Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-03

troubled soul, want TO tell you that there
is one salye that can cure the wounds of
the heart, and that Is the salve made out OF
the tears of sympathetic Jesus. And yet
some of you wilt not take this solace; and
you try choral, and you try morphine, and
you try strong drink, end you try change OF
scene, and you try new business associa-
tons. and anything and everything rather
than take the divine companionship and
sympathy suggested by the words of my
text when it says, You shall not see my
face again unless your brother be with
YOU Oh, that you might understand
something of the height, and depth, and
length, and breadth, and immensely, and in
finity of
GODS ETERNAL CONSULTATIONS.
l go further, and find in my subject hint
as to the way heaven opens to the depart
ing spirit. We are told that heaven has
twelve gates, and some people infer from
that fact that all the people will go in with
out reference 10 their past life: but what is
the use of having gate that Is not some
times to be shut! The swinging of a gate
is conditional. 1t is not a none
tary condition. 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 oratorioS of heaven cost nothing.
Heaven pays nothing for its music. 1t is
all free. There is nothing 10 be paid at
that door for entrance; but the condition of
getting into heaven is our bringing our
Divine Benjamin along with US. Do you
notice how often dying people call upon
Jesus 1t is the usual prayer Offered-the
prayer offered more than all the other
prayers put tOgether-''LOrd Jesus. receive
my spirit One of our congregation when
asked IN the closing moments of his life,
In I
you. God bless you. Good-by. Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit" and he was gone.
o, yes, iii the closing moments of our life
We must have a Christ to call upon. If
Jacobs sous had gone toward Egypt, and
had gone with the very finest equipage, and
had not taken Benjamin along with them,
and to the question they should have been
obliged to answer: Sir, we didn't bring
him, as father could not let linn go; we
didn't want to be bothered with him. a
voice from within would have said: Go
away from Us. You shall not have any of
this supply. You shall not see my face be-
cause your brother is not with you" And
if we come up toward the door of heaven at
last, though we come from all luxuriance
and briiliancy of surroundings, and knock
Tor admittance, and ii is found that Christ
is not with US, the police of heaven viii
beat US back from the bread house. saying:
DEPART, / NEVER KNEW YOU
If JACOBS sons, coming toward Egypt,
had lost everything on the way; if they had
expended their last shekel; ii they had
come up utterly exhausted to the corncribs
of Egypt, and it had been found that Beuja-
min was with them, all the StOrehouSeS
would have swung open before them. And
so. though by fatal casualty we may be
uShered into the eternal world: though We
may be weak and exhausted by sickness
if, in that last moment, we can only Just
stagger, and faint, and fall into the gate of
heaVen-it seems that ali the corncrlbs of
heaven will open for our need, and all the
palaces will open for our reception; and the
Lord of that place, seated at his table. and
all tue angels of God seated at their table,
and the martyrs seated at their table, and
all our gloritied kindred seated at our table,
the king shall pass portion from his table
to ours. and then, while we think of the
fact that ii was Jesus who started US on
the road, and Jesus who kept US on the
way, and Jesus who at last gained admit
tance for our soul, we shall be glad if he has
seen of the travail of his soul and been sat
istied, and not be at all jealous if it be
found that our divine Benjamin's mess is
five times larger than all the rest. Hail?
anointed of the Lord. Thou art worthy.
My friends, you see it is either Christ
or famine. If there were two banquetS
spread, and to one of them, only, YOU
might go, You might stand and think for a
good while as TO which Invitation you had
better accept; but here it is feasting or
starvation. If it were a choice between
Oratorlos, you might say: Il prefer the
Creation, or Il prefer the Messiah. "
But here 1t is choice between eternal
harmony and everlasting discord. o, viii
you live or die! Will you start for the
Egyptian corn-crib or will you perish amid
the empty barns of the Canaanitish fam
inc! ''Ye shall hot see my face except your
brother be with YOU