The Bossier banner., 1891-11-05


perial gardens and orchards and aqua
RUINS and aviaries are brought there,
and are filling chalice and platter.
Now is the time for the prime minister,
if he has grudge against Benja-
min, to show it. VIII he kill
him now that he has him in his
hands? Oh, no! This lord of the corn
crib is seated at his own table, and he
looks over to the table of his guests,
! and he sends portion to each of them,
| but sends larger portion to Benjamin,
or, as the Bible quantity puts it: Ben
! jamin's mess was five times as much as
any of theirs" Be quick and send
word back with the swiftest camel to
Canaan to old Jacob that "Benjamin is
well; all is well; he is faring sumptu-
ously; the Egyptian lord did not mean
murder and DEATH but he meant deliv-
eraDce and life when he announced to
us on that day: 'Ye shall not see my
| face dnless your brother be with you
Well, my friends, this world is fam
ine-struck of sin. 1t does not yield
single crop of solid satisfaction. 1t is
dying. 1t is hungry bitten. The fact
that it does not, can not, feed a mans
heart was well illustrated in the life of
the English comedian. All the world
honored him-did everything for him
that the world could do. He was ap-
plauded in England and applauded in
the United States. He reused up ma
tions into laughter. He had no equal.
And yet, although many people sup
posed him entirely happy, and 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. 1 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 burst forth in it's strength and
| bring out with it al the butterflies of
| fashion whom l knew and who knew
me. l never consented to accept part
hated, out of kindness to another, that
did not get Missed by the puOlic and
cut by the writer. | could not take a
drive for a few minutes with Terry
without being overturned and having
my elbow-bone broken, though my
| friend got off unharmed. l could
| not make a covenant with
Arnold which I thought was to make
| my fortune without making his
| instead, than in an incredible space of
time-I think thirteen months-I
earned for him twenty thousand pounds
and for myself one. l am persuaded
| that if l 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 unhappy. The world did
everything for Lord Byron that it
could do, and yet IN his last moment he
asked 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 exc
cuted, after months of care and carving,
Madonna and the Child" The royal
family came in and admired it. Every
body that looked at was in ecstacy; but
one day, after all that toll, and all that
admiration, because he did not get as
much compensation for his work as he
had expected, he took a mallet and
dashed the exquisite sculpture into
atoms. The world is poor compensa-
ton, poor satisfaction, poor solace
Famine, famine in all the earth; not
for seven years, but for six thousand
But, blessed be God, there is great
corn-crib. The Lord built it. 1t is
in another land. It is large
place. An angel once measured it.
and as far as | can calculate it in
our phrase that corn-clib is fifteen
hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high; and it
is full. Food for all nations. "Ohw
say the people, ''we will start right
away and get this supply for our soul"
But stop a moment; for from the keep
er of that corn-crib 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
comfort, 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
corn-crib, and our bodies shall be a
portion for the jackals of the wilder
ness; but coming with the Divine Je-
sus, all the granaries of Heaven will
swing open before our SOUL and abun-
dance will be given u.s. We shall be
invited to sit in the palace of the King
and at 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 the 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
acknowledge himself to be a sinner
What are 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 admission of all, without re-
spect to character? Be not deceived.
l see = soul coming up to the gate of
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