The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-11
SOULS,
d.. Talmage Draws Lessons From
the Great Harvest
b Only Salvation From Hungsr-Th,
Saviour the Benjamin Of This World
Christ Ever Ready 70 Assist the
~Needy-The Believer Feast.

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gested by the meager crops abroad and
b great harvest in America, Rev. T.
De Witt Talmsge took his text from
Genesis xiii. 8: "Ye shall not see nv
lace except your brother be with O
He said:
n summer, having crossed eight
cen of the United States, north, south,
East and west I have to report the
mightiest harvest that this country or
any other country eve reaped- IL the
grain gamblers do not somehow wreck
these harvests we are about TO enter
upon the grandest scene Of prosperity
thst America has ever witnessed.
But while this is 80 in our
W country or the other side of
the Atlantic there are nations threat
ened 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 pros
perity and their want may not be as
sharp as in the lands referred TO by my
text There was nothing to eat.
Plenty Of corr in Egypt, but CHASTITY
famine in Canaan. The cattle moaning
in the stall. Men. women and chill
dren awfully white with hunger.
Not the failing Of one crop
for n summer. but the failing of all
the crops for seven years. A nation
dying for lack of that which is SO COM
mon on your table and so little appre-
ciated; the product OF harvest fields and
grist mill and oven; the price of sweat,
anxiety and struggle-bread, Jacob,
the father. has the last report from the
-four bin, and he finds that everything
is out, and he says to his sons: Boys,
hitch up the wagons and start for
Egypt and get us something to eat"
The fact WIS there was q great corn
crib in Egypt The people OF Egypt
have been largely taxed in all ages, at
the present time paying between 20 and
80 per cert of their products to the
government No wonder in that time
they had a large o n crib and il was
full. To that crib they came from the
regions round about-those who were
fsmished-some paying for corn in
money; when the money was exhaust
ed paying for the corr in sheep and
cattle. and horses and camels; 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 some
thing 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, n they had been
treated somewhat roughly, the lord of
but saying at the 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!
Bcn;amin-that very name was sug-
gestive 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 corr unless you bring
BENJAMIN. your fathers darling" Now
Jacob and his family very much needed
bread: but what a struggle il would he
to give up this SON.. The Orientals are
very demonstrative in their grief. and
hear the outwailing Of the father As
these elder sons keep reiterating in his
ears the announcement of the Egyptian
lord: "Ye shall not sec my face unless
your brother be with you"
why did you tell them that you had
a brother?" said the old man. complain
ing and Gliding them. Why. father
they said. ''he asked us all about our
family and we had no idea be would
make any such demand upon us as he
has made" NO use of asking me-
said the father, II cannot, ! will not
give up Ben jamin." The fact was that
the old man had lost children; and
when there has been bereavement in a
household, and a child taken. il makes
the other children in the household
more precious. So the day for de-
parture was adjourned. and a adjourned,
and adjourned Still the horrors of the
famine increased and louder moaned
the cattle, and wider open cracked the
earth. and more pallid became the
cheeks. until Jacob in despair cried on,
TO his sons, Take benjamin and be off,
Well, the bread party-the bread EN-.
ba~ssy-drives up in front of the corr
crib OF Egypt The lord of the corr
crib, who is also the prime minister.
come. down to these arrived travellers
and saws: ''Dine with me to-day. How
is your father? Is this benjamin. the
OUNCE brother whose presence ! de.
manded?' The travellers are introduced
into the palace. The butchers and
poulterers and caterers of the prime
minister prepare the repast The
guests are seated in small groups, two
or three at n table. the food on a tray;
all the luxuries from imperial gardens,
and orchards, and aquariums, and avi-
aries are brought there and are filling
chalice and platter. Now Is the time
for this prime minister, IL he has q
grudge against Benjamin, to show it
Will he kill him now that he has him
in hi. hands? o. no! This lore of the
orn crib ID seated ut his own table and
he looks over to the table Of his guests,
and he sends a portion to each of Them,
but sends q larger portion TO Benjamin,
or. as the Bible quantity puts it: Ben
iamin's mess was five times @ much n
any of theirs" Be quick n send
word back with the swiftest camel to
Canaan to old Jacob that benjamin is
well; all is we'll; he is faring sumptu.
ously; the Egyptian lord did not mean
murder and death: he meant deliver
ance and life when he announced "a us
on that day: We shall not see my face
unless your brother be with yon'"
Well, my friends this world Is famine
struck of sin. 1t does not yield a single
crop of solid satisfaction IL is dying,
It is hunger bitten The fact that il
does not. cannot feed a mans heart
vas well illustrated in the life OF the
English comedian All the world hon
ored him-did everything for him tina,
the world could do He was applauded
in England and applauded in the United
~ He roused I'D nations into