The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-10
LOOKING FOR CORN.
Jacobs Sons Went Down Into.
Egypt to Look for a Corn
Crib.
In Order to Procure Corn They
Took Their Brother Benjamin
Along.

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crops of ripening grain which DR.. Tai
mage saw during his recent tour in the
West, have combined to turn backh his
thoughts to that patriarchal time
when all theworld sent to Egypt to buy
corn and to suggest a gosple lesson.
His text is Gen. xiii, 3; aye shall not
see my face, except your brother be
with you" sly, sTt.
This summer, having crossed Is OF
the United States, North, South, East
and West, haye to report the might
est harvest that this country OF any
other country ever reaped. If the
grain gamblers do not somehow wreck
these harvests, we are about to enter
upon the grandest scene that
America has ever witnessed. But
while this is 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. 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 are
fully white with hunger. Not the fail
ing OF one crop for one summer, but
the failing of all crops for seven years.
A nation dying for lack OF that which
IS SO common on our table, and so
little appreciated; the product of har-
vest field, and &rist mill, and oven; the
price OF sweat, anxiety, and struggle,
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" The fact was,
there was a great corn crib in Egypt.
The people OF Egypt have been largely
taxed in all ages, at. the present time
paying 70 and 80 per cent of their
products to the government. No
wonder in that time they had
A LARGE CORN CRIB, 49,.
And it was full. To that crib they
came from the regions round about
those who were famished-some pay
ing for corn inmoney; when the money
was exhausted, paying for the corn in
sheep and cattle, and horses and cam
els: and when they were exhausted, |
then selling their own bodies and their |
families into slavery. ." .%st.a
The morning for starting out on the |
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob |
gets his family up very early. But be-
fore 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 before been
IN Egypt to get corn, and they had
been treated somewhat roughly, the
ord OF the corn crib supplying them
with corn but saying at the close of
the interview: "Now you need not
come here for any more corn unless
you bring something better than
noney-even your younger brother
Benjamin" All! Ben amin- that very
lame was suggestive of all tenderness.
The mother had died at the birth of
hat son "a spirit coming and another
spirit going the very thought of
parting with Benjamin must have
oeen heart-break. The keeper of
his corn crib, nevertheless, saws to
;hese older sons: "There is no need of
7our coming here any more for corn
lnless you bring Benjamin, your faith
RS darling" Now. Jacob and his
ANIL y very much needed bread; but
What struggle it would be to give up
his son. The Orientals are very dem
'nstrative in their grief, and hear
THE OUTWAIL1NG OF THE FATHER
vs. these older sons keep reiterating in
us ears the announcement of the
Egyptian lord, eye shall not see nv
ace unless your brother be with you.H
WY did you tell them you had a
'rother?' said the old man, complain
n1g and chiding them. "Why, father,o
hey said, che asked us all about our
amlly, and we had no idea he would
nake any such demand upon us as he
as made" "No use of asking me-
aid the father, IT cannot, I will not
i've up Benjamin" The fact was
hat the old man, had lost children;
nd when there has been bereavement ]
a household, and a child taken, it
1akes the other children in the house
old more precious. So the dav Of II
eparture was adjourned, and ad- /
burned, and adjourned. Still the s
errors of faminine increased, and
ouder moaned the cattle, and wider :
pen cracked the earth, and more PAL
d became the cheeks, until Jacob, in |
espair, cried out to his sons. HTake I
BENJAMIN and be off," The older !
ons. tried to cheer up their father.
hey said: "We have strong arms /
nd stout hearts, and no harm will t
ome to Benjamin. We'llsee that he i
9ts back again FAREWELL" said i
1e young men to the father, in a tone &
assumed good cheer. .sF-a-r-e- {
-e-l-l-p' said the old man; for that I
ord has more quivers in it when pro /
ounced by the aged than by the I
Dung.
Well, the bread party the bread {
nbassy drives up in front of the If
'rn.crib Of Egypt. These corn-cribs n
e filled with wheat, and barley, and t