Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-31

day: 'Ye shall not see my face unless
your brother be with you"
Well, my friends, this world Is fam
lne-strUck o. sin. II does rot yield q
single crop OF solid satisfaction. II Is
dying. Il Is hunger-bitten. The fact
that 10 does not, cannot, feed mans
heart was well illustrated In the life OF
the English comedian. All the world
hon0red him-did every thing for him
that that the world could do. He was
applauded In England and applauded In
the United States. He reused up ma
lions into laughter. he had no equal.
And yet, although many people suppos-
ed him entirely happy, and that this
world was completely satiatlng his soul,
he sits down and writes: 'Inever In my
life put on q new hat, that 1t did not
rain aud ruin it. never went out In
shabby coat because 1t 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
IL all the butterflies of fashion
whom | knew and who knew me. |
never consented 10 accept part hat
ed, out Of kindness to another, that |
did not get Missed by the public, and
cut by the writer. l could not take a
drive for few minutes with Terry
without being overturned and having
my elbow-bone broken, though my
friend got of unframed. l could not
make a covenant with Arnold, which l
thought was to make my fortune with
out making his instead, than in an In
credible space Of time-I think thirteen
months-I earned for him twenty thou
sand pounds, and for myself one. am
persuaded that il 1 were to set up as a
beggar, everyone 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 it could
do, and yet in his last moment he asks
a friend to come and sit down by him
and read, as most appropriate to his
case, the story of 1.-THE Bleeding
Heart" Torrigiano the sculptor, exc
cuted, after many months Of care and
carving, Madonna and the Child. 1.-THE
royal family came in and admired 1t.
Everybody that looked at it was in &C.
stacy; 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 a
mallet and dashed the exquisite sculp-
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 a great corn-crib. The Lord built 1t.
1t Is in another land. 1t is a 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 flf-
teen hundred high; and it Is full. Food
for all nations. "Or' say the people,
1--WE will start right away and get this
supply for our SOUL" But stop mo-
ment; for from the keeper of that
corn-crib there comes this word, say ing:
''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 eter-
nal life, unless we bring with US our Di-
vine 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 Divine
Jesus, all the graneries of heaven will
swing open before our soul, and abund
ancn shall he given MS Wa shall hn Ia
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 be found
that our Benjamin's mess Is larger than
all the others, for so it ought to DO.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to
receive blessing, and riches, and honor,
and glory, and power. ="
1 want to make three points. Every
frank and common-Sense man will ac-
knowledge himself to be 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 1t
the letting down of bar for the admis-
sion of all, without respect to charac-
ter? Be not deceived. l 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 alone?" The sinner 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 discom-
forted. There is no mercy from God
except through Jesus Christ. Coming
with Him we are accepted. Coming with
out 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 whereby we may be
saved" o, anxious sinner! o, dying
sinner! 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 l right in calling
Jesus Benjamin? o, yes. Rachel
lived only long enough to give 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 sorrows of Rachel in
that hour. when she gave her
child over into the hands Of
strangers was nothing compared with
the struggle of God when he gave up
his only Son. The omnipotent God In
birth thro! And was not Christ APP
propriately 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