The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-09-03
Tho Tabernacle Sermon.
DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS 1
LESSON FROM TIE FA-
NINE IN EGYPT.
The Remarkable Conjunction OF
Big Crops In America and
Scarcity in Europe Calls.
to Mind the Similar
Case In Joseph's
rifne.
THE RELIGIOUS LESSON.

BROOKLYN, Aus. 30. The cabied re-
ports OF meaSer hayvests In Europe aud
the memory Of the vast crops Of r.pen-
ing grain which DR. ralmase saw during
his recent tour In the vest, have com-
bined to turn bis thoughts back 10 that
patxiarchal time when ell tbs world
sent to Egypt to buy corn, AID 70 rag
gest Gospel lesson His texs is Gen.
xiii, 8, ''Ye shall not $50 ICY face ex-
cept your brother be with you"
This summer, having crossed eighteen
Of the United States, north, south, east
and west, l have to report the might
est harvests that this country or any
other country ever roaped. II the grain
gamblers do not somehow wreck thess
harvests we aEp about TO enter upon
the grandest scene Of prosperity thas
America has ever witnessed. But while
this Ia 80 10 our own country, on tho
other side of the Atlantic there are no
tions threatened with famine, and tho
most dismal cry that Ls ever heard will
l fear be uttered, the cry for bread
pray God that the contrast between
our prosperity and their want may not
be as sharp az in the lands referred TO
by my text There was nothing to est
Plenty Of cora in E@pt, but ghastiy
famine In Canaan. The cattle moan
ing In the stall. Men, women and
children awtuNy white with hunger.
Not the failing OF oue crop for one
summer, but the failing of oil the crops
for seven years. A nation dying toq
lack Of that which Is SO common on
your table, and 50 little appreciated
the product Of harvest field and grist
Inill ana oven; the prloe OF sweat and
| anxiety and struggie-breed! Jacob
| the father has the last report from the
-four bin, and he ands that everything
ie n-.t er6 he ~ tea hia '.1le.,r-.
and get something to eat. P"
The fact was, there was great corn
crib In Egypt The people OF Egypt
have been Largely taxed ln all ages, at
tbs present time paying between 70 and
50 per cent. Of their products TO the
government, No wonder In thas ttIoe
| they had e large eorncrib and It WAS
| full. 10 that crib they came from tbs
regions round about--thoes who were
faIn!shed-so'ne paying for corn In
money; when the money was exhaust
ed, paying for the corn 10 sheep and
cattle, and hofses and caInels; and
when they were exhausted, then sell-
ing their own bodies and their fam
ilies into slavery.
THE yoURNRY TO EGYPT.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob
gets his family up very early. But be-
fore the elder soIs start they say some
thing that makes him tremble with
emotion from head to foot and burst
into tears The feet 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 eorncnb supplying them with corn,
but saying at the close OF tho inter
view, ''Now, you need not come bach
here for any more corn unless you
bring something better than money
even your younger brother benjamin.
| Ali BenjaInin-ttat very meme was
suggestive OF oil tenderness. The
mother had died at the birth of that
spn-a spirit coming and another spirit
going-and tho very thought OF part
ing with Benjamin must have been q
heart break. The keeper OF this corn
crib, nevertheless says to these o.des
sons, '.rhere Ia no need of your com
ing here any more fer corn unless you
bring Benjamin, yoar fathers darling
Now Jacob and his family very much
needed bread; but what q struggle i
would be to give up this son.
The ofientsls are very demcnstrattv,
In their grief, and I hear the outwailins
/ of the father aa these older sons keef
reiterating In his ears the announce
ment of the Egyptian lord, "Ys shal
not see my face unless your brother b
/ with YOU why did ycu tell then
you had brotherr' said the old man
complaining and chiding them why
father" they se;6, he asked as el
about our family, and we had no det
he would make any such demand upos
US as he has made" mo use Of ask
ing me, said the father, II cannot,
VIII not give up Benjamin.
The fact was that the old man hal
lost children; and when there has beer
bereavement In a household, and ,
child taken, II makes the other chlldrez
In the household more precious. &
the day for departure was s.ijo.rnei
and adjourned and adjourned. St.I
the horrors of the famine increased. ana
Ionder moaned the cattle, and wide
open cracked the earth, and more pal
lid became the cheeks, until Jacob, IL
despair, cried out 80 bis sons, TAKE
Benjamin and be of Tie older son
tried to cheer up their father. Tbe1
said, I'VE have strong arms and .
stout heart, and no herD. viii cosDe b
Benjamin Wen see tb,.t he gets bacs
6gain.n Farewell. sold the yooa;
men to the father, In a tone OF assumed
| good cheer. "Fa-f-e-w-e-llm ~ said th,
cid man; Tor that word has more quar
ers la It when pronounced by the ages
than by the young
| THE DEMANp FOR BKSJAkN.
Wen, the bread party-the bread EN-
bassy-drves up In front Of the cosn
crib OF Egypt. These cosncribs sr
flled with wheat. barley and corn q
| the husl, for those who have traveaet
IN Canaan and Eeypt know that thes
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