Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-09-10

you mat in ten years perhaps you will
meet hose loved ones before the throne Of
God. But there Is but little coincidence in
that One day Is q year with them and
ten years is 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? Suppose come to you and
say BY way Of coincidence, GOD is wise"
"Oh," you say, "that gives Inc no help"
Suppose 1 come to you and say, "God,
from all eternity, has arranged this trou-
BILE" "Ah," you say, "that does me no
good" Then say, with the swift feet
of prayer go direct to the corncrib for
heavenly supply" You go. You say,
Lord, help me- Lord, comfort me-" But
no help yet No comfort yet 1t is all dark.
What is the natter 1 have found. You
ought to go to God and say: Here, o
Lord, are the wounds of my SOUL and I
bring with me the wounded Jesus. Let
his wounds pay for my wounds, his be-
reavements for my bereavements, his lone
illness for my loneliness, 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 fatiguel 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 gravel"
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 troubled You
may never have mentioned it to single
human ear, or you may have mentioned it
to some one who is now gone away, and
that great sorrow is still in your soul Aft
er Washington Irving was dead they found
little box that contained braid of hair
and miniature and the name of Matilda
Hoffman and memorandum of her death,
and remark something like this "The
world after that was a blank to me-
went into the country, but found no peace
in solitude. tried to get into society, but
found no peace in society. There has
been horror hanging over me by night
and by day, and am afraid to be alone :"
saive For Wounded Soul.
How many unuttered troubles among
you'll No human ear has ever heard that
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 q sympathetic
Jesus And yet some of you will not take
fbtc colann nd krxyo oIlrro1 o,,1
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 to take the
divine companionship and sympathy sug-
gested by the words of my text when it
says, "You shall not see my face again I'M
less your brother be with you" Oh, that
this audience today might understand
something 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
hint as to why so many people fail of heav-
en-. We are told that heaven has 12 gates
and some people infer from that fact that
all the people will go in without reference
to their past life, but what is the use of
h0Nlhe % S1uS Vlllu 40 AOO oOA1Oul1lCS W Ut
shuts The swinging of gate implies that
our entrance into heaven is conditional. II
is not monetary condition. If we come
to the door of an exquisite concert, we are
not surprised that we must pay fee, for
we know that fine earthly music is expen-
sive, but all the oratorios of heaven cost
nothing. Heaven pays nothing for its mu.
sic, 1t is all free There is nothing to be
paid at that door for entrance, but the con-
dition of getting into heaven is our bring
ing 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 9th
er prayers put together Lord Jesus, re-
ceive my spirit" One of our congrega-
tion, when asked In the closing moments
of his life, do you know us2' said: "Oh,
yes, know you. God bless you. Good
by. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" And
he was gone. Oh, yes, in the closing mo-
ments Of our life we must have Christ
to call upon. If Jacobs sons had gone up
toward Egypt, and had gone with the very
finest equipage, and had not taken Benja-
min along with them, and to the question
they should have been obliged to answer:
"Sir, we didn't bring him, as father could
not let him go. We didn't want to be
bothered with him." voice from within
would have said: go away from U.s. You
shall not have any of this supply. You
shall not see my face because your brother
Is not with you" And if we come up to-
ward the door of heaven at last, though we
come from all luxuriance and brilliancy OF
surroundings, and knock for admittance,
and it is found that Christ is not with us,
the police of heaven will beat us back from
the breadhouse, saying; Depart. never
knew you.
Christ or Famine.
Ii Jacobs sons, coming toward Egypt,
had lost everything on the way; If they
had expended their last shekel; if they had
come up utterly exhausted to the corncribs
of Egypt and it had been found that Ben.
jamin was with them, all the storehouses
would have swung open before them And
SO, though by fatal casualty we may be
ushered into the eternal world, though we
may be weak and exhausted by protracted
sickness-if in that last moment we can
only just stagger and faint and fall int
the gate of heaven-it seems that all the
corncribs of heaven will open for our need
and all the palaces will open for our recep
tion, and the Lord of that place, seated at
his table, and all the angels of God, seated
at their table, and the martyrs seated at
their table, and all our glorifed kindred,
seated at our table, the King shall pass
portion from his table to ours, and then,
while we think of the fact that it was
Jesus who started us on the road, and
Jesus who kept us on the way, and Jesus
who at last gained admittance for oul
soul, we shall be glad if he has seen of the
travail of his soul and been satisfied, and
not be at all jealous If 1t be found that our
divine Benjamin's mess is five times lar.
ger than all the rest Hail, anointed of the