The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-09-03
STARVING SOULS.
DR.. Talmage Draws Lessons From
the Great Harvest.
The Only Salvation From Hunrer-The
Saviour the Benjamin of This World
Christ Ever Ready to Assist the
Needy-The Believers Feast.

In recent sermon at Brooklyn, sug
gested by the meager crops abroad ant
the great harvest in America, Rev. T
DE Witt Talmage took his text from
Genesis xiii. 3; eye shall not see my
face except your brother be with YOU.
He said:
This summer, having crossed eight.
cen of the United States, north, south,
east and west / have to report the
mightiest harvest that this country or
any other country ever reaped If the
grain gam blers do not somehow wreck
these harvests we are about to enter
upon the grandest scene of prosperity
that America has ever witnessed
1u' while this is so in orr
own country on the other side of
the Atlantic there are nations threat
ened 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 pros
perity and their want may not be as
sharp as in the lands referred to bv nv
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 chill
dren 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 COM
mon on your table and SO little appre-
n n n. ho -
grist mill and oven; the price of sweat,
anxiety and struggle-bread! Jacob.
the father, has the last report from the
flour bin, and he finds that everything
is out, and he says to his sons: BOYS.
hitch up the wagons and start for
Egypt and get us something to eat
The fact was there was great corn
crib in Egypt The people of Egypt
have been largely taxed in all ages, at
the present time paying between 10 and
so per cert. of their products to the
government. No wonder in that time
they had a large corn crib and it 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 exhaust
ed 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.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob
gets his family up very early. But be-
lore the elder sons start they say some |
thing 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 interview:
Now, you need not come back here
tor any more corn unless you bring
better than money, even
your younger brother Beniam All,
very name was sup-
sestlve of all tenderness. The mother
lad died at the birth of that soma
pirit coming and another spirit going
and the very thought of parting with
5enjamin must have been a heart
Freak The keeper of this corn crib.
levertheless, says to these older sons,
There is no need of your coming here j
ny more for corn unless you bring
benjamin, your fathers darling" Now s
acob and his family very much needed !
read; but what struggle it would be i
? give mp this son. The Orientals are g
cry demonstrative in their grief, and
hear the outwailing of the father as f
lese elder sons keep reiterating in his /
lrs the announcement of the Egyptian \
'rd: "Ic shall not see my face unless S
our brother be with YOU" !
why did you tell them that you had Y
brother?" said the old man, complain G
g and Gliding them. why, father" II
ley said, The asked us all about our a
mily and we had no idea he would G.
axe any such demand upon us as he k
IS made" No use of asking me-" s.
i'd the father, Il cannot, / will not a.
We mp Benjamin" The fact was that .
he old man had lost children; and S;
hen there has been bereavement in il
)uschold, and child taken. it makes Il
&c other children in the household
ore precious. So the day for~de- O
lrture was adjourned. and adjourned. Il
Id adjourned. Still the horrors of the "
mine increased and louder moaned q;
c cattle, and wider open cracked the "
nth. and more pallid became the Sc
eeks. until Jacob in despair cried out la
his sons, Take Benjamin and be er
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Well, the bread party-the bread en- B,
ssy-drives up in front of the corn ma
10 of Egypt The lord of the corn m,
10, who is also the prime minister. IS
mes down to these arrived travellers ma
d says: "Dine with me to-day. How rio
your father? Is this Benjamin. the sol
unger brother whose presence | de- in
lnded?" Tho travellers are introduced ov,
o the palace The butchers and no
nlterers and caterers of the prime Go
Mister prepare the repast The Tn
ests are seated in small groups. two An
three at table. the food on a trav. IS
the Injuries from imperial gardens. \
orchards, and aquariums, and avi. so
IS are brought there and are FILING con
lice and platter. Now is the time thu
this prime minister If ba h,S al