Connecticut western news., 1905-02-02

Ind Pythagoras und Cato and Fan tried to restrict extravaganza in dress.
 An Oriental Description.
 Now what gold and silver and pre- otous stones in dress mean to the west 2rn mind myrrh and aloes and caSsi; n d sense mean to the oriental mind As I would say to you, Her dress wa' sparkling with jewels the oriental. t' lepict sumptuousness and expensive less of apparel. would say, His gar
 nents were aromatic with myrrh an( aloes and cassia." Myrrh was one O the treasures of the east. When th' wise men came to bow at the manager what expensive presents did they bring? Gold and frankincense ant nyrrh. These oriental sages would no ave offered to a king present O. nyrrh unless it had been of grea value. Dr. Kitto tells us this: "Myrrl was offered in presents, as natura products were in those days, because such as were procured from distan countries were very rare. In the same way we often hear of rare anima or bird being presented to royalty il the present day" "The aloes ol Cochin China," wrote Dr. Faussett 'are worth their weight in gold" The value of cassia also was enormous. Il was used, as Dr. McClintock in forms us, as an ingredient i'll the cost jest unguents. When the psalmist .ells us that Christ's wedding garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia wt lnow that he means us to understand now precious they will be.
 Let us consider what makes them precious. They are the glory of oul Lord. He will wear them in joy and gratitude for the sacrifices his people have made in his cause. They are go Ing to cost all the moneys we give tC our churches and to our reformatory We must give this money for Christ's robes. He bids us give They are going to cost all the moneys we send to foreign missions. "Gc teach all men" is the Bible command Not only have they cost money, but blood. They are going to cost all the blood of the martyrs which has been shed in the past. An, now the eX- oense of those wedding robes is rolling lp. If the dead body of a common la oorer slain by an express train in New York state is worth 5000, how much must have been worth the martyred blood of Paul, a Peter, Stephen, a Polycarp, a Justin Martyr, a Savona- 'ola, Ridley, an Elphege, a Gileyn dc Muler, a John Rogers, Lawrence San lers, John Harper, a Breboeuf, Lal- ermand and of the thousands and the ems of thousands of men and women slain by sword and spear and battle K or burned at the stake and tortured with untold agonies in many ''cham- )ers of horrorsw God alone can know low the value of Christ's wedding gar nents is increasing.
 The Supreme Cost.
 But the supreme element ill the cost If those wedding garments is the blood ,f Christ himself. It was by his own iuffering and death that he won the hat Isaiah when ill prophetic vision le sees these wedding robes describes hem by their color-the color of the bloody sacrifce2 "Who is this" cried le, that cometh from Edom with dyed from Bozrah-this that is ,lorioas in bis apparel? Wherefore .rt thou red in thine apparel and thy like him that treadeth in the vine vat?" Ah, my friends, l am glad oday we can talk about the royal crim- on and not the royal purple of Christ's garments. I am glad that ven in heaven, when looking upon the livine face of Jesus, we shall not be Illowed for one moment to forget the enormous cost in money and blood of he marriage robes in which Christ will ,e clad as the Bridegroom when he akes the church as his bride in eter- lal nuptials. Am 1 going beyond my fight in declaring that Christ's we'd ling robes are to be the most expensive If garments?
 But, drawing near to the Divine Bride groom, I find that Christs wedding obes have q wonderful curative qual- ty. Their touch is like the cool hand lpOn the fevered brow Oh, yes, they Ire more than that. Their touch gives piritual and physical healing. It Is ike the healing power of Christs 'arthly robe when the border of it was pressed just an instant by the fore finger of the poor woman who had an ssue of blood for twelve years. No 'ooner did her flesh come in contact with its folds than immediately "the was made whole from that lour." We have read how the ancient levotees used to travel many miles tc De cured of their physical pains at the .omb of St. Ann de Beaupre, or al he healing spring" of Lourdes, or by
 he flowing robes of St Anthony St. Patrick or St. Bernard. but never lid tomb or fabled water or flow ng garments of dead saints have sucl qualities, spiritual or physical IS will have the wedding garments ot Jesus Christ.
 Their Healing Virtues.
 How do I know this? The symbols )f the myrrh and the aloes and the cas sia teach it. They were all used medic
 nally. "The myrrh as is well known,' writes an authority, was celebrated for it's use in med a.nes. The ancientS q wine of myrrh and also ar )il of myrrh. It was found as an in sredient ill many of the celebrated com pound medicines" "Myrrh is especial y of great use," says another author along with aloetic medicines and com. pounds of iron" The medicinal quality )f aloes is defined i'll every dictionary md cassia was also used as drug by
 he ancients. Thus when we come ir ouch with Christ's wedding garments we know that they are going to hea Ill of our diseases and asSuage all oul pains and be the balm which will take away every heartache. IE Goethe's Faust" we are taught that the roya robes of God shall appeal to us mostly by sight and not by touch. But I would change the wording of the master poe )f Germany, as I describe the healing qualities of Christ's wedding garments IS follows: