The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-09-03

vor rrob ronfort What you want Is
a soothing power for your present as.
tress, Lost children, have you? come
to you and tell you that III Ten ye0i0'
perhaps, you will meet those IoVeo ones
before the throne of God. But there Is
little coincidence in that. One day IS a
year without them, and ten years is a
small eternity. What you want Is a
sympathy now-present help. L come to
those of you who have lost dear frlenos
and say. TRY to forget them. DO not
keep the departed always in your
mind" How can you forget them when
every figure in the carpet and every
picture and every room calls out their
nameq Suppose come to you and say
by way of condolences; 'God is wise. "
90" You say, that gives me no help. "
Suppose come to you and say: GOD,
from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble" "Ahl" you say, that does
me no good" Then say: with the
feet of prayer go direct to the corn-crib
for heavenly supply" You go. You
say: Lord help me; Lord comfort
me-" But no help yet No comfort
yet 1t is all dark. What is the mat
ter? I have found You ought to go
to God and say: Here, o, Lord. are
the wounds of my soul and bring
with me the wounded Jesus. Let His
wounds pay for my wounds, His be-
reavements, His loneliness for my lone
Illness, His heartbreak for my heart
break o, God! for the sake of the
Lord Jesus Christ-the God, the man,
the Benjamin, the 'orother-deliver, my
agonized soul. o, Jesus of the aching
head, heal my aching head. O. Jesus
of the Bethany sisters, roll away the
stone from the door of our grave"
That is the kind of prayer that brings
help; and yet how many ofyou are get
ting no help at all, for the reason that
there is in Your soul, perhaps. a secret
trouble. You may never have men,
toned it to single human ear, or you
may have mentioned it to some one
who is now gone away, and that great
sorrow is still in your soul After
Washington Irving was dead they
found a little box that contained a
braid of hair and miniature and the
name of Matilda Hoffman, and a mem.
orandum of her death, and a remark
something like this: THE world after
that was blank to me. l went into
the country and found no peace in soli-
tude | tried to go into society, but. /
found no peace in society. There has
been horror hanging over me by
night and by day, and l am afraid to
be alone"
How many unuttered troubles No
human ear has ever heard the sorrow
D, troubled soul, | want to tell you |
that there is one salve that can cure
The wounds of the heart, and that is
he salve made out of the tears of
Jesus
] go further, and find in my subject
lint as to the way Heaven opens to the
departing spirit We are told that
heaven has twelve gates, and some
'eopte infer from that fact that all the
'eople will go in without reference to
heir past life; but what is the use of
avlng gate that is not sometimes to
Re shut? The swinging of gate inn
lies that our entrance into Heaven is
1t is not monetary con-
ition.
One of our congregation when asked
4 the closing moments of his life: do |
on know us?' said; 80, yes, / know
on. God bless you. Good-by. Lord
esus, receive my spirit" and he was
one. o, yes, in the closing moments
our life we must have a Christ to
all upon. If Jacobs sons had gone to-
ard Egypt and had gone with the
cry finest equipage and had not taken
along with them and to the S
uestlon they should have been obliged
answer: 'Sir. we didn't bring him. /
5 father could not let him go, we '
dn't want to be bothered with him." I
voice from within would have said: T
30 away from us. You shall not have I
ny of this supper. You shall not see nv L
Ice because your brother is not with
ou. And If we can come up toward a
e door of Heaven at last, though we d
me from all luXuriance and brilliancv G
surroundings, and knock for admit h
nee and 1t is found that Christ is not v
lth us, the police of Heaven will beat Il
back from the bread house, saving: I
Depart, never knew you." If Jacobs h
ms, coming toward Egypt, had lost a
erything on the way: if they had ex- S.
nded their last shellcl: if they had il
me up utterly exhausted TO the corn Il
lbs of Egypt, and it had been found W
at Benjamin was with them, all the h
're houses would have swung open IL
fore them. 81
And so, though by fatal casualty, we w
~ be ushcred into the eternal world: w
ough we may be weak and exhausted p;
protracted sickness-if, in that last b,
'ment' we can only just staggcr, and
nj ana fall into the gate of Heaven tn
| seems that all the corn cribs of re
aven Will open for our need. and all d.
, palaces will open for our reeep.io, 81
the Lord of that place, seated at K
5 table, and all the angels of God in
ted at the table, and the martyrs or
ted at their table, and all our plori- co
kindred seated at our table. In
king shall pass a portion from DO
table to ours and then. while we all
OF the fact that il was Jesus who pa
rted us on the road. and Jesus who ex
IL US on the way, and Jesus who at ne