The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-10

minister, comes down to these
arrived travellers, and says: "Dine
WIN me todey. How is your father?
Is uhls Benjamin, the younger brother
whose presence / demanded" The
travellers are introduced into the
palace. They are worn and bedusted
OF Ghe way; and servants come in
WIN q basin OF water in one hand and
g GoWel IN the other, and kneel down
before these newly arrived travellers,
wa OF the dust OF the way. The
butchers, and poulterers, and caterers
OF Vhe prime minister prepare the
repaHst. The guests are seated in
smal groups, two or three at D.
table, the food on a tray; all the
luxurles from imperial gardens, and
orchards, and acquariums, and
avlarles are brought there, and are
filling chalice and platter. Nov is
the time for this prime minister, if he
mas a grudge against Benjamin to
show it. Will he kill him, now that
ne has him in his hands? O, no! The
lord OF the corn-crib is seated at
his own table, and he looks
over to the table of his guests;
and he sends portion to
each of them, but he sends a larger
portion to Benjamin, or, as the Bible
quantity puts it: "Benjamin's mess
was i've times SO much as any of
theirs.' Be quick and send word
back with the swiftest camel to Ca
naan to old Jacob, that "Beniamin is
well; all is we'll; he is faring sumptu-
ously; the Egyptian lord did not
mean murder and DEATH but he
meant deliverance and life when he
announced to us on that day: eye
shall! not see my face unless your
brother be with you"
Well my friends, this world is
famine struck of sin. It does not
yield a single crop Of satisfaction. 1t
IS dying. 1t is hunger bitten. The
..@ POOR COMPENSATION.
poor satisfaction, poor solace. |
Famine, famine in all the earth; not |
Tor seven years, but for six thousand,
But, blessed be God, there is a great |
crib: The Lord built it. It is another
land. 1t. is a large place. An angel
once measured it, and as far as I can
calculate it in our phrase, that corn
crib is l,5OO miles long and 1,5OO
broad and l,5OO high; and it is full.
Food for all nations.
l want to make three points.
Every frank and common-sense man
will. acknowledge himself to be sim
ner. 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, with
out respect to character? Be not de-
ceived. 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: "Ail
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-
:orted. There is no mercy from God
except through Jesus Christ. Coming
With him we are accepted. Coming
him we are re ected. Peter
put it right in his great sermon before
he high priests, when he Numbered
orth: Neither is there salvation in
my other. There is no other name
given under heaven among men where
~ we may be saved" O, anxious sin
Ter! 0, dying sinner! O, lost sinner
I'll you have got do dois to have this
Divine Benjamin along with you. Side
~ side, coming to the gate, all the
tore-houses OF heaven willswing open
before your anxious soul. -
MY text also suggests the reason
Why so many people do not get any
cal comfort. You meet ten people;
line OF them are in need of some kind |
Il coincidence. There is something in
heir health, or in their state or in
heir domestic condition that
DEMANDS sympathy.
And yet most of the world s sympa-
by amounts to absolutely nothing. t
'eople 60 to the wrong crib, or they t
o in the wrong way. When the plague s
yas IN Rome a great many years ago, ,
here were 80 men who chanted them
elves to death with the litanies of I
3regory the Great-literally chanted {
themselves to death, and yet it did
OF stop the plague. And all the mus :
; OF this world cannot halt the plague (
t the human heart. You may never
ave mentioned it to a. single human c
ar, or you may have mentioned it to y
ONE one who is now gone away, but
great sorrow is still in your soul. d
tier Washington Irving was dead, f
hey found a little box that contained C
braid of hair and a miniature, and
ne name of Matilda Hoffman, and a.
of her death, and a re-
lark something like this: ''The world F
fter that was blank to me. I went
ito the country, but found no peace
solitude. tried to go into society,
ut found no peace in society. There a
as been a horror hanging over me by I
lght and by day, and 1 am afraid to Y
3 alone" .s-- ---... r.. 4.s'.' -2. II
How many unuttered troubles! No t.
aman ear hasever heard the sorrow. V
, troubled soul, I want to tell you g
lat there is one salve that can cure Q
le wounds Of the heart, and that is "
le salve made out of the tears of a il
Jesus. tt
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