Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-10

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crop of solid satisfaction. It is dying. II
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 All the world honored him-did
everything for him that the world could
do. He was applauded In England and APP
| 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: II never in
my life put on new hat that it did
not rain and ruin it. | never went
out In a shabby coat because it was rain
ing ana thought all who had the choice
would keep indoors that the sun did
not burst forth Ia 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 | did not get
Missed by the public and cut by the writer
| could not take drive for a few minutes
with Terry without being overturned and
having my elbow bone broken, though my
friend got off unharmed. | could not
make a covenant with Arnold, which |
thought WAS 10 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 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 il 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 1.-THE Bleed
ing Heart" Torrigiano, the sculptor, exc
cuted after months of care and carving,
Madonna aud the Child" The royal
family came in and admired it, Every
body that looked mt it was in ecstaey. But
one day. after 10 that toll and all that ad
miration, because be did not get as much
compensation for his work AS he had ex
pected. he took a 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 a great corncrib. The Lord built
it. II is in another land 1t is
large place An angel once measured
il. and AS far as | can calculate it in our
phrase that corncrib Il fifteen hundred
miles long and fifteen hundred broad and
fifteen hundred high. and it is full Food
for all nations "Ohr' say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get this supply
for our soul" Bat stopa moment, for from
the keeper Of that cornerib there comes this 4
word, saying. "You shall not see my face
except your brother be with you mother
words there's nosuch thing as getting from
heaven pardon and comfort aud 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
portion for the jaekals Of the wilderness:
but coming with the Divine Jesus, all the
granaries OF heaven will swing open before
our soal aud abundance shall be given US
We shall be invited to sit in the palace Of
the king aud Mt the table. and while the |
Lord Of heaven is apportioning from his |
own table 10 other tables, he will not forget |
Us; aud then and there ii will be found |
that our Beniamin's mess is larger than |
all the others, for SO it ought 70 be- |
Worthy Is the Lamb that was slain TO re |
oeive blessing aud riches and honor and |
glory aud power
no ADMISSION WITHOUT CHRIST
want To make three points Every /
frank and common sense man will acknowi I
edge himself to be sinner. What are YOU
going TO do with your sinsf Rave them I
pardoned, you say. Howl Through the /
mercy Of God What do you mean by the 4
mercy Of Godi Is it the letting down Of a
bar for the admission Of all, without re.
speet TO characterf BE not deceived | see
a soul coming up 10 the gate Of mercy and
knocking at the corncrib Of heavenly sup
ply, and a voice from within saws, Are
you alonegs The sinner replies, "All
alone.p 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 al which
so many are disconnected. 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 1t right in bis great sermon
before the high priests when he Numbered
FORTH Neither is there salvation in any
other. There is no other name given I'M
der heaven among men whereby we may
be saved" o anxious sinner o dying
sinneri o lost sinneri all you have got to
10 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
right in calling Jesus Benjamin. oh,
Fesi Rachel lived only long enough to
give a name to that child. and with a dy-
ng kiss she called him Benoni After
ward Jacob changed his name, and he
,alled 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 Paini All the sor-
-ows of Rachel in that hour, when she
yave her child over into the hands of I
strangers was nothing compared with the
truggle Of God when he gave up his only |
son. The omnipotent God in a birth
hroel And was not Christ appropriately
allied Son OF the Right HANDY" Did not
stephen look into heaven and see him J
landing at the right hand of Godg And
Ices not Paul speak of him as standing at
he right hand Of God making intercession
or usi o Benjamin-Jesusi Son Of pangl ;
ION of victoryl The deepest emotions of {
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