Telegram-herald., 1891-08-31

beresvementa, bis loneliness for my lone
lines, his hesrtbresk for my heArtbreak.
q 6odi for the sake Of the Lord Jesus
Christ-tbe God. the man. the B<nsamin,
the brothsr-deliyer my agonised soul
O Jesus Of the weary foot. ease my fatigue
o Jesus Of the aching head. heal my
aching head o Jesus OF the Bethany sis
ters, roll away the stone front the do',r OF
our gfsve." TbSs is the kisd OF prayer
that brings help; and yet how many OF you
are getting no help at all. for the reason
that there Is in your soul. perhaps. . secret
trouble. You may never have mentioned
It 20 si.gle human ear. or yen may have
mentioned it TO some one who il pcw 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 memo
randun OF her death and remark some
thing like this: The world after that was
blank to me. l went into the country,
but found 40 peace In solitude. tried TO
60 into society, but found no peace In So
ciety. There has been q horror hanging
over me by night and by day. and am
afraid to be alone"
FALSE AND FOOLISH PROMISES
How many unuttered tronblesi No hu-
man ear has ever heard the sorrow. Oh,
troubled soul. want To tell you that there
Is one salve that can euro the wounds Of
the heart, and that is the salve made out
of the tears Of a sympathetic Jesus. And
yet some OF you will not take this solace;
and you try chioral. and you try morphine.
AaA you txY strang driNk, and you Try
change Ut scene. and you try new business
Associatsnns. and anything and everything
rather than take the Divine companionship
and sympathy suggested by the words Of
my text when It says, "You shall not. SEQ
my face again unless your brother be with
you" Oh. that you might understand some
thing Of the height and depth and length
and breadth and immensity and inlnity
of Gods eternal consultations.
l 60 further, and find In my subject a
kat as to the way heaven opens to the de-
parting spirit. We are told that heaven
has twelve gates. and some people infer
from that fact that all the people will so
in without reference to their psst life; but
what Is the use Of having gate that is not
sometimes to be shuts The swinging of a
gate implies that our entrance into heaven
is conditional. It Is not monetary con-
dition. II we come to the door of an ex-
quisito concert we are not surprised that
we must pay fee, for we know that fine
earthly music II expensive; but all the ora
torios of heaven cost nothing. Heaven
pays nothing for Its music. 1t il all free.
There is nothing to be paid at that door
for entrance; but the condition of getting
into heaven is our bringing our divine
Benjamin along with us. Do you notice
how often dying people call upon Jesusi
1t Is the usual prayer ofered-the prayer
offered more than all tho other prayers put
together-"Lord Jesus receive my spirit"
One Of our congregation, when asked in
the closing moments Of his life, do you
know uss" said: "Oh, yes, know you.
God bless ycu. Goodby. Lord Jesus, re-
ceive my spirit" and he was gone. Oh, yes,
in the closing moments of our life we must
have a Christ to call upon. II Jacobs
sons had gone toward Egypt, and had
gone with the very flnest equipsge, and had
not taken Benjamin along with them, and
to the question they should have been
obliged to answer: "Sir, we didn't bring
him, as father could not let him 20; we
didn't want to be bothered with him." q
voice from within would have said: go
away from us. You shall not have any Of
this supply. You shall not see my face
because your brother Is not with you"
MANS ExTREAITy. GODS TINE
And If we come up toward the door Of
heaven at last. though we come from all
luxurixnce and brilliancy of surroundings,
and knock for admittance and 1t is found
that Christ Is not with us. the police OF
heaven will beat us back from the bread
house. saying: Depart, I never knew
you" II Jacobs sons, coming toward
Egypt. had lost everything on the way; il
they had expended their last shekel; il
they had come up utterly exhausted to tho
corncribs Of EgypE and it had been found
that Benjamin was with them. all the
storehouses would have swung open be-
fore them.
And so, though by fatal casualty we may
be ushered into the eternal world; though
we may be weak and exhausted by pro-
tracted slckness-if, in that last moment.
we can only just stagger and faint and
fall into the gate of heaven-it seems that
all the corncribs of heaven will open for
our need and all the palaces Will open for
our reception; and the Lord Of that place,
seated at his table, and all the angels Of
God seated at their table, and the martyrs
seated at their table, and all our glorihed
kindred seated Mt our table, the king shall
pass portion from his table to ours, and
then, while we think Of the fact that it
was Jesus who started us on the road, aud
Jesus who kept us on the way, and Jesus
who at last gained admittance for our soul,
we shall be glad il he has seen Of the trav-
ail OF his soul and been satisfied, and not
be at all jealous II IL be found that our
divine Benjamin's mess is five times larger
than all the rest. Haili anointed Of the
Lord, thou art worthy.
Ny friends, you see 4 is either Chris or
famine. II the9sf were two banqaets
spread, and to one Of them only you might
90, you might stand and think for .
good while a. to which invitation you had
better accept; but here it IL feasting or
starvation. II 1t were . choice between
oratorios, you might say, II prefer tho
Creation, ," or II prefer the Messiah ."
But here it is choice between harmony
and everlasting discord. Oh, will you live
or dicf Will you start for the Egyptian
corncrib, or will you perish amid the empty
barns of the Canaanitish faminef "Ye