Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-04

portion to Benjamin, or, as lhc blole
quantity puts it, "Beniamin's mess was
five times as much as any OF theirs. y
BE quick and send word back with the
swiftest camel to Canaan to old Jacob
that "Bcnj amin is we'll; all is well; he is
faring sumptuously; the Egyptian lord
did not mean murder and death, but he
meant deliverance and life when he an
nounced to us on that day, 'Ye shall not
see my face unless your brother be with
you.''
Well, my friends, this world is famine
struck of sin. 1t does not yield single
crop of solid satisfaction. 1t is dying.
1t is hunger bitten. The fact that it
does not cannot, feed mans heart,
was we'll Illustrated in the life Of the
English comedian. All the world hon
ored him-did everything for him that
the world could do He was applauded
in England and applauded in the United
States He reused up nations into
laughter. He had no equal. And yet,
although many people supposed him en-
tircly happy, aud 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
shabby coat because it was raining and
thought all who had the choice would
keep indoors that the sun did not break
forth in its strength and bring out with
it all the butterflies of fashion whom L
knew and who knew me. l never con"
scented to accept a part hated, out OF
kindness to another, that | did not get
Missed by the public and cut by the
writer. / could not take q drive for
few minutes with Terry without being
overturned and having my elbow bone
broken, though my friend got off UNI
harmed. could not make q covenant
with Arnold, which ! thought was to
make my fortune without making his
instead, than in an incredible space OF
timc-I think thirteen months-I
earned for him 10000 pounds and for
myself one. am persuaded that II l
were to set up as beggar every one in
the neighborhood would leave of 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
appropriate to his case, the story of
The Bleeding Heart" Torrigiano, the
sculptor, executed, 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 ali that toll,
and all that admiration, because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work as he had expected, he took q mall
1nf nd Ioc No :,;%
into atoms. The world is poor COM
poor satisfaction, poor solace
famine in all the earth; not
for seven years, but for six thousand.
But. blessed be God, there is a great
The Lord built it. 1t is in
another land. 1t is large place. An
angel once measured it, and as far as 1
can calculate it in our phrase, that corn
crib is fifteen hundred miles long and iif-
teen hundred broad, and fifteen hundred
high; and is full. Food for all nations.
'Oh!" say the people. 1--WE will start
right away and get this supply for
our SOUL" But stop moment: for from
the keeper of that corncrib there comes
this word, saying, "You shall not see
my face except your brother be with
you"
In other words, there is no such thing
as getting from Heaven pardon and COM
fort 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 portion for the
jackals of the wilderness. but coming
with the Divine Jesus, all the granaries
OF Heaven will swing open before our
soul, aud abundance shall be given US.
We shall be invited to sit in the palace
OF the King and 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 others, for so it ought to be.
"WorthY is the lamb that was slain, to
receive blessing and riches and honor
and glory and power"
want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will ac-
knowledge himself to be sinner. What
arc you going to do with your sins?
Have them pardoned, you say. How?
Through the mercy of God. What do
you mean BY the mercy Of God? Is it
the letting down Of bar for the admis-
sion Of all, without respect to character?
BE not deceived! l see soul coming up
to the gate of mercy and knocking at the
corncrib OF heavenly supply. And q
voice from within says, Are you alone?'
The sinner replies. "All alone" The
voice from within says, "You shall not
see my pardoning face unless your Di-
vine Brother, the Lord Jesus, be with
you" Oh, that is the point at which so
many are disconnected. There is no
mercy 1rom God except through Jesus
Christ. Coming with Him we are ac-
cepted. Coming without Him we are re-
jected.
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? O Benjamin
Jesus! Son of pang. 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 corncribs 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 tho reason
why so many people do not get any real