The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-09-03
The Tabernacle Sermon.
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Oh, that Ia the point at which so many
are discornforted. There lie no mercy
from God except through Jesus Christ
Coming with him We are accepted.
Coming without him we are rejected.
Peter put it right in his great sermon
before the high priests, when be thun-
dered forth: Neither IL there saliva
ton In any other. There Is no other
name given under heaven among men
whereby we may be saved" o anx-
ious sinner! 0 dying sinnerI o lost
sinneri all you have got TO do is 10
have this Divine Benjamin along with
you. Side by side. coming to the gate.
all the storehouses of heaven VIII
swing open before your anxious soul
Am I right in calling jesus Benjamin.
Oh, yes. Rachel lived only long enough
to give a name to that child, and with
a dying kiss she called him Benoni.
Afterward Jacob changed his name,
and he called him Benjamin The
meaning of the name she gave was
"Sop of my Pain" The meaning Of
TIC naIus tire fIttl.1z gave '.for. %
my Right Hand" And was not Christ
the son of painl All the sorrows of
Rachel In that hour, when she gave her
child over into the hands of strangers
was nothing compared with the strug-
gle OF God when he gave up his only
Son. The omnipotent God In a birth
throe! And was not Christ appropri-
ateiy called ''Son of the Right Hand"
Did not Stephen look into heaven
and see him standing at the right hand
of Goda And does not Paul speak OF
him as standing at the right hand OF
God making intercession for usG o
Benjamin-Jesusl Son of panS. 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 sufferings,
his sorrows and his death. If you re-
fuse to do it, all the corncribs and the
palaces Of heaven will be bolted 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. I"
NO sOLACR IN THIS WORLD.
My text also suggests the reason why
50 many people do not get any real
comfort 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 abso-
lutely nothing. People 60 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-lit-
orally chanted themselves to death,
and yet 1t did not stop the plague. And
all the music of tie world cannot halt
the plague of the human heart.
/ come to some one whose ailments
are chronic, and say, I'm heaven you
will never be sick" That does not
give you much comfort. What you
ent distress. Losr cn1iuren, nave yUu'
l come to tell you that In ten years per
haps you will meet these loved ones be-
fore the throne of God But there IL
but little condolence In that. One day
is a year without them, and ten years
is a small eternity. What you want is
a sympathy now-present help.
come to those of you who have lost
dear friends, and say: TRY to forget
them. Do not keep the departed al
ways In your mind" How can you
forget them when every figure In the
carpet, and every book, and every pic
ture and every room calls out thei
name.
Suppose l come to you and say b.
way Of coincidence, God is wise.
"Oh," you say, that gives me NJ
help" Suppose 1 come to you and say
D "God, from all eternity, has arrange
this trouble" "Ahl" you say, that doe
r me no good" Then say, with tn
: swift feet of prayer go direct to the corr
Q crib for heavenly supply" You &C
9 You say, Lord, help me; Lord, comfoi
me-" But no help yet No comfor
4 yet. 1t Is all dark. What is the ma
Q teri have found. You ought to g
+ to God and say: Here, o Lord, a,
o the wounds of my soul, and bran
With me the wounded Jesus Let b
r wounds pay for nay wounds, his b.
p reavements for my bereavements, h
y loneliness for my loneliness, bis hea.
d break for my heart break. o Godl Il
|, the sake Of the Lord Jesus Christi
q God, the man, the Benjamin, the brotl
u er-deliver my agonized soul. O Jes'
n of the weary foot, ease my fatigue.
L Jesus of the aching head, heel my acl
ing head. o Jesus of the Bethany 81
tiers, roll away the stone from the do
Of our grave"
q THE FERvENT, EFFRCTUAL PRAYER
p That is the kind of prayer that brins
Il help; and yet how many Of you a
1t getting no help at oil, for the reas<
l that there Is In your soul, perhaps,
secret trouble. You may never ha,
ls- mentioned It to single human ear,
you may have mentioned It to son
IL one who Is now gone away, and tn
greet sorrow Is still in your SOUL Aft
Washington Irving was dead, tn
:" found little box that contained
SO braid of hair and miniature, and {
name of Matilda Hoffman, and
ed memorandum of her death, and J
re- mark something like this: The VOL
" after that was q blank to me. we
ass into the country, but found 1
- peace In solitude. tried to go in
society, but l found no peace In SOC
ty. There has been horror hangi
=. over me by night and by day, am
- ann afraid to be alone"
,er How many unuttered troubles!
human ear has ever heard the sorrc
- o troubled soul, want to tell you Il
-. there is one salve that can cure
- wounds of the heart, and that is
- salve made out of the tears of 81
, =. pathetic Jesus. And yet some Of ,
will not take this solace: and you