The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-11
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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 great corn crib. The
Lord built it. 1t is in another land.
1t is a large place. An angel once
measured it, and as far as can calcu-
late it in our phrase, that corn crib Is
l 800 miles long and l.500 miles broad,
and 1900 miles high, and it is full.
Food for all nations. 90" say the peo-
pie, I'VE will start right away and get
this supply for our SOUL"
But stop moment; from the keeper
of that corn crib there comes this word.
saving: "You shall not see my face ex-
cept your brother be with you" In
other words, there is no such thing as
getting from heaven pardon, and COM
fort, 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 portion for the
jackals OF the wilderness; but coming
with the Divine Jesus, all the granaries
4 Vi HedNou VIII swing UPON oOioiO Jul
soul, and abundance shall be given us.
l want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will &C
knowledge himself to be sinner.
What are you going to do with your
sins? Have them pardoned, you say.
| now? Through the mercy OF God.
What do you mean by the mercy of
God? Is it the letting down for the ad
| Of oil NIT n
character? Be not deceived. see a
soul coming up to the gate OF mercy and
knocking at the corn crib OF heavenly
supply. and voice from within says:
Are you aloue?" The sinner replies:
"All alone" The voice from within
saws: "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 diacom-
forted. 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 Numbered
forth: Neither is there salvation in
any other There is no other name
given under heaven among men where
by we may be saved"
Ny text also suggests the reason why
so many people do not get any real COM
fort. You meet ten people; nine OF
them are in need of some kind of con-
doleuce. There is something in their
health, or in their state, or in their do
nestle condition that need sympathy.
And vet, the most of the worlds SYM
pathy amounts to absolutely nothing.
People go to the wrong crib, or they go
in the wrong way.
l come to some one whose ailments
are chronic, and l say: "In heaven
YOU will never be sick" That does not
give YOU much comfort What you
want is a soothing power for your pres
emit 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 coincidence in that.
One day is a 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 to 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 picture
I and every room calls out their name:
Suppose l come to you and say by the
way of confidence: God is WISE" "O!'
, you say, "that gives me no help" Sup
, pose l come to you and say: God from
e all eternity, has arranged this trouble. y
: 'Ahr' you say, that does no good ,
' Then say: with the swift feet oil
prayer 60 direct to the corn crib for
2 heavenly supply" You go. You say
? Lord help me: Lord, comfort me.
But no helpyet. No comfort yet. 1t is
5 all dark. What is the matter? have
S found. You ought to go to God ano
l saw: Here. o, Lord, are the wound:
e of nv SOUL and l bring with me the
y wounded Jesus. Let His wounds pay
a for my wounds, His bereavements, Hi
: loneliness for my loneliness, His heart
break. o, God, for the sake OF the Lore
r Jesus Christine God, the man, thu
d BENJAMIN, the brother-deliver m.
e agonized soul. O,Jesus OF the Bethan.
d sisters, roll away the stone from th'
e door of our grave"
e How many unuttered troubles. NJ
n human ear has ever heard the sorrow
= o, troubled soul. want TO tell you tina
e there is one salve that can cure tn
e wounds of the heart and that Is tn
e salve made out OF the tears OF sympa
l. thetic Jesus. And yet some OF you vii
l. not take this solace: and you try chic
e raj, and YOU try morphine, and you tr.
e strong drink, and you try change O
e scene, and you try new business assc
It Citations. and anything and everythin!
e rather than take divine companlonshlI
p and sympathy suggested by the word
e of nv text when it says, "You shall no
o see my face again unless your brothe
= be with you" o. that you might I'm
l. derstand some of the height, and depth
r. and length, and breadth, and immensl
n tv, and infinity of Gods eternal conso
n latiOns.
e Do you notice how often dying peopl
call upon Jesus? 1t is the usual praye
d offered-the prayer offered more tina
n all the other prayers put together
e Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" On
n Of our congregation, when asked in tn
/ closing moments of his life, I'd
# YOU know us?" said: 20, yes.
b know you, God bless you. Good-bl
r Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" and b
n was gone. o, yes in the closing me
r ments of our life we must have a Chri:
IS to call upon.
W And SO, though by fatal casualty "
le may be ushered into the eternal worlc
g. though we may be weak and exbsuste
c. by protracted sickness-lf, in that las
moment. we can only just stagger, an
s faint, and fall into the gate OF heaven
a. il seems that all the corn cribs OF hea'
VI en- will open for our need and all tn
0, places will open for our reception, an
At the Lord of that place, seated at b
al h., ortu CaQfad thQ1