The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-16

when she gave her child over into the
hauds of strangers, was nothing COM
pared with the struggle of God when
He gave up His only Son. The omripo.
tent God in birth throe! And vas
not Christ appropriately called ''Son of
the Right Hand?' Did not Stephen
look into Heaven and see him standing
! at the right hand OF Ged? And does not
Paul speak of him as standing
at the right hand of God making inter-
cession for us? Oh, Benjamin-Jesus!
Son of pain! Son of Victory! The
deepest emotions of our souls ought to
be stirred at the sound of that nomen-
clature, in your prayers plead his tears.
His sufferings, His sorrows and His
death. If you refuse to do it all the
corn-cribs and the palaces of Heaven
will be bolted and barred against your
soul, and voice from the throne shall
stun you with the announcement: ''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 need Of some kind of con-
dolence. There is something in their
!. health, or in their state or in their do
nestle condition that demands SYM
pathy. And yet the most of the worlds
sympathy amounts to absolutely moth
ing. People go TO the wrong crib, or
they 60 in the wrong way. When the
plague was in Rome great many years
ago there were eighty men who chant
ed themselves to death with the litanies
of Gregory the Great-literally chanted
themselves to death, and yet it did not
stop the plague And all the music OF
this world did not halt the plague of
the human heart. l come to some one
whose ailments are chronic and say:
"In Heaven you will never be sick. -
That does not give much comfort.
What you want is a soothing power for
your present distress. Lost children,
have you? 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 small eternity. What
you want is sympathy now-present
help. come to those of you who have
lost dear friends, and say: TRY to for
get them. Do not keep the departed
always in your mind" How can yor
forget them when every figure in thu
carpet, and every book, and every pic
ture, and every room call out thei
name Suppose l come to you and say
by way of condolences: God is wise
"Oh!" you say, that gives me M
help" Suppose come toyou and say
God, from all eternity, has arranged
this trouble" 'Ah" you say, tina
does me no good" Then
say: with the swift! feet o
prayer go direct to the corn
crib for heavenly supply" Yo'
go. You say: Lord, help me; Lord
comfort me-" But no help yet NJ
comfort yet. 1t is all dark. What i
the matter? have found. You ough
, to 60 to God and say: Here, o Lord
are the wounds Of my soul, and brinl
with me the wounded Jesus. Let Hi
! wounds pay for my wounds, His be
reavements for my bereavements, Hi
loneliness for my loneliness, His heart
break for my heart break. o, God! TO
the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ-th
| God.r the man, the Benjamin, tn
brother-deliver my agonized soul Q
| Jesus OF the weary foot, ease m.
fatigue O, Jesus of the aching head
heal my aching head. o, Jesus Of tn
: Bethany sisters, roll away the ston
, from the door Of our grave" That !
, the kind of prayer that brings helT
, and yet how many of you are gettin
, no help at all, for the reason that Their
, is in your SOUL perhaps, a score
trouble, ,s.i t.H ysfr f,s,,,t I'd
. You may never have mentioned it :
a single human ear, or you may hav
mentioned it to some one who is no,
|, gone away, and that great sorrow
1 still in your soul. After Washington Ii
: wing was dead, they found
q little box that contained
l braid Of hair and miniature, An
. the name of Matilda Hoffman, and
: memorandum of her death, and a n
> mark something like this: 'yrhe worl
i after that was blank to me- l wen
! into the country but found no peace i
! solitude. i tried to 60 into society, bu
q I found no peace in society. There ha
. been horror hanging over me b
{ night and by day, and l am afraid to b
: alone"
4 How many uttered troubles! No hi
!. man ear has ever heard the sorrow. {
troubled soul, want to tell you tha
. there is one salve that can cure tn
|. wounds of the heart, and that is tn
salve made out of the tears of a sympt
r thetic Jesus. And yet some of you wi
). not take this solace; and you tr
|. choral, and you try morphine, and 70
I try strong drink, and you try chang
r of scene, and you try new business a.
, sociations, and any thing and ever
n thing rather than take the Divine con
v panionship and sympathy suggested b
+ the words of my text when it say
n "You shall not see my face again ur
q less your brother be with you" {
e that you might understand somethin
q of the height and depth, and length
e and breadth, and immensely, and il
- finity of Gods eternal consultations
q go further. and find in my subject
n hint as to the way Heaven opens to tn
!. departing spirit We are told thu
o Heaven has twelve gates, and som
people infer from that fact that all til
i, people will go in without reference I
their past life; but what is the use q