The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-29

ing people and bringing them to
Christ.
DIR. Chapman announced his theme
for the morning as the ivory palaces,
and gave as his text: Psalm 45-S:
IAN thy garments smell of myrrh,
and aloes and cassia, out of ivory pal
aces" He said in part:
"Mr Sturgeon in commenting on
this Psalm, said that some people see
Pharaoh s daughter Others find in
il q reference to Solomon and a pass
ing reference to Christ, but we'll To-
cussed spiritual eyesight enabled one
to see in this Psalm Jesus, and Jesus |
only. The text is the expression of |
a poet. and therefore he is using |
poet $ license. Every reference to
Him in this text is beautiful. 20 the |
eve He is most fair; to the ear most
gracious, and His garments are per |
fumed until as we study Him we
catch the marvellous fragrance Ivory |
palaces suggest the eternity from
whence He came, for Bethlehem was
His incarnation and not the beginning
of His life. ivory palaces suggest the |
thought of beauty, and wonderful as
have been the palaces of earth, they
are as nothing compared to the ivory
| palaces from which He came to be
our Saviour. And the touching thing
| is that he came from such a place as
| heaven, to such a place as sinful earth,
and He knew all about the shame be-
| fore He came.
Holman Hunt, the master painter,
has a picture of Jesus in the carpenter
shop, and as He fniches His day s
work, He lifts Himself from the car
penter s bench, stretches forth His
arms aad back of Him falls the shad-
Ow of the cross, for the light is com
ing through the opening in the carpen-
S shop just at the right angle to
make a shadow And the shadow of
the cross was upon Him beginning at
Bethlehem and continuing to Calvary,
and vet He came to be our Saviour.
The question may be asked--How did
He come ?-and the best answer is:
Along the avenue of the Old Tesla
ment scriptures The Old Testament
is filled with references to Him, all of
which grow palmer and palmer until
we see Him in Bethlehem s manager.
81 once asked a dear friend OF
mine the secret of Bible study and he
told me that he had once offered to
his children as a present a dissected
map. He wanted them to study their
geography in this way, and they tried
but one of them became impatient,
and rising from her knees on the floor
, she left the room. As she did so her
foot touched one piece of the map and
, turned it over and her little sister saw
on the other side of the piece of the
map part of a man 5 hand Curios-
ity prompted her to turn over the 9th
err pieces, and she rushed after her is
ter saying: Come back, there is man
on the other side of the map. Let US
. put him together first This they did
almost instantly, and they had the
picture of George Washington. When
= they turned their work ever the map
: was entirely in position. My friend S
answer to me was, If you would know
the Bible. put the man Christ Jesus
together first and then he said that
Jesus in the Old Testament was the
= same Jesus we find in the New There
: is one name and one story binding the
t whole book together His garments
are specially to be noted. They bring
e Him exceedingly near to us and make
Him real.
:, I'm the Notre Dame cathedral in
3 Paris, in a little side room, l saw the
q garment worn by Napoleon at his
browning, and the baptismal robes
n worn by the second Napoleon at his
r baptism, and these garments seemed
Is to bring before me all the Napoleons
II in history. The garments of Christ
ii will do the same. The mvrrh stand!
IS for fragrance. 1t is a picture of Hi.
e beauty. If we could catch it and live
lie it. we could win others easily t
II Christ. The aloes stands for bitter
ID ness His was bitter life filled will
II shame and sorrow, and ending with ;
e, broken heart The cassia represent
n. healing power. He is our great phys
r ician and stands ready to help in ev
20 cry time of trouble and of need l
Y, would be a good thing for us to clos
al our eyes and turn our faces upwar,
e. and see if we cannot catch tn
e. glimpse of the ivory palaces, for spirit
st ual sight is stronger when the eye
- are shut. If we could see, this woul
be the vision: Christ in the cente
and our loved ones with Him. Mar
and Martha, Lazarus and Peter, you
mother and mine, your children an
y mine and I put to you this question
&c Are you going?'
n q How do yon spell heaven?' sal
g gentleman to his friend, and whe
is the friend began in the regular way
ie he said: 81 never spell it that way,
- always see before me the faces of m
y beloved dead, like letters of a HEAVIER
dl ~ alphabet, and they spell heaven
me 1t would be sad thing if you
IS friends were there and YOU should b
m found missing"
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