The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-02
FAMINE-STRUCK.
Either Christ or Famine. Either Feas,
or Starvation.
NO Such Thing az Getting Pardon From
Heaven Unless Our Divine saviour IL
With Us In Our souls-TaI-
IMAGES Sermon.

taken from GeneSiS xiii, 43: I'VE shall
not see my face, except your brother
BE- with you"
This summer, having crossed eight.
cen of the United States North, south.
East and West, | have to report the
snightiest harvests that this country or
any other country ever reaped. If the
grain gamblers do not somehow wreck
these harvests we are about to enter
upon the grandest 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 ma
tions threatened 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
prosperity and their want NAV not be as
sharp as in the lands referred to by nv
text. There was nothing to eat Plen-
ty of corn in Egypt, hut CHASTITY famine
in Canaan. The cattle moaning in the
stall. Men, women and children aw-
fully white with hunger. Not the fail
ing of one crop for one summer, butthe
failing of all the crops for seven years
A nation dying for lack of that which
tie 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 -four bin, and he finds
that every thing is out; and he 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
a great corn-crib in Egypt The people
of Egypt have been largely taxed in all
ages, at the present time paying be-
tween 20 and so per cent. of their
products to the government. No won
der 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 cam
els; 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, and they had been
treated somewhat roughly, the lord of
the corn-crib supplying them with corn,
but saying at the close of the inter-
view: Nov, you need not come back
here for any moro corn unless you
bring something better than money -
even your younger brother Benjamin" :
All Benjamin-that very name was
suggestive of all tenderness. The
mother had died at the birth of that
soma spirit coming and another spirit
the very thought Of parting !,
with Benjamin must have been heart
break.
The keeper of this corn-crib, never
theless, says to these older sons: =.
There is no need of your coming here j,
any more for corn, unless you bring /,
your fathers darling" Now
Jacob and his family very much needed
bread; but what struggle it would be
20 give mp this son. The Orientals are
yery demonstrative in their grief, and
near the outwailing of the father as
hese older sons keep reiterating in his !
ears the announcements of the Egyptian !,
ord, eye shall not see my face unless
'our brother be with you" "Why did
'ou tell them you had brother?" said
he old man, complaining and Gliding
hem. IVY, father" they said, 'he
sked us about our family, and we had
10 idea he would make any such de-
nand upon us as he has made. mo
sc of asking me-" said the father, ~
an not, I will not, give up Benja- r.
nin." 81
The fact was that the old man had q
est children; and when there had been u
bereavement in a household, and II
hid taken, it makes the other chill y
rem in the household more precious u
o the day for departure was adjourn a
d and adjourned, and adjourned. Still
ne horrors of the famine increased, u
nd louder moaned the cattle, and o.
rider open cracked the earth, and u
lore pallid became the checks, until p
acob, in despair, cried out to his sons, N
Take BENJAMIN and be Off" The ~
Ider sons tried to cheer up their 81
lther. They said 1--WE have strong al
rms and stout heart and no harm IN
i'll come to BENJAMIN. Wen see that al
e gets back again" FAREWELL" said oil
he young men to the father, in a tone ON
assumed good cheer, Fare 10
-e-l-l-w said the old man; for that 10
ord has more quavers in it when pro- Ia
by the aged than by the OF