Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-03

other, that did not get Kissed by the pub
lie and cut by the writer | could not take
| a drive for few minutes with Terry with
out being overturned and having my elbow
bone broken, though my friend got off uIi-
| harmed. | could not make a convenant
| with Arnold, which l thought was to make
| my fortune without making his instead,
| than in an incredible space of time-I think
| thirteen months earned for him.
| TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS,
| and for myself one. / am persuaded that if
| | were to set up as beggar, every one in
| my neighDorhood would leave of eating
| bread" That was the lament of the world s
| comedian and joker. All unhappy. The
| world did everything for Lord Byron that
| it could do and yet i'll 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" Tor
| rigiano the sculptor, executed, after months
| OF care and carving, Madonna and the
| Child" The royal family came in and ad-
| mired it. Everybody that looked al il was
| in ecstacy: but one day, after all that toll
| and all that admiration, because he did not
! get as much compensation for his work as
| he had expected. he took a mallet and dash
ed the exquisite sculpture into atoms. The
world Is poor compensation, poor satisfac-
| ton, poor sOlace. Famine, famine in all
| the earth not for seven years. but for six
| thousand. But, blessed be God, there is a
great corn-crib. The Lord built it. It is
in another land. 1t is 4 large place. An
| angel once measured it. and as far as can
| calculate it in our phrase, that corn-crib is
| 1900 miles long and 1900 broad and 1890
| high: and il is full. Food for all nations.
oh, - say the people. we viii start right
| away and get this supply for our soul. "
But stop a moment for from the keeper
| of that corn-crib there comes this word.
~ -zl,.t
cept your brother be with YOU" In other
| words, there is no such thing IS getting
from heaven pardon and comfort. and eter-
nal life. unless we bring with US our divine
brother,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Coming without him, we shall fall be-
fore we reach the corncrib. and our bodies
shall be portion for the iackals of the
wilderness: but coming with the divine
Jesus, al the granalies 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 Ia
bic and while the Lord Of heaven is appor-
tioniug from his own table to other tables
he will not forget us and then and there it
viii be found that our Benjamiu'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"
! want to make three points. Every
frank and commOn-sense man will acknowl-
edge himself TO be a sinner What are you
going to do with your sins? Have them
pardoned. you say How! Through the
mercy Of God. What do you mean by the
mercy of GOG2 is it the letting down of
bar for the admission Of all, without respect
TO character Be not deceived. I see a
soul coming up to the gate of mercy and
knocking al the corn-cIib of heavenly sup
MI md h n Ar.n
YOU alone2' The sinner replies: 'All
alone. The voice from within says: "You
shall not see my pardOnirg face unless your
divine brother, the Lord Jesus, be with
yon." o, thar is the point at which so
many are discomforted. There IS no mercy
from God except
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
Coming with him we are accepted. Com
ing without him. we are rejected. Peter
put It right in his great sermon before 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
Q. anxious sinner! O, dying sinner. O,
lost sinner! all you have got to do is to
have this Divine Benjamin along with you.
side by side, coming 10 the gate, all the
storehOuscs Of heaven will swing open be-
fore your anxious soul Am / right in call
ing Jesus Benjamin! o, yes. Rachel lived
only long enough 10 give name to that
child, and with I 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 pain 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 omnipoteut God in birth throe!
And was not Christ appropriately called
son of the Right Hand ~ Did not Stephen
look into heaven and see him standing at
the right hand of COD! And does not Paul
speak of him as standing at the right hand
Of God making intercesSion for US. Q,
Benjamiu-Jcsus. Son of pang!
son OF VICTORY,
The deepest emotions Of our souls ought
10 be stirred al the sound of that nomen-
clature. In your prayers plead his tears,
his sufferings, his sorrows aud his death.
If you refuse to do il, all the coru-cribs and
the palaces of heaven will be boiled and
barred against your soul, and a voice from
the throne shall stun you with the an
nounccmcnt: You shall not see my face
except your brother be with you.
My text also suggests the reason why so
many people DO not get any real comfort.
You meet ten people; nine of them are in
something III their health. or in their state,
or in their domestic condition that demands
sympathy. And Yet the most of the worlds
sympathy amounts to absolutely nothing
peOple 20 70 the wrong crib. or they go in
the wrong way. When the plague was in
Rome a great many years ago, there were
eighty men who chanted themselves TO
death with the litauies of Gregory the
Great-litcrallY chanted themselves TO
death and yet il did not stop the plague
And all the music of this world cannot halt
the plague of the human heart. l come to
some ore 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 soothing power for
your present distress. Lost children. have
YOU? l come to YOU and tell you that in ten
years. perhaps, you will meet those loved
ones
BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD.
But there is but little coincidence in that.
One day is year without them. and ten
years IS 4 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 10 forget them. Do not
keep the departed always in 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
name. Suppose ! come to you and say by
way of confidence: God is wise" or
you say, that gives me no help" Suppose
l come to you and say: God, from all
eternity, has arranged this trouble" ''Ahl'
you say that does NE no good" Then
say: with the swift feet of prayer go
i I,