The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-09-02

hands Of strangers, was nothing COM
pared with the struggle Of God when
He gave up His only Son. The omnipo.
tent God In birth throel And was not
Christ appropriately called "Son OF the
Right Handp" Did not Stephen look
into Heaven and see Him standing at
the right hand OF God? And does not
Paul speak Of Him as standing at the
right hand Of God making intercession
for us? 0, Northumberland Son Of
pangl Son of victory The deepest
emotions of our souls ought TO be stirred
at the sound Of that nomenclature. In
your prayers plead His tears, His suffer-
ings, His sorrows, and His DEATH II
you refuse to do II, all the corn cribs
and the palaces Of Heaven viii be
bolted and barred against your soul, and
a 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
30 many people do not get any real
comfort You meet ten people; nine OF
them are in need of some kind OF con-
dolence. There Is something In their
health, or in their state, or in their
domestic condition that demands sym
pathy. And yet the most Of the worlds
sympathy amounts TO absolutely moth
ing. People go to the wrong crib, or they
go In the wrong way. When the plague
was in Rome great many years ago,
there were eighty men who chanted
themselves to death with the litanies OF
Gregory the Great-literally chanted
themselves to death, and yet II did not
stop the plague. And all the music OF
this world can not halt the plague Of
the human heart I come to some one
whose ailments are chronic, and say:
'Tn Heaven you will never be sick"
That does not give you much comfort
What you want is soothing power
for your present distress Lost children,
have you? come TO you and tell you
that in ten years perhaps you will meet
those loved ones before the throne OF
God. But there is but little condolences
in that One day is year without them,
and ten years Is a small eternity. What
you want is sympathy now-present
help. come to those Of you who have
lost dear friends and say: "Try 70 for
get them. Do not keep the departed
always in your mind" How can you
forget them when every figure In the
carpet, and every book, and every pict-
ure, and every room calls out their
name Suppose come TO you and say
by way of coincidence: God is wise"
"0hy' you say, 'that gives me no help"
Suppose l come to you and say: God,
from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble.w "Ohr' you say, that does
me no good" Then / say: with
the swift feet Of prayer go d.
rect TO the corn-crib for heaven
ly supply" You go. You say: Lord,
help me; Lord, comfort me-" But no
help yet No comfort yet II is all
dark What Is the matter? have
found You ought to go TO God and
say: Here, o Lord, are the wounds OF
my soul and / bring with me the
wounded Jesus Let His wounds pay
for my wounds, His bereavements for
my bereayements, His loneliness for my
loneliness. His heartbreak for my heart
break. o, Godi for the sake Of the Lord
Jesus Christ - the God, the man, the
Benjamin, the brother = deliver my
agonized soul o, Jesus of the weary
foot ease my fatigue. o, Jesus OF the
aching head, heal my aching head.
o, Jesus of the Bethany sisters, roll
away the stone from the door Of our
grave" That Is the kind of prayer
that brings help; and yet how many Of
you are getting no helpat all, for the
reason that there is In your soul, per.
haps, a secret trouble. You may never
have mentioned IL TO a single human
ear, or you may have mentioned II "a
some one who Is now gone away, and
that great sorrow is still In your soul.
After Washington Irving was dead they
found little tin box that contained q
braid Of hair and a miniature, and the
name Of Matilda Hoffman, and memo
randum of her death, and q remark
something like this; "The world after
that was blank 10 me Invent into
the country, but found no peace in soil
tude. tried 10 60 into society, but
found no peace In society. There has
been horror hanging overme by night
and by day, and / am afraid to be alone
. How many unuttered troublesl No
human ear has ever heard the 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
salve made out OF the tears of a sym
pathetic Jesus And yet some Of you
will not take this solace; and you try
: chloral, and you try morphine. and you
try strong drink, and you try change Of
scene, and you try new business associa-
tions, and anything and everything
rather than take the divine companion
I ship and sympathy suggested by the
r words Of my text when II says, "You
/ shall not see my face again unless your
! brother be with you" o, that you
| might understand something Of the
: height, and depth, and length. and
: immensity, and inhnity Of Gods eternal
/: consultations
/ I go further, and find In my subject q
I hint as TO the way Heaven opens tc
, the departing spirit. We are told that
/ Heaven has twelve gates, and some
: people infer from that fact that all the
: people will 60 in without reference tc
! their past life; but what Is the use Of
} having gsts that Is not sometimes V
} be shut2 The swinging Of gate Inn
I plies that our entrance into Heaven !,
) conditional. 1t Ia not q monetary CON