The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-09-04

quantity puts II, "benJamin's mess was
i've times 30 much as any Of theirs"
Be quick and send word back with the
swiftest camel TO Canaan TO old Jacob
that Benjamin is well; all Is we'll; he is
faring sumptuously; the Egyptian lord
did not mean murder and death, but
he meant dellverance and life when he
announced TO us on that day, Ye shall
not see my face unless your brother be
with you
THIS WORLD UNDER CURSE.
Well, my friends, this world is fam,
Inc struck of sin. 1t does not yield a
single crop Of solid satisfaction, II is
dying, 1t is hunger bitten. The fact
that II does not, cannot, feed a mans
heart was well illustrated In the life OF
the English comedian All the world
honored him-did everything for him
that the world could do. He was ap,
plauded in England and applauded in
the United States. He reused up ma,
lions into laughter. He had no equal,
And yet, although many people sup
posed him entirely happy, and that this
world was completely satiating his soul,
he sits down and writes II never In
my life put on new hat that it did
not rain and ruin It. Inever went out
In shabby coat because 1t was rain.
ing and thought all who had the choice
would keep indoors that the sun did
not burst forth in its strength and bring
out with 1t all the butterflies of fashion
whom l knew and who knew me. |
never consented to accept part !
hated, out of kindness to another, that
l did not get Kissed by the public and
cut by the writer. | could not take
drive for few minutes with Terry with.
out being overturned and having my ell
bow bone broken, though my friend got
off unframed. could not make Gov
enant with Arnold, which thought was
to make my fortune without making his
instead, than In an Incredible space of
time-I think thirteen months-I
earned for him twenty thousand
pounds and for myself one. am per
suaded that If I were to set up as a
beggar every one in my neighborhood
would leave off eating bread" That
was the lament of the worlds comedian
and Joker. All unhappy.
The world did everything for Lord
Byron that it could do, and yet in his
last moment he asks friend to come
and sit down by him and read, as most
appropriate to his case, the story of
1.-THE Bleeding Heart" Torrigiano,
the sculptor, executed, after months of
care and carving, Madonna and the
Child" The royal family came in and
admired it. Everybody that looked at
it was in ecstacy, but one day, after all
that toll and all that admiration, be-
cause he did not get as much compen-
sation for his work as he had expected,
be took a mallet and dashed the ex-
quisite sculpture into atoms. The world
is poor compensation, poor satisfaction,
poor solace. Famine, famine, in all
the earth; not for seven years, but for
six thousand.
But, blessed be God there is a great
corncrib. The Lord built it, 1t is in
another land. 1t is large place. An
angel once measured it, and as far as !
can calculate it In our phrase, that corn
crib is fifteen hundred miles long and
fifteen hundred broad and fifteen hun
bred high; and it is full. Food for all
nations, "Ohl" say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get this sup
ply for our SOUL" But stop moment;
for from the keeper of that corncrib
there comes this word, saying, you
shall not see my face except your broth
er be with 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 without
him we shall fall before we reach the
corncrib, and our bodies shall be por,
ton for the jackals of the wilderness,
but coming with the Divine Jesus, all
the granaries of heaven will swing open
before our soul, and abundance shall
be given us. We shall be invited to sit
in the palace of the king and at the
table, and while the Lord of heaven is
apportioning from his own table to
other tables he will not forget us, and
then and there it will be found that our
Benjamin's mess is larger than all the
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"
WHEN WILL YOU REFORM
want to make three points Every
frank and common sense man will ac-
knowledge himself to be sinner.
What are you going to do with your
sins' Have them pardoned, you say.
HOWE Through the mercy of God.
What do you mean by the mercy of
God9 Is it the letting down of bar
for the admission of all, without re-
spect to character2 BE not deceived!
see a soul coming up to the gate OF
mercy and knocking at the cornorib of
heavenly supply. And a voice from
within says, "Are you alone" The
inner 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
Oh that is the point at which SO many
IRE discomforted. There is no mercy
rom God except through Jesus Christ,
Coming with him we are accepted.
Coming without him we are rejected.
Peter put it right in his great sermon
before the high priests, when he thun-
dered forth; Neither is there saliva
ton in any other There is no other
name given under heaven among men
whereby we may be saved" o anX-
ious sinner 0 dying sinner o lost
sinner all you have got to do is to
have this Divine Benjamin along with
you Side by side, coming to the gate,
all the storehouses of heaven will
swing open before your anxious soul
Am | right in calling Jesus Benjamin