Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-10
THE CORNCRlB OF EGYPT.
NO ADMlTTANcE TO GODS BOUNTY
UNLESS CHRIST GO WITH YOU.

UNLESS IHhiol W WIFI YOU.
The Famine That Was Sore in All Land.
The Condition Imposed That Benja.
min Should Go into Egypt with Hi.
Brethren-Benjamin a Type OF Christ.
BBooKLYH. Aug. 30.-The cabied reports
of meager haryests in Europe and the
memory of the vast crops of ripening grain
which Dr. Talmage saw during his recent
tour In the west have combined TO turn
his thoughts back 20 that patriarchal time
when all the world sent to Egypt TO buy
corn and to suggest Gospel lesson. His
text is Genesis xiii, 8, eye shall not see
my face, except your brother be with you. y
This summer, having crossed eighteen of
the United States-north, south east and
west-I have TO report the mightiest har-
vests that this country or any other coun-
try ever reaped. II the grain gamblers
do not somehow wreck these haryests we
are about TO enter upon the grandest scene
of prosperity that America has ever wit
messed. But while this is so in our own
country, on the other side Of the At
lantic there are nations threatened with
! famine. and the most dismal cry that is
ever heard will. fear. be uttered-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 my
text There was nothing to eat. Plenty
of corn hn Egypt, but CHASTITY famine ia
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 so common on your
table and SO little appreciated; the prod
uct of harvest field aud grist mill and
oven. the price Of sweat and anxiety and
straightforward 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 something TO eat"
The fact was there was a great corncrib
in Egypt. The people Of Egypt have been
largely taxed in all ages, at the present
time paying between 10 and so 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
came from the regions round about-those
who were farnished-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 SORROW OF JACOB
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived Jacob gets
his 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 that these elder sons had once
before been IN Egypt to get corn. and
they bad been treated somewhat roughly.
the lord OF the corncrib supplying them
with corn, but saying at the close Of the
interview, NOW, yon need not come back
here for any more corn unless you bring
something better than money--even your
younger brother Benjamin
Ali Beuianin-that very name was sug- |
gestiye Of all tenderness. The mother had |
died at the birth Of that SOFIA spirit com. |
ing and another spirit going-aud the very |
thought Of parting with Benjamin must |
have been a heart break The keeper Of /
this cornerib, nevertheless, says to these |
older sons, There IS no need Of your com /
ing here any more for corn unless you
bring Benjamin, your fathers darling" /
Now, jacob and his family very much l
needed bread, but what a struggle it would 4
be to give up this son. The orientals are
very demoustrative in their grief, aud T
hear the outwailing Of the father as these
Older sons Keep reiterating in his ears the
Of the Egyptian lord, Eye
shalLnot see my face unless your brother
be with you why did you tell them
You had a brotherf" said the old man.
aud chidiug them "Why,
father" they said, che asked us all about
our family, and we had no idea he would
make any such demand upon us as be has
made. mo use Of asking me, " said the
father, Il cannot, will net, give up Ben
lamn."
The fact was that the old man had lost
and when there has been bereave.
nent 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 ad-
ourned. Still the horrors of the famine
and louder moaned the cattle
md wider open cracked the earth and
more pallid became the cheeks. until
Jacob, In despair, cried out TO his sons,
Take benjamin and be off. The older
'ons tried to cheer up their father. They
aid; I'VE have strong arms and stout
leart. and no harm viii come to Benjamin.
Well see chat be gets back again. ''Fare-
vell" said the young men TO the father, in
! tone Of assumed good cheer. Fare
y-e-ll y said the old man, for that word
las more quavers in it when pronounced
~ the aged than by the young.
Well, the bread party-the bread EN- bassy
drives up in front of the corncrib Of Egypt
These corncrihs are filled with wheat and
barley and corn In the husk, for those who
ave travelled in Canaan and Egypt know
hat there is corn there corresponding with
'ur Indian maize. Huzzai the journey is
nded The lord of the corncrib, who Is also
be prime minister, comes down to these
rrived travellers, and says: dine with me
oday How is your fatherf Is this Ben
amin, the younger brother, whose pres
nee demandedsn The travellers are in
reduced into the palace. They are worn
n