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TALMAGE ON CORN CRIBS
A PULPIT PICTURE OF EARLY
DAYS IN EGYPT.

Lord-The Great Corn Crib at Which
Furnishing Humanity May Obtain the
Food OF Everlasting Life--Necessity al
the Great Brothers COmpaniOnshiP.
The following sermon was delivered by
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d. D., the sub
ject being 1.-THE Corn Crib" The text
was taken from Genesis xiii, 3: "Ye
shall not see my face except your brother
be with YOU :"
Nothing to eatl Plenty Of corn in Egypt,
but CHASTITY famine in Canean. Ihe cattle
moaning ia the stall. Men, women and
children awtllIy white with hunger. Not
the failing of one crop for one summer,
but the failing of all the crops for seven
years. A nation dying tor lack OF that
which is so common ON your table and so
little appreciated; the product OF harvest
neld and grlst-mll and oven; the price OF
sweat and anxiety aud struggle-bread.
Jacob, the father, has the last report from
the flour BIN, and he finds that every
thing is ont, and he says TO his sons:
"Boys. hook up the wagons and start for
Egypt and get us something 10 eat" IDe
fact was. there was great corn crib IN
Egypt the people Of Egypt have been
largely taxed in all ages, at the present
time paving between 70 and 80 per cent
of their products to the government NO
wonder in that time they had large
corn crib and il was full. To that crib
they came from the regions around about
those who were famished-snme paying
for the corn in money :when the money was
exhausted, paying for the corn in sheep
and cattle aud horses and Camels. and
when they We're exhausted, then selling
their own bodies and their families INTO
slavery.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob
gets has family up very early But before
the elder sons start they say something
that makes him tremble with emotion
from head TO foot, and burst into tears
The fact was, that these elder sons had once
before been in Egypt to get corn, and they
had been treated somewhat roughly, the
lord Of the corn crib supplying them with
corn, but saying at the close of the inter
view: snow, you need not come back
here for any more corn unless YOU bring
something better than money even your
younger brother, Benjamin" An! Ben
janin; that very name was suggestive of
all tenderness. The mother had died at
the birth OF that son, a spirit coming and
another spirit going, and the Eery thought
of parting with Benjamin e1ust have
been a heart-break. The Keeper Of this
COrn-crib, nevertheless, s8Z6 to these
older sons "There is nQ<Heed Of your
coming up here any more iOr corn unless
you can bring Benjamin, your fathers
darling" Now, Jacob and MS family
very much needed bread; but what
struggle it would be to give up this SON.
The Orientals are very demOnstratiYe in
their grief, and / hear the Outwailing of
the father as these older sons keep reiter-
ating in his ears the announcement Of the
Egyptian lord: "Ye shall not see my face
unless your brother be with you" "Wny
dld you tell them you had brother?
said the old man, complaining, and
Gliding them. 'Why, father thev said,
she asked us all about our family, and
we had no idea he would make any such
demand on us as ne has made. "No use
Of asking me-" said the father, 81 cannot,
/ will not give up Benjamin. The fact
was, that the old nan had lost two chill
dren, and l have been told that when
there has been bereavement in house
hold and child taken, il makes the other
children In the household more precious.
SO the day for departure was adjourned
and adjourned and adjourned. Still the
horrors Of the famine increased, and
louder mOaned the cattle, and wider open
cracked the earth, and more pallid be-
came the cheeks, until Jacob in despair
cried out to his sons Take Benjamin and
be Of" The older sons tried TO cheer up
strong arms and a stout heart and no
harm will come to Benjamin. Wen see
that he gets back again." Farewell
said the young men TO the father in a tone
OF assumed good cheer. "F-a-r e-w-e-l-ll'
said the old man, for that word has more
quaYers in il when pronounced by the
aged than by the young.
Wen. the bread party-thesbread en-
bassy-drives up in front Of the corn crib
OF Egypt. Those corn cribs are filled
with wheat and barley and
travellers in these lands, both in Canaan
and Egypt, tell us there Is corn there
corresponding with our Indian maize.
Huzza! The journey is ended. The lord
OF the cOrn-crib, who is also the Prime
Minister, comes down to these arrived
travellers and says: "Dine with me to-day.
How is your father? is this Benjamin,
the younger brother, whose presenc e 1
demandedW The travellers are intro
duced into the palace. They are worn
and bedusted by the way; and servants
come in with basin OF water in one
hand and towel in the other and kneel
down before these these newly arrived
travellers, washing OF the dust of the
way The butchers and poulterers and
caterers OF the prime ministers prepare
the repast. The guests are seated in
small groups, two or three at table, the
food on tray; all the luxuries
from imperial gardens and orchards
and aquariums and aviaries are brought
there and are filling the chalice and plat
ter. Now is the time for this Prime Min
lister, If he has a grudge against Benia-
min, TO show it. VIII he XIII him now
thar he has him in his hands? Oh. no!
This lord OF the the corn crib is seated at
his own table and he looks over 10 the
tables OF his guests. and he sends por-
ton TO each Of them, but sends "A larger
portion 10 Benjaman, or, as the Bible
quantity puts II, "Beniamin's mess was
fye times 50 much as any OF theirsn BE
quick and send word back with the
swiftest camel TO Canaan to old Jacob
that benjamin is well; all is well, he is
Earring sumptuOusly; tue Egyptian lord
did not mean murder and death, but he
meant deiiverance and life. when he an
nOunced 20 US on that day 'ye shall not
see my lace unless your brother be with
you.'n
Well, my friends. this world is famine
struck Of sin. IL does not yield a single
crop Of solid satisfaction. II is dying
IL d. hunger bitten. The fact that it does
not, cannot, feed a mans heart was well
illustrated in the life OF the Engliah
comedian. All the world honored him-
did everything for him that the world
could dc. He was apDlauded In England
and applauded in the United States. lie
reused uy nations into laughter. lie had
no equal And yet. although many pc0-
Ufp guuuOs0d him entirely hnuny and fnuf