The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-04

ALl[ LAEAA AAAE lEQll1tlt liver
agonized soul o, Jesus OF the aching
head heal my aching head o, Jesus
Of the bethany sisters, roll away the
stone from the door of our grave"
That Is the kind of prayer that brings
help; and yet how many OF YOU are get
ting no help at all, for the reason that
there is In your soul perhaps Ii secret
trouble HOu may never have men
TONED IL 90 "a single human ear, o. you
may have mentioned IL to some one
who is now gone away, and that great
sorrow Is still ia your soul After
Washington irving was dead they
found a little box that contained a
braid of hair and 2 miniature and the
name of Matilda Hoffman, and a mem
orandum of her death. and a remark
something like this: The world after
that was a blank 10 me. went into
the country and found no peace in soli-
tude. 1 tried TO go into society, but I
found no peace in society. There has
been q horror hanging over me by
night and by day, and / am afraid to
be alone. "
How many unuttered troubles! No
human ear has ever heard the sorroyv.
o, troubled soul. I want to tell you
that there is one salvc that can cure
the wounds of the heart, and that is
the satve made out of the tears OF
sympathetic Jesus
go further, and md In my subject a
hint as to the way Heaven opens to the
departing spirit We are told that
Heaven has twelve gates, and some
people infer from that fact that all the
people viii go in without reference to
their past life; but what Is the use of
having gate that is not sometimes to
be shut? The swinging of a gate i'm
plies that our entrance into Heaven is
conditional It is not monetary con-
dition-
If we come to the door of an exquisite
concert we are not surprised that We
must pay a fee, for we know that hue
earthly music is expensive; but all the
orations of Heaven cost nothing.
Heaven pays nothing for its music. It
is all free. There is nothing to be paid
at that door for entrance; but the con
dition of getting into Heaven is our
bringing our Divine Benjamin along
with us. Do you notice how often dy-
| ing people call upon Jesus? 1t is the
usual prayer offercd-the prayer offered
more than all the other prayers put to
| getheF-''Lord Jesus, receive my spirit -
One of our congregation when asked
I in the closing moments of his life: DO
/ you know us9" said: so yes, know
| yOu- God bless you. Good-b by Lord
| Jesus, receive my spirit, " and he was
gone. o. yes. in the closing moments
of our life we must have Christ to
| call upon. If Jacobs sons had gone to-
ward Egypt and had gone with the
very finest equiPage aud had not taken
! BENJAMIN along with them and to the
question they should have been obliged
/ to answer: ''SiF. we didn't bring him,
as father could not let him go, we
didn't want to be bothered with him, %
/ a voice from within would have said;
go away from us You shall not have
any of this supper. You shall not see my
fa "a
you" and if we can come mp toward
| the door of Heaven at last, though we
come from all luxuriance and brilliaucy
OF surroundings, and knock for admit
/ tancs and it is found that Christ IS not
/ with us, the police OF Heaven will beat
us back from the bread house, saying:
| Depart, / never knew you" If Jacobs
| sons, coming toward Egypt, had lost
everything on the way; If they had ex-
/ pended their last shelzel; if they had
/ come mp utterly exhausted to the corn
1 cribs of Egypt, and it had been found
/ that BENJAMIN was with them, all the
store houses would have swung open
before them
| And so. though by fatal casualty, we
may he ushered into the eternal world;
| though we may be weak and exhausted
/ by protrRcted siclzness-if, in that last
I moment, we can only just stagger, and
faint, and fall into the gate OF Heaven
/ 1t seems that all the corn cribs oi
Heaven will open FOR cur need, and all
the palaces will open for our receP ePtion,
and the Lord of that place, seated al
| His table, and all the angels of God
seated at the table, and the martyrs
| seated at their table, and all our glOri-
fed kindred seated at our table
the king shall pass a portion FROM
his table to ours, and then, while We
! think of the fact that it was Jesus whC
started us on the road. and Jesus whE
kept us on the way, and Jesus who a
last gained admittGnce for our soul, W.
I shall be glad If He has seen of ths
I travail OF His soul and been satisfied
and not be at ali Jealous il it be founs
that our Divine BeniamiH's mess is Gv'
times larger than all the rest Hail
| annointed of the Lord Thou ar
| worthy.
My friends, you see it is either Chris
or famine II there were two banquet
spread and to one of them only yoJ
might go you might stand and thinl
for a good while as to which invitation
you had better accept; but here it Il
feasting or starvation If &c were
choice between oratorios you nigh
say; II prefer the Creation, B." or g.
prefer the Messiah" But here Is
choice between eternal harmony an,
everlasting discord- o, will you live o.
dieP VIII you start for the Egyptial
corn crib or viii you perish amid tn
/ Cauaauitish famine? "Ye shall not se-
my face except your brother be will
you"