Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-03

not burst forth in Its strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies of
fashion whom l knew and who knew
me. | never consented to accept part
| hated, out of kindness to another,
} that | did not get Kissed by the public
, and cut by the writer | could not
take a drive for few minutes with
Terry without being overturned and
having my elbow-bone broken, though
my friend got off unharmed.
could not make covenant
with Arnold, which thought was to
make my fortune without making his
instead, than in an incredible space OF
time-I think thirteen months
earned for him 1000 pounds, and for
. myself one. am persuaded that if
were to set up as beggar every one
in my neighborhood would leave off
eating bread" That was the lament of
the worlds comedian and joker All I'M
happy. The world did every thing for
Lord Byron that it could do, and yet
in his last moment he asks friend to
come and sit down by him and read,
as most appropriate to his case, tho
story of 'The Bleeding Heart" Tor
rigiano, the ulptor, executed, after
months of care and carving, Madonna
and the Child" The royal family came
in and admired it. Everybody that
| looked at it was in &C.
stacy; but one day, after all that toll,
and all that admiration, because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work rs he had expected, he took a
mallct and dashed the exquisite sculp.
ture into atoms. The world is poor
compc sation, poor satisfaction, poor
s)a e. Famine, famine in all the
earth, not for seven years, but for six
thousand. But, blessed be God.
there is great corn-crib. The Lord
built it. 1t is in another land. 1t is
large place. An angel once measured
| it, and as far as can calculate it in
our phrase, that corn-orib is fifteen
| hundred miles long and fifteen hun
dred broad, and fifteen hundred high;
and it is full. Food for all nations,
"O.' say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get
this supply for our SOUL But stop n
moment; for from the keeper of that
corn crib there comes this word, saying:
"lou shall not see my face except your
brother be with you. In other words,
there is no such thing as getting from
heaS en- pardon, and comfort, and eternal
| life, useless we bring with us our Divine
| Brother, the Lord Jesus Christ. Coming
! without him we shall fall before we
reach the corn-crib, and our bodies
| shall be portion for the jackals of
the wilderness; but coming with the
! Divine Jesus all the granaries of heaven
! will swing open before our soul, and
abundance shall be given us We
! shall be invited TO sit in the
palace of the King and at the table;
/ 1 IL.
! tiOniug from his own table to other
tables he will not forget us; and then
| and there it will be found that our
Ben jamin's mess is larger than all the
! others. for so it ought to lie. Worthy
| is the Lamb that was slain, u receive
| blessing, and riches, and honor, and
! gIory, and power
| want to make three points. Every
| frank and cOmmon-sense man will ac-
| knowledge himself to be sinner.
What are YOU going to do with your
sins? Have them pardoned, you say.
How? Through the mercy of God.
What do you mean by the mercy
OF God? Is it the letting down of a
bar for the admission of all,
without respect to character? BE
not deceived. | see a soul coming up
TO the gate of mercy and knocking at
the corn-crib of heavenly supply, and a
voice from with n says Are you
alone" The sinner replies: "All
alone The voice from within saws:
you shall not see my pardoning face
unless your Divine Brother, the Lord
Jesus, be with you o, that is the
point at which so many are niscom-
fOrted. 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 thundere d
forth: Neither is there salvation in
any other. There is no other name
given under heaven among men where
by we may be saved o, anxious
sinner! o, dying sinner! o, 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 store houses of
heaven will swing open before your
anxious soul. Am | right in calling
Jesus Benjamin? o. 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 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 PAM All
the sorrows of Rachel in that hour.
when she gave her child over into the
hands of strangers was nothing com.
pared with the struggle of God
when he gave up his only son.
The Omnipotcnt God in a birth
throe. And was not Christ appro.
priately called "Son of the Right
liand?' Did not st phen look into
heaven and see him standing at the
right had of Gods And does not Paul
speak of him as standing at the right
hand of God making intcrcession for
us? o, Benjamin-Jesus, Son of pain.
Son of victor. The deepest emo
tons of our souls ought to be
stirred at the sound of that nomencla.
ture. In your prayers plead his tears,
his sutferings, his so rows and his
death If you refuse TO do it, all the
eorn-cribs and the palaces of heaven
, will be bolted and barred again your
soul, and a voice from the throne shall
stun you with the announcement: You
, shall not ee my face except your
, brother be with you"
My trlenGs, you see it is either
Christ or famine If there were two
, banquets spread rnd to one of them
only, you might go, you might stand
e and think for a good while as to which
3, invitations you had better accept, but
' here it is feastIng or starvation. If il
/ were choice between oratorios
n you might say Il prefer the
1 Creation or II prefer tn Mes
i slah.' But here it is a choice be
, tween eternal harmony and everlast
, ing discord. o, will you live or die
= viii you start for the Egyptian corn
1 crib, or will you perisI amid the
A empty barns of the Canaanitish fam
c inc? "Ne shall not see my face excep
4 your brother be with you"
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