Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-10

would leave off eating breadn That was
the lament of the worlds comedian and
joker All unhappy. The world did every
thing for Lord Byron that it could do, and
yet in his last moment he asks friend to
come and sit down by nim and read as most
appropriate to his case the story Of "The
Bleeding Heart" Torrgiano, the sculptor
executed, after months of care and carving.
madonna and the Child.n The royal
family came in and admired it. EVERYBODY
that looked at it was in ecstasy; but one
day, after all that toll and all that admira-
ton, because he did not get as much COM
pensation for his work as he had ex-
pected he took nallet 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 q great corn-crib.
The Lord built it. 1t is a largo place. An
angel once measured it, and as far as eau
calculate it in our phrase, that corn-crib is
fifteen hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high; and 1t is full
Food for all nations. "Ohr' say the people,
1--WE will start right away and get this sup
ply for our soul" But stop moment, Tor
IRON the keeper Of that corn-crib there
comes his 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 jackals
OF the wilderness; but coming with the DI-
vine Jesus, all the granaries OF heaven Will
| swing open before our soul, and abundance
| shall be given us. We shall be invited to
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and at the table; and while the Lord OF
heaven is apportioning from His own table
to other tables He win not forget us !: and
then and there it will be found that our Ben
iamin,s mess is larger than all the others, for
SO it ought to be- I" Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain, to receive blessing,and riches,
and honor, and glory, and power"
l want to make three points Every
frank and common-sense man will ac-
knowledge himself to be a sinner. What
are you going to do with your sinsa Have
them pardoned, you say. Howl Through
the mercy of God What do you mean by
the mercy of God? Is it the letting down
of a bar for the admission of all, without
respect to character? Be not deceived.
see soul coming up to the gate OF mercy
and knocking a5 the corncrib of heavenly
supply: and a voice from within says;
''kre' you aloneg' The sinner replies
ssAll alonen The voice from within says
''You shall not see My pardoning face un.
less your Divine Brother, the Lord Jesus
be with youn Oh, that is the point at
which SO many are discounted. There il
no mercy from God except through Jesu
Christ. Coming with Him, we are accepted
Coming without Him, we are rejected
Peter put it right in his great sermon be
fore the high priests, when he thunderet
forth: Neither is there salvation IN an.
other. There is no other name given undo
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saved" Oh, anxious sinner! Oh, Gym
sinner! Oh, lost sinner! all you have GO
to do is to take this Divine Benjamin alon
with you. Side by side, coming to tn
gate, all the store houses of heaven vi
: swing open before your anxious soul. Al
/ right in calling Jesus Benjamin? Oh, ye'
4 Rachel lived only long enough to CIV
! q name to that child, and with q dyin
: kiss she called him Benoni. Afterwar'
:. Jacob chan ed his name, and he Gale
: him benjamin. The meaning OF the nam
\ she gave was 'Son OF my. Pain" III
!, meaning of the name the father gave WE
ii ..Son OF my Right Hand." And was n.
!. of Rachel in that hour, when sac gave h'
e child over into the hands OF strangers, W;
q nothing compared with the struggle !,
& God when He gave up His only Son. II
y omnipotens God in birth throel And VI
% not Christ appropriately called Son OF Il
81 Itlgnb nduuF iJlu uOV oecPACA ASon ~
IS heaven and see Him standing at the rig
hand of God? And does not not Paul spes
n of Him as standing at the right hand OF q
~ making jntercession for us? y Benjamin
/ Jesusl Son OF pang! Son of victor
~ The deepest emotions of our sou
,e ought to be stirred at the sound
h that nomenclature. In your prayers ple'
Il His tears, His sufferings, His sorrows al
g. His death. II you refuse to do it, all q
er corn-cribs and the palaces OF heaven Will
~ bolted and barred against your soul, and
II voice from the throne shall stun you WI
n. the announcements You shall not see
e. face, except your Brother be with you"
in Ny text also suggests the reason why !
e. many people do not get any real comfoi
as You meet ten people; nine of them are
he need of some kind of coincidence. There
something in their health, or in their stat
sv or in their domestic condition that deman
e sympathy. And yet the most of the worl'
1rnnathy amounts to absolutely not
: oeotss'a,s 60 to the wrong yu crib,
tsgv R e y .as they ,s many e;
: plague was in Rome greda for u.
! ago, there were eighty men who those
I themselves to death with the litanias :.
Gregory the Great--literally chanted them
, selves to death, and yet it did not stop tn
plague And all the music of this worl,
cannot halt the plague of the huma,
nears. come to some one whose ailment,
are chronic, and | say; I'm heaven YOU vii
never be sickn That does NOT p}ve ~,
much comfort What you want is ! sooth
ing power for your present distress Los,
children, have you? come to YOU and I'll
you that in ten veerS rarh,ns vr<,, ~..s:1