Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-31
THE CORNCRIB OF EGYPT.
NO ADMITTANcE TO GODS BOUNTY
l. UNLESS CHRIST GO WITH YOU.

Ah0 FAMINE Ihat was sore III All lands
The Condition Imposed That Benja-
min Should Go Into Egypt with His
Observation-Disclosures Type of Christ.
BROOKLYN. Aug 9O-The cabled reports
OF meager harvests in Europe, and the
memory Of the vast crops Of ripening grain
which DIR. Talmage saw during his recent
p tour In the west, have combined to turn
his thoughts back to that patriarchal time
when all the world sent to Egypt to buy
corn and to suggest a Gospel lesson. His
text Is Genesis xiii, 3, Eye shall not see
my face, except your brother be with you"
This summer, having crossed eighteen Of
the United States-north, south, east and
west--I have to report the mightiest har-
vests that this country or any other coun-
try ever reaped. If the grain gamblers
do not somehow wreck these harvests we
are about TO enter upon the grandest scene
OF prosperity that America has ever wit
messed. But while this Is so in our own
country, on the other side of the At
lantio there are nations threatened with
famine. and the most dismal cry that is
ever heard will, fear, be uttered-the cry
for bread
pray God that the contrast between
our prosperity and their want may not be
as sharp rs in the lands referred to by my
text There was nothing to eat, Plenty
OF corn yin Egypt, but CHASTITY famine in
Canaan. The cattle moaning in the stall.
Men, women and children awfully 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 80 little appreciated; the prod
uct OF harvest field and grist mill and
oven; the price Of sweat and anxiety and
strugRle-breadl Jacob the father has the
last report from the -four bin, and he finds
that everything is out and he says to his
sons, Boys, hook up the wagons and start
Tor Egypt and get us something to eat"
The fact was there was great corncrib
In Egypt The people of Egypt have been
largely taxed in all ages, at the present
time paying between 70 and 80 per cent. of
their products to the government. No
wonder in that time they had large corn
crib. and 1t was full. To that crib they
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 cattle and
horses and camels, and when they were
exhausted, then selling their own bodies
and their families into slavery.
THR SORROW OF JACOB
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob gets
his 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
hal f,
they had been treated somewhat roughly,
the lord Of the corncrib supplying them
with corn, but saying at the close Of the
interview, snow, you need not come back
here for any more corn unless you bring
something better than homegrown your
younger brother Benjamin"
Ali Benjamin-that very name was sug-
gestive of all tenderness. The mother had
died at the birth Of that soma spirit com
ing ana another spirit going-and the very
thought of parting with Benjamin must
have been a heart break. The keeper of
this corncrib, nevertheless, says to these
older sons, There Is no need of your com
ing here any more for corn unless you
bring Benjamin, your fathers darling" |
Now, Jacob and his family very much |
needed bread, but what a struggle it would |
be to give up this son. The orientals are |
very demonstrative in their grief, and | |
hear the outwailing of the father as these |
older SONS keep reterating in his ears the |
Of the Egyptian lord, aye |
shall not see my face unless your brother |
be with you" "Why did you tell them
you had brotherP" said the old man,
and Gliding them. "Why, |
father" they said, che asked us all about |
our family, and we had no idea he would |
make any such demand upon us as he has |
made" mo use Of asking me-" said the
father, II cannot, will not, give up Ben
jamin."
The fact was that the old man had lost
and when there has been bereave,
ment In household, and child taken, it
makes the other children in the household
more precious. SO the day for departure
was adjourned and adjourned and ad-
journed. Still the horrors of the famine
increased, and louder moaned the cattle
and wider open cracked the earth and
more pallid became the cheeks, until
Jacob, in despair, cried out to his sons,
"Take Benjamin and be off," The older
sons tried to cheer up their father They
said; 1--WE have strong arms and n stout
heart, and no harm will come to Benjamin.
Well see that he gets back again" Fare.
wellp said theyoung men to the father, in
\ tone OF assumed good cheer. "F-a-r-e-
we'll !" said the old man, for that word
has more quaversin 1t when pronounced
by the aged than by the young
Well, the bread party-the bread embassy
drives up in front of the corncrib of Egypt
These corncribs are filled with wheat and
barley and corn in the husk, for those who
have travelled in Canaan and Egypt know
that there is corn there corresponding with
our Indian maize. Huzzal the journey Is
ended. The lord of the corncrib, who is also
the prime minister comes down 10 these
arrived travellers, and says; "Dine with me
today. How Is your fatherP Is this Ben
jamin, the younger brother, whose pres.
enoe demaudedR" The travellers are in.
PRODUCED into the palace They are worn
and bedusted of the way, and servants
come IN with basin of water in one hand
and a towel in the other, and kneel down
before these newly arrived travellers, wash.
Ing off the dust of the way. The butchers
and poulterers and caterers of the prime
minister prepare the repast
The guests are seated in small groups,
two or three at table, the food on a tray;
all the luxuries from imperial gardens and
orchards and acquariums and aviaries arc
brought there and are filling chalice and
platter Now is the time for this prime
minister If he has grudge against Benja.
min TO show it. viii he kill him, now
that he has him In his hands2 Oh, moi
This lord Of the corncrib is seated at ho
own table, and no looks over to the table
Of bis guests, and he sends n portion to
zach OF them but sends larger portion to
or, as the Bible quantity puts