The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-02

sinner replies: "All alone" The voic.
from within says; you shall, not Sc,
my pardoning face unless your Divin,
Brother. the Lord Jesus. be with you
q, that is point at which so many mr.,
discomfortcd. There is no mercy from
God except through Jesus Christ Com
ing with Him we are accepted. Coming
without Him, we arc rejected.
Peter put II right in his great sermon
before the high priests. when he thun.
dered forth Neither is there salvation
in any other There is no other name
given under Heaven among men where.
by we may be saved" O, anxious sim
nerl o, dying sinnerl o, lost sinner!
All you have got TO do is TO have this
Divine Benjamin along with you Side
by side, coming to the gate, all the
store houses of Heaven will swing open
before your anxious soul. Am | right
in calling Jesus Benjamin? Oh, 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 of the name the father
gave was "Son of my Right Hand"
And was not Christ the Son Of pain?
All the sorrow of Rachel in that hour,
when she gave her child over into the
hands Of strangers, was nothing COM
pared with the struggle of God when
He gave up His only Son. The omnipo-
cd -, s,tl<
not Christ appropriately called "Son of
the Right Hand?" 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 inter-
cession for us? Oh, Benjamin--Jesusl
Son of pain! Son of Victory! The
deepest emotions of our souls ought t.
be stirred at the sound Of that nomen.
clature, in your prayers plead his tears
His sufferings, His sorrows and His
death. If you refuse to do it all the
corn-cribs 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"
My text also suggests the reason why |
10 many people do not get any real
comfort. You meet ten people; nine of
hem are in need of some kind of con.
lolence. There is something in their
lealth, or in their state or in their do
nestle condition that demands SYM
'athy. And yet the most of the worlds
amounts to absolutely moth
ng. People 20 to the wrong crib, or
hey go in the wrong way. When the
'lague was in Rome a great many years
go there were eighty men who chant
d themselves to death with the litanies
+ Gregory the Great-literally chanted
themselves TO death, and yet it did not
top the plague. And all the music of
his world did not halt the plague of
ne human heart / come to some one
hose ailments are chronic and say:
In Heaven you will never be sick"
hat does not give much comfort. ]
'hat you want is a soothing power for
our present distress. Lost children,
ave you? / come to you and tell you '
nat in ten years perhaps you will meet :
lose loved ones before the throne of {
cd. 1
But there is but little coincidence in
lat One day is n year withou: them,
nd ten years is u small eternity. What
III want is n sympathy now--present
Zip. i come TO those Of you who have
st dear friends, and say: "Try TO for
It them do not keep the departed s
-, | 4
rget them when every figure in the '
rpet, and every book, and every pie |
re, and every room call out their J
lme. Suppose come to you and say q
: way of coincidence: God is wise" u
)h" you say, that gives me no a
Up" Suppose come to you and say: ?
Tod, from all eternity. has arranged I
is trouble" "Ahr' you say, that h
es me no good" Then t
y: with the swift feet of a
aver go direct to the corn
ID for heavenly supply" You s.
. You say: Lord, help me; Lord, n
mfort me-" But no help yet No 81
mfort yet. 1t is all dark. What is n
e matter? have found. You ought a
go to God and say: Here, o Lord
e the wounds of my soul, and bring 81
tn me the wounded Jesus. Let His o
FUNDS pay for my wounds, His be- j.
ivements for my bereavements, His u
leliness for my loneliness, His heart CT
eak for my heart break. o, God! for Il
2 sake of the Lord Jesus Christ--the a
ID, the man, the Benjamin, the d.
my agonized soul o.
sus of the weary foot, ease my
.igue. o, Jesus of the aching head, IL
al my nching head. o, Jesus of the p
Ihnnv sisters roll nMnv the stone w