Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-09-05
4. Side by side, coming to the gate,

yon. Side by side. coming to the gate,
all the storellouses of heaven will
swing open before your anxious soul.
Am right in calling Jesus Benjamin.
Oh, yes. Rachel lived only long enough
to give name to that child, and with
IL dying kiss she called lin l3enoni.
Aftcrward Jacob changed his name,
and lie 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 sorrows Of
Rachel in that hour. when She gave her
Child over into the liands of strangers
WAS notliing compared with the strug-
gle of fiod when lie gave mp his only
Son. The olniipotent God in n birth
throel And was not Christ appropri
ately called Son of the Right Handl"
Did not Stephen look into heaven
and see him standing at the right llaIsl
Of God? And does not Paul speak of
him ils standing at the right hnnd Of
God making intercession for us3 o
Ienjalnin-.JesiisI Son of pang. Son
of victory The deepest emotions Of
our Souls ought to be stirred at the
sound of that nomenclature. In your
prayers plead lis tears, his sutfcrings,
his sorrows and his death. If yon re-
fuse to do it, all the corncribs and the
palaces of heaven will be bolted and
barred against your soul, and voice
from the throne shall stun you with tile
announcement, You shall not see my
face except your brother be with you.
NO soLACE IN THIS WORLD.
Ny 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
coincidence. There Is something in
their health, or In their state, or in
their domestic condition, that demands
sympathy. And yet the most of the
worlds sympathy amounts to ahso-
lutely nothing People 20 to tile wrong
crib, or they go in the wrong way.
When the plag,ie was in Rome great
many years ago there were eighty men
who clunted themselves to death with
the litanes of Gregory the Gre;lt-lit-
orally chantcd themselves to death.
and yet it did not stop the plague. And
all the music Of the world cannot halt
the plague of the human heart.
come to some one whose ailments
are chronic. and say, "ln heaven you
will never be sick" That does not
give you much comfort. What you
want is u soothing power for your pres
cnt distress. Lost children. lave you?
come to tell you that in ten years per-
haps you will meet these loved ones be-
fore the throne OF God But there is
but little condolences in that One day
is IL year without them, and ten years
is small eternity. What you want is
a sympathy now-present help. |
come to those OF you who have lost
dear friends, and say: TRY to forget
them. Do not keep the departed al
ways in your mind" How can you
forget them when every figure in the
carpet and every book, and every pie
tun and every room calls out their
name.
Suppose come to you and say By
Why of coincidence, God is wise"
"Oh," yon say, that gives lie no
help" Suppose | come to you and say,
God. from all eternity, has arranged
this trouble. "Ahm you say, that does
me no good" Then say. With the
swift feet of prayer 20 direct to the corn,
crib for heavenly supply. You go.
You say, lord, helpnle; Lord. comfort
me-" But no help yet. No comfort
yet. 1t is all dark What is the mat
teri lave found You ought to 20
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
rcavements for my bereavements, his
loneliness for my loneliness, his heart
break for my l.eart break. OGod! for
the sake of the Lord JESUS Christ-the
God, the man, the Benjamin. the broth
cr--deliver my agonized soul. o Jesus
of the weary foot. ease my fatigue. o
Jesus of tho aching head, heal my ach,
ing head. o Jesus of the Bethany sis
tiers. roll away the stone from the door
OF our grave"
THE FElvENT, EFFEcTuAL PRAYER.
That is the kind of prayer that brings
help, and yet how nrlny Of you are
getting no help at all, for the reason
that there is in your soul, perhaps 4
secret trouble. You may never have
mentioned it to a 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 little box that contained
braid of hair and miniature. and the
name of Matilda Hoffman, and
memorandum of her death, and re-
mark something like this: THE world
after that was blank to me. ! went
into the country. but found no
peace in solitude. tried to go into
society, but found no peace in socie-
ty There has been horror hanging
over me by night and BY day, and |
alu afraid to be alone.
How many unuttcred troubles No
human ear has ever heard the sorrow.
y 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 SYM
pathetic JESUS And yet some OF you
will not take this solace; and you try
cllloral and you try morphine and you
try strong drink and you try change OF