Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-09-04

he has him in his hands? o, no. This
lord of the corn-crib Is seated at his
own table. and he looks over to the
table of his guests; and he sends a
| portion Co each of them, but sends
| larger portion to Benjamin, or, as the
| Bible quantity puts IL: "Benjamin's
mess was five times as much as
any of theirs" BE quick and send word
back with the swiftcst camel To Canaan
10 old Jacob, that BENJAMIN Is well;
all is well: he is faring sumptuously;
the Egyptian lord did not mean muir
der and death; but he meant deliver
ence and life when he announced To us
on that day: 'Ne shall not sec my face
unless your brother be with you"
Well, nv friends. this world is fam
innsbruck of sin. 1t does not yield a
SINGLE crop of solid satisfaction. 1t is
dying. 1t Is hunger bitten. The fact
tina: il does not, cannot, feed a mans
heart was well illustrated in the life of
the English comedian. All the world
honored him-did everything for HIM
that the world ooald do. lie was APP
] plauded in England and applauded
| in the United States. lie
reused up nations into laughter. He
had no equal. And yet, although many
people supposed him entirely happy,
and thai this world was completely sa-
tiating his soul, he sits down and writes:
Il never in my life put on new hat,
| that it did not rain and ruin 1T, /
never went out in shabby coat be-
cause it was raining and thought
all who had the choice would
keep indoors, that the sun did
not burst forth in its strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies of
fashion whom | knew and who knew
me. | never consented 10 accept a part
| hated, out of kindness to another,
that / did not get Kissed by the public
and cut by the writer 1 could not
take drive for few minutes with
Terry without being overturned and
having my elbow lone broken, though
my friend got off unharmed.
could not make covenant
with Arnold, which | thought was to
make my fortune without making his
instead, than in an Incredible space of
time-I think thirteen months
| earned for him 10000 pounds, and for
myself one am persuaded that if
were to set up as beggar, every one
in my neighborhood would leave OFF
eating bread. That was the lament of
the worlds comedian and joker. All I'M
happy. The world did every thing for
Lord Byron that it could do, and yet
in his last moment he asks friend to
come and sit DOWN by him and read,
as most appropriate TO his case, the
story of "The bleeding Heart" Tor
rigiano the ulptor, executed, after
months of care and carving, Madonna
and the Child" The royal family came
in and admired it. Everybody that
looked at it was in &C.
stacy; but one day, after all that toll,
and all that admiration, because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work as ne had expected he took a
mallet and dashed the exquisite sculp-
ture into atoms. The world Is poor
compe sat on. poor satisfaction, poor
solale. Famine, famine in all the
earth, not for seven years, but for six
thousand. But, blessed be God.
there is a great corn-crib. The Lord
built it. 1t is in another land. 1t is a
large place. An angel once measured
it, and as far as can calculate it in
our phrase, that corn-crib is fifteen
hundred miles long and fifteen hun
dred broad, and fifteen hundred high;
and it is full. Food for all nations,
"O! say the people, 1--WE
will start right away and get
this supply for our soul" But stop u
moment; for from the keeper of that
corn-crib there comes this word, saving:
"l on shall not see my face except your
brother be with you. In other words,
there is no such thing as getting from
heay en- pardon, and comfort, and eternal
life, useless we bring with us our Divine
Brother, the Lord Jesus Christ. Coming
without him we shall fall before we
reach the corn-crib, and our bodies
shall be a portion for the jackals of
the wilderness; but coming with the
DIVINE Jesus all the granaries of heaven
will swing open before our soul, and
abundance shall be given us We
shall be invited TO sit in the
palace of the King and at the table;
and while the Lord of heaven is appcr-
tioning from his own table to other
tables he will not forget us: and then
and there it will be found that our
Ben amin's mess is larger than all the
others. for so it ought to be- worthy
is the Lamb that was slain, to receive
blessing, and riches, and honor, and
glory, and power
My trlends, you see it is either
Chris. or famine. If there were two
banquets spread, rnd to one of them,
only, you might go, you might stand
and think for good while as to which
invitations yol had better accept, but
here il is Teasing or starvation. If it
were choice between oratorios,
You might say Il prefer the
Creation or II prefer tn Mes
slah. But here it is choice be-
tween eternal harmony and everlast-
ing discord. q, will you live or die?
VIII you start for the Egyptian corn
crib, or will you peris amid the
empty barns of the Canaanitish fam
inc? "Ye shall not see my face except
your brother be with you