Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-12

crop OF SOLID SatlS1acllOn. IL III ny lug.
1t is hunger bitten. The fact that it does
not. cannot, feed mans heart was well
illustrated in the life of the English
comedian. All the world honored him
did everything for him that the world
could do. He was applnuded in England
and applauded in the United States. He
reused up nations into laughter. He had
no equal. And yet, although many peo-
pie supposed him entirely happy and
that this world was completely satisfy
ing his soul, he sits down and writes:
II never il my life put on new hat
that it did not rain and ruin 1t. never
went out In shabby coat because it
was raining and thought all who had
the choice would keep indoors that the
sun did not come out in its strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies of
fashion whom I knew and who knew
me. Inever consented to accept part l
hated out of kindness to another that |
did not get Kissed by the public and cut
by the writer. l could not take q drive
for few minutes with Terry without
being overturned and having my elbow
broken, though my friend got of I'M
harmed. I could not make covenant
with Arnold, which I thought was to
make my fortune without making his
instead, than In an incredibly short
space of time-I think 10 months
earned for him e20, 600 and for myself
81. am persuaded that if were to set
up as a baker every one i'll my neighbor-
hood would leave off eating bread. "
The Pessimists.
That was the lament of the worlds
comedian and joker All unhappy. Tho
world did everything for Lord Byron
that it could do and yet i'll his last mo-
ment he asks friend to come and sit
down by him and read, as most appro-
pirate to his case, the story of 1.-The
Bleeding Heart " Torrigiano, the sculp-
tor, executed, after months Of care and
carving, Madonna and the Child "
The royal family came in and admired
it. Everybody that looked at it was III
ecstacy. but one day, after oil that toll
and all that admiration, because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work as he had expected, he took NAL
let and dashed the exquisite sculpture
into atoms. The world is poor compen.
sation, poor satisfaction, poor solace.
Famine, famine i'll all tho earth; not for
Z years, but for 5000. But, blessed be
God, there is great corncrib. The
Lord built it. 1t is in another land. 1t
is large place. An angel once meas
ured it, and us far as can calculate 1t
in one phrase, that corncrib is 1,500
miles long and 1900 miles broad and
/, 500 high, and it is full. Food for all
nations. "Oh!" say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get this sup
ply for our soul" But stop moment;
for from tho Keeper of that corncrib
there comes this word, saying, You
shall not see my face except your brother
be with you. :" III 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 tho
corncrib, and our bodies shall be q por-
ton 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 ia
bles he will not forget us, and then and
there it will be found that our Benja-
MINIS 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 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
1t the letting down of bar for the adj
mission of all without respect to char
acter? Be not deceived. l see a soul
coming up to the gate of mercy and
knocking at the corncrib of heavenly
supply, and voice from within says,
"Are you alone?' The sinner replies,
Gall alone The voice from within
says, "You shall not see my pardoning
face unless your divine Brother, the
Lord Jesus, be with you" Oh, that is
the point at which SO many are discom-
flied! There is no mercy from God ex-
cept through Jesus Christ. Coming with
him, we ara accepted. Coming without
him, we are rejected. Peter put it right
in his great sermon before the high
priests when he Numbered forth:
"Neither is there salvation i'll 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 you! 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 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 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 hand3" Did not Ste
phen look into heaven and see him
standing at the right hand of Godf And
does not Paul speak of him as standing