Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-31


| Christ-the God, the man, the Benjamin,
! the brother-deliver my agonized soul.
| o Jesus of the weary foot, ease my fatigue.
| 0 Jesus of the aching head, heal my
aching head o Jesus of the Bethany sis
tiers, 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 getting no help at ALL for the reason
that there is In your soul, perhaps, a secret
| trouble. You may never have mentioned
| 1t to single human ear, or you may have
mentioned 1t to some one who is now gone
away, and that great sorrow is still in your
soul. After Washington Irving was dead
they found q little box that contained O
braid Of hair and miniature and the
name Of Matilda Hoffman, and memo
randum of her death and remark some
thing 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 So
ciety. There has been horror hanging
over me by night and by day. and | am
afraid to be alone"
FALSE AND FOOLISH PROMISES.
How many unuttered troublesl No hu-
man ear has ever heard the sorrow. Oh,
! 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 a sympathetic Jesus And
yet some of you will not take this solace;
and you try choral, and you try morphine,
and you try strong drink, and you try
change of scene, and you try new business
associations, and anything and everything
rather than take the Divine companionship
and sympathy suggested by the words Of
my text when 1t says, you shall not see
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 immensely and infnity
of Gods eternal consultations.
go further, and find in my subject a
hint 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 20
In without reference to their past life but
what is the use of having gate that is not
sometimes to be shutP The swinging. of
gate implies that our entrance into heaven
Is conditional 1t Is not q monetary con-
dition. II we come to the door of an eX-
quisite concert we are not surprised that
we must pay fee, for we know that fine
earthly music is eXpensive; but all the ora
torios of heaven cost nothing. Heaven
pays nothing for its music. 1t is 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 JesusP
1t is the usual prayer offered-the prayer
offered more than all the 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 usP" said; "Oh, yes know you.
God bless you. 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. If Jacobs
sons had gone toward Egypt and had
gone with the very finest equipage, 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 go; we
didn't want to be bothered with him."
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 EXTREMITY, GODS TINE.
And If we come up toward the door of
heaven at last, though we come from all
luxuriance and brilliancy of surroundings,
and knock for admittance 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 expended their last shekel If |
they had come up utterly exhausted to the |
corncribs of Egypt, and 1t 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 sickness-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 at 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, and
Jesus who kept us on the way. and Jesus
who at last gained admittance for our soul,
we shall be glad if he has seen of the tray
all of his soul and been satisfied, and not I
be at all jealous If it be found that our
divine Benjamin's mess is five times larger
than all the rest HALL anointed of the
Lord thou art worthy.
My friends, you see it Is either Christ or
famine. If there were two banquets
spread, and to one of them only you might
go, you might stand and think for
good while as to which invitation you had
better accept; but here it is feasting or
If it were choice between
you might say, 81 prefer tho
Creation" or 81 prefer the Messiah"
But here 1t is choice between harmony
and everlasting discord. Oh, vii! you live
Or dei viii you start for the Egyptian
Dorncrib, or will you perish amid ;he empty
barns of the Canaantish famine? "Ye
shall not see my face except your brother
be with you"
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