Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-13

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and read, rs most appropriate 10 his case,
; the story Of The Bleeding Heart Por-
rlglanO, the sculptor, executed, AFTER
months OF care and carving, The MadOu-
ma and the Child" The royal family
came in and admired it. Everybody that
looked at il was In ecstasy; but one Gay,
after all that toll and all that admiration,
because he did not get rs much
| compensation for his work as he had
expected he took a mallet and dashed
the exquisite sculpture into atoms. The
world is poor compensation, poor
satisfaction. poor sOlace. Famine,
famine in all the earth, not for seven
years, but for six thousand. But, blessed
be God, there Is great corn crib. The
Lord built it. 1t il in another land. IL is
a large place. An angel once measured
1t. and as far as can calculate 1t in our
phrase that corn crib is fifteen hundred
miles long and fifteen hundred broad ana
fifteen hundred high, and il ia full. Food
for all nations. SON." say the people,
"we VIII start right away and get this
supply for our souls" But stop a mo
ment, for from the keeper Of that corn
crib there comes this word, saying: "IOu
shall not see my face except your
brother be with you" In other
words, there is no such thing as
getting from heaven pardon and
comfort and eternal life unless
We BRING With us our divine brother the
Loud Jesus Christ, coming without Him
We shall fail before we reach the corn
crib, and our bodies shall be a portion for
the jackals Of the wilderness; but coming
with the divine Jesus all the grauaries Of
heaven will swing open before our soul,
and abundance shall he given us. We
shall be invited to sit il the palace of the
King and at the table; and while the Lord
af ia 10 w.
table 20 other tables He viii not forget US,
and then and there it will be found that
our Beniamin's mess is larger than all the
others, for so il ought to be. worthy is
the Lamb that was slain to receive bless
ing and riches and honor and glory and
power"
] want to make three points. Every
frank and commOn-sense man VIII aC-
knowledge himself to be a sinner. What
are you gong 10 do with your SINS! Have
them pardOned, you say. HOwY Through
the mercy Of God Y What do you mean by
the mercy of GOdy Is il the letting down
of bar for the admission of all without
respect TO character? BE not deceived.
see soul coming up to the gate OF
mercy and knocking at the corn crib Of
heavenly supply; and voice from within
saws: Are you alOne?' The sinner re-
plies: "All alone" The voice from
within says: you shall not see my par
doning face unless your divine brother,
the Lord Jesus, be with YOU" Oh, that IS
the point at which so many are discom-
fitted. There Is no mercy from God except
through Jesus Christ. Coming with him
we are accepted. Coming without him
we are rejected. Peter put 1t right in his
great sermon before the high priests when
he Numbered forth: Neither is there sal
walton in any other. There is no other
name given under heaven among men
whereby we may be saved" O anxious
sinner, o dying sinner, Q lost sinner, all
you have got to do is to have this divine
Benjamin along with you. Side by side
coming TO the gate, all the storehouses Of
heaven will swing open before your anX-
lous soul. Am | right in calling Jesus
Benjamin? Oh, yes, Rachel lived only
long enough TO give name to that child,
and with a dying kiss she called him
BenOni. Atterward Jacob changed his
name and he called him Benjamin. The
meaning of the name she gave was 'SOn
of My Pain" The meaning Of the
name the father gave WAS "Son
of My Right Hand,' aud was
not Christ the sOn OF pam? All the sor-
rows Of Rachel in that hour when she
gave her child over into the hands Of
strangers was nothing compared with the
struggle Of God when He gave up his only
son. The omnIpotent God in a birth throe,
and was not Christ appropriately called
Son of the Right Handg Did not Stephen
look into heaven and see Him standing at
the right hand of GOdl And does not
Paul speak of Him as standing at the
right hand of God making intercession
for usY ., BeDjamin-Jesus! Son Of
Painl Son OF Victory The deepest
emotions of our souls ought to be stirred
Of no Of haF t.
night in your prayers plead His tears,
His suterings, His SORROWS, and His
death. II you refuse 10 do it all the corn
cribs and the palaces OF heaven will be
DOited and barred against your soul and
voice from the throne shall stun you
with the announcement: "You shall not
see my face except your brother be with
YOU"
My text also suggests the reason why
so many people do not get any real COM
fort. You meet ten people; nine Of them
are in need of some kind Of coincidence.
There is something in their health, or IN
their state, or in their domestic condition
that demands sympathy. And yet the
most Of the worlds sympathy amounts to
absolutely nothing. People 90 to the
wrong crib, or they 20 in the wrong way.
When the plague was in Rome great
many years ago, there were 80 men who
chanted themselves TO death with the lit
anies of Gregory the Great-literally
chanted themselves to death-and vet il
did not stop the plague. And all the
music of this world cannOt halt the plague
OF the human heart. | come to some one
whose ailments are chronic, and / say:
"In heaven you will never be sick" That
does not give you much comfort. What
you want is a soothing power for your
present distress. Lost children, have
your l come TO you and
tell you that in ton years
perhaps you will meet those loved ones
before the throne OF Goa. But there is
but little coincidence in that. One day is
year without them, and ten years is a
small eternity. What you want IL a SYM
patty now, present help. come TO
those Of you who have lost dear friends,
and say: TRY 10 forget them. DonOt keep
the departed always in your mind" How
can you forget them, when every figure in
the carpet, and every book, and every
picture, and every room calls out their
namey suppose ! come TO you and
say. by way Of coincidence: "God
is wiseY' "0h," you say, THAT
gives me no help" suppose I come
20 YOU and say God, from all eternity,
has arranged this trOublew "Ah,' you
say, "that does noe no good" Then
say: "With the swift feet Of prayer 90
direct to the corn CRIB for heavenly sup
ply" You 90; YOU say: Lord, help me :
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