Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-10

paving my elbow broken, though my |
friend got off unframed could nHt |
make covenant with Arnold, which |
/ thought was to make my fortune, with
out making his instead. than in an i'm |
ctedibly shott Space of tihie--l think !
10 months-l earned for him $40, 900, !
and for myself 81. | am persuaded
that if | were ever to set 7,
up as a baker everyone in my
neighborhood would leave off eating
bread That was the lament of the !
worlds comedian and joker. All un-
happy. The world did everything for
Lord Byron that it could do, and yet |
in his last moment he asks friend to
come and sit town by him and read. rs !
mrst appropriate to his case, the story |
of The Bleeding Heart" Torrigiano, |
the sculptor, executed after months of |
care and carving. Madonna and the !
Child" The royal family came in and I,
admired it. Everybody 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 COM
pensation for his work as he had |
expected, he took a mallet and |
dashed the exquisite sculpture into |
atoms. The world is poor com
pensation, poor satisfaction, poor sol
ace. Famine, famine in all the earth; |
not for seven years, but for @ 1000 But, |
blessed be God, there is a corncrib.
The Lord built it. 1t is In another
land. II is a large place. An angel |
once measured it; and as far as I can
calculate it in one phrase that corncrib |
is i,5OO miles broad and 1900 high: and
it is full Food for all nations. 'Oh"
say the people, 1--WE will start right |
away and get this supply for our soul"
But stop a 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
a thing as getting from Heaven pardon
and comfort and eternal life unless
I'VE bring with us our divine brother,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Coming with
out Him we shall fall before we reach
the corn-crib, and Our bodies shall be a
portion for the jackals of the wilder
ness; 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 apportioning from His own table to
other tables, He will not forget us; and
then and there will be found that our
Ben jamin's 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 ac-
knowledge 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 bar
for the admission of all, without re-
spect to character? BE not deceived.
| see soul coming up to the gate of
mercy and knocking at the corn-crib of
heavenly supply, and a voice from
within says, Are you alone?" The sim
ner 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."
o, that is the point at which so many
are discounted. 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 vheu sU thun-
dered forth, Meth is there salvation
in any other There Ia 20 other name
given under Heaven among men where
by we may be saved" o, anxious sin
ner! 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
storehouses of Heaven will swing open
before your anxious soul.
Am l right in calling Jesus Benja-
min? 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 Pain? All the sorrow
of Rachel in that hour when she gave |
her child over into the hands of strang-
ers 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 |
Stephen 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 intercession for ms? o, Benja- |
min-Jesus! Son of pangl Son of vic |
tory! The deepest emotions of our |
souls ought to be stirred at the sound |
of that nomenclature. In your pray |
ers plead His tears His sufferings, |
His sorrows and His death. IL you re- |
fuse to do it all the corn cribs and pal |
aces of Heaven will be bolted and |
barred against your soul, and a voice |
from the throne shall stun you with |
the announcement, "You shall not see |
my face except your brother be with |
you"
My text also suggests the reason why |
SO many people do not get any real |
comfort You meet ten people; nine of |
them are in need of some kind of con-
dolence. There is something in their |
health, or in their state, or in their |
domestic condition that demands SYM
patty. 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,
great many years ago, there were so
men who chanted themselves to death |
with the litanies of Gregory the Great
literally chanted themselves to death |
and yet it did not stop the plague.
And all the music Of this world can not |
halt the plague of the human heart. L
come to some one whose ailments are |
chronic, and L say, I'm Heaven you
will never be sick" That does not |
give you much comfort. What you
want is a soothing power for your
present distress. Lost 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 in the year with them,
and ten years Is a small eternity. |