The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-26


children have you? / come to 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 year without them,
ten years is a small eternity. What you
want is 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 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. @ si tiil
Suppose come to you and say by way
of coincidence, God is wise" "Oh,'' you
say, that gives me no heIp.n Suppose
come to you and say, "God, from ali eter-
nifty, has arranged this trouble" "Ahr'
you say, that does me no good" Then
gay, with the swift feet of prayer go di-
rect to the corn crib for a 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
ter? 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
| liness, his heartbreak for my heartbreak
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 weary foot, ease my fatigue
% Jesus of the aching heid, 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
1t to single human ear, or you tiay have
mentioned it to some one who is now gone
away, and that great sorrow is stilI in your
SOUL After Washington Irving was dead
they found little box that contained a
braid of hair and a 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
a blank to me. 1 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 a horror hanging
over me by night and by day. and l am
afraid to be alone"
FALSE AND FOOLISH PROMISES
How many unuttered troublesl No hui
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 will not take this solace;
and you try choral. 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 suggested by the words of
my text when it 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 infinity
of Gods eternal consultations.
i go further, and find in my subject a
hint as 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 viii go
in without reference to their past life; but
what is the use of having gate that is not
sometimes to be shut? The swinging of
gate implies that our entrance into heaven
is conditional 1t is not monetary CON
dition. Ii we come to the door of an ex-
QuiSite concert we are not surprised that
we must pay Il fee, for we know that fine
earthly muse is expensive; but all the ora
torios of heaven cost nothing. Heaven
pays nothing for its music. 1t is all free
There is nothing to be paid at that door
for entrance: but the condition of getting
into heaven is our bringing our divine
Benjamin along with us. Do you notice
how often dying people call upon Jesus?
1t is the usual prayer. offered-the prayer
offered more than all the other prayers put
together-"Lord Jesus receive my spirit''
One of our congregation, when asked in
! the closing moments of his life, do you
know us?'' said: 'tOh, yes, / know YOU.
God bless you. Goodby. Lord Jesus. re-
ceive my spirit and he was gone. Oh, yes
i'll the closing moments of our life we must
have a Christ to call upon. II Jacobs
sons hal gone toward Egypt, and had
gone with the very.finest edtiipage, and had
not taken BENJAMIN along with them. and
to the question they should have been
Obliged to answer: "Sir, we didn't bring.