The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-09-17
that it did not rain and ruin it. 4 never
went out in a shabby coat because it

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that it did not rain and ruin it. 4 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 it's strength
and bring out with it all the butter
flies of fashion whom knew and who
knew. me. never consented to ac-
cept a part ] hated out of kindness to
another, that / did not get Missed by
| the public and cut by the writer. II
could not take a drive for a few min
/ utes with Terry without being over
turned and having my elbow broken,
| though my friend got off unframed. 1
! could not make a covenant with Ar
mold, which / thought was to make my
fortune, without making his instead,
than in an incredibly short space Of
time-I think thirteen months--I earn
ed for him 100000. and for myself FL.
am persuaded that if were to set
up as baker every one in my neigh
borhood 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 it could do, and yet in his last
moment he asks a friend to come and
| sit down by him and read, as most APP
| prOpriate to his case, the story of
1.-THE Bleeding Heart" Torrigiano, the
| sculptor. executed, after months of
care and carving, Madonna and the
| Child."i The royal family ca me in and
admired it, Everybody that looked at
it was in an ecStacy; but one day, after
! all that toll and all that admiration,
| because he did not get as much COM
pensation for his work as he had ex-.
pected, he took. a mallet and dashed
| the exquisite sculpture into atoms. The
world is poor compensation, poor sat
isfaction, poor solace. Famine, 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 it. 1t is in another land. It
| is larger place. An angel once meas
| it in one phrase, that cOrn-crib is 1000
miles long and 1,5OO miles broad and
1,5O0 miles high; and it is full Food
for all nations. "Oh," say the people,
eve will start right away and get this
supply for our SOUL" But stop mo-
ment; for from the Keeper Of that
| corn-crib there comes this word, say
| ing, ''YOu shall not see my face except
| your brother be with you" In other
words, there is no such thing as get
ting 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 before our
soul and abundance shall be given us.
| We shall be invited to sit in the palace
Of f1,N 81 41,ot FOL ,1o. n
| 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 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 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 it the letting down Of a bar
! for the admission of all, without re-
spect to- character? Be not deceived.
| 1 see 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, "AI alone" The voice
! from within says, "You shall not see
my pardOnlng face unless 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 accepted.
| Coming without him we are rejected.
Peter put it right in his great sermon
! before the high priests, when he tllun-
! dered forth, Neither is there salvation
in any other There is no other name
given under heaven among men where
by we may be saved" O, anxious sin
ner! 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 l right in calling Jesus Benja-
min? o, 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. nothing compared with the strug-
! gle 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 God?
| And does not Paul speak of him as
! standing at the right hand of God
J making intercession for. u.s.? 0, Benja-
min-Jesus! Son of pang! Son of vic
! tory! 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 sor-
rows, 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 an
I! nouncement, "You shall not see my
! face except your brother be with YOU
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