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<p>"I am the Rose of Sharon." Song of Solomon 2:1 <br>
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Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world, in a tenfold degree! Among flowers, the<em>rose </em>is deemed the sweetest—but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the <em>garden of the soul</em>—than the rose can in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place—as the fairest among ten thousand.<br><br> He is the <em>sun</em>—and all others are the <em>stars</em>; the Heavens and the day are dark—in comparison with Him, for the King in His beauty transcends all. <br>
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"I am the <em>Rose of Sharon</em>." This was the best and rarest of roses. Jesus is not "the Rose" alone, He is "the Rose <em>of Sharon</em>." Just as He calls His righteousness "gold," and then adds, "the gold of Ophir" that is—the best of the best. He is positively lovely, and superlatively the loveliest. <br>
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There is <em>variety </em>in His charms. The rose is delightful to the eye, and its scent is pleasant and refreshing. Just so—each of the <em>senses of the soul</em>, whether it be the taste or feeling, the hearing, the sight, or the spiritual smell—finds appropriate gratification in Jesus. Even the <em>recollection </em>of His love is sweet.<br><br> Take the rose of Sharon, and pull it leaf from leaf, and lay the leaves in the <em>jar of memory</em>, and you shall find each leaf fragrant long afterwards, filling the house with perfume. <br><br>
Heaven itself possesses nothing which excels the Rose of Sharon. What emblem can fully set forth His beauty? Human speech and earth-born things, fail to describe Him. Earth's choicest charms added together, feebly picture <strong>His abounding preciousness</strong>. Blessed Rose, bloom in my heart forever! 
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