Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-08-02
say of him? He /. suicide. And wh,,

say of him? He is q suicide. And VIVA,
do you say of that man who. sick in sin.
has the healing medicine OF Gods grace
offered him and refuses to take IL? A.
he dies, he is n suicide. People talk n,
though God took a man and led him on,
TO darkness and death. as though He
brought him up TO the cliffs and then
pushed him of. oh. no, When man
is lost, IL is not because God pushes him
of: IL 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 i,
seems TO me there may be at this titnc
n man who is destroying his soul. and
rs though the angels of God were here
to bury him ut the point where IN,
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 ma,
look at the fearful mound and lear,
what a suicide il 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 n mother holding up her little
child, crying: Cure this Group. Lord
Jesus! Cure this scarlet fever!" And
others: Cure this ophthalmiai 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. o Jesus,
here we are. We want healing. Wo
| want sight. We want health. We want
| NE. The whole need not physician
but they that are sick" Blessed he
God that Jesus Christ comes through
| this nsscmblage now, His garments
smelling of myrrh"-that means fra
| grance-"and aloes"-they mean bitter
sacrifcial memories-"and cassia"-
that means medicine and cure.
According to my text. He comes tout
OF the ivory palaces" You know, or,
II 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 il. 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!
nreen 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 il almost
stuns my brain, and YOU say: "Oh. II
/ could only have walked over such
floors! If | 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 He proposes TO transport YOU.
for His garments smell of myrrh and
aloes and cassia out of the ivory pal.
aces. What place Heaven must bel
The Tuileries of the French. the Wind.
sor castle of the English, the Spanish
alhambra, the Russian kremlin arc
mere dungeons compared with it! Not
so many castleR on either side of the
Kline as on both sides of the river Of God
the ivory palaces! One for the an
gels, insuiferably bright, winged. fire
eyed, tempest charioted: one for the
martyrs, with bldod red robes from un-
der the altar; one for the King. the
steps of His palace the crown of tho
church militant; one for the singers.
VINO lead the one hundred and forty
and Tour thousand; one for You ran
somed from sin; one for me. plucked
from the burning. Oh, the ivory pal
aces
To-day il seems TO me as II the win
dows Of those palaces were illumined
Tor 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. 1
know them. There are father and
mother, not SO years aud 20 years as
| when they left us. but blithe nad young
as when on their wedding day. And
there are brothers and sisters, merrier
than when We used 10 romp across the
meadows together. The cough gone.
The cancer cured. The erysipelas
healed The heart break over. Oh. how
fair they are ia the ivory palaces! And
your dear little children that went out
from you-Christ did not let one az
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. II
! should take your little child and press
It's soft lace against my rough cheek.
might keep itH little while: but when
| Fon' the mother. came along 80 would
| SfrunnIn frn III. .---..