The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-26
THE CORNCRIB OF EGYPT.
NO ADMlTTANce TO GODS BOUNTY
UNLESS CHRIST GO WITH YOU.

The Famine That Was Sore in All Lands
min should Go Into Egypt with His
Brethren-BeDjamina a Type OF Christ.
BBooKLYN. Aug. 30.-The cabled reports
of naeager harvests in Europe and the
memory of the vast crops of ripening grain
which DIR. Talmage saw during his recent
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 Gospel lesson. His
text is Genesis xiii, 8, .sYe shall not see
my face, except your brother be with youI-7
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- II 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, the other side of the At
lantic 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 he
as sharp as in the lands referred to by my
text. There was nothing to eat. Plenty
of corn Gin 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 so little appreciated; the prod
uct of harvest field and grist mill and
oven: the price of sweat and anxiety and
straightforward 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, hook up the wagons and start
for Egypt and get us something to eat.o
The fact was there was a great eorncrib
in Egypt. The people of Egypt have been
largely taxed in all ages, at the present.
time paying between 20 and so per cent. 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
VINO 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
THE 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
CiuCi SohS StStTb Cncy say SOI0eJQ1nR GnaC
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 corncrib supplying them
with corn, but saying at the CLOSE of the
interview, Now, you need not come back
here for any more corn unless you bring
something better than money-eyen your
younger brother Benjamin"
Ahi Behjaplin-that very name was sug-
gestive of all tenderness. The mother had
died at the birth of that son-a spirit COM
ing and 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, butwhat N struggle it would
be to give up this son. The orentals are
very demonstrative in their grief, and
hear the outwailing of the father as these
older sons keep reiterating in his ears the
announcement of the Egyptian lord, 'tYe
shall not see my face unless your brother
be with you" "Why did you tell them
you had brothers" said the old man,
complaining and chiding them ''Why,
father" they hid, "he asked us all about
our family, aud we had no idea he would.
make any such demand upon US as he has
made" mo use of asking me-" said the
father. IL cannot. will not, give up Ben
jamin."
The fact was that the old man had lost
children; and when there has been bereave-
nlent in a household, and a child taken, it
makes the other children in the household
more precious. So the day for departure
was adjourned and adjourned and adj
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 Ben jamin and be Off" The older
sons tried to cheer up their father. They
said I'VE have strong arms and stou:
heart. aud no harm will come to Benjamin
Well see that he gets back again" Fare.
welli' said the young men to the father, in
tone of assumed good cheer. Fare.
we'll ~ said the old man, for that word
has more quavers in it when pronounced
by the aged than by the young.
Well, the bread party-the bread EN- bassy
drives up in front of the corncrib of Egypt.
These corncribs are filed 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. Huzzai the journey is
ended The lord of the corncrib, who is also
the prime minister, comes down to these
arrived travellers, and says: 'Dine with me
today How is your fathe17 Is this Ben
jamin, the younger brother, whose pres
ence demanded" The travellers are in
troduced into the palace. They are worn
and bedusted of the way, and servants
come in with basin Of water in one hand
and u 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 u table, the food on tray;
ALI the llxures frnIn inn I,eIial ceIflafts and