The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-09-18
from God except through Jesus Christ.

EoAhB WiIhOub I1lM. we are reJect,Sd
Peter put 1t right in his great serm 81
before the high priests, when he thun
dered forth: Neither is there saliva
ton in any other. There is no Other
name given under Heaven among meI
| whereby we may be saved" o, anx
ions sinner! 0, dying sinner! o, lost
sinner! All you have got to do is ia
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 right in calling Jesus Benja.
min? Oh, yes, Rachel lived only long
enough to give name to that child,
and with a 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 Hand?" Did not
Stephen look into Heaven and see Him
standing at the right hand of God2
And does not Paul speak Of Him as
standing at the right hand Of God
making intercession for us? 0, Ben,
jamin-Jesus! Son Of pang! Son OF
victory! The deepest emotions Of
our souls ought to be stirred
at the sound of that nomencla ture. In
your prayers plead His tears, His suf-
ferings, His sorrows and His death. II
you refuse to do it, all the corn cribs
and the palaces 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
How many unuttercd troubles among
you? No human ear has ever heard that
sorrow. Q, troubled soul, want to
tell you that there is one salve that
can cure the wounds of the heart, and
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 choral, and you
try morphine, and you try strong
drink, and you try change of scene,
ind you try new business associations,
md anything and everything rather
han to take the divine companionship |
nd-sympathy suggested by the words |
# my text when it says: You shall |
lot see my face again unless your
brother be with you.'' o, that this
audience to-day might understand
omething of the height and depth
ength and breadth and immensely and
nfinity of Gods eternal consultations.
If Jacobs sons. coming toward
Egypt, had lost everything on the way;
they had expended their last shekel;
they had come up utterly exhausted
Q the corn cribs Of Egypt, and it had
cen found that Benjamin was with
hem, all the store houses would have
wung open before them. And so,
lough by fatal casualty we may be
shered into the eternal world;
lough we may be weak and
Exhausted by protracted sickness
in that last moment, we can
My just stagger and faint aud
I'll into the gate of Heaven-it seems
lat all the corn cribs of Heaven will
pen for our need and all the palaces
ill open for our reception; and the
ord of that place, seated at His table,
1d all the angels of God seated at
leir table, and the martyrs seated at
leir table, and all our glorified
inbred seated at our table. the King
lall pass a portion from His table
ours, and then, while we think
the fact that it was Jesus
ho started US on the road, and
'sus who kept us on the way, and
'sus who at last gained admittance
en- of the travail of His soul and been
tisfied, ana not be at all jealous if it
) found that our divine Ben jamin's
ess is five times larger than all the
st. Hail! anointed of the Lord.
lou are worthy.
My friends, you see it is either Chri6t
famine. If there were two ban quets
read, and to one of them, only, you
ight go, you might stand and think
r a good while as to which invita-
N You had better accept; but here
is feasting or starvation. If
ere were were two mansions of :
'ed, and you might have only one, you :;
ght think for a long while, saying:
'erhaps had better accept that :
It." but here it Is a choice between 4
laces of light and novels of de-
air. If it were a choice between
otorios, you might say: Il pre-
! the 'Creation,'' or Il prefer the :
essiah. But here it is choice be-
cen eternal harmony and everlast-
Z discnrd O will Won live or diao | p