Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-09-17
TOO KING FOR CORN.
Isoobs Sons Went Down Into
Egypt to Look for q Corn
Crib.
n Order to Procure Corn They
Took Their Brother Benjamin
Along.

Europe, and the memory of the vast
crops of ripening grain which DR.. Tai
mage saw during his recent tour in the
West, have combined to turn back his
thoughts to that patriarchal time
when all the world sent to Egypt to buy
corn and to suggest a gosple lesson.
His text is Gen. xiii, 3; aye shall not
see nv face, except your brother be
with you"
This summer, having crossed 18 OF
the United States, North, South, East
and West, haye to report the might
est harvest that this country or any
other country ever reaped. Ii 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, I 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 prist 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, 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,
And it was full. To that crib they
came from the regions round about
those who were famished-some pay
ing for corn in money; 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.
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
lord 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
money-even your younger brother
Benjamin" All! Benjamin-that very
name was suggestive OF all tenderness.
The mother had died at the birth OF
that soma spirit coming and another
spirit going-and the very thought OF
parting with Benjamin must have
been a heart-break. The keeper OF
this corn crib, nevertheless, says to
these older sons: "There is no need OF
your coming here any more for corn
unless you bring Benjamin, your faith
er's 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 dem
onstrative in their grief, and | hear
THE OUTWAILING OF THE FATHER
as these older sons keep reiteratlng IN
his ears the announcement OF the
Egyptian lord, "Ye shall not see my
face unless your brother bewith you"
Why did you tell them you had a
brother?" said the old man, complain
ing and chiding 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" No use of asking me, +"
said the father, II cannot, I will not
give up Benjamin" The fact was
that the old man, had lost children;
and when there has been bereavement
in a household, and a child taken, it
makes the other childrenin the house
hold more precious. So the day OF
departure was adjourned, and ad-
journed, and adjourned. Still the
horrors of faminine increased, and
louder moaned the cattle, and wider
open cracked the earth, and more pal
lid became the cheeks, until Jacob, in
despair, cried out to his sons. Take
Benjamin and be off. The older
sons tried tocheer up their father.
They said: We have strong arms
and stout hearts, and no harm will
come to Benjamin. We'llsee that he
gets back again. Z Farewell, said
the young men to the father, in q tone
Of assumed good cheer. Fare.
w-e-l-l-l' said the old man; for that
word has more quivers in it when pro
nounced by the aged than by the
young. 4.
Well, the bread party the bread
embassy drives up in front OF the
corn-crib Of Egypt. These corn-cribs
are filled with wheat, and barley, and
corn ID the hnsk, for those who have
Travelled in Canaan and Egypt know
that there's corn there correspo bonding