Connecticut western news., 1891-09-03

all the storehousts of heaven will swing open before your anxious soul. Am right in calling Jesus Benjalnini Oh, yes. Rachel lived only long enough to give name to that child, and with a 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 painl All the sorrows of Rachel in that hour. when she gave her child over into the hands of strangers was nothing compared with the strug gle of God when he gave up his only Son. The omnipotent God in birth throe! And was not Christ appropn- ately called 'Son of the Right Handl"
 Did not Stephen look into heaven and see him standing at the right hand of Godf And does not Paul speak of him as standing at the right hand of God making intercession for usf o Benjamin-Jesusl Son of pang. Son of victoryt The deepest emotions of our souls ought to be stirred at the sound of that nomenclature. In your prayers plead his tears, his sufferings, his sorrows and his death. If you re- fuse to do it, all the corncribs and the palaces of heaven will be bolted and barred against your soul, and voice from the throne shall stun you with the "You shall not see my face except your brother be with you"
 NO sOLACE IN THIS WORLD.
 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 condolence There is something In their health, or in their state, or in their domestic condition. that demands sympathy. And yet the most of the worlds sympathy amounts to abso- lutely nothing. People go to the wrong crib, or they go in the wrong way. When the plague was in Rome a great many years ago there we:e eighty men who chantad themselves to death with the litanies of Gregory the Great-lit- orally chanted tte;.>tlves to death, and yet it did not so,s the plague. And all the music of tlas w0rid cannot halt the plague of the human Aasrt,
 come to some one whose ailments are chronic, and I say, "Ip heaXep you will never be sick" That does got give you much comfort. What yoY want is a soothing power for your pres ent distress Lost children, have youi I come to tell you that in ten years per haps you will meet these loved ones be fore the throne of God. But there is but little condolencs In that. One day is a year without them, and ten years Is a small eternity. What you want is a sympathy. now present help I come to those of you who have lost dear friends, and say: Try to forget them. Do not keep the departed al- ways n your mind" How can you forget them when every figure In the carpet, and every book, and every pic ture and ssery room calls out their name. -t z@ st.-
 Suppose ,eaaae to you and say by way of corMi0laaee God is wise. I"
 "Oh," you gay, "tIlat gives me no help" suppoSe l cas,ae to you and say, God, from 6 T eterilhe. has arranged this trouble. ''Ahr' yousaS. that does me no good" Then ] say. With the swift feet of prayer sosdireet tothe corn, crib for a heavenly assPpay." Hep go. You say, Lord, help pase: Lord, comfort me" But no help yet. No comfort yet It is all dark What is the mat, teri l have found You ought to go to God and say: "Here, o Lord, are the woaands of my soul, and l bring with ms faae wounded Jesus. Let his wounds pag for my wounds. his be- reavements fer my bereavements, his loneliness for lny loneliness, his heart break for my heam break. o God for the sake of. the Lord Jesus Christ-the God, the man, the Benjamin, the broth er-deliver my agonized sapl. Q Jesus of the weary foot ease my fatigue. 0 Jesus of the aching head. heal my ach- ing head o Jesus of the BethaRy sis ters, roll away the stone from the door of our grave" '".
 THK FRKvENr. EFFEcTUAL PRAYER
 That Is the kisad of prayer that brings help; and yet 1aow many of you are getting no help .at SIl. for the reason that there is in your soul. perhaps, n secret trouble You ..&seS never have tito asingle ih3man ear, or you may have mentioned k tp some one who is now gone away. apd that great sorrow Is sti1l in your soul. Alter Washington Irving was dead. thAy found little box that contained . braid of hair and a miniature. and the name of Matilda Hoffman. and . of her death, and a re- mark something like this: '"The world after tha, was a blank to me. went nto the country, but found no peace in solitude. tried to go into 'ociety, but found no peace in socie- y. There has been 8 horror hanging ,ver me by night md by day. and nm afraid to be alone"
 How many unuttered troublesl No human ear lras ever heard the sorrow. ) troubled sou]. want to tell you that here is one saNe that can cure the wounds of the heart. and that is the 'alve made Cat of the tears of 8 sym Jesus. And yet some of you will not take tlis solace; and you try 'hloral and you try morphine and you ny strong drink and you try change of 'cene and you try new business associa ions and everything and anything "a her than take the divine companion ship and sympathy suggested by the words of my text when it says. You shall not see my face again unless your brother be with vru" Oh. that you night understand something of the