The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-09-08
THE C9RNCRIB OF EGYPT.
NO ADMITTANcE TO GODS BOUNTY
UNLESS CHRIST GO WITH YOU.


The CpnAttion Imposed That B.rJa-
min should GO Into Egypt with His
Bretb rem BerJ amin y Typo or Oh rIst.
BROOKLYN. Aug. 30.-The cabled
reports of mea0er larvests in Europe.
ripening grain which DIR. Talmage saw
during his recent tour in the west, baye
combined TO turn bis thoughts back to
that patriarcbal time when all the world
sent TO Egypt to buy corn and to sug-
gest Gospel lesson. HIS text is GEN
esis xiii, 3, "Ye shall not see my face,
except your brother be with YOU"
This summer, having crossed eighteen
oi the Unit, d States-north, south, east
and wcst--l hayc to report the migh:iest
harvests that this country or any other
country ever reaped. If the grain gam
blcrs do not somehow wreck these har-
vests We are about TO euter upon the
grandest scene OF prosperity that Amer
lea has ever Witnessed. But while this
is so in our own country, on the other
side of Tie Atlantic there are nations
threatened with famine, aud the most
dismal cry that is ever heard will, 1
fear, be uttcrcd-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
nv text. There was nothing to eat.
Plenty of corn in Egypt, but ghastly
famine IN Canaan. The cattle moaning
in The stal. Men, women and children
awiully white with hunger. Not the
failing If one crop for one summer, but
the falling of all the crops for seven
Years. "A nation dying for lack OF that
which j, SO common on your table and
so little appreciated; the product Of har-
vest 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 every thing is out, and he says to
hs sons. Boys, hook up the wagons
and start ior Egypt and get us solne-
thing IT, cat"
The fact was there was great corn
crib in Egypt. The people of Egypt
have been largcls taxed in all ages, at
the present time paying between 20 and
so per cent. of their products to the
government. No wonder in that time
they had Il large corncrlo. and it was
iull. TO that crib they came from the
regions round about-those who were
,amishea-.aOme paying for corn in
money; wien the money was exhausted,
paying for the corn III sheep and cattle
and horses and camels, and when they
were exhausted, then selling their Own
bodies and their families into slavery.
THE SORROW OF JACOB.
The mOrning for starting out on the
crusade foI 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 emo
tion irom lead to foot and burst into
tears. The TACT was that these elder
sons had oncc before been in Egypt to
get corn, and they had been treated
somew at roughly, The lord Of the corn
crib supplying ths IN with corn, but say
ing at lie close Of the interview, "Now,
you nend not come back here for any
more corn unless you bring something
better than money-even your younger
brother Benjamin.
All! Northumberland very name was
suggestive OF all tenderness. The mo-
ther hau died at the birth of that soma
spirit coming and another spirit going
and the very thought of parting with
Benjamin must have been heart break.
The keeper Of this corncrib, neverthe-
less, saN TO these older sons, "There
is no need of your coming here any
more for corn unless You bring Bcuja-
min, your tather's darling" 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 outwailing of the father as these
older sons keep reiterating in hia ears
The announcements of the Egyptian lord,
"Ye shall not see my face unless your
brother be with YOU" why did you
tell them you had brother" said the
old man, complaining and chidin@ them.
why, iather," they said 'he asked us
all about our family, and we had no idea
he would make any such demand upon
us as he has made" mo use of ask
ing me-" SAID the father, II cannot, L
will not. give up benjamin."
The iact was that the old man had lost
children; aud wnen there has been be-
reavem ent in a household, and child
taken, 10 makes the other children in the
househ, id tuOrv precious. SO the day
for departure was Adjourned and adj
journed and adjourned. Sill the hor-
rols OF tho famine incrcas ID. and louder
moaned tho cattle and wider open crack
ed the earth and more pallid became the
checks, untii Jacob. in despair, cried out
to his sons, Take BENJAMIN and be otl."
The older sons tried TO cheer up their.
father. They said: "Wc have strong
arms ard a stout heart, and no harm
will come 10 Benjamin.. Wen see that
he gets back again" FAREWELL" said
the young mcnto the father, IN tone
OF assumed good cheer. ''F'a-r-e-
w-e-l-l!" said she old man, fer that
word has more quavers in it when pro-
nounced by Ite AGED than by the young.
Well, the bread 'party-thc bread en-
bassy-- drives up in front OF The corncrIb
OF Egypt. These corncribs are filled
with wheat and farley and corn in the
husk, fer those who have travelled in
Canaan and Egypt know that there is
corn there corresponding with our In
dian maize. Huzza! the journey is end
ed. The lord OF the corncrib, who is
also the prime minister, comes down TO
these arrived travellers, and says: "Dine
with me today. How is your father? Is
this benjamin, the younger brother,
whose presence [ demanded" The
travellers are introduced into the palace.
They are worn and bedusted of the way,
and servants come in with basin of
water in one hand and towel In the
other, and kneel down before these
newly arrived travellers, washing off the