The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-26


is hunger bitten. The fact that it does
not, can not, feed mans heart was well
illustrated in the life of the English come
dian AL the world honored him-did
everything for him that the world could
do. He was applauded in England and ap-
plauded in the United States. He reused
up nations into laughter. He had no
equal. And yet, although many people
supposed him entirely happy, and that this
world was completely satiating his soul,
he sits down and writes: 81 never in
my life put on a new hat that it did
not rain and ruin it. / never went
out in a shabby coat because it 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 it all the butterflies of fashion
whom knew and who knew me. never
consented to accept part / hated, out of
kindness to another, that 1 did not get
hissed by the public and cut by the writer
could not take a drive for few minutes
with Terry without being overturned and
having my elbow bone broken though nv
friend got off unharmed could not
make a covenant 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 persuaded that
if were to set up as beggar, every one
in my neighborhood would leave off eating
bread" That was the lament of the
worlds comedian and joker. All un-
happy. 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 appro-
pirate to his case, the story of ''The Bleed
ing Heart" Torrigiano the sculptor, exc
cuted, after months of care and carving,
Madonna and the Child'' The royal
family came in and admired it. Every
body that looked at it was in ecstacy But
one day, after - that toll and all that adj
miration, because he did not get as much
compensation for his work as he had ex-
pected, he took mallet and dashed the
exquisite 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 great corncrib. The Lord built
it. 1t is in another land 1t is a
large place. An angel once measured
it. and as far as / can calculate it in our
phrase that corncrib is fifteen hundred
miles long and fifteen hundred broad and
fifteen hundred high, and it is full. Food
for alllnations- "Ohr' say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get this supply
for our soul. !" But stop a moment, for from
the keeper of that corncrib there comes this
word, saying, "You shall not see nv face
except your brother be with YOU" In other
words, thereis nosuch 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 a
portion for the jackaIs of the wilderness:
me wifi Twin Ill a.
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 re-
ceive' blessing aud riches and honor and
glory and power"
NO ADMISSION WITHOUT CHRIST
l want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will acknowl-
edge himself to be n sinner. What are YOU
going to do with your sins? Have them
pardoned, you say. Hows Through the
mercy of God. What do you mean by the
mercy of God. Is it the letting down of a
bar for the admission of all, without re-
spect to characters Be not deceived. | see
Il soul coming up to the gate of mercy and
knocking at the corncrib of heavenly sup
ply, and voice from within says, ''Are
you alonef" The sinner replies, "AII
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 are discomforted There is no
mercy from God except through Jesus
Christ. Coming with him we are accept
ed. Coming without him, we are rejected
Peter put it right in his great sermon
before the high priests when he thundered
forth: Neither rs there salvation in any
other. There is no other name given un-
der heaven among men whereby we may
be saved. . anxious sinneri dying
sinner! o lost sinneri 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
l right in calling Jesus Benjamin.? Oh.
yesi Rachel lived only long enough to
give name to that child, and with a dy-
ing kiss she called him Benoni. After
ward 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 Paint All the sor-
rows 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 a birth
throe! And was not Christ appropriately
called Son of the Right Handi" Did not
Stephen look into heaven and see him
standing at the right hand of God? And
does not Paul speak OF him as standing at
the right hand of God making intercession
for us? Benjamin-Jesusi Son of pang!
Son of victoryi The deepest emotions of
our souls ought to be stirred at the sound
of that nomenclature. 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