Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04

he has him in his handsY o, mol THIS
lord of the corn-crib is seated at his
own table, and he looks over to the
table OF his guests; and he sends
portion TO each of them, but sends a
larger portion to Benjamin, or, as the
Bible quantity puts it: "Benjamin's
mess was five times as much as
any of theirs" BE quick and send word
back with the swiftest camel 10 Canaan
to old Jacob, that "BenjaInin is well;
ali is we'll: he is faring sumptuously;
the Egyptian lord did not mean muir
dor and death; but he meant deliver
ence and life when he announced To MS
on that day: 'le shall not see my face
unless your brother be with you"
Well, nv friends. this world is fam
ine-struclS of sin. 1t does not yield a
single crop of solid satisfaction. 1t is
dying. 1t Is hunger bitten. The fact
tina: it does not, cannot, feed a mans
heart was well illustrated in the life of
the English comedian. All the world
honored him-did everything for HIM
that the world ,o1id dc. He was APP
plGuded in England and applauded
in the United States lie
reused up nations into laughter. He
had no equal. And yet, although many
people supposed him entirely happy,
and thai this world was completely sa-
tiating his soul, he sits down and writes:
II never in my life put On new hat,
that it did not rain and ruin II. l
neyer went out in shabby coat be-
cause it was raining and thought
all who had the choice would
keep indoors, that the sun did
not burst forth in it's strength and
bring out with it all the butterflies OF
fashion whom | knew and who knew
me. | never consented to accept part
hated. out of kindness to another,
that did not get Kissed by the public
and cut by the writer. / could not
take drive for few minutes with
Terry without being overturned and
having my elbow-eone broken, though
my friend got off unframed.
could not make covenant
with Arnold, which 1 thought was to
make my fortune without making his
| instead than in an Incredible space of
| timc-l think thirteen months
earned for hiIh 20, eco pounds, and for
myself one. ! am persuaded tha+ If |
were to set up as beggar. every one
| in my neighborhood would leave off
eating bread" That was the lament of
the worlds comedian and joker All UNI
happy. The world did every thing for
Lord Byron that it could do, and yet
| in his last moment he asks friend to
come and sit down by him and read,
as most appropriate to his case, the
story of "The Bleeding Heart" Tor
rigiano, the S ulp-or, executed, after
months of care and carving, Madonna
and the Child" The royal family came
in and admired it. Everybody that
| nf ~
stacy; but one day, after all that toll,
and all that admiration, because he did
not get as much compensation for his
work as no had expected, he took a
mallet and dashed the exquisite sculp-
ture into atoms. The world Is poor
compe. sat on, poor satisfaction, poor
solace. Famine, famine in all the
earth, not for seven years, but for six
thousand. But, blessed be God.
there is n great corn-crib. The Lord
built it. 1t is in another land IL is a
large place. An angel once measured
it, and as far as / can calculate it in
our phrase, that corn-crib is fifteen
hundred miles long and fifteen hun
dred broad, and FIFTEEN hundred high;
and it is full. Food fer all nations,
"O!' say the people, 1--WE
will start right away end get
this supply for our soul" But stop a
moment; for from the keeper of that
corn-crib there comes this word, saying:
"You shall not see my face except your
brother be with you" In other words,
there is no such thing as getting from
heaven pardon, and comfort, and eternal
life, useless we bring with us our Divine
Brother, the Lord Jesus Christ. Coming
without him we shall fall before VIC
reach the corn-crib, and our bodies
shall be portion for the jackals of
the Wilderness; but coming with the
Divine Jesus all the granarieso of heaven
will swing open before our soul, and
abundance shall be given us. We
shall be invited TO sit in the
palace of the King and at the table;
and while the Lord of heaven is appcr-
tioning from his own table to other
tables he will not forget us; and then
and there it will be found that our
Benjamin's mess is larger than all the
others, for so it ought to he. Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain, to receive
blessing, and riches, and honor, and
glory, and power
My TRENDS, you see il is either
Christ or famine. If there were two
banquets spread, rnd to one of them,
only, you might go, you might stand
and think for good while as TO which
invitations yoI had better accept, but
here it is feastlng or starvation. If it
were choice between oratorios,
yod might say Il prefer the
Creation or II prefer tn Mes
slah. " But here it is choice be-
tween eternal harmony and everlast-
ing discord. O, will you live or die?
VIII you start for the Egyptian corn
crib, or will you perisl amid the
empty barns of the Canaanitish lam
inc? aye shall not see my face except
your brother be with you"