Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-09-10

is hunger bitten. The fact that ft does
not, cannot, feed a mans heart was well
illustrated in the life of the English COM
edian. All the world honored him-did
everything for him that the world could
do. He was applauded In England and In
the United States. He reused up nations
into laughter. he had no equal And yet,
although many people supposed him en-
tirely happy and that this world was com
pletely satisfying his soul, he sits down and
writes: II never In my life put on a new
hat that 1t did not rain and ruin it Inever
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 1t all the butterflies of fashion whom
l knew and who knew me. l never con-
sented to accept a part hated out of kind
ness to another that 1 did not get hissed
by the public and cut by the writer.
could not take drive for few minutes
with Terry without being overturned and
having my elbow broken, though my
friend got off unharmed Icould not make
a covenant with Arnold, which thought
was to make my fortune without making
his instead, than in an incredibly short
space of time-I think Is months-I earn
ed for him e20 900 and for myself e1.
am persuaded that If were to set up as
baker, every one in my neighborhood
would leave off eating bread"
The Meaning of the Message.
That was the lament of the world COM
edian and joker. All unhappy. The world
did everything for Lord Byron that it
could do, and yet in his last moment he
asked 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 it was in ecstasy, 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
mallet and dashed the exquisite sculpture
into atoms. The world is poor compensa-
tion, poor satisfaction, poor solace. Fam
inc, famine in all the earth not for Z
years, but for 5000.
Butt blessed be God, there is a great
corncrib. The Lord built 1t. 1t is in an
other land. 1t Is large place. An angel
once measured it, and as far as can cal
culate 1t in one phrase, that corncrib is
1900 miles long and 1900 miles broad
and 1900 high, and it is full. Food for
all nations. "Oh," say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get this supply
for our SOUL" But stop 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 unless we bring
with us our divine Brother, the Lord Je-
sus Christ Coming without him we shall
fall before we reach the corncrib and our
bodies shall be portion for the jackals of
the wilderness, but coming with the di-
vine Jesus all the granaries of heaven
will swing open before our soul and abun-
dance shall be given US. We shall be in
vited 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 9th
er tables, 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 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 sinner. What
are you going to do with your sinsP 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 bar for the admission of all, without
respect to character Be not deceived. l
see 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, IAN
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 discomfted There is no mercy from
God except through Jesus Christ. Coming
with him, we are accepted. Coming with
out him, we are rejected. Peter put 1t
right in his great sermon before the high
priests when he thundered forth: "Nei.
ther is there salvation in any other. There
is no other name given under heaven
among men whereby we may be saved. "
Oh, anxious sinnerl 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 right in calling Jesus Benjamin?
Oh, 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 call
ed 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 Painp'' All the sor-
row 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 GodP And does not Paul
speak of him as standing at the right hand
OF God mai ng intercession for us2 Oh,
Benjamin-Jesus! Son of Pangl Son of
Victory The deepest emotions 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 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.
Real Comfort.
My text also suggests the reason why so
many people do not get any real comfort.
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 de-