Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31

| Iwant to make three points. Every frank
and common-senSe man will acknowledge
himself to be sinner. What are you gong
| TO do with Your sinsH Have them pardoned,
| you saw. Howl Through the mercy OF God.
| What do you mean by the mercy of God? Is
it the letting down of q bar for the admls-
| sion of all, without respect to character! be
| not deceived. see a soul coming up to the
I gate of mercy and knocking at the corn crl0
| Of heavenly supply; and a voice from within
says: Are you alone?" Ihe sinner replies:
| "All alone" The voice from within says:
| "You shall not see my pardon1ng face unless
| your Divine Brother, the Lord Jesus, be
4 with you" o, that is the point at which so
| many are disconnected Ihere Is no mercy
| from God except through Jesus Christ.
Coming with him we are accepted. Coming
without him, we are rejected Peter put IL
right in his great sermon before the high
| priests when he thundered fourth: Neither
| Is there salvation in any other. There is no
| other name given under heaven among men
whereby we may & Re ssFe9' ~ ~ S,,na1i an1ioTi aii
| Won have got to do is to have this Divine
| BENJAMIN along with you. Side by side.
coming to the gate, all the store-houses OF
| heaven will swing open before your anxious
| soul. Am right in calling Jesus Benjamin?
| q. YES. Rachel lived only long enough to
| give a name to that child, and with dying
| kiss she called him Benoni. Afterward
| Jacob changed his name, and he called him
Benjamin.
THE NAMING OF 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 Pain? All the
soTows of Rachel in that hour, when sne
;. ave her child over into the hands of stran-
gers was nothing compared with the strug-
gle of God when he gave up his only Son.
The omnipotent God in birth throe! And
was not Christ appropriately called the
''Son Of the Right HandS' Did not stephen
look into heaven and see him standing on
the right hand of God? And does not Paul
speak of him as standing at the right hand
or GOD making intercession for us! o, Ben
jamin-Jesusi Son of pangi Son of victoryi
The deepest emotions of our souls ought to
be stirred at the sound of that nomencla-
ture,
My text also suggests the reason why so
many people do not get any real comfort
You may 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 absolutely 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 so
men who chanted themselves to death with
the litanies of Gregory the Great-ffterally
cnanted themselves to death, and yet it did
not stop the plague. And all the music of
this world cannot halt the plague OF the hu-
man heart. l come to some whose ailments
are chronic, and L say; In heaven
not give you much comfort What
you want is a soothing power for your
present distress. Lost children, have you?
L come to you and tell you that in ten years
perhaps you will meet those loved ones be-
fore the throne of God. But there is but 1T
tie coincidence in that. One DAY is year
without them, and ten years is small
eternity. What you want is sympathy
now-prcsent help. l come to those of you
who have lost dear friends and sayi "Try to
forget them. Do not keep the departed
alwnys in YOUR mind" How can YOU forget
uhn n q nd
every book, and every picture, and every
room, calls out their name? Suppose come
to You and say, by way of coincidence: God
is wise ''0r' you say, "that gives me no
help" Suppose 1 come to you and say:
"God, from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble "Ah!' you say, that does me no
prayer go direct to the corn crib for q heav-
enly supply" You CO. You say: Lord,
help ME; Lord, comfort me-" But no help
yet. No comfort yet. 1t is all dark
HOW TRUE COMFORT is FOUND.
What is the matter7 / 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 bis bereavemeuts for my be-
reavements, his loneliness for my loneliness
his heart-brcak for my heart-break. o, God!
for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ-the
God the man, the Benjamin, the brother
deliver my 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 getting no help at all, for
the reason that there is in your soul, per-
haps, a secret trouble. You may never have |
may have mentioned it to some one who is
now gone away, and that great sorrow |
is still in your soul. After Wash |
ington Irving was dead, they found a |
lxah hfox fl,n% a
a miniature, and the name of Matilda Hoff- |
man, and a memorandum of her death, and |
q remark something like this: 1.-THE world |
after that was a blank to me. / went into |
the country, but found no peace in solitude.
l tried to go into society, but l found no /
peace in society. There has been a horror |
hanging over me by night and by day, and /
am afraid to be alone.n
How many unuttered troubles. No ohuman |
ear has ever heard the sorrow. o, troubled |
soul, L want to tell you that there is one
and that is the salve made out of the tears
of q sympathetic Jesus. And vet 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 companionship and sympathy
by the words of my text when it |
says: "You shall not see my face again un-
less your brother be with you"
lgo further, and find in my subject hint |
rs W Tue way neaFen opens 70 the departing |
spirit. We are told that heaven has twelve |
gates, ana some people infer from that fact
that all the people will go in without refer
ence to their past life; but what is the use of
naVlng gate that is not sometimes to be |
shutT The swinging OF gate implies that
our entrance into heaven is conditional 1t
Is not monetary condition.
THERE is NO CHOICE OF BANQUETs.
1t Jacobs sons had gone toward Egypt.
anu had gone with the very finest equipage. |
and had not taken Benjamin along with |
them, ana to the question they should have
been opIlged to answer: "Sir, we didn't |
of1ng MIN, as fnther could not let him 90. |
we dldn't want to be bothered with hin" |
voice from within would have said: Go
lway from us. You shall not have any of ,
ace because your brother is not
with you" And If we come up toward
lie door of heaven at last. thongh
We come from all luXuriance and brilliancv
d surroundings, and knock for admittance
IND 1t Is found that Christ is not with ne the ,
ponce OF heaven Will beat us back from the
1read-house, saying: depart, | never knew ,
Tou.. If Jacobs sons coming toward Eovnt
lad lost everything on the way; if they lad
their last shel1el ifthey had come | :
up utterly exhausted to the corn erihs Of
egypt, and it had been found that Renionin
vas with them, all the storehouses wonid
AVE swung open before them And co :
hough by fatal casualty We NAV be nsbarad :
nto the eternal world; though we may be :
weak and exhausted by protTacted sickness | :
III, IN tnaC last moment, we c;ln only iust
tagger, and faint, and fall into the gate of |
edven-lt seems that all the corn cribs of S
eaFen will open for our need and all tbe S
ORD OF tina. plRce, seated at his table will ali
he angels OF God seated Mt their tn ilo - | 4