The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31

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That is the kind of prayer that brings help;
aud vet 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 II 70 single
human ear, or you may have mehuoneo IL
to some one who is now gone away, ana
| that great sorrow is still in your soul. After
| Washington Irving was dead they round
/ little box that contained braid OF mar ana
| a miniature and the name Of Matilda Hoif-
| man, and a memorand I'm of her death, and
! a remark s)Methi1g ike this: The world
( after that was a blank to me. | went into
the country, but 70 md no peace in solitude.
( / tried TO go into society, but l found on
/ peace il society There has been n horror
hanging over me by night and by day, and
4 ! en- afraid to be alone"
/ How macy unutterei troubles! No hui
man ear has ever heard the sorrow. .,
I troubled soul. | want 10 tell you that there
is one ssive that can cure the wounds Of the
heart, and that is the selve made out Of the
tears of q sympathetc Jesus. Aud yet
some of you Will not axe this solace; aud
you try Choral and you try morphine, and
you try strong drink, and you try change of
scene, and you try new business aSsocla-
tons, and anything and everything rather
than take the divine companlonship aud
sympathy suggested by tue words of my
text when it says, You shall not see my
AdGo ullttSS YOUR he WITH
., that you might understand some hing of
the hight, and depth, and length, and
breadth, and immensely, and infnity Of
Gods eternal cons )lations.
go further and find in my subject a hint
as to the way heaven opens to tre depart
| ing spirit. We are told that heaven mas
twelve gates. and some people Infer from
that fact that all the people will 60 in with
out reference to their past life; bat what Is
| the of having q on TINT lie
times shut9 TIE swinging OF a gate implies
| that our entrance into heaven is conditional.
1t IS not monetary condition. If we come
to the door Of an exquisite concert We are
not surprised that we must pay a fee, for
we know that fine earthly music is ex-
penssve; but all the oratories of heaven
cost nothing. Heaven pays othing for
its music. 1t is all free. There is moth
ing to be paid at that door for entrance
but the condition Of getting into heaven
is bringing our Divine Benjamin along
} with US. Do you notice how often dying
people call upon Jesus2 IL is the usual
prayer otfered-the prayer offered more
than alltthe other prayers put together
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit One of
our congregation. when asked in the clos
ing moments of his life. "Do you know
uss said, 20, yes, know you. God bless
you. Good-by. Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit and he was gone o, yes, in the
closing moments of our life we must have a
Christ to call upon. If Jacobs sons bad
gone toward Egypt, and had gone with the
} very nnest equlpage, aud had not taken
Benjamin along with them, and to the ques-
tion they should have been obliged to an
swer: "Sir, we didn't bring him, as father
could not let him go; we didn't want to be
bothered with him, voice from within
would have said: go away from
us. You shall not have any of
-k.h
my face because your brother is
not with you" And if we come up toward
the door of heaven at last, though we come
from all luxuriance and brilliancY of sur
roundings, and knock for admittauce, aud
it is found that Christ is not with US, the
police Of heaven will beat us back from the
bread house, saying: depart, | never
knew YOU" If Jacobs sons, coming to-
ward Egypt, had lost everything on the
way; If they had expended their last shekel :;
II they had come up utterly exhausted to
the corn-cribs Of Egypt, and it had been
found that Benjamin was with them, all the
storehouse would have swung open before
them. And So though by fatal casualty
we may be ushered into the eternal world {:
though we may be weak and exhausted by
protracted sickness-if, in that last moment.
we can only just stagger. and failt and fall
into the gate OF heaven-lt seems that all
the corn-cribs Of heaven will open
for our need and all the palaces will open
for our reception; and the Lord of that
place, seated at his table, and all the angels
of God seated at their table, and all the
martyrs seated at their table, and all our
glorified kindred seated at our table, the
King shall pass portion from his table to
ours, and then, while we think of the fact
that 1t was Jesus who started us OH the
road, and Jesus who kept us on the
way, and Jesus who at last gained
abundance for our SOUL we shall be
glao II he has seen of the travail of his
soul and been satisfied, and not be at all
jealous If it be found that our divine Ben
Jamin's mess is five times larger than oil the
rest. Hail Amounted of the Lord. Thou
art worthy.
My friend, you see it is either Christ or
famine. If there were two banquets spread,
and to one of them, only, you might go,
you might stand and think for a good
while as to which invitation you had better
accept; but here it is feasting or starva-
ton. II 1t were choice between oratorios,
you might say: ~ prefer the Creation ="
or II prefer the Messiah But here it is
a choice between eternal harmony and
everlasting discord. o. will you live or
die9 Will you start for the Egyptian corn
| crib, or will you perish amid the empty
barus of the Canaanitish famineg "Ye
shall not see my face except your brother
| be with you.n