St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-10-31

knew and who knew me. 1 never CON
sented to accept part hated ont Of
kindness to another, that I did moi
get Missed by the public and cut
by the writer. could not take
. drive for few minutes with Terry
without bei"g overturned aud having
my elbow broken, though my friend
got on unharmed. could not make 4
covenant with Arnold, which thought
was to make my fortune, without max
ing his instead, than in an incredibly
short space Of time-I think IL months
Il earned for him Ed. 900 pounds, and
for myself 81. lam persuaded that IL
/ were to set up Is a baker every one
in my neighborhood would leave Oh
eating bread"
That was the lament Of the worlds
comedian and joker. All unhappy. The
world did everything for Lord Bryan
that it could do. and yet in his last mo.
ment he asks friend to come and sit
down by him and read, ss most appro
pirate 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
ut it was in an ecstasy; but one
day, after all that toll aud
all that admiration. because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work rs he had expected, he took q
mallet and dashed the exquisite
sculpture into atomA The world ID
poor compensation, poor satisfaction,
poor solace. Famine, famine in all the
earth; not for seven years, but for
5000. But, blessed be God, there
is > great corn crib. The Lord
built it 1t il in another land.
1t is large place. An angel once
measured it, and, rs far rs l can cal
culate it in one phrase. that corn crib
Is 800 miles long and 1850 miles
broad and !, 500 miles high; and it is
full. Food for al nations. 'Oh!' say
the people. 1--WE viii start right away
and get this supply for our soul" But
stop . moment; for from the keeper Of
that corn-crib 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 q
getting from Heaven pardon and COM
fort 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 portion for the jackals of the
wilderness; but, coming with the d.
vine Jesus, all the granarics 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 ut the table; and while
the Lord of Heaven is apportioning
from His own table to other ables, 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 bless
ing and riches and honor and glory and
power"
want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will NC
knowledge 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 it the letting down of bar
for the admission of all, without re-
spect to character? Be not deceived.
see . soul coming up to the gate Of
mercy aud knocking at the corn crib
of heavenly supply; and u voice from
within says: Are you alone?" The
sinner replies: "All alone" The voice
from within says: "You shall not see
my pardoninR face unless your Divine
brother, the Lord Jesus, b with You. -
o, that is the point at which SO many
are discomfited 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 thun-
derel forth:. Neither is there saliva.
ton in any other There is no other
name given under Heaven among men
whereby we may be .ssved." Q. anx-
ious sinner! o, dying sinner! o, lost
sinner! AL you hayASgot to do is to
have this divine Benjamin along with
you. Side by side. cosiing to the gate.
all the storehouscs of Heaven will
swing open before your anxious soul.
Am l right in calling Jesus Benja-
minf Oh, yes. Rachel lived only long
enough togive 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 tho 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
At the right hand Of God?
And does not Paul speak of Him rs
at the right hand of God
making intercession for us? o. Ben
j. min-Jcsus! Son Of panR! Son of
victory! The deepest emotions Of
our souls ought to be stirred
1t the sound of that nomenclature. In
your prayers plead His tears, His suf-
ferings, 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 q voice from the throne shall stun
you with the announcements: "You
shall not see my face except your
brother be with you."
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 10 something
in their health, or in their state. or in
their domestic condition that demands
sympathy. And yet most of the worlds
sympathy amounts to absolutely moth
ing. People 60 to the wrong crib, Or
they 20 in the wrong way. When the