babe. 4 poor lad, 4 poor
| Young man, Not so much as n taper 10
cheer His diving hours. Even the can
| die of the sun snutYed out. Was il not
all aloes2 our sins. sorrows hereave-
ments. LOSSES and all the aronies of
/ eprth and hell pirl,ed mn MS i'm one clus-
/ ter and squeezed into one Gun that
messed 10 Ills Inns until the acid. nan
/ s.uting. hitter daft was swallowed
with a distorted coi,rteuapce and fl
/ sluddcr from bcul In foot and
purrIiry STANDARDIZATION. Aloes, Aloe,
/ Notbiup but aIoes, All this for Him
/ self? An this to get the fame in the
world of boiug n uartyr9 An Ills IN
a ,uirit of stubborl,ess. because be did
moi like Coesoro M moi An ,bi. be-
cams. Ue wanted to pluck ne and Won
from HELL uecause ii, wanted TO
raise me and Won 10 Heaven. Tccause
we were lost. and lie wanted MS found.
because we were blind. and lie wanted
MS to see Eecause we were serfs. and
lie wanted MS monumitted. q We
iu whose cum of life the saccAar-
/ inc has predomipated. o We who
AVE had BRIGHT and suarlilinp bey
rruoes how do Won feel toward