Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-10

much comfort. y nat you WANT - 2 7DSsA.
ing power for your present distress. LOST
children. have you? | come to you ana
tell you that in ten years perhaps you VIII
meet those loved ones before the throne OF
God. Bnt there is but little coincidence IN
that. One day IS year without them,
I ten wears is small eternity " nat you
want is sympathy now-present neip. !
come to 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 pook
and every picture and every room calls out
their name.
Suppose / come to 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. Ahl
you say, that does me 20 good. Then
say. "With the swift feet OF prayer 20 dl-
rect to the corn crib for a heavenly supply.
You 70. You say. Lord, help me, Lord,
comfort me- But no help yet. No com
fort vet. Ii is all dark. What Is the mat
teri have found Yon ought to go 70
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 bereayements for my
bereayements, his loneliness for my lone
illness. his hearfbreak for my heartbreak.
o Godl for the sake Of the Lord Jesus
Christine God, the man, the Benjamin,
the brother-deliver my agonized soul.
. Jesus Of the weary foot, ease my fatigue
o 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 al all. for the reason
that there is in your soul. perhaps, secret
trouble. You may never have mentioned
ii to a single human ear or you may have
mentioned it 10 some one who Is now gone
away. and that great sorrow is still IN your
soul After Washington irving was dead
they found little box that contained
braid OF hair and miniature and the
name OF Matilda Hoffman. aud a memo
randum of her death aud a remark some
thing like this; "The world after that was
a 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 nnuttered 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 viii not take this solace:
aud You try choral. aud you try morphine,
and you try strong drink. and you try
change Of scene, aud 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 il 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.
| 90 further, and find in my subject a
hint rs 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 win 80 |
In without reference to their past life; but |
what il the use Of having a gate that is not |
sometimes 70 be shutf The swinging of /
gate implies that cur entrance into heaven 1
Is conditional II is not monetary con- 1
dition II we come to the door Of an ex- !
quisite concert we are not surprised that I
we must pay fee, for we know that fine I
earthly music Is expensive. but all the ora 4
torios OF heaven cost nothing. Heaven I
pays nothing for its music. 1t is all free I
There Is nothing to De paid at that door 4
for entrance. but the condition Of getting
into heaven Is our bringing our divine
Benjamin along with us. Do you notice 1
how often dying people call upon Jesnsi
Il is the usual prayer offered--the prayer
offered more than All the other prayers put
together-"Lurd Jesus receive my spirit
One Of our congregation, when asked in
the closing moments OF his life, do you
know usY" said; "Oh. yes, ! know you.
God bless you Goodby. Lord Jesus, re
eeiye my spirit" and he was gone Oh, yes,
IN the closing moments Of our life we must
have Christ to call upon. II Jacobs
sons had gone toward Egypt, and had
gone with the very finest equipage, and had
not taken Benjamin along with them, and
o the QUESTION they should have been
obliged to answer; "Sir, we didn't bring
him, as father could not let him go. we
lidn't want TO be bothered with him.
'btNc ttNAAA NA1hth N0AAAA nave w
lway from US You shall not have any of
his supply. You shall not see my face
because yonr brother is not with YOU"
MANS EXTREMITY, GODS TIME
And if we come up toward the door Of !
heaven at last. though we come from all
uxuriance and brilliancy Of surroundings,
ind knock for admittance and II is found
hat Christ is not with us, the police of
leaven will beat us back from the bread
louse. saying: Depart. | never knew
'ou." If Jacobs sons, coming toward
Egypt. had lost everything on the way; if
hey had expended their last shekel; If
hey had come up utterly exhausted to the
orncribs Of Egypt, and it had been found
hat Benjamin was with them, all the
torehouses would have swung open be-
ore them.
And so, though by fatal casualty we may
e ushered into the eternal world; though
re may be weak and exhausted by pro-
racted sckness-if, in that last moment,
re can only just stagger and faint and
all into the gate of heaven-it seems that
II the corncribs Of heaven will open for
ur need and all the palaces will open for