Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-31

ID1t " VI TIE ittllilI uONu VI "a Dt1
for the admission OF all. without re
spect to eharacter9 BE not deceived J
I see a soul coming up to the gate OF
mercy ard knocking at the corncrib OF
heavenly supply And a voice from
within says. Are you aloneT The
sinner replies. IAN alone. The voice
from within says. 'YOu shall not see
my pardoning face unless your Divine
Brother, the Lord Jesus. be with you"
Oh. that is the point at which 50 many
are discomforted There is no mercy
from God except through Jesus Christ.
Coming with him we are accepted.
Coming without him we are rejected.
Peter put it right in his great sermon
before the high priests, when he thun-
dered forth Neither is there saliva
ton in any other There is no other
name given under heaven among men
whereby we may be saved. o anx-
ious sinner o dying sinnerl 0 lost
sinner all you have got to do is to
have this Divine Benjamin along with
you. Side by side. coming to the gate,
all the storehouses of heaven will
swing open before your anxious soul
Am right in calling Jesus Benjamin.
Oh, yes Rachel lived only long enough
to give a name to that child and with
dying kiss she called him Benoni.
Afterward Jacob changed bis name,
and he called him Benjamin. The
meaning Of the name she gave was
Son Of my Pain" The meaning of
the name the father gave was Son of
my Right Hand" And was not Christ
the son of painl All the sorrows OF
Rachel in that hour, when she gave her
child over into the hands OF strangers
was nothing compared with the strug-
gle of God when he gave up his only
Son. The omnipotent God in birth
throel And was not Christ appropri-
ately called "Son of the Right Handp
Did not Stephen look into heaven
and see him standing at the right hand
OF God2 And does not Paul speak Of
him as standing at the right hand of
God making intercession for us2 o
Beniamin-4Jesusl Son Of pang. Son
of victory The deepest emotions of
our souls ought to bo stirred at the
sound of that nomenclature. In your
prayers plead his tears his sufferings,
his sorrows and his death. II you re-
fuse to do It, all the corncribs and the
palaces of heaven will be bolted and
barred against your soul, and voice
from the throne shall stun you with the
announcement, you shall not see my
face except your brother be with you"
NO soLACE IN THIS WORLD.
My text also suggests the reason why
so many people do not get any real
comfort. You meet ten people, nine
of them are in need of some kind of
coincidence. There Is something in
their health or in their state, or in
their domestic condition, that demands
sympathy. And yet the most of the
worlds sympathy amounts to abso-
Iutely nothing People go to the wrong
crib, or they go in the wrong way.
When the plague was in Rome great
many years ago there were eighty men
who chanted themselves to death with
the ltanies of Gregory the Great-lit-
orally chanted themselves to death,
and yet it did not stop the plague. And
all the music of the world cannot halt
the plague of the human heart.
come to some one whose ailments
are chronic, and say, ''In heaven you
will never be sick" That does not
give you much comfort What you
want is a soothing power for your pres
ent distress. Lost children, have your
come to tell you that In ten years per
haps you will meet these loved ones be-
fore the throne of God. But there is
but little coincidence in that. One day
is year without them, and ten years
is n small eternity. What you want is
n sympathy now-present help.
come TO those of you who have lost
dear friends, and say; Try to forget
them Do not keep the departed al
ways in your mind" How can you
forget them when every figure in the
carpet and every book, and every pic
ture and every room calls out their
name.
Suppose come to you and say by
way OF coincidence, God Is wise. -
"Oh, you say, that gives me no
help" Suppose come to you and say,
God. from all eternity, has arranged
his trouble "Ah" you say, that does
me no good Then say, with the
swift feet Of prayer go direct TO the corn
rib for n heavenly supply You go,
You say, lord, help Lord, comfort
ne But no help yet. No comfort
yet II is all dark What is the mat
eri have found. You ought 10 go
% God aud say Here, O Lord, are
he wounds Of my soul and bring
With me the wounded Jesus Let his
Wounds pay for my wounds, his be-
for my bereavements his
oneliness for my loneliness, his heart
,reak for my heart break. o God for
he sake Of the Lord Jesus Christ-the
iod, the man. the Benjamin, the broth
n deliver my agonized soul o Jesus
4 the weary foot, ease my fatigue, .
Iesns Of the aching head. heal my aeh-
ng head o Jesus Of the Bethany sis
ers roll away the stone from the door
4 our grave
rHK FKtVRNr, KFFKcTUAL PRAYER
That Is the kind Of prayer that brings
lelp, and yet how many of you are
citing no help at all. for the reason
hat there Is la your soul, perhaps,
ecret trouble. You may never have
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