Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-07
ton to each Of them, but sends larger

Be quick and send word back with
swiftest camel to Canaan to old Jacob,
that benjamin is well. All is well.
He is faring sunptuously. The Egyp-
tian lord did not mean murder and
aeath, but he meant deliverance and
life, when he announced to Us on that
day, sYe shall not see my face unless
your brother be with you.
Well. NY friends, this world is famine
struck CT sin. It does not yield a single
prop OF solid satisfaction It is dying.
1t is hunger bitten. The factthat it does
not, cannot, feed a man s heart was well
illustrated IN the life Of the English
comedian. All the world honored him
did everything fer him that the world
could do He was applauded in England
and applauded in the United States. He
reused up nations into laughter. He had
10 equal. And yet, although many peo-
pie supposed him entirely happy and
that this world was completely satisfy
ing his soul, he sits down and writes:
81 never in my life put on q new hat
that it did not rain and ruin it. I never
went out ia a shabby coat because it
was raining and thought all who had
The choice would keep indoors that the
sun did net come out i'll its strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies of
fashion whom | knew and who knew
me. I never consented to accept a part
hated out CT kindness to another that
did not get Kissed By the public and cut
by the writer l could not take drive
for a few minutes with Terry without
being overturned and having my elbow
broken, though my friend got off I'M
harmed l could not make a covenant
with Arnold, which I thought was to
make my fortune without making his
instead, than in an incredibly short
space of tinae-I think Is months-I
earned for him $40, 900 and for myself
81. I am persuaded that if I were to set
up as a baker every one in my neighbor-
hood would leave off eating bread. !"
The Psssizniats.
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 bis last mo-
ment he asks friend to come and sit
down by him and read. as most appro-
pirate to his case, the story of 'The
Bleeding Heart - TOrrigiano, the sculp-
tor, executed, after months Of care and
DarviRg, Madonna and the Child. -
The royal family came in and admired
It, Every body that looked at it was in
but one day, after all that toll
md 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
7 years, but for 5000. But, blessed be
God, there is a great corncrib. The
Lord built it. It is in another land. 1t
is large place. An angel once meas
ured it, and as far as I can calculate it
in one phrase, that corncrib is 1900
miles long and 800 miles broad and
1, 500 high, and it is full. Food for all
nations. aOh!" say the people, eve
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
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pardon and comfort and eternal life I'M
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 por-
ton 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 rs We shall be invited to sit in
the palace Of the King and at the table,
ard while the Lord of heaven is appor-
5ioning from his own table to other ia
Oles, he will not forget us, and then and
there it will be found that our Benja-
min s mess is larger than all the others,
for so it ought to be- "Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive blessing
md riches and honor and glory and
power.
want to make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will
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
10 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 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,
call 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-
ited! 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 he thundered forth:
:. Neither Is there salvation in any other.