Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-22
DEPARTED FRIENDS
1t Is Enough; Joseph, My
Son, Is Yet Alive.
Jacob Goes to His Son in
Egypt Where There
Was Corn.
How Sin Impoverishes, But
the Kings Wagons Are
Filled With Bread.
We Shall See Our Departed Kin
dred In Heaven.
THE HEAVENLY RECOGNITION.

TIE HEAVENLY RECOGNITION.
BROOKLYN, - The Rev. L. Dewitt
Talmage, ID, preached today on
"Our Departed Still Living" His text
was Genesis CHI. A., vs.. y and 80:
and when he saw the wagons which
Joseph had sent 10 carry him, the spirit
Of Jacob their father revived. And
Israel said, it is enough; joseph my son
is yet alive"
DR.. Talmage said:
The Egyptian capital was the focus Of
the worlds wealth. lnships and barges,
there had been brought to If from India
f~rankincensc, and cinnamon, and ivory,
and diamonds, from the North, marble
and iron; from Syria, purple and silk;
from Greece, some of the finest horses
brilliant chariots, and from all the earth
that which could best please the eye, and
charm the ear, and crafty the taste. There
were temples ailame with red sandstone,
entered by gateways that were guarded
by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics,
and wound with brazen serpents, and
adorned with winged creatures-their
eyes, and beaks, and pinions glittering
with precious stones. There were marble
columns blooming into white flower
buds; there were stone pillars, at the top
bursting into the shape of the lotus when
in full bloom. Along the avenues, lined
with sphinx, and fame, and obelisk, there
were princes who came in gorgcously
upholstered p%alanquin, carried by ser
wants in scarlet, or elsewhere drawn by
vehicles, the snow.white horses, golden
bitted, and six abreast, dashing at full
run. There were fountains from stone
wreathed vases climbing the ladders of
the light. You would hear a bolt shove,
and a door of brass would open like a
flash of the sun. The surrounding gar
dens were saturated with odors that
mounted the terrace, and dripped FROM
the arbors. and burned their incense
in the Egyptian noon. On floors
of mosaic the glories OF Pharaoh
were spelled out in letters of porphyry,
beryl and flame. There were ornaments
twisted from the wood of the tamarisk,
embossed with silver breaking into foam.
There were footstoOls made out of a
single precious stone. There were beds
fashioned out Of a crOuched lion in
bronze. There were chairs spotted with
the sleek hide Of ~leopards. There were
sofas footed with the claws of wild beasts,
and armed with the bcaks of birds. AS
you stand on the level beach Of the sea
on a summer day, and look either way,
and there are miles of breakers, white
with the ocean foam, dashing shoreward;
SO ii seemed as if the sea of the worlds
pomp and wealth in the Egyptian capital
for miles and miles flung itself up into
white breakers of marble temple, mauso-
leum and obelisk.
JOSEPH | N EGYPT.
This was the place where Joseph, the
shepherd boy, was called to stand next to
Pharaoh in honor. What a contrast be-
tween this scene and his humble starting,
and the pit into which his brothers threw
him! Yet he was not forgetful of his
early home; he was not ashamed or
where he came from. The bishop OF
Mentz, descended from a wheelwright,
covered his house with spokes, and ham
mers and wheels; and the king of Sicily,
in honor of his father, who was a potter,
refused to drink out of anything but an
earthen vessel. So Joseph was not
ashamed of his early surroundings, or of
his old time father, or of his brothers.
When they came w from the famine
stricken land to get corr from the kings
corn crib. Joseph, instead Of Gliding
them for the way they had maltreated
and abused him. sent them back with
wagons, which Pharaoh furnished, laden
with corn, and old Jacob, the father, in
the very same wagons, was brought back,
that Joseph, the son, might see him, and
give him a comfortable home all the rest
of his days.
Well, / hear the wagons, the kings
wagons rumbling do wn in front of the
palace. On the outside of the palace, to
see the wagons go of, stands Pharaoh in
royal robes; and beside him prime minis
ter Joseph, with 4 chaiE Of gold around
his neck, and on his hand a ring given by
Pharaoh to him, SO that any time he
wanted to stamp the royal seal upon a
document he could do SO. Wagon after
wagon rolls on down from the palace,
laden with corn, and meat, and changes
of raiment. and everything that could
help a famine struck people. One day |
see aged Jacob seated in front of his
house. He is possibly thinking Of his alb
sent boys (sons, however old they get, are
never to a father any more than boys0
and while he is seated there, he sees dust
arising, and he hears wagons rumbling,
and he wonders what is coming now for
the whole and had been smitten with the
famine, and was in silence. But after
a while the wagons have come near
enough, and he sees his sons on the
wagons, and before they come quite up,
they shout: Joseph is yet alive!' The
N-- cs.An l-ol n,uo.y 10 not MON
der at it. The boys tell the story how
that the boy. the long absent Joseph, has
got to be the first man in the Egyptian
palace. While they unload the wagons,
the wan and wasted creatures in the
n~eighborhood come up and ask fer a
handful OF corn, and they are satisfied.
MEETIN OF JOSEPH y HIS FATHER.
One day the wagons are brought up,
for Jacob, the old father, is about to go