Connecticut western news., 1896-09-10

e@NNN~~~~~S VI fashion whom I knew and who knew me. Inever consented to accept part hated out of kindness to another that l did not get hissed by the public and cut by the writer. could not take drive for few minutes with Terry without being overturned and having my elbow broken, though my friend got off un- harmed. I could not make a covenant with Arnold, which I thought was to make my fortune without making his instead, than ill an incredibly short space of time-I think IS months-I earned for him e20, 900 and for myself e1. am persuaded that if were to set up as baker every one in my neighbor- hood would leave off eating bread"
 The Pessimists.
 That was the lament of the worlds comedian and joker. All unhappy. The world did everything for Lord Byron that it could do, and yet in his last mo- ment he asks a friend to come and sit down by him and read, as most appro- priate to his case, the story of ''The Bleeding Heart. ' Torrigiano, the sculp- tor, executed, after months of care and 
 The royal family came in and admired it. Every body that looked at it was in ecstacy. but one day, after all that toll and all that admiration, because he did not get as much compensation for his work as he had expected, he took mal- let and dashed the exquisite sculpture into atoms. The world is poor compen- sation, poor satisfaction, poor solace. Famine, famine in all the earth not for years, but for 6, 900. But, blessed be God, there is a great corncrib. The Lord built it. It is in another land. It is large place. An angel once meas ured it, and as far as can calculate it in one phrase, that corncrib is 1,500 miles long and 1.500 miles broad and 1,50O high, and it is full. Food for all nations. "Oh!' say the people, i've will start right away and get this sup ply for our soul" But stop moment; for from the Keeper of that corncrib there comes this word, saying, You shall not see my face except your brother be with you. In other words, there is no such thing as getting from heaven pardon and comfort and eternal life un- less we bring with us our divine brother, the Lord Jesus Christ Coming without him we shall fall before we reach the corncrib, and our bodies shall be DOT tion 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, and while the Lord of heaven is appor- tioning from his own table to other ta- bles, he will not forget us, and then and there it will be found that our Bepja- min mess is larger than all the others, for so it ought to be. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power.
 want to make three points. Every frank and common sense man will acknowledge himself to be a 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 ad- mission of all without respect to char acter? Be not deceived. 1 see soul coming up to the gate of mercy and knocking at the corncrib of heavenly supply, and a voice from within says, "Are you alone?' The sinner replies, "All alone" The voice from within says, "You shall not see my pardoning face unless your divine Brother, the Lord Jesus. be with you. 5" Oh, that is the point at which so many are discom- fited! There is no mercy from God ex- cept through Jesus Christ. Coming with him, we are. accepted. Coming without him, we are rejected. Peter put 1t right in his great sermon before the high priests when he thundered forth: "Neither is there salvation in any other. There is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we may be saved" Oh, anxious sinner; oh. dying sinner; oh, lost sinner, all you have got to do is to have this divine Benjamin along with youl Side by side, coming to the gate, all the storehouses of heaven will swing open before your anxious soul.
 Am I right in calling Jesus Benja- min? Oh, 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. i" And was not Christ the Son of Pain? All the sorrow of Rachel in that hour when she gave her child over into the hands of strangers was as nothing compared with the struggle of God when he gave up his only son. And was not Christ appropriately called
 Son of the right hand?" Did not Ste- phen look into heaven and see him standing at the right hand of God? And does not Paul speak of him as standing at the right hand of God making inter- cession for us? Oh, Benjamin-Jesusl Son of pangi Son of victoryl The deep-
 est emotions of our souls ought to be
 stirred at the sound of that nomencla-
 ture. In your prayers plead his tears, his sufferings, his sorrows and his death. If you refuse to do it, all the corncribs
 and the palaces of heaven will be bolted and barred against your soul, and 8 voice from the throne shall stun you with the announcement, "You shall not see my face except your brother be with you.
 Present Sympathy.
 My text also suggests the reason why so many people do not get any real com fort. You 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 con- dition that demands sympathy. And yet 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, a great many years ago, there were 80 men who chanted themselves to death with the itanies of Gregory the Great literally chanted themselves to death and yet it did not stop the plague. And all the music of this world cannot halt