St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-10-31

Yoa 60 You says lord, help
met Lord, comfort me-" Hut NO
help yet. No comfort yet It 10
Ill dark. What IL the matter7 have
found out You ought togo to God and
say: Here, oh Lord, are the wounds
Of my soul, and bring with me the
wounded Jesux Let His wounds pay
for my wounds. His bereaSements for
my bereavements, His loneliness for
my Loneliness, His heart-break for my
heart-break. Oh, God! for the sake Of
the Lord Jesus Christ-the God, the
man, the Benjamin. the brother de.
liver my agonixed soul Oh. Jesus
Of the weary foot, ease my fatigue.
oh, Jesus of the aching head. heal my
aching head. heal my aching head.
Oh, Jesus Of the Bethany sisters.
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 ut all, for the reason that there 10
in your soul, perhaps, = secret trouble.
You may never have mentioned it to .
single human ear, or you may have
mentioned it to some one who is 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 . minia-
ture and the name of Matilda Hoff:
man and memorandum of her death,
and q remark something like this:
1.-The world after that was . blank
to me- went into the cou ntry. but
found no peace in solitude. l 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"
How many unuttered troubles among
you? No human ear has ever heard that
sorrow. 0, troubled soul, want to
tell you that there il one salve that
can cure the wounds of the heart, aud
that is the salve made out of the tears
OF : sympathetic Jesus. And yet some
Of you will not take this solace:
and you try chloral, and you
try morphine, and you try strong
drink, and you try change OF scene.
and you try new business associations,
and anything and thing rather
than to take the divine compamionship
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" O, that this
audience to-day might understand
something of the height and depth
length and breadth and immensely and
in6nity Of Gods eternal consultations.
I go further and find in my subject
. hint rs to why SO many people fail of
Heaven. We are told that Heaven has
!: gates. and some people infer from
that fact that al the people will go in
without reference to their past life;
but what is the use of having a gate
that is not sometimes to be shut? The
swinging of a gate implies that our
entrance into Heaven is conditional.
It is not monetary condition. If we
come to the door of an exquisite con
cert we are not surprised that we must
pay . fee, for we know that fine
earthly music is expensive; but all the
oratories of Heaven cost nothing.
Heaven pays nothing for its music. 1t
il all free. There is nothing to be paid
at that door for entrance; but the con-
dition of getting into Heaven is our
bringing our divine BENJAMIN along
with us. Do you notice how often dy.
ing people call upon Jesus? 1t is the
usual prayer offered-the prayer
offered moro than all the other
prayers put together-''Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit" One of our
congregation, when asking in the
closing moments Of his life:
DO you know us?" said, 20, yes, l
know you. God bless You. Good-by.
Lord Jesus. receive my spirit" and he
was gone. O, 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 Benjamin along
with them, and to the question they
should have been obliged to answer.
.'Sir, we didn't bring him, rs father
could not let him 60; we didn't want
to be bothered with him." . voice
from within would have said: go
away from us. 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 toward
the door of Heaven at last, though we
como from all luxuriance ana bril-
liancy of surroundings. and knock for
aduaittance and it is found that Christ
is not with us, the police of Heaven
will beat us back from the bread
house, saying: depart, never knew
you"
If 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 corn cribs of Egypt, and it had
been found that Benjamin was with
them. all the store houses would have
swung open before them.s 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 into the gate of Haven't seems
that all the corn cribs of Heaven will
open for our need and all the palaces
will open for our reception; 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 glorified
k inbred seated at our table, the King
shall pass q 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