The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-29

IN tho wrong way. WV" WV P'"bNN
was In Rome a great many years ago,
there were eighty men who chaanted
themselves to death with the litanies OF
Gregory the Great--literally cbanted
themselves TO death--and yet 1t did not
stop the plague, and all the music OF this
world cannot stop the plague OF the hui
man heart. / come TO some one whose
ailments are chronic, and say. I'm hea-
ven Won will never be SEX" That does
not give YOU much comfort. What you
want Is a soothing power ior your pres,
ent distress. Lost children, have your
come to YOU and tell yol that IN ten
years perhaps, you will meet those loved
ones before the throne of God. But
there Ia little coincidence In that. One
day is year without them, and ten years
is a small eternity. What you want is
sympathy now--present help. l come
to those Of you who have lost dear ones,
and say, "Try to forget them. Do not
keep the departed always in your mind"
How can you forget them when every
figure in the carpet and every book ana
picture calls out their name. Suppose
come to YOU and say, "God, from all eter.
nity has arranged this trouble" "Ahl
Won sav. "that does me no good" Then
sav. IWith the swift feet OF prayer go
direct to the corn crib for heavenly
supply" Yougo. You say, Lord, help
me. y But no help comes; no comfort
vet. 1t is all dark. What the malterY
/ have found. You ought TO go GOd aud
say, "Here, 0 Lord, are the wounds OF
soul, and / bring with me the wounded
Jesus. Let his wounds pay for my be-
reavements 0, (Iod for the sake Of the
Lord Jesus Christ--Lhe God, the man,
the BENJAMIN, the brother, deliver my
agonized soul. That is the kind of pray
er that brings help; and yet how many
are getting no help at all, for the reason,
perChance, there is in your soul 8 secret
trouble. You may never have mention
ed it to a single human ear or you may
have told it to some one who is now gone
away, and that great sorrow is still In
your soul. After Washington Irving |
was dead they found little box with |
a braid of hair and q miniature, and the
name of Matilda Hoffman and memo
randum of her death, and remark
something like this: r.. u..
"Tbe world after that was blank to
me. l wentinto the country, but found
no peace in solitude. l tried to go into
society, but found no peace there. There
has been a horror hanging over me by
night and by day, and | am afraid to be
alone" E.l. .... ......
How many unuttered troubles in this
house tonight No human ear has ever
heard that sorrow. o, troubled soul,
want to tell you that there is one sAlve
that can cure the wounds of the heart,
and that is the sslve made out of the
tears of sympathetic Jesus. And yet
some of you will not take this sOlace;
and you try morphine, and you try strong
drink, and any thing and every thing
rather than take the Divine Companion-
ship and sympathy suggested by the
words of my text when it says, "Hou
shall not see my face again unless my
brother be with you" U, that this audi
ence to night might understand some
thing of the height and depth, and length |
and breadth, and immensely and infnity
of GODS eternal consultations!
| 20 further, and find in my subject a
hint why 80 many people fail of heav'
en-. We are told that heayen has twelve
gates, and some people infer from that
fact that all people will 60 in without ref |
erenCe TO their past life; but what is the
use of having a gate that is not some-
times to be shut? The swinging of gate |
implies that our entrance into heaven is |
conditional. 1t is not a monetary con-
dtion. If we come to the door of an
exquisite concert we are not surprised
that we must pay fee, for we know that
fine earthly music is expensive; but all
the oratories of heaven cost nothing.
Heaven pays nothing for it's music. It
is all free. There is nothing to be paid
at the door fer eutrauce; bur the condi'
ton of our getting into heaven is our
bringing our divine Benjamin with us.
Do you notice how often dying people |
call on Jesus? It is the usual prayer of |
fsred-the prayer offered more than all
other prayers put together" Lord Je' |
sus, receive my spirit" One of our con
gregation this last week, when asked in
the closing moments OF his life, : Do you
know us?" said: 20 yes, ! know you;
God bless you, good bye; Lord Jesus, re;
ceiye my spirit" and be was gone. Q
yes, in the closing moments of our life |
we must have q Christ to call upon. II
Jacobs sons had gone up toward Egypt,
and had gone with the very finest equip
age, and had not taken Benjamin with
them, and to the question they should
have been obliged to answer, Sir, we
didn't bring him, 40 father could not let
him 90; we didn't want to be bothered
with him." voice from within would,
have said, go, away from us. You shall
not hays any of this supply. You shall
not gee ny Ge,ibecause your brother is
not vita you." And if wa come no to-
ward the door of heaven at last, though
we come from all the luxurianCe and
briliancy of surroundings, and knouk
for Rdmittance, and it is found that Christ
isnot with US, the police Of heaven will
beat us back from tbs bread house, say.
ing, depart; ] never knew you." lfJs.
eob's sons coming toward Egypt, had |
lost everything on the way; II they had |
expended their last shekel; II they bad |
come 10 utterly exhaugted to the cora, |
cribs Of Egypt, and II had been found
That .BanjsmiD was, with them, all the
would have sgnpg open be-
fore them; and 40, by fatal casually, We
may be ushered into the eternal world, i,
though we may be weak and exhausted
BY protracted sickness, II in that last
we can only jHst stagget, and :
Iall into the gateof heaven, It seems that b
NJ the COrD.Gribs Of heaven nfWill open 4
or our need, and all the palaces open for
,tiF reception, and the Lofd'df that place ;
eated &C HistabIe, and all the angels Of
God seated at their table, and the mar
yrs seated at their table; and our glori /,
led Kindred at our table, the King shalt
,ass portion Ffom his table TO Ours, and
hen. While We think Of the fact that it
PSs Jesus Who starred lis on the road.
md Jesus who Kept us on the way, and
ssns Who at last ggined adlnittance for
mr. SOILS. we shall he clad III He bas