Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-10

THE BROOKLYN DIvINEs SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject. 'The Corncrib of Egypt :.

Subject: "The Corncrib of Egypt
TEXT: "Ye shah not see my face, except
your brother be Nth you."-GeDesis, xiii, 3.
This summer, having crossed eighteen Of
the United States, North, South, East and
West have to report the mightiest har,
vests that this country or any other
country ever reaped. If the grain gam
blers do not somehow wreck these har-
vests, we are about to enter upon the grand
est scene of prosperity that America has
ever witnessed. But while this is 50 in our
own country, on the other side of the At
iantic there are nations threatened with
famine, and the most dismal cry that is
ever heard will 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. fam
inc in Canaan The cattle moaning in the
stall Men, women and children awfully
white with hunger Not the failing of one
crop for one summer, but the failing of all
the crops for seven years A nation dying
for lack of that which is so common on your
table, and so little appreciated; the product
of harvest field, and grist-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 finds
that everything Is out; and he
says to his sons; boys, hook up the wag-
ons and start for Egypt, and get us some
thing 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 between sew
enty and eighty per cent of their products
to the government. No wonder in that
time nhey had a large corn crib, and
it was full To that crib they came from
the regions round about--those who were
fanished--some paying for corn in money;
when the money was exhausted, paying for
the corn in sheep and cattle, and horses and
cames; and when they were exhausted, then
selling their own bodies and their families
into slavery.
The morning for starting out on the cru
SADIE for bread had arrived. Jacob gets his
family up very early. But before 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-crih supplying them with corn, but say
ing at the close OF the interview: Now,
you need not come back here for any
more corn unless you bring something
brother Benjamin All! Benjamin--that
very name was suggestive of all tenderness
The mother had died at the birth of tbs t sor
"a spirit coming and another spirit going
land the very thought of parting will
benjamin must have been a heart-break
The keeper of this corn-crib,. nevertheless
| saws to these older sons: There Is no neec
! of your coming here any more for corn un
less you bring Benjamin, your fathers dar
ling,' Now Jacob and his family very
much needed bread; but what struggl
| it would be to give up this son. IN
Orientals are very demonstrative in thei
| grief, and | hear the outwailiRg OF the fathe
as these older ones keep re1teratng IN m
| ears the announcement or the Egyptian
lord, I'VE shall not see my fs ce unless you
brother be with you" ''Why did you te
them YOU had a brotherm said the oil
man. complaining and Gliding them
"Why, father" they said, The asked U
all about our family, and we had no 1de
he would make any such demand N al5l,, upon n
said the father, ~ cannot, ! will not Civ
up Benjamin. The fact was that the oil
man had lost children; and when there hs
been bereavement in household, and
child taken, it makes the other children
the household more precious. SO the Ola
for departure adjourned. and adJourne'
and adjourned Still the horrors of I'll
famine increased, and louder moaned IL
cattle, and wider open cracked the cart
and more pallid became the cheeks, unit
Jacob, in despair, cried out TO his sou
ssTake Benjamin and be off," The old
sons tried to cheer up their father. The
said: 1--WE have strong arms and a sto'
heart, and no harm will come to BanJami
Wen see that he gets back again. Far
u well.n said the young man to the father,
-. fess,e. of assumed good cheer. Far.
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