Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-09-11

thing for Lord Byron that 1t 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 THE
Bleeding Heart" Torrigiauo, the sculptor
executed after months OF care and carving,
''Madonna and the Child" The royal
family came in aud admired it. Everboiy
that looked at it was in ecstasy: but one
day, after all that toll and all that ndmira-
tion, because he did not get as much COM
pensAtion for his work as he had eN-
pectcd, he took a mallet and dashed the
exquisite sculpture into atoms The world
Is poor compensation, poor satisfaction, poor
solace. Famine, famine in all the earth; not
Cor seven years, but for six thousand. But
blessed b5 God, there is great corn-crib.
The Lord built 1t. 1t Is a large place. An
angel once measured it and as far as can
calculate it in our phrase, that corn-crib is
fifteen hundred mieslong and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high; and 1t is full.
Food for all nations. "Ohr' say the people,
I'VE will start right away aud get this sup
ply for our soul.' BIT stop a moment; for
IRON the keeper of that corn-crib. there
comes his word. saving: you shall not
see my face except your brother bo 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 corn-crlb, aud
our bodies shall be portion for the jaCkals
of the wilderness; but coming with the Di-
vine Jesus all the granarles OF heaven VIII
swing open before our soul, aud abundance
shall be given US. We shall be invited TO
sit in the palace Of the King
and at the table; and while tho Lord OF
heaven is apporttoning from His own table
to other tables He viii not forget us and
then and there it will be found that our Benz
jamin'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
l want 10 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. Howi Through
the mercy of Gol. What do you mean by
the emercy OF GoI? Is it the letting down
of a bar for the admission Of all, without
respect to character: BE not deceived.
see a soul coming w to tho gate OF mercy
and knocking at the corncrl5 OF heavenly
supply; aud n voice from within says:
Are you aioneE' The sinner replies:
IAN alone The voice from within says;
You shall not see My pardoning face un-
less your Divine Brother, the Lord Jesus,
bo with you Ga, that IL the point at
which SO many are discounted. There is
no mercy from Goi except through Jesus
Christ. Coming with Him, we are acceptsi.
Coming without Him, we are rejected.
Peter put it right in his great sermon be-
fore the high priests, when he thundercl
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 sinner! Oh, dying
sinner! Oh, lost sinner, all you nave got
10 do is to taKe this Divine Benjamin along
with you. Side uy side, coming 10 the
gate, all the store houses OF heaven will
swing open before your anxious soul. Am
| right in calling Jesus Benjamin On, yes.
Rachel liycl only long enough TO give
name to that child, and with a dying
kiss she called him Benoui Afterwnrd
Jacob chan ed his name, and he callei
him Benjamin. The meaning Of the name
she gave was "Sou OF my Pain" The
meaning OF the name the father gavo 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 struggle OF
God when He gave up His only Son. The
Omnipotent God in birth throe! And was
not Christ appropriately callei 'Son Of the
heaven and see Him standing mt the right
hand of God? And does not not Paul speak
OF Him as standing at the right hand Of God
making interc ceSslun for usi q Benjamin
Jesus Son OF panE! Son OF victory
Tho deepest emotions OF our souls
ought to be stirred at the sound of
that nomenclature. In your prayers plead
His tears, His sutTeringS His sorrows and
His death. II YOU refuse to do II, all the
.NFh h,n IL.
bolted and barred against your soul, and a
voice from the throne sball stun you with
| the announcement: You shall not see My
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 i'll
need Of some kind OF confidence. There IS
something in their health. or in their state,
or In their domestic condition that demands
sympathy. And yet the most OF the world :
| sympathy amounts TO absolutely moth
| ing People 90 to the wrong crib, or
| they 90 in the wrong way. When the
plague was in Rome a great many years
| ago there were eighty men who Chantel
themselves to death with the Atanies Of
! Gregory the Great-literaily chautel them
selves to death, aud 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: "in heaven you will
never be SICK That does not give you
much comfort. What you want is a sooth-
ing power for your present distress. Lost
| children. have you2 | come to you and tell
| you that in ten years perhaps you VIII
| meet these loved ones before tho throne
| of God. But there is but little coincidence
| In that. One day is year without
them, and ten years is n small eternity.
| What you want is a sympathy now-present
| help. | come to those OF you who have lost
dear friends and say; Try to forget them.
| Donot keep the departed always i'll your
mind" How can you forgot them when
every figure in the carpet, and every book
and every picture, and every room calls
out their name? Suppose | come to yot
| and say by way OF condolences: God IL
wise" "Ohw you say, that gives me NJ
help" Suppose | come to you and say
God, from all eternity, has arranged thi'
trouble" "Ah" you say; that does m'
10 good" Then / say: with the Swif
feet of prayer go direct TO the corn
crib for a heavenly supply You 60 YoI
say: lord, help me; Lord, comfort me.
But no help yet. No comfort yet. 1t is al
dark. What is the matter? | have found
You ought to go to God and say: Here, {
Lord, arc the wounds of my soul, and
bring with me the wounded Jesus. Let Hi
wounds pay for my wounds. His bereave
ments for my bereavements. His LONELINESS
for my loneliness His heartbreak for my
heartbreak. o God for the sake of the Lore
Jesus Christ--the God, the Man, the Benja
min, the Brother-deliver my agonizeC
soul. o Jesus of the weary foot, ease my
fatigue. o Jesus of the aching head. hea
my aching head. . Jesus Of the Bethany
sisters roll away the stone from the doc
of our grave" That is the kind of praye
that brings help; and yet how many Of you
are getting no help at all for tho reason that
there is in your soul, perhaps, secret
trouble. You may never have mentionej
1t to q single human ear, or you may have
mentioned it to some one who Is now gone
away, and that great sorrow Ia still il
your soul. After Washington Irving wa.
dead, they found little box that contained a
braid of hair and a miniature, and the name
Of Matilda Hoffman and n memorandum
of her death, and the remark something like
this: 'The world after that was n blank