The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-27

ana GE0E ER6re was none other &c
highly honorsd as Joseph. save the
king, and only I'm the throne was he,
the king, creator than Joseph. God
Now, there, is not, as far as we can
sec, o word in all this sacred nara
tive, as to why the famine existed, but
| It emphatically says 1t did exist, there.
| fore take the simple narrativoi "And
the famine was over all the face OF the
earth" as Gods true declaration OF an
existing fact. and it is none of my bust
ness to question God as to why 1t was
allowed to exist. 1t Is sufficient for
me to know, the famine was over all
the face Of the earth, for God said SO.
And suppose those poor famine
stricken people, whose wives and chill
dren were perishing with hunger, did
not stop to argue much about the
cause or why the famine existed, or
exhausted their ingenuity In formu-
latinR some plan to get food some
other way, but am inclined to believe
they lust went as fast as they could
to Egypt, and following the plain
command OF the King, go unto
Joseph" they went and bought corn,
and were fed and did live.
Now, dear reader, perphaps you have
heard all you wish to hear about this
great famine In Egypt. but bear withme
little, while i relate to you q few
facts about that other great famine
which Adam precipitated upon all his
posterity by disobeying God. And,
perhaps as WAS starving, perish
ing man, and was really and positive
ly in this famine of famines, without
food, without shelter, without happi-
ness, without hope, without eternal
life, my own experience may not be
embarrassing to you. This moral or
spiritual famine in which the human
race have been placed by dlsobe-
dience before God Is in manner like
the famine of our text, cover all the
face of the earth" 1t reaches to all
the whole race Of man. He is corrupt
from the crown Of his head to the sole
OF his foot. That Is my experience.
There is not In all the native heart of
man one single shadow of soil which
can produce q single grain of life.giv-
ing food. But barren as death Is his
whole moral nature, and human wis
dom and human power Is as helpless
to rescue him as it would be to pluck
the sun at MONDAY out OF the heavens.
Man cannot redeem himself.
The viris OF sin, with all its deadly
poison. has permeated every avenue
of his being. And, with all his | o,st-
ed attainments with all his wondrous
capabilities, with all his mastery and
gigantic intellect, with all his know
ledge, with all his wisdom and learn,
ing combined, with which he has been
! enabled to traverse the trackless ocean
and mount up into the .heayens and
catch the fork ed lightning and hold
| it in his grasp, and make it do his bid
ding and carry his thoughts with all
its Bwiftness to earth'S remotest
bounds, and measures the planets in
| their far off spheres, and marks their
course, md traces their pathway
through the immensely OF space with
unerring precision, yet he cannot
wipe out one single stain OF inherent
sin, or stop the outward flow OF in
iquity which has its rise in the human
heart, ana is overlooking the world
to-day with misery woe and death.
Nor can he check. or keep back the
power Of Satan, who with all his
mighty engines, and force pumps, is
flooding his poor weak and fallen ma.
ture with lies, deception and deceit.
So you see he is completely lost and
under the dominion OF Satan, and in
the hopelessness of his condition he is
ready to exclaim. Oh! wretched man
that | am, who shall deliver me from
the body of this death" Our necessity
and condition calls for divine inter.
ference, and divine help. Without it
We perish. ....
"Plungcd in gulf OF dark, despair,
We wretched SINNERS lay
Without one cheering beam of hope
Or spark OF gimmering day"
But hark-the wailIng cry of starv.
ing, perishing race, a sore famished
race" u race without the bread of life,
dying race, has been heard by the
Eternal King, who 80 loved the world
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whatsoever belieyeth in him
should not perish, but have eternal
life"
with plying eyes the Prince of Peace,
lieheld our helpless gIiet;
He saw (and oh amazing lovc,)
He ran TO our relief"
And he has come and tells us ia
search the Scriptures, for in them ye
think We have eternal llie,n and they
are they which testify OF me- Testify
of Jesus Christ. 1t has pleased God in
his wisdom and goodness, in all his
dealings with man to work through
human agencies.
Holy men of old wrote the Scrip
lures as the miUd of God lnditGd, aud
from the beginning to the end the lin
ger of God was pointing 10 the climax
of all human agencies Jesus Christ
Here was human and divine agencies
blended in our grand and eternal and