The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-08-01

| che tears Of human sorrow IN lacnSs'
| matory that shall never be broken! WhC
| has such an eye TO see our need, such q
| lip 10 kiss away our sorrow, such
/ hand 10 snatch US out Of the IRE, scch q
| foot 20 trample our enemies, such heart
/ TO embrace all our necessities'
Like spice Gales from on High.
.T struggle for some metaphor With
which 10 express Him. He Is not Ike the
bursting forth Of full orchestra. that
| is too loud He is not like the sea when
lashed 10 rage by the tempest: that is
| too boisterous. He is not like the noun
tain, It's brow wreathed with the light
nings: that is too solitary. Give us a
, softer type, a gentler comparison. We
have seemed 20 see Him with our eyes,
! and TO hear him with our ears, ard "a
touch him with our hands. Oh. that to-
day He might appear 10 some other one
of our five senses! Ay, the nostril shall
discover His presence. He comes upon
US like spice gales from heaven. Yea,
His garments smell OF lasting and all
pervasive myrrh.
Would that you all knew His sweet
nessi How soon you would turn from all
other attractions II the philosopher
leaped out of his bath in a frenzy OF 10Y.
and clapped his hands and rushed through
the streets. because he had found the So
luton Of a mathematical problem, how
will you feel leaping from the fountain
OF 4 SaviCur's mercy and pardon, washed
clean. and made white as. snow. when the
question has been solved: How can my
soul be saved? Naked. frost-bitten.
storm-lashed soul let Jesus this nOur
throw around thee the garments that
smell Of myrrh, and alOes, and cdssia,
out OF the ivory palaces
The Significance of Aloe.
'Your second curiosity Is to know why
the robes of Jesus are odorous with aloes
There is some difference of opinion about
where these aloes grow, what is the color
of the flower, what is the particular ap-
pearance of the herb. Suffice IL for you
and me to know that alOes mean bitter
hess the world over, and when Christ
comes with garments bearing that par
ticular odor, they suggest TO me the Bit
terness of a Saviour's sufferings. Were
there ever 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 hostelry the first, an unjust trial
In oyer and terminer another. a foul
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 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
go clear through 10 the hollow OF the
foot? oh, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage!
Aloes, aloes
John leaned his head on Christ but
VINO did Christ lean on? Five thousand
men FED by the Saviour: who fed Jesus?
Ihe sympathy of a Saviour's heart going
out to the ieper and the adul,4ress; but
VINO Soothed Christ? He had a fit place
heither to be born nor TO die. A poor
HaDe: N, poor lad! poor young man!
NOT so much as a taper 10 cheer his diving
hours. Even the candle of the sun
snuHed out. Was II not all aIoes? Our
SINS, sorrows. bsreavements losses and
al, an me agonies Of earth and hell picked
up as in one cluster and squeezed into one
cup, and that pressed TO His lips untiI 1hs
acrlG' nauseating. bitter draught was
swallowed with a distorted countenance
ana shudder from head to foot. and a
Sn.iIs strangulation. Aloesl aloes
being a martyr? VI
Raised Men TO Heaven.
All this In spirit Of stubbornness he
cause He did not like Caesar? MOI NOT
All this because He wanted 10 nIucl, me |
ana you from hell Because He wan.n5 |
to raise me and you to heaven. Because |
We were lost, and He wanted US founA |
I because we were blind. and He wanted ms |
W see. because we were serfs and We
wanted US manupitted Oh. We in whose |
up oi NE tne sdccharine has predominant |
ru' on ye who have had bright ana |
spdrkllng beverages, how do Won fset |
toward Him who IN your stead ana 20
purchase your disinthrallment, took rho
noes, the unsavory aloes, the hire
. our third curiosity Is to know v,h,,
-nese garments of Christ are odoroIIs
N.1h cassla. This was a plant which
5ie" III India and the adjoining islands
ou 40 not care to hear what kind of a
io"er IL mad or what kind of a stalk II
. enough Tor me to tell you that II was
ised incidentally. In that land and a.
nat age whers they knew but little ahou,
'Harihacy' csssla was used to arrest nanv
orihs OF disease. So, when in nv ,ex,
go niiu Christ coming with garments tba,
mel OF cassia- it suggests 10 me The
ledhng and curative power Of the Son of
roo, roo; Inc marasmus of sin Is on us-the
JdIsy; the dropsy. the leprosy. The man
nat Is expiring tonight in the nayt straat
-tne ailopathic and homeopathic docto-s
ave gwen MIN up, and his friends nov |
.aIiuihs around 10 take his last words
; no more certainly dying as to his bodv
nan you and ! are dying unless 1a Ssys
aken the medicine from Gods Anotbe.
ary- All the leaves of this Ribis are |
my 80 many prescriptions from the DI !
me Fnysieian, written, not In Latin Ike
ne prescriptions Of earthly physicians.
'ut Wfitten In plain English, so that a
man. though fool. need NOT err ,heTaint
.hank God that the Saviour's garments
nell Of csssia!
Bnriais at Cross Roads
"Supposa a man were sick and ,hera
vas phiai on bis mantel-uiece wItb
Medicine he knew would cure him and
e refused 70 take 1t, what would you saw
Z him? He is a suicide And what do
ou say of that man who, sick IN sin. has
ne healing medicine Of Gods grace Of I
cred him, and refuses 10 take ito II he !
les' he Is suicide. People talk as {
hough God took man and led him out 4
darkness and death, az though He Z
rought him up 10 the cliffs and then I
ushed him off. Oh, no. When a man {
lost IL Is not because God pushes him ;
II; IL is because he Jumps of. In olden {
ines suicide was buried at the cross
oads, and the people were accustomed 70
nrow stones upon his grave So II seems
me there may be at this time a man |
no Is destroying his soul, and as though
ne angels Of God were here to bury him ,
the point where the roads OF life and ,
edth cross each other. throwing upon ,
ne grave the broken law and a great pile 4,
I misimprOved privileges, go that those
ding by may look az the fearful mound. !
nd learn what a suicide II IS when an |
soul. for which Jesus died, puts
self out OF the way,
When Christ trod this planet with foot
flesh, the people rushed after Him
eopie who we're sick. and those who. be-
~ 30 sick they could not walk. were |
rought by their friends. Here | see a |
lother holding Up her little child saying.I
,ure this Group. Lord Jesus, Cure this
,arlet feveFV And Others: Cure this
phthal,nia, Give eaEe and rest 10 this
yinai distress. S;Faighten Ibis club-fOot" a
hrist made every house where He stopped
ai:pensary. / do not believe that in the ,