Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-09-05

see my face except your brother be with
you" In other words, there Is no such
thing as getting from heaven pardon and
comfort ard 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 n portion for the jackals OF
the wilderness, but coming with the di-
vine Jesus, all the granarics of heaven
will swing open before our soul and album
dance shall bc 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
or tables he will not forget us, and then
and there il will b. found that our Benja-
minis mess is larger than all the Others,
for so it ought to he. Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain to receive blessing and
riches and honor and glory and power. >
want To make three points. Every
frank and common sense man will ac-
knowledge himself to be n sinner. What
are you going To do with your sins? Have
them pardoncd, you say. How: Through
the mercy of God. What do you mean by
the mercy of God? Is il the letting down
of bar for the admission of all, without
respect to character? BE not deceived. l
and knocking at the corncrib of heavenly
supply, and voice from within says, Are
you alonc?' The sinner replies, "All
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 discounted There is no mercy from
God oxe.t,t tbrouOh IaSnS 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 Numbered forth: Mel
Their is there salvation in any other There
Is no other name given under heaven
among men whereby we may Inc saved. :"
oh, anxious sinner. 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 storchouses of heaven will swing open
before your anxious soul.
Am right in calling Jesus Benjamin?
| Oh, yes. Rachel lived only long enough
| to give a name tn that child and with n
dying kiss she called him Benoni. After
ward Jacob changed his name, and he call
cd 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 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 ut
the right hand of God. And does not Paul
speak Of him as standing at the right hand
of God making intcrccssion for us: oh,
/ Bcnjamin-.Jcsls. son Of Pangl Son Of
Victory, The deepest emotions of our souls
ought a. be stirred at the sound of that
nomenclature. In your prayers plead his
tears, his suffcrings, his SORROWS, and his
death II you refuse to do 1t, all the corn
cribs and the palaces of heaven will be
boltcd and barred against your soul and
voice from tie throne shall stun you
with the announcement, lyon shall not
see my face except your brother be with
! you.
Real Comfort.
| My text also suggests the reason why so
many Ieople do not get any real comfort.
! You meet ten people. Nine of them are in
need of some kind Of coincidence There Is
!
or in their domestic condition that de-
mands sympathy. And yet most of tho
worlds sympathy amounts to absolutely
nothing. People go to the wrong crib, or
they 20 in the wrong way. When the
plague was in Rome a great many years
ago, there were so men who chantcd them
selves 10 death with the litanics of Gregory
the Grcat-litcrally chanted themselves to
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And all the music Of this world cannot
halt the plague Of the human heart.
come 10 some one whose ailments are
chronic and ] say, In heaven you will
never he sick. That does not give you
much comfort. What you want is IA sooth-
ing power FOR your present distress. Lost
children, have you: 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 In
that. One day is n year with them and
ten years is "A small eternity. What you
want Is sympathy now-present help. i
come 10 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 in the carpet, and every book,
and every picture and every room calls out
their name! Suppose come to you and
FAY by way of coincidence, God is wise -
"Oh, you say. THAT gives me no help. -
suppose | come to you and say, God,
from all eternity has arranged this trou-
BILE " All, you say, THAT does ne no
good Then say, with the swift feet
of PRAYER go direct To the corncrib for a
heavenly supply" You 20. You say.
Lord, help me; Lord. comfort me-" But
no help yet. No comfort yet II is all dark.
What is the matter: | have found. You
ought to go To God and say: -. Here, o
Lord, are the wounds of my soul and
bring with me the wounded Jesus. Let
his wounds pay for my wounds, his be-
reavcmcnts for my bcrs 'vcmcnts, his lone
illness for my loneliness, his hcartbrcak for
my hcartbrcak. o Gnd. for the sake Of
the Lord Jesus Christine God, the Man,
the Benjamin, the Brother-deliver my
agonizcd soul o Jesus of the weary foot,
ease my fatigue q Jesus of the aching
head, heal my aching head! o Jesus of
the Bethany sisters, roll away the stone
from the door Of our gravel
That Is the kind of prayer that brings
help, and yet how many of you are getting
no help Mt all for the reason that there is
in your soul perhaps secret troubled You
may never have mentioned IL To II single
human ear, or you may have mentioned it
10 some one who is now gone away, and
that great sorrow is still in your soul. Aft
or Washington Irving was dead they found
n little box that contained IA braid of hair
and "a miniature and the name Of Matilda
Hoffman and n memorandum of her death.
and remark something like this: The
world after that was "a blank To me
went into the country, but found no peace
in solitude. tried Ia get into society, but
l found no peace in society There has
been "A horror hanging over me by night
and by day, and am afraid tn bc alone :"
salve For Wounded Soul.
How many Enuttcrcd troubles among
you! No human ear has ever heard that
sorrow. Oh, troubled soul, want to tell
you that there is one sIlve that can cure
the wounds OF the heart, and that is the
salvc made out Of the tears Of a sympathetic
Jesus. And yet some of you will not take
this solace, and you try choral and you
try morphine, and you try strong drink,
and you try change Of scene, and you try
new business associations, and anything
and everything rather than to take the
divine companiorship and sympathy sug
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