The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-31
EGYPTS CORN CRIB.
THE MEAGER HARVESTS FURNISH
DIR. TALMAGE's TEXT.

Prosperity OF Our Country and the
Threatened Famine in Europe-The
Heavenly Corn Crib Always Open
for the People of God.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Aug. 30.-The cabIed
reports of meager harvests 10 Europe and
the memory of the vast crops of ripening
grain which Dr.sTalmage saw during his
recent tour in the west have combined to
turn his thoughts back to that patriarchal
time when all the world sent to Egypt to
buy corn, and TO suggest a gospel lesson.
His text is Genesis, xiii, 3: Eye shall not
see my face except your brother be with
you"
This summer, having crossed eighteen of
the United States, north, south, east and
west, l have to report the mightiest harvesss
that this country or any other country ever
reaped. II the grain gamblers do not some
how wreck these harvests, we are about to
| enter upon the Rrandest scene of prosperity
| that America has ever witnessed But
| while this Is SO In our own country on the
other side Of the Atlantic there are nations
threatened with famine, and the most dis
mai cry that is ever heard will, fear, be
nttered-the cry for bread. l 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 famine 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 30 common on your table, and so
| little appreciated; the product of harvest
| field, and grist mill and oven; tho 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 wagons and start for Egypts
| and get us something to eatn 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
10 aud 50 per cent. OF their products 10 the
| government. No wonder In that time they
had large corn crib, and it 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;
vnd when they we're 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
bis 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
that4these elder sons had once before beea in
Egypt TO get corn, ana they had been
| treated somewhat roughly, the lord Of the
corn-c-ib supplying them with corn but
saying at the close If the interview: Now
you need not come back here for any more
corn unless you bring something better than
| rnoneY-even your younger brother Ben
jamin." Ahl Benjamin-that very name
was suggestive of all tenderness. The
mother had died at the birth of that son
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-crio, nevertheless,
| says to these older sons: "There Is no need
OF your coming here any more for corn I'M
less you bring Benjamin, your fathers dar-
| ling" Now, jacob and his family very
much needed bread; but what struggle it
would be to give up this son. The Urient-
ais are very demonstrative In their grief,
and | hear the outwaling of the father as
these older sons keep reiterating in his ears
tho announcement of the Egyptian lord,
| I'VE shall not see my face unless your
brother be with you" "Why did YOU tell
them you had brotherg' said the old man.
complaining and Gliding them. "Why,
father" they SAID, The 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 asking
me-" said tho father, II cannot, I
will not give 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 household more
precious. So the day for departure was
| 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 be-
came the cheeks, until Jacob, in despair,
cried out 10 his sons, Take 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
cometo Benjamin. Wen see that he gets
back again" FAREWELL" said the young
men to the father, In a tone of assumed
good cheer. "Fa-r-e-w-e-l-ll" said the old
man; for that word has more quavers In it
when pronounced by the aged than by the
| young.
Well, the bread party-the bread en-.
bassy-drives up in front of the corn crib
| OK Egypt. These corn cribs are filled with
wheat, and barley, and corn in the husk,
| for those who have travelled in Canaan and
| Egypt know that there is corn there corr
responding with our Indian maize. Huzzai
the Journey is ended. The lord OF the corn
crib, who is also the prime minister, comes
down to these arrived travellers, and says:
/ 'Dlno Win me to-day. how Is your 1athers
| Is this Benjamin, the younger brother whose
presence demandedF' 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
q towel In the other, and kneel down before
these newly arrived travellers, wash
| ing off the dust of the way.
The butchers and poulterers, and cater
ers of the prime minister prepare
the repast. The guests are seated in small
groups, two or three at table, the food on
a tray, all the luxuries from imperial gar
| dens, and orchards, and aquariums, and
| aviaries are brought there, and are filling
chalice and platter. Now is the time for
| this prime minister, il he has grudge
/ against Benjamin, to show it. VIII he kill
! him, now that he has him in bis handss 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 hesendsa portion to each
| Of them, but sends larger portion to
| Benjamin, or, as the Bible quantity puts It:
| "Ben jamins mess was five times so much as
any OF theirs" Be quick and send word
] back with the swiftest camel to Canaan to
| old Jacob that "Benjemin is well; all is
well; he is faring sumptuously; the Egyp-
tian lord did not mean murder AMI death;
/ but he meant deliverance and life when lie
announced to us on that day: 'Heshall not
see my face unless your brother be with
you. ~
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