The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-09-10

MS on that day: 'Ye shall not see my
face unless your brother be with you. ="
Well, my friends, this world is fam
ine-struck of sin. IL does not yield a
single crop of solid satisfaction. 1t is
dying. 1t is hungry-bitten. The fact
that it does not, can not, feed a mans
heart was well illustrated in the life of
the English comedian. All the world
honored him-did everything for him
that the world could do. He was APP
plauded in England and applauded in
the United States. He reused up ma
tons into laughter. he had no equal.
And yet, although many people sup
posed him entirely happy, and that
this world was completely satiating his
soul, he sits down and writes:
II never in my life put on a
new hat that it did not rain
and ruin it. I never went out in
n shabby coat because it was raining
and thought all who had the choice
would keep indoors, that the sun did
not burst forth in its strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies of
fashion whom knew and who knew
hated, ont of kindness to another, that
did not get Kissed by the puolic and
cut by the writer. | could not take n
drive for few minutes with Terry
without being overturned and having
my elbow-bone broken, though ny
friend got off unframed. l could
not make covenant with
Arnold which l thought was to make
my fortune without making his
instead, than in an incredible space of
time-I think thirteen months-I
earned for him twenty thousand pounds
and for myself one. | am persuaded
that if | were to set up as a bcggar,
every one in my neighborhOod would
leave off eating bread" That was the
lament of the worlds comedian and
joker All unhappy. The world did
everything for Lord Byron that It
could do, and yet in his last moment he
asked friend to come and sit down by
him and read, as most appropriate to
his case, the story of The Bleeding
Heart" Torrigiano, the sculptor, exc
cuted, after months of care and carving,
Madonna and the Child" The royal
family came in and admired it. Every
body that looked at was in ecstacy; but
one day, after all that toll, and all that
admiration, because he did not get as
much compensation for his work as he
had expected, he took n mallet and
dashed the exquisite sculpture into
atoms The world is poor compensa-
ton, poor satisfaction, poor solace.
Ea 70 in oil hn nth.
for seven wears, but for six thousand.
But, blessed be God, there is great
corn-crib. The Lord built it. 1t is
in another land. 1t is large
place. An angel once measured it,
and as far as | can calculate it in
our phrase, that corn-crib is fifteen
hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high; and it
is full. Food for all nations. oh
say the people, I'VE will start right
away and get this supply for our soul"
But stop moment; for from the keep
err of that corn-crib there comes this
word, saying: You 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
Lord Jesus Christ. Coming without
Him, we shall fall before we reach the
corn-crib and our bodies shall be a
portion for the jacllals of the wilder
ness: but coming with the Divine Je-
sus, all the granaries of Heaven will
swing open before our soul, and album
dance will be given u.s. We shall be
invited to sit in the palace of the King
and at the table; and while the Lord of
Heaven, is apportioning from His own
table to other tables He will not forget
us; and then and there it will DC found
that our Benjamin's mess is larger
than all the others, for so it ought to
be. Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain. to receive blessing. and riches,
and honor, and glory, and power"
want to make three points: Every
frank and common-sense man will
acknowledge himself to be a sinner.
What are you going to do with your
sins? Have them pardoned, you say
How? Through the mercy of God.
What do you mean by the mercy of
God? Is it the letting down of bar
for the admission of all, without re-
spect to character? BE not deceived.
| see g soul coming up to the gate of
mercy and knocking at the corn-crib of
heavenly supply; and a voice from
within says: Are you alone?" The sin
ner replies: "All alone" The voice
from within says: You shall not see
my pardoning face unless your Divine
Brother, the Lord Jesus, be with you"
o, that is the point at which SO many
are disconnected. There is 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 he thun-
dered forth: Neither is 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! O, dying sinner! o, lost
sinner! all you have got to do is to have
this Divine Benjamin along with yon.
Side by side coming to the gate, all the
store houses Of Heaven will swing open
before your alxious soul. Am l right
in calling Jesus Benjamin? o, yes,
Rachel lived only long enough to give
a name to that child, and with dying
kiss she called him Benoni. Afterward
Jacob changed his name, and he called
him Benjamin. The meaning of the
name she gave was "Son of my pain. +"
The meaning o: the name the father