The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-11
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
is Your Brother With Your
The Savior, the Benjamin Needed In the
Great Day OF Reckoning. The Aid oil
the Lord Jesus Christ Indis-
pensIble for Pardon

Sunday morning Genesis Xllll.3: 1e
shall not see my face except your broth
er be with YOU"
This summer, having crossed eigh-
teen of the United States, north, south,
east and west, l have to report the
mightiest harvests that this country or
any other country ever reaped. If the
grain gamblers do not somehow wreck
these haryests we are about TO enter up
on the grandest scene OF prosperity that
America has ever witnessed. But while
this is so in our own country on the
other side of the Atlantic there are
nations threatened with famine and the
most dismal cry that is ever heard will
fear be uttered, the cry for bread. l
pray God that the contrast between our
prosperity and their want may not be as
sharp as in the lands referred to by my
text There was nothing to eat. Plenty
of corn in Egypt, but CHASTITY famine in
Canaan. The cattle moaning in the
stall. Men, women and children awful
ly 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 for lack Of that which
is so common on your table and so little
appreciated; the product of harvest
fields and grist mill and oven: the bread.
Jacob, the father, has the last report
from the -four bin and he finds that
everything is out, he says to his sons:
Boys, hook up the wagons and start
for Egypt and get us something TO eat. :"
fhnro
crib in Egypt. The people of Egypt
have been largely taxed in all ages, as
the present time paying between 20 and
80 per cent of their products to the
government No wonder in that time
they had large corn crib, and it was
full. To that crib there came from the
regions round about-those who were
famished-some paying for corn in
money; when the money was exhausted
paying for the corn in sheep and cat
tie, ard horses and camels; and wher
they were 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 his family up 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 sous had
once before been in Egypt to get corn,
and they had been treated somewhat
roughly, the lord of the corn crib sup
plying them with corn. but saving al
the close of the interview: Now, you
need not come back here for any more
corn unless you bring something better
than money-even your younger broth
er Benjamin" All! Benjamin -
that very name was sug
gestive of all tenderness. The
mother had died at the birth of tha
soma spirit coming and another spirit
going-and the very thought of partin:
with BENJAMIN must have been heart
break. The keeper of this corn crib
nevertheless, says to these older sons
There is no need of your coming herr
any more for corn unless you bring
BENJAMIN, your fathers darling" Nov
Jacob and his family very much needed
= thread: but what struggle it would b
Ito give up his son. The Orientals arr
very demonstrative in their grief, ant
I hear the outwailing OF the father a:
these older SONS keep reiterating in hi
ears the announcement OF the Egyptian
lord, I'VE shall not see my fac
unless your brother be with you.
why did you tell them you had
brother?" said the old man, complain
ing and Gliding them. why. father,
they said, ''he asked us all about on
family and we had no idea he woult
make any such demand upon US as h
made" mo use of asking me-" sal,
the father, 81 can not, l will not Civ
up BENJAMIN" The fact was that tn
Il Lol ahi1dron. ond rrhn
there has been bereavement in a house
hold and child tLken, it makes tn
other children in the household NOR
precious. So the day for departur
was adjourned, and adjourned, and ad
iourned. Still the horrors of the fam
inc increased and louder moaned tn
cattle, and wider open cracked tn
earth, and more pailid became tn
cheeks, until Jacob in despair cried on
to his sons, Take Benjamin and b
off," The older sons tried to cheer u
their father. They said: 1--WE hav
strong arms and stout heart, and n
harm will come to Benjamin" Fare
well!r said the young men to the fatt
err. in tone of assumed good cheer
"F-a-r-e-w-e.l-l - said the old man; fo
that word has more quavers in 1t whe
pronounced by the aged than by tn
young.
Well. the bread party-the brea
embassy-drives up in front OF the cor
crib OF Egypt. These corn cribs wer
filed with wheat and barley and cor
in the husk, for those who have trave
ed in Canaan and Egypt know thf
there is corn there corresponding wit
our Indian maize. Huzza! The joul
nev is ended. The lord of the cor
crib, who is also the prime minister
comes down to these arrived traveller
and says: "Dine with me to-day. Ho
is your father? Is this Benjamin, tn
youngest brother whose presence 1 d,
manded?" The travellers are introdu,
ed into the palace.
Now is the time for this prime mimi
ter, if he has a grudge against BENZ;
min, to show it. Will he kill him no
that he has him in his hands? o. n,
This lord of the corn crib is seated ;
his own table and he looks over to Ii
table of his guests. and he sends larg
portion to each of them, but he sends
larger portion to Benjamin, or, as ii
Bible quantity puts it: Benjamin
mess was five times so much as any
THEIRS Be quick and send word baC
with the swiftest camel to Canaan
old Jacob, that Benjamin is well: all
well: he is faring sumptuously; Il
Egyptjan lord did not mean murder al
death: he meant deliverance and Ii
when he announced to us on that da
'Ye shall not see my face unless yo'
brother be with you"
Well, my friends, the world is famir
struck of sin, It does not Weld D si