Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-02-04


Faust" we are taught that the royai
robes Of God shall appeal to US mostly
Inv sight and not by touch. But would
change the wording of the master poet
Of Germany as | describe the heailns
ouolities of Christ's wedding garments,
as follows:
Here at the roaring loom of time ply
And weave for God the garment thou
feeTst him by.
Pain. sickness, suffering. pain OF the
head. pain in the heart, all 10 disap-
near before the touch of Chrlsts "eu,
dino robes. oh. think Of the blessed
ront,lre of such wedding ceremony
with the Divine Bridegroom! l remem-
her some years ago | was called TO Of
fciate at the saddest wedding OF my |
life A Young woman was dying. Even
then the summons of death was pound
ing at her bedroom door. But Deiole
she left earth she wanted as Drlde "
olasn the hand Of the lover by her
aide. We silently entered the SICK
room. The breathing was heaVy anu
low but the eye of the sufferer was
bright and happy. A strong young
man stood by the side OF the sicKDeu'
The nuptlal VOWS were spoken. Inc
vounp bridegroom could give TO the
bride his love. but he could not give
70 her health The words It'll death
do YOU part never had such soIemnity
for me as at that service. Even theh
death was saying to the couple being
we'd. "You must part. You must part
ot once. | am death, and am coming
to court your bride" But at the heaV-
! enly marriage Of the Divine Bride
groom there shall be no pain on any
: face no heartache in any breast, no
, hacking cough, no fearful eye Inc
garments that smell Of the myrrh ana
q the aloes and the cassia are curative
: robes. They are wedding garments
o scented with myrrh, medicine, ana
! with aloes, a medicine, and with cas-
n sia, medicine.
4 A Joy In Suffering.
t, Rnt have the royal robes OF Christ no
q higher purpose than the mere preven-
It tion of pain or Of heartachesF IL tha'
l. no all the efficacy of these wedding
t. garments of the Divine Bridegroom
st then say let me have my pain aho
IS heartaches. There is sometimes JOY
70 IN suffering. There is sometimes
ID peace in pain AS Tennyson writes, L
is better to have loved and lost tnai
N never to have loved at all" That weu
IT ding ring upon your hand-wouid yo'
i'd wish never to have had it placed there
lie II may be many years ago since th
0. hand that put it upon your finger wa
to laid in the grave. Would you like I
~ hlot ont all the memories you nave ha
ey with that earthly life? "Oh, no" 20
e. answer. "No, no. Ny joy today Is
VS. living in the beautiful halls of memo
10 rv and in thinking over again all I'd
id. hanpy DAYS we spent together woui
ut sooner have had q dear husband Us
he was and have had him taken ava
en- than never to have known wnat u
* companionship Of such a husDan
ne meant TO n Wife" If you have an II
la curable physical pain, would you nav
ew the physician give to you an opiate
ch deaden your sensibilities and yo'
ed mind for years to come? "Oh, nc" yo
, a answer. "then would be nothing mo-
ma than n alternating creature or a log
de n stone. Better my thinking mind WI
an nain than continual unconscloushe
al without pain. Well, then, the we
tho ding robes of Christ must do more L
Zen us than merely alleviate sulterlng' ei
tie we would want none Of them. wou
red NOT wish to live thousand years
I'M Garth if TO do it would have to EMU
ow the mere animal existence OF an Austr
,ar- liam aborigine. even though then
might not know physical or mentai ST
fering.
.ost Tins I come to the climax or I
ood subject. The royal robes OF Chr
,wn give to us a positive assurance III
tho the marriage ceremony Of the DIV
der Bridegroom and Of the church'
ion bride is to be beginning OF neN
hes ending Joy, not the mere end OF s
the row or pain or suffering or dea
riad Prove this, you say. l will. "Ho, n
,od odemus." I cry, "whither art shou
/ is ing? Friend, why is thy countenance
fore sad? Why dost thou hug to thy S
thv that great burden Of hundred pou
+ho weight" At once Nicodemus,
clad same Nicodemus who came to Jesus
RIM. night looks up, and see that his e.
ist's are filled with tears and MS L
that drawn down by great sorrow. Il
tho going" says he, with this hund
, ho mound weight Of myrrh and aloes
tho embalm the body Of Jesus Christ '
= ~ has lust been crucified. We are go
,r;n 70 bury the Savlour's body in the to
, he Of Joseph of Arimathea. l wish
o+er. body to be preserved by these spices
NV long as possible" "What, Nice
wod. mus, will these spices of myrrh
,sive aloes preserve the body OF jest
ayes" answered the ruler of the Jf
,r,de. "they will. If you will examine
,dino mummies preserved for thousands
oroi' wears in the Egyptian tombs you
hond find that these spices were the c
thor causes of their preservation" de
gives otus, the Aalnei ~ moi
II ia 300 years before Christ was cruci
rist's records thaI lnv ne' i,n -" Sood
was preserved tue pouie' y, 'n' a., 49,
fore these spices Ane9 ,nen a. o,oos
i'd an win po"uer VI my LII ov
No eassla ana otner perfumes =
r+oct frankincense." Thus we find by t
"tl- two statements that the wedding
that ments of Christ not only have
ncient tive, but also preseI az, ~
los TO That means, carrying the figure u
at the its acme of symbol, that the wed
or at garments Of Christ will never rae
or by grow old.
thony, Garments VIII Never Fade'
never No, they will never become "