The Penn's Grove record., 1891-09-11
.REV. DR.. HALNAGES SERMON
Ths Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
,ubIect. srhe corncrlb of Egypt.

This summer having crossed eighteen OF
he United States, North, South, East ani
Vest, l have to report the mightiest her-
-ests that this country or any other
,lers do not somehow wreck these bar
vests. we are about to enter upon the grsni-
st scene of prosperity that America las
yer witnessed. But while this is so in orr
iwn country, on the ether side of the At
sntic there are nations threatened with
anime, and the most dismal cry that is
yer heard will I fear be uttered, the cry
or bread. 1 pray God that the contrast
,etweea 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 ghastly fam
ne 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
Tor lack of that which is so common on your
table, AMI SO little appreciated; the product
Of harvest field, and grist-mi1. and oven; the
| price of sweat, and anxiety, and struggle
| Breadi Jacob the father has the last
report from the Aour-bin, and ne finds
/ that everything Is out; and he
says to his sons; Boys, hook up the wag-
ons and start for Egypt, and get US m
thing to eat.n The fact was. there was a
I E.JPt hhNC VI 5f
at the present time paying between sew
enty and eighty per cent. Of their products
| to the government. No wonder in that
| time Ghey had a large corn crib, and
| 1t was full. To that crib they came from
the regions round about-those who were
famished-some paying for corn in money;
when the money was exhausted, paying for
| the corn in sheep and cattle, and horses and
camels: and when they were exhausted, then
selling their own bodies n their families
into slavery.
The morning for starting out On the cru
SADIE for bread had arrived. Jacob gets bis
family up very early. But before the elder
sons start they say something that makes
him tremble with emotion from head to
foot. INC burst into tears. The fact was,
that these elder sons had onos 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 the close OF the interview: snow,
YOU need not come back here for any
more corn unless you bring something
better than m~oney-even your younger
brother Benjamin" Ali Benjamin-that
very name was suggestive of all tenderness.
The mother had died at the birth of tbs t son
"a 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,
saws to these older sons: "fhere is no need
Of your coming here any more for corn I'M
less you bring Benjamin, your fathers dar-
ling.n Now Jacob and his family very
much needed bread; but what . struggle
it would be to give up this son. The
Orientals are very demonstrative In their
grief, and / hear the outwaiting OF the father
as these older ones keep reiterating In his
ears the announcement Of the Egyptian
lord, I'VE shall not see my ice unless your
them YOU had a brotherr said the old
man, complaining and chiding them.
UWhy. father,n they said, ''he asked us
all about our family, n We had no idea
he would make any such demand upon us
IS he has made" mo use OF asking me, "
said the father. II cannot, I will not giys
up Benjamin" The fact was that the old
man had lost children; and when there has
been bereavement in a household, and a
child taken, it makes the other children in
the hou sehold more precious. So the day
for departure adjourned, and 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 out to his sons,
nTake Benjamin and be off, The older
sons tried to cheer up their father. They
said: "We have strong arms and a stout
heart, and no harm will come to BENJAMIN.
Well see that he gets back again. Fare
1 W6IIT balu tu6 JoubE AAoh w - -
a tome Of assumed good cheer. Fare
w-ellT said the old man; for that word has
more quavers in 1t when pronounced by the
aged than by the young.
Well, the bread party-the bread embassy
drives up in front of the corn-crib Of
Egypt. These corn-cribs are filled with
wheat, and barley, and corn In the husk,
Tor those who rave travelled in Canaan and
Egypt know that there is corn there CORE
spondiug with our Indian maize. Huzza|
the Journey Is ended. The lord Of
the corn-crib, who is also the prime minis
ter, comes down to these arrived travellers,
and says: .sDine with ma to-day. How L
your fatherf Is this Benjamin, the younger
brother whose presence l d~emandedT' The
travellers are introduced into the palace
They are worn and bedusted Of the way
and servants come in with Q basin
Of water In one hand and a towel
in the other, and kneel down before
these newly-arrived Travellers washing on
the dust Of the way. The butchers, and
ooulterers, and caterers Of the prime min
ister prepare the repast. The guests ara
seated 10 small groups, two or three at q
table, the food on q tray; all the Injuries
from imperial gardens, and orchards, and
acquariums, and aviaries are brought
there. and are filing chalice and platter.
Now is the time for this prime minister, II
he has q Rrudge against Benjamin, to show
1 WIN be kill him, now that he has him in
il haudsf oh, mol This lord OF the corn,
rib is seated at his WI table, and he looks
1yer to the table OF his guests; and he sends
, portion to each of them, but sends q
be Bible quantity puts it: "Benja-
aims mess was five times as much as any
{ theirs.n Be quick and SEN word back
nth the swiftest camel to Canaan to old
Jacob, that Benjamin is well /; all Is well,
ne is faring sumptuously ; the Egyptian lord
did not mean murder and death; but he
meant deliverance and life when he an.
.louncsd TO us on that day .Ye shall not see
my face unless your brother be with you.'n
Well, my friends, this world is famine
struck of sin. 1t does not yield a single
crop OF solid satisfaction. 1t is dying. 1t
is hunger bitten. The fact that it does
not. cannot, feed a mans heart was well
Illustrated in the life of the English COM
edian All the world honored him-did
everything for him that the world could
do. He was a~pplauded in England and
spplauded in the United States. He reused
up nations into laughter. He had no
equal. And, yet although many people
this world was completely satiating his
soul, he sits down and writes: 81 never
in my life put on a new hat that 1t did not
rain aud ruin it. i never went out in q
aabby coat because it was raining and
ought all who had the choice would keep
l 1 tDUts, tHdl tbV odh oAA NV vi
its strength and bring out with it all the
utterfies of fashion whom l knew and
who knew me. / never consented to ac-
,ept a part / hated, out Of kindness to an
,ther, that I did not get Kissed by the
Yublic and cut by the writer. I could not
AXE a drive for a few minutes with Terry
without being overturned n having my
lbow-bone broken, though M friend got
If unharmed. | could not make a cove
,ant with Arnold, which / thought was to
lake my fortune without making his In
cad, than 10 an Incredible space Of time
think thirteen months-I earned for him
wenty thousand pounds, and for myself
me. l am persuaded that IL l were TO set up
Is a begssr. everyone in my neighborhood
would leave Cd eating bread" That was
the lament Of the worlds comedian and
Joker. An unhappy. The world did every.
thing for Lord Byron that IL could do. and
yet In his last moment he asks q friend to
come and sit down by him and read, as most
Appropriate to his case the story OF THE
Bleeding Heart T~orrigiAno, the sculptor
sxscuted, after months OF care and carving.
Madonna and the Child" The royal
family came in and admired IL. EVERYBODY
that looked at IL was In ecstasy; but one
hey. aft<s ~ thas tQQ md ~ thst Admtra-