Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-31

peace IN SOLITUDE. ! tFleu 10 70 iDtO
society. but ! found no peace in socie-
ty There has been horror hanging
over me by night and by day, and !
aIn afraid to be alone"
How many unuttered troublesl No
human ear has ever heard the sorrow.
o troubled soul. want to tell you that
there is one salve that can cure the
wounds of the heart. and that is the
salve made out Of the tears of a sym
pathetic Jesus. And yet some of you
will not take this solace; and you try
ehloral and you try morphine and you
I try strong drink and you try change Of
scene and you try new business associa-
tions and everything and anything ra-
ther 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 you" Oh. that you
might understand something of the
height and depth and length and
breadth and immensity and infnity of
Gods eternal consultations.
go further and find in my subject
hint as TO the way heaven opens to
the departing spirit. We are told that
heaven has twelve gates and some
/ people infer from that fact that all the
people will 20 in without reference to
their past life. But what is the use of
| having a gate that is not sometimes to
be shuti The swinging of gate i'm
! plies that our entrance into heaven is
conditional 1t is not monetary con
| dition. II we come to tile door OF an
exquisite concert we are not surprised
that we must pay a fee, for we know
that fine earthly music is expensive; /;
but all the oratorios of heaven cost
nothing.
Heaven pays nothing for its music.
1t is all free. There is nothing to be
paid at that door for entrance, but the
condition of getting into heaven is our
bringing our divine Benjamin along
with us. DO you notice how often
dying people call upon Jesus2 1t is the
usual prayer o0ered-the prayer offered
more than all the other prayers put to-
gether-'LordJ Jesus, receive my spirit. :"
One of our congregation, when asked
/ In the closing moments of his life, DO
I you know usF said: "Oh, yes, know
you. God bless you. Goodby. Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit" and he was
gone. Oh, yes, in the closing moments
of our life we must have a Christ to
call upon.
NO SALVATION OUT OF CHRIST.
If Jacobs sons had gone toward
Egypt, and had gone with the very
finest equipage, and had not taken Ben
jalnin along with them, and to the
question they should have been Obliged
to answer, "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
any of this supply. You shall not see
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 bril-
liancy of surroundings, and knock for
admittance, and it is found that Christ
is not with us, the police of heaven will
beat us back from the breadhouse,
saying, depart. | never knew you"
IfJacobs sons, coming toward Egypt,
had lost everything on the way; ii they
had expended their last shekel; il they
had come up utterly exhausted to the
corncribs of Egypt, and 1t had been
found that Benjamin was with them,
all the storehouses 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 faint and fall
into the gate of heaven it seems
that all the corncribs 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 the
martyrs seated at their table, and
all our glorifled kindred seated at our
table, the king shall pass portion from
his table TO ours, and then, while we
think of the fact that II was Jesus who |
started us on the road, and Jesus who |
kept us on the way, and Jesus who at
last gained admittance for our soul, we
shall be glad II he has seen of the trav
all of his soul and been satisfied, and
not be at all jealous If It be found that
our divine Benjamin's mess is five times
larger than all the rest. HALL anointed
of the Lord, Thou art worthy.
My friends, you see it is either Christ |
or famine II there were two banquets |
spread, and to one OF them only you
might go, you might stand aud think !
for good while as TO which invitation !
you had better accept but here il is |
feasting or starvation II il were
choice between oratorios you might |
say, III prefer the Creation or II !
prefer the Messiah. -" But here Il is a /
choice between eternal harmony and /
everlasting dlscord Oh, will you live
or diel win you start for the Egyptian
corncrlb or will you perish amid the /
empty barns Of the Canaanltlsh fam.
lnei "Ye shall not see my face except /
your brother be with you
Climate and Rrain Weight.
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