The Penn's Grove record., 1891-09-11

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angel once measured IL, and as far as l can
calculate 1t in our phrase, that corn-crib fs
fifteen hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high; and 1t isfull
Food for all nations. 'sOhf' say the people,
I'VE will start right away and get this sup
ply for our SOUL" But stop q moment; for
from the keeper of that corn-crib there
comes his word, saying; "You shall not
see my face except your brother be with
gou.n 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 without Him. We
our bodies shall be q portion for the tackals
of the wilderness; but coming with the d..
vine Jesus, all the g~ranaries OF heaven viii
swing open before our soul, and abundance
shall be given us. We shall be invited 10
sit in the palace Of the King
and at the table; and while tho Lord OF
heaven is aPportioning from His v table
then and there it will be found chat our Ben.
jamin's mess is larger than ell the otherA TO.
SO IT ought to be. worthy Il the Lamb
that was slain, to receive blessing.And riches,
and honor, and glory, and power"
I want to make three points. Every
frank and commonrsense man Will 80
knowledge himself to be Q sinner. What
are you going to do with your stnsf Have
them pardoned, you Say Howl Through
h mercy Of Godf Is It the letting down
Of bar for the admission Of all, without
respect to characters Be not deceived. !
see a soul coming up to the gate Of mercy
and knocking at the corncrib OF heavenly
supply; and a voice from within says;
..Are you aloneY' The sinner replieei
IAN alone" The voice from within says,
"You shall not see Ny pardouing face UNI
less your Divine Brother, the Lord Jesus
which 50 many are discounted. There Is
no mercy from God except through Jesus
Christ. Coming with Him, we are accepted.
Coming without Him, VIC are rejected.
Peter put it right in his great ssrmon be.
fore 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" Oh, anxious sinnerl Oh, dying
sinnerI Oh, lost sinnerl all you have got
to do Is to tax this Divine Benjamin along
with you. Side by side coming to tbs
gate, all the s~tore-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
kiss she called him Benoni. Afterward
Jacob chan ged his name, and he called
him Benjamin. The meaning OF the name
she gave was 'Son Of my Pain" This
meaning Of the name the father gave was
''Son Of my Right Hand" And was not
Christ the Son Of Pains 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. Thu
omnipotent God in a birth throei And wa
not Christ appropriately called "Son OF thu
Right Handp' Did not Stephen look into
heaven and see Him standing at the right
hand of God2 And does not not Paul speat
Of Him as standing at the right hand Of God
masking intercession for usf o Benjamin
Jesusi Son of pangl Son Of victory
The deepest emotions Of our souls
ought to be stirred at the sound Of
that nomenclature. In our prayers plead
His tears His s~ufferingA His sorrowe and
His death. II you refuse to do II, all tha
corn-cribs and the palaces Of heaven will b.
bolted and barred against your soul, and 2
the announcement. you hall not see My
face, except your Brother be with you"
MY text also suggests the reason why 20
many people do not get any real comfort.
You meet ten people; nine Of them are In
need Of some kind OF coincidence. There h
something in their health, or in their state.
or in their domestic condition that demands
SVHDAGn1- Auu you l4A0 AA1Oos tnO wv
sympathy amounts TO absolutely moth.
ing. People go to the wrong crib OF
they 60 in the wrong way. When the
plague was in Rome a great many year.
age, there were eighty men who chanted
themselves to death with the htanies OF
Gregory the Great-literally chanted them
selves to death, and yet 1t did not stop the
cannot halt the plague OF the human
heart, / come to some one whose ailments
are chronic, and I say: "In heaven you will
never be sick.n That does not give you
much comfort. What you want Is a soott-
ing power for your present distress. Lost
children, have your l come to you and tell
you tina in ten years psrhaps you will
Of God. But there is but little condolences
in that. One day is q year without
them, and ten years is 9 small eternity.
What YOU want Is a sympathy now-present
help, l come to those of you who have lost
dear friends, and say: "Try to forget them.
Do not keep the departed always I'm your
mind" How eau you forget them when
every figure in the carpet, and every BOOK,
and every picture and every room calls
out their manner Suppose l come to You
and say by way of coincidence; .'God il
wise" s'Ohp' you say, that gives me nc
help.n Suppose I come to you and say,
aGod, from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble" "Ahr' you say; that does me
no good" Then | say: With the swift
CRIB for a heavenly supply.n You go. You
saw: Lord, help me; Lord, comfort me-
Rnt no help vet, No comfort yet. It Is all
lark. What is the matter / have found.
Nou ought to go to God and say : Here. o
Lord, are the wounds OF my soul, and J
bring with me the wounded JesuaL Let His
wounds pay for my wounds His bereave
.,ran.aa HE 1nuaIfuacn
for nv loneliness. His heart-break for my
hearttbreak. God for the sake Of the Lord
Jesus Christine God, the Man, the Benjat
min the Brother-deliver my agonized
soul o Jesus of the weary foot, ease my
fatigue. o Jesus of the aching head. heal
INV aching head. OJesus OF the Bethany,
sisters, roll away the stone from the door
Of our grave" That is the kind Of prayer
that brings help; and yet how many Of you
are getting no help at all for the reason that
there is in your soul, perhaps a secret
trouble. You may never have mentioned
It to a single human ear, or you may have
mentioned it to some one who Is now gone
away, and that great sorrow is still in
your soul. After Washington Irving was
dead, they found little box that contained a
braid of hair and a miniature. and the name
of Matilda Hoffman and q memorandum
of her death, and the remark something like
this. .'The world after that was q blank
to me. l went into the country, but found
no peace in solitude. / tried TO go into so
ciety, but I found no peace In society. There
has been a horror banging over me by night
and by day, and / am afraid to be alone"
How many unuttered troubles No hui
man ear has ever heard the sorrow. Oh,
troubled soul, | want to tell you that there
is one salve that can cure the wounds Of
the heart, and that is the salve made out
Of the tears of a sympathetic Jesus. And
vet some of you will not take this s~olace;
and you try choral, and you try morphine
.,a won try strong drink, and you try
shsn9e of scene, ami you try new business
revelations, and anything and everything
rether than take the Divine companionship
and sympathy suggested by the words OF
INV text when 1t says "You shall not see Ny
face again unless your Brother % WITH
you.n Oh, that you might understand
something Of the height and depth, n
LENGTH. M breadth, and immensity. n
infnity of Gods eternal consultations.
Igo further, and find in my subject a hint
as to the way heaven opans to the departing
soirit. We are told that heaven has
twelve gates, ard some people infer IRON
thst fact that IN the people viii go IN
without reference to their past lite, but
what Is the use OF having a gate that is not
sometimes to be shuts The swinging Of :
rate implies that our emit ancs into heaven
Il conditional. It Is not q monetary condl-
ton. II we come to the door Of an exqul-
kita coDcert we are not surprised that we