The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-07


having my elbow broken, though ms
friend got off unframed. / could no
make a covenant with Arnold, which
thought was to make my fortune, withou
making his instead. than in an incredibly
short space Of time-I think thirteen
months-I earned for him twenty thousand
pounds and for myself one. l am per
| suaded that II I were to set up as baker
| every one in my neighborhood would leave
off eating bread"
That was the lament of the worlds
| comedian and Joker. All unhappy. The
| world did everything for Lord Byron that
| II could do, and sIst in his last moment he
| asks a friend to come and sit down by
| him and read, as most appropriate to his
! case, the story Of 1.-The Bleeding Heart"
| Torrigiano. the sculptor, executed, after
months OF care and carving, Madonna and
the Child" The royal family came in and
! admired It, Everybody that looked at IL
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 ne had expected, he took a
| mallet and dashed the exquisite sculpture
| into atoms. The world is poor compensa-
| ton, poor satisfaction, poor solace. Fam
| inc, famine in all the earth; not for seven
years. but for six thousand. But blessed
be God, there is a great corn-crib. The
Lord built 1t, tits in another land. 1t is a
large place. An angel once measured II,
and as far as 1 can calculate IL in one
phrase, that corn-cTib Is fifteen hundred
miles long, and fifteen hundred
miles broad, and fifteen hundred high; and
1t is full. Food for all nations. "Oh!' say
the people, I'VE will start right away and
get this supply for our SOUL But stop
moment; for from the Keeper of that
corn-crib 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 unless we bring with us our Divine
Brother the Lord Jesus Christ. Coming
without him we shall fall before we reach
the corn-crib, and our bodies shall be a
portion for the jackals of the wilderness;
but coming with the Divine Jesus, all the
granaries of heaven will swing open be-
fore our soul and abundance shall be CIV
en- 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 it
will be found that our Benjamin's mess
is larger than all the others, for so 1t
ought to be. Worthy is the Lamb that
was slain, to receive blessing and riches
and honor and glory and power"
l 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 Vt the letting down
of bar for the admission of all. without
respect to character? Be not deceived.
see a 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 sinner replies, 'All
alone" The voice from within says,
You shall not see my pardoning face I'M
less 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 accept
ed. Coming without him, we are reject
ed. Peter put 1t right in his great sermon
before the high priests, when he thunder
ed forth, Neither is there salvation in
any other. There is no other name given
under heaven among men whereby we
may be saved" o, anxious sinner! 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 store houses of heaven
will swing open before your anxious soul.
Am / right In calling Jesus Benjamin ?
o, yes. Rachel lived only long enough
to give name to that child, and with a
dying kiss she called him Benoni. After
ward Jacob changed his name, and he
called him BENJAMIN. The meaning of tbs
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 sor-
row 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 appropriate
ly 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 interces-
sion for us? o, Benjamin-Jesusl Son OF
pangi Son of victoryi The deepest emo
tons OF our souls ought to be stirred at
the sound of that nomenclature, In your
prayers plead his tears, his sufferings, his
sorrows, and his death. If you refuse 10
do it, all the corn-cribs and the palaces
| of heaven will be bolted and barred
against your soul, and voice from the
throne shall stun you with the announces
ment, 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 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 condition
| that demands sympathy. And yet most
of the worlds sympathy amounts to abso-
| lutely nothing. People go TO the wrong
| crib, or they go in the wrong way. When
the plague was in Rome n great many
/ years ago. there were eighty men who
| chanted themselves to death with the lit
anies Of Gregory the Great-literally
chanted themselves TO death, and yet il
did not stop the plague. And all the mu-
sic of this world cannot halt the plague OF
the human heaft. l come to some one
whose ailments1a are chronic. and 1 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 ter
| 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 with them, and ten years is a
small eternity. What you want is sym
| pathy now-present help. come to those
| of you who have lost dear friends and
say, TRY to forget them. Do not keer
the departed always in you 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