Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-07

does not Paul speak OF him as standing
at the right hand Of God making inter
cession for us? Oh, Benjamin-Jesus.
Son Of 1,aneyl Son Of victoryl The deep.
est emotions of our souls ought to be
stirre;7 at the sound of that nomencIa-
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
voice from the throne shall stun you
with the announcement, You shall
not see my face except your brother be
with you.
Present Sympathy.
NY 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 i'll their health, or
in their state, or in their domestic con-
dition that demands sympathy. And vet
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 We're so
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. I come
to some one whose ailments are chronic,
and I say, In heaven you will never
be sick. y That does not give you much
/ comfort. What you want is a soothing
power for your present distress. Lost
children, have you? I come to you and
/ tell you that in ten years, perhaps, you
will meet those loved ones before the
throne OF God. But there is but little
coincidence III that One day is year
with them, and ten years is a small
eternity. What you want is sympathy
now-present help. | 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
can you forget them when every figure
il the carpet and every book and every
picture and every room calls out their
name. Suppose / come to you and say
by way Of coincidence, God is wise, y
ooh, you say, ssthat gives me no
help!' Suppose I come to you and say,
"God. from all eternity, has arranged
this trouble. = tAh, you say, that
does me no good!" Then [ say, with
the swift feet of prayer go direct to the
corncrib for q heavenly supply You
go. You say, Lord, help me; Lord,
comfort me. But no help yet Nc
comfort yet. It is all dark.
What is the matter? have found.
You ought to go God and say: 'tHerc,
o Lord, are the wounds Of my soul,
and I bring with me the wounded
Jesus. Let his wounds pay for my
wounds, his bereavements for my be-
reavements, his loneliness for my lone
illness, his heartbreak for my heart
break. o God, for the sake of the
Lord Jesus Christ-the God, the man,
the Benjamin, the brother-deliver my
agonized soull O Jesus of the weary
foot, ease my fatigue. 0 Jesus Of the
aching head, heal my aching head.
o Jesus of the Bethany sisters, roll |
away the stone from the door of our
grave. " That is the kind of prayer that
brings help, and yet how many of you
are getting no help at all, for the req
son that there is in your soul, perhaps,
a secret trouble. You may never have
mentioned it to single human ear, or
you may have mentioned it to some one
who is now gone away, and that great |
sorrow is still in your soul. After
Washington Irving was dead they found |
little box that contained a braid Of |
hair and miniature and the name Of
Matilda Hoffman and memorandum |
of her death and a remark something
like this 1.-The world after that was q
blank to me. I went into the country,
but found no peace in solitude tried
to get into society, but I found no peace
in society. There has been horror
hanging over me by night and by day,
and am afraid to be alone. "
How many unuttered troubles among
you'll No human ear has ever heard that
sorrow. Oh, troubled soul. I want to
tell you that there is one salve that can
cure the wounds Of the heart, and that
is the salve made out of the tears Of
sympathetic Jesusi And yet some of
you will not take this solace, and you
try chloral and you try morphine, and
you try strong drink, and you try change !.
of scene, and you try new business as
sociations, and anything and everything
rather than to take the divine compan-
ionship and sympathy suggested by the
words Of my text when it says, .You
shall not see my face again unless your
brother be with you Oh, that this au-
dience today might understand some
thing of the height and depth and length
and breadth and immensely and infinity
of Gods eternal consultations!
An Element of Failure.
go farther and find in my subject a
hint as to why SO many people fail Of
heaven. We are told that heaven has 10
gates, and some people infer from that
fact that all the people will go in with
out reference to their past life. But what
is the use Of having gate that is not