Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-09-19

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vet il his las. moment he asks q friend 10
come and sit down b. him and read, as most
appropriate 20 his case the story OF The
Bleeding Heart. = Torrigiaoo. the sculptor
executed, after months OF care ana carving,
Madonna anu the Child. The royal
family came in and admired 1t. EVERYBODY
that looked a it vas in ecsrasyi but one
day, after all that toll ana all that admtra-
ton. because he did not get as much com
pens.tion for his work a he had ex-
pected. he took a mallet AMI DASHED the
EXQUISITE sculpture into atoms The world
j. poor compensation. poor satisfaction. poor
soiace, Famine, famine ii all the earth; not
cor seven years, but for SIX thousand But,
blessed be God, there IS 4 great cOrn-crlb.
The Lord built 1t. It Is a large place AN
angel once measured ii. anu as far as | can
calculate it in our phrase. that corn-crib is
fifteen hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high: and 1t Is futi.
Food for all nations. "Oa! say the people,
we will star: right away AMI get this SUI
ply for our soul But sTop a moment; for
from the keeper Of that cors-crlo there
comes his wori. sayluc: Y on shall nor
see my face except your brother De win
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 wltnouf him. we
shall fall before we re4cl the c0tn-crlo, aud
our bodies snail be a portion for the ~iackals
"a tAG AAA CO 1AAt DhAtA ~ 49, -
wire Jesus. all the granarieS OF t2e2y-M will
SWING open before our soui. ana aDuuuauce
shall be given us. We shall be invited to
sit in the palace Of the King
and at the table: ana while the Lord OF
heaven is apportionlng from His own table
to other tables He will not forget us: and
then and there it will be found that our Ben
janin's mess is larger than all tue Others, for
so it ought to be. worthy IS the Lamb
that was slain, TO receive blessing and riches,
and honor, and glory, and power.
want to make three points. Every
frank and cornmon-sense man viii ac-
knowledge himself to be a sinner. What
are you going to do with your sins. Have
them pardoned, you say. How? through
the mercy Of Coo. hat do YOU mean by
the mercy of Gody Is it the letting down
Of a bar for the admission Of all, without
respect to character? Be not deceived. l
see a soul coming up to the gate ofvmercy
and knocking at the corncrib Of lea venly
supply, and d voice from within says;
Are you alone The sinner replies
"All alone The voice from within SAYS:
You shat! not see Ny parloniug face un-
less Your Divine Brother, the LorI Jesus,
be with YOU" Ga. that i the point at
which 50 many are discounted. There i
no mercy from God except through Je>u.
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 thunderel
forth: Neither IS there salvation III any
other There Is no other name given under
heaven among men whereby We may be
saved" Oh, anxious sinner, Oh. diving
sinner On. lost sinner all Won have got
20 do is 10 take this Divine Benjamin along
with you. Side by side, coming t. the
cate. all the stole-nous-r OF heaven viii
swing open before your ANXIOUS >Oul. Am
! right in calling Jesus Ben iamln: On. veS.
farnel lived only long enou9n 70 give
Il name TO rnaU cnllu, anu with a dying
kiss she called him Benoni. Afterwari
Jacob han led 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 III 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 a birth throe. And was
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 not Paul speak
Of Him as standing at the right hand Of God
making intercesslOn for us? = Benjamin
Jesusl Son OF pang Son Of victory
The deepest emotions of our souls
ought to be stirred at the sound OF
that nomenclature. In your prayers plead
His tears, His sutferings, His sorrows and
111S eau IL Not ICLu>C ~ do IL, all TIE
corn-cribs aud the palaces of heaven will be
bo!ted and barred against your soul, and a
voice from the throne shall stun YOU with
the announcement: You shall not see Nv
face, except your Brother be with YOU
My text also suggests the reason why 50
many people do not get any real comfort.
You meet ten people; nine of them are in
need of some kind of coincidence. There is
something in their health. or in their state.
or III their domestic condition that demands
sympathy. And yet the most of the worlds
sympathy amounts to absolutely moth
ing. People go to tue wrong crib. OF.
they go III the wrong way. When the
plague was III Rome I, great many year
ago, there Were eighty inen VINO chanted
themselves to death with the litanies or
Gregory the Great-hterally chanted them
selves to death. and vet it did not stop the
plague. And all the music of this world
cannot halt the plague Of the human
heart. | come to some one whose ailments
are chronic, and | say: I'm heaven You will
never be sick" That does not give you
much comfort. What YOU want is Il soottI-
ing power for Your present distress. Los
children. have YOU [ come to YOU and tell
you that III ten years perhaps You will
meet these loved ones before the throne
OF God. But there Is but little coincidence
in that. One day is a year without
them, AMI ten Years is a small eternity
Nhat you want Is a sympathy now-present
help. | come TO those OF you VINO have lost
dear friends, andsay: Try TO forget them.
Don 0 keep the departed always in your
mind" How can You forget them when
every figure IN the carpet, and every book,
and every picture, and every room call,
out their name Suppose / come to you
and say by way Of coincidence: Coo is
wise. Oh you say, that gives me no
help. Suppose | come 10 you and say.
Sod. from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble "Ah" You say that Ioes me
no good" Then | say: With one swift
feet Of prayer 20 direct to the corn
crib for a heavenly supply" You go. You
say: Lord, help me; Lord. comfort me. .
But no help yet, No comfort vet. It Is all
dark. What Is the matter: | have found
You ought 10 60 To God and say Here, &
Lord. are tie wounds OF my soul, and
bring with me the wounded Jesus. Let Hi.
wounds pay Tor my wounds. His bereave
nents Tor my bereave!nents. His lonelines,
for my loneliness. His heart break for my
heart break. God. for the sake of the Lord
Jesus Chrlst-the God. the Man, the Benia
min rEa Rrl~tap- Il,