The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-09
THE CORNCRlB OF EGYPT.
NO ADMIT TANCG TO GODS BOUNTY
UNLESS CHRIST GO WITH YOU.

UNLESS CARlST GO WITH YOU.
The Famine That Mas S,cc IL AT Lands
The Condition I,upus-ts That Reria-
min Should Go into Egypt with ATS
Breth-er--- eijamin TYP. ct Christ.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 30.-The cabled
reports Of nlea.cr i.arves.s il Europe,
and the memory Q! the vast crops OF
ripenins grain which DR.. Talmage saw
during his recent tour in the west, have
combined to turn his thoughts back to
that patr;arclGal time when ali the world
sent to Egypt TO buy corn and to s&S-
gest Gospel lesson. HIS text is Gen
esis Xiii. 3, "Ye shall not see my 'ace,
except your brother be with you.
This summer, having crossed eighteen
Of the United Slates-ncrth, south, east
ard West-l hare TO report the m!gh:Iest
harvestS that THIS country or any other
country ever reaped. Il the grain gam.
blers do not somehow wreck these har-
vests we are ahcus to enter upon The
grandest sce2c OF prosperity that Amer
ica has ever WITH, sssd. But While this
il so in our own country, on the other
side of tie Atlantic there are nations
threatened With faiuiue, aud the most
dismal cry that IS ever heard will, l
tear, be utte-ed-the cry for bread.
pray God that the contrast between
our prosperity and their want may not
be IS Sharp as in the lands referred to by
INV lext. There was nothing to eat.
Plenty ofco~n in Egypt, but ghastly
famine in Canaan. The cattle moaning
il tie stall. Men, women and children
awiully white with hunger. Not the
failing of Que crop for one summer, but
the failing Of all the crops for seven
years. y nation dying for lack OF that
Which is SO common on your table and
so little appreciated; the product of har-
vest field and srist mill and oven; the
price OF sweat and anxiety and struggle
bread! Jacob the father has the last
report from The flour bin, and he Ends
that everything is cut, and be says to
his sons. Boys, hook up the wagons
and start for Egypt and get Us some
thing to eat"
The fact was there was great corn
crib 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 large corncrlo. and 1t was
full. To that crib they came from the
rexions rvund about-those who were
tamished--eome paying for corn IN
money; when the money was exhausted,
paying foc the corn III sheep and cattle
and horses ard camels, and when they
were exhausted, then selling their o w
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 be
fore the elder sous start they say some
thing that makes him tre1uble with emo
ton from head to foot and burst into
tears. The tact 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 say
ing at tie close of the interview, Now,
YOU need not come back 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 mo-
tier had died at the birth of that son-a
Split coming and another spirit going
and the very thought Of parting with
Benjamin must have been heart break.
The keeper of this corncrib, neverthe-
less, says to these older sons, There
is no need Of your coming here any
more for corn unless you bring Beuja-
min, your fathers darlins.'' Now,
Jacob and his family very much needed
bread. but what struggle it would be
to give up this son. The orientals are
very denonstratlve IN their griet, and |
hear the outwailing ofthe father as these
older sons kesp reiterating IN his ears
The announcements otthe Egyptian lord,
,'Ye shall not see my face unless your
brother be with you." Why did You
tell them you had brother" said the
old nan, complaining and chiding them.
why, father" they said, "he 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 ask
ing me-" SAID the father, u cannot, |
will not. give up Benjamin."
The fact was that the old man had lost
children; and when there has been be-
reavement in a household, and child
taken, 1t makes the other children IN the
household more precious. SO the day
for departure was adjourned and ad-
journed and adjourned. Sill the hor-
rors OF the famine increased, and louder
moaned the cattle and wider open crack
ed the earth and more pallid became the
cheeks, until Jacob, in despair, cried out
to his sors, "Take Benjamin and be off,"
The older sons tried TO cheer up their
father. They said: 1--WE have strong
arms and stout heart, and no harm
will come 10 Benjamin.. Wen see that
he GELS Laul--s<e...cc=5.>
the young men to the father, III a tone
of assumed good cheer. Fare
w-e-l-lw SAID the old man, fer that
word has more quavers in it when pro
nounced by the aged titan by the young.
Well, the bread party-the bread en-
bassy-driHes up in front OF the corncrlb
of Egypt. These corncrlhs are filled
with wheat and barley and corn in the
husk, fer those Who have travelled IN
Canaan and Egypt know that there is
corn there corresponding with our 1n-
dian maize. Huzza! the journey is end
ed. The lord OF The corucrib, who is
also the prime minister, comes down TO
these arrived travellers, and says: "Dine
with me TODAY. How is your father? Is
this Benjamin, the younger brother,
whose presence l demauded:" The
travellers are introduced into the palace.
They are worn and bedusted of the way,