Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-31
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Europe, and the memory Of the vast
crops OF ripening grain which DR.. Tai
mage saw during his recent tour In the
West, have combined 10 turn his
thoughts back to that patriarchal time
when al the world sent TO Egypt to buy
corn and 70 suggest Gospel lesson. His
text was Genesis 43: 3, "Ye shall not see
my face, except your brother be with
YOU"
This summer, having crossed eigh-
teen Of the United States, North, South,
East and West, ] have 10 report the
mightiest harveSts that this country or
any other country ever reaped. II 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 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
fear DE uttered, the cry Tor 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 CHASTITY IA
mine in Canaan. Men, women and
children awfully white with hunger
Not the failing OF one crop
for one summer, but the falling
OF all the crops for seven
years. A nation dying for lack of that
which is 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 strug-
gle-Breadl Jacob the father has the
last report from the -four bin, and he
finds that everything 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
q great cOrn-crib in Egypt. The people
% Egypt have been largely taxed in all
ages, at the present time paying be-
tween seventy and eighty per cent. OF
their products TO the government. No
wonder in that time they had large
cOrn-crib, and it was full. To that crib
they cane from the regions round about
those who were farmers-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 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 c0rn-crib supplying them with corn
but saying at the close Of the inter-
r1r1rrS FAR ur.El--naad, not coma hack
bring something better than money
even your younger brother Benjamin"
All! Beniamin-that very name was
suggestive of all tenderness. The mo-
Their had died at the birth of that SON
spirit coming and another spirit going
and the very though Of parting with
Benjamin must have heen heart-break.
The keeper Of this corn crib, nevertheless
saws to these older sons: "There Is no
need Of your coming here any more for
corn unless you bring Benjamin, your
fathers darling" Now Jacob and his
family very much needed bread, but
what struggle 1t would be to give up
this son. The 0rientaiS are very de-
mOnstratlve In their grief and hear
the Outwailng Of the father as these
older sons kept reiterating in his ears
the announcement 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 Gliding
them. "Why, father" they said, she
asked us all about our family and we
had no idea that he would make any
such demand upon US as he has
made" 'NO use OF asking me, Z"
said the father; 'I cannot, 1 will
not give up Benjamin" The fact
was that the old man had lost chill
dren. and when there has been be-
reavement in a household, and child
taken, il 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
became the cheeks, until Jacob, in de-
spair, cried out TO his sons, Take Ben
jamin and be off," The older sons
tried to cheer up their father. They
said: "We have strong arms and q
stout heart, and no harm will come to
BENJAMIN. Wen see that he gets back
again." FAREWELL said the young
men 70 the father, in tone Of assumed
good cheer. "F-a-r-e-w-e-l-l!" 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 Of Egypt. These cOrn-cribs are
filed with wheat, and barley, and corn
IN the huSk, for those who have travelled
in Canaan and Egypt know that there is
corn there corresponding with our In
dian maize. Huzza! the journey is
ended. The lord Of the corn-crib, who
is also the Prime Minister, comes down
to these arrived travellers, and says:
"Dine with me to-day. How is your
father? Is this Benjamin, the younger
brother whose presence I demanded?"
The travellers are introduced into the
palace. They are worn and bedusted OF
the way; and servants come in with a
basin of water In one hand and towel
In the other, and kneel down before
these newly-arrived travellers, washing
of the dust of the way. The butchers,
and poulterers, and caterers 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 Injuries from i'm
perial gardens, aud orchards, and &C
ann-inrns md nuiarlas are hrnnrhA