Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-10

ing power for your present distress Lost
children. have youf | come 70 you and
tell YOU that in ten years perhaps you will
meet those loved ones before the throne Of
God. But there Is but little coincidence in
that One day is q year without them,
ten years IL small eternity. What you
want Is sympathy now-preSent help. ! I
come 10 those OF you who have lost dear |
friends, and say: Try TO forget them. Do |
not keep the departed always In your
mind" How can you forget them when
every figure in the carpet and every book
and every picture and every room calls out
their name.
Suppose come 10 you and say BY way
of confidence, "God is wise" "oh," you
say, that gives me no help" Suppose ]
come to you and say, "God, from all eter-
nifty, has arranged this trouble" "AhP
you say, 'that does me no good" Then
say, with the swift feet of prayer go d.
rect to the corn crib for heavenly supply"
You go. You say, Lord, help me, Lord,
comfort me-" But no help yet. No com
fort yet. 1t is all dark What Is the mat
teri have found You ought to go to
God and say; Here, o Lord, are the
wounds Of my soul, and bring with me
the wounded Jesus. Let his wounds pay
| for my wounds, his bereavements for my
bereavements, his loneliness for my lone
/ illness, his heartbreak for my heartbreak.
| D Godl for the sake of the Lord Jesus
| Christ-the God, the man, the Benjamin,
! the brother-deliver my agonized 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 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, secret
trouble. You may never have mentioned
it to single human ear, or you may have
mentioned it to some one who is now gone
away, and that great sorrow is still in your
soul. After Washington Irving was dead
thew found little box that contained
braid of hair and miniature and the
name of Matilda Hoffman, and a memo
randum of her death and a 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
20 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 sympathetic Jesus. And
yet some of you will not take this solace;
and you try chloral, 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 companionshiE
and sympathy suggested by the words Of
nv 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 immensity and ininity
of Gods eternal consultations.
I 90 further, and find in my subject I
, hint as to the way heaven opens to the de
, parting spirit We are told that heavel
has twelve gates, and some people infe
from that fact that all the people will q
, in without reference to their past life; bu
what Is the use of having gate that is no
sometimes to be ahuti The swinging Of
| gate implies that our entrance into heavel
is conditional II is not n monetary con
dition. II we come to the door Of an e1
uuisite concert we arc not surprised tina
we must pay fee, for we know that fin
!, earthly music is expensive; but all the ore
- torios Of heaven cost nothing. Heave
- pays nothing for its music. It iB all fre'
y There Ii nothing 10 be paid al that doc
y for entrance; but the condition Of gettin
into heaven IL our bringing our divin
= Benjamin along with uA Do you motto
= how often dying people call upon Jesus
- It ia the usual prayer offered-the praye
= offered more than all the other prayers pu
II together-"Lord Jesus receive my spirit
:, One of our congregation, when asked
= - the closing moments of his life, 'Do 70
% % know usP' said: "Oh, yes, know yo'
,e y God bless you: Goodby. Lord Jesus, r
=. ceive my spirit;" and he wssgone. Oh ye
~ ~ in the closing moments of our life we mu
- have a Christ to call upon. II Jacob
= SONS had gone toward Egypt, and hs
.. .. gone with the very finest equipage, and he
- not taken Benjamin along with them, al
~ to the Question they should have bee
y - obliged to answer: "Sir, we didn't brir
him, as father could not let him go; v
~ didn't want to be bothered with him, "
p voice from within would have said: &c
,o away from U.s. lou SudlI uo1 udFc any
. this supply. You shall not see my ia
N N because your brother is not with you."
=. MANS EXTREMITY, GODS TIME.
- - And If we come up toward the door
- heaven at last, though we come from ,
w luxuriance and brilliancy of surrounding
. and knock for admittance and 1t is foul
10 that Christ is not with us, the police
US heaven will beat US back from the bres
ho house, saying: depart, never kn'
az you." II Jacobs sons, coming iowa
ot Egypt. had lost everything on the way;
~ ~ they had expended their last shekel;
ho they had come up utterly exhausted to
~ corncribs of Egypt, and it had been fou
" that Benjamin was with them, all {
'I1 storehouses would have swung open
~ fore them.
w And so, though by fatal casualty we m
~ be ushsred into the eternal world; thou
I,,s we may be weak and exhausted by p
M Mnd tracted sickness-if, in that last nome
at we can only just stagger and faint
ou fall into the gate of heaven-it seems ii
W., all the corncribs of heaven will open
~ our need and all the palaces whl open
- our reception; and the Lord Of that pla
~. seated at his table, and all the angels
.,s ,.s God seated at their table, and the mart
"" or seated at their table. and all our glorif
~, kindred seated at our table, the king sh
w.. pass portion from his table to ours, q
~ then, while we think Of the fact that
m 'm was Jesus who started US on the road, 6
y" Iesus who kent us on the way, and Je