myrrh

Same with the Three Kings and their gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Casper, Melchior, and Balthazar “presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.”

The odor of myrrh is fragrant through itself, not through anything else.

Also, half a drachm of myrrh, taken every morning, is an excellent remedy against this malady.

But to this King myrrh is a peculiarly appropriate gift, for it is the symbol of complete self-abandonment.

That gold and incense should be offered a King is clearly His royal right; but what has he to do with the bitterness of myrrh?

It is the true spice-tree of our Northern clime, the myrrh and frankincense of the land of lingering snow.