The Monitor-register., 1896-09-11

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said: :" You never know you
have takena pill till it is all n
over" CSC. c. 1. Hood & Co., q
ProprietOrs, Lowell, Mass. =
The only pills to take with Hoods sarsanari,,a
space OF tlme-I think 13 montbs-T
earned for him ego, 900 and for myself
81. l am persuaded that if I were to set
up as a baker every one in nv neiphbor.
hood would leave off eating bread"
The Pessimists,
That was the lament of the worlds
comedian Il joker. All unhappy. The
world did everything for Lord Byron
that 1T could do, and yet in his last mo-
ment he asks a friend to come and sit
down by him and read, as most appro-
pirate to his case, the story of FtThe
Bleeding Heart. " Torrigiano, the sculn-
tor, executed, after months of care and
carving, Madonna and the Child"
The royal family came in and admired
1t. 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 compensation for his
work as he had expected, he took a NAL
let and dashed the exquisite sculpture
into atoms. The world is poor compen-
sation, poor satisfaction, poor solace.
Famine, famine in all the earth; not for
Z years, but for 6, 900. But, blessed he
God, there is a great corncrib. The
Lord built it. 1t is in another land. 1t
is a large place. An angel once meas
ured 1T, and as far as I can calculate it
in one phrase, that corncrib is 1900
miles long and 800 miles broad and
1900 high, and it is full. Food for ill
nations. 'Oh!" say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get this sup
ply 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 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 the
corncrib, and our bodies shall be a por-
ton for the jackals of the wilderness,
but coming with the divine Jesus, all
the %granaries of heaven will swing open
before u 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"
I want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will
acknowledge 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 a 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 a voice from within says,
care you ~alone?" The sinner 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" 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 are accepted. Coming without
him, we are rejected. Peter put it right
in his great sermon before the high
priests when LIE thundered forth:
Neither is there salvation in 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 byside, coming to
the gate, all the s~torehouses of heaven
will swing open before your anxious
soul.
Am 1 right in calling Jesus BenJa-
min? Oh, yes! Rachel lived only long
enough to give a lame 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
Aothing 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 Ste
phen 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 inter-
cession for us? Oh, Benjamin-Jesusl
Son of pangl Son of victory! The deep
est emotions of our souls ought to be
stirred at the sound of that nomencla-
ture. In your prayers plead his tears,
his sufferings, his sorrows and his death.
If You refuse to do it, all the corncribs
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"
Present Sympathy.
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 con-
dition that demands sympathy. 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, a
great many years ago, there were 80
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 cannot halt
the plague of the human heart. l come
to some one whose ailments are chronic,
and I say, 'In 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, rave you? I come to you and
tell you that i'll ten years, perhaps, you
will meet those loved ones before the
throne of God. But there is but little
coincidence in that. One day is a year
with them, and ten years is a small
eternity. What you want is sympathy
now-present help. l come to those of
you who have lost dear friends and say:
"Try to forget them. Do not keep the
departed always in your mind" How
80. -o- foroo% them union QuQrU fiOuTl