The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-02
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TnE NOTED DTvINEs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects "Fuu 0rannrics.''

thkt Ah. man dli a1'eHniR protest unto ~.
saying 10 fhall not saa NV face exeept your
brother be with you. '-GenesIs kilt, 8.
Nothing % aar Plenty Of corn IN Esyps.
INT fl1atly famine ln Cannon The cattle
mn1n'ng in the stan Men. women nnd
children. nwIully white with hunger. Not
tne falling NJ one crop Tor one summer. bat
ihe hiIing 81 on the crops Tor seven yoars.
a Nation dying I'm lack ~ that which "a eo
common on your table, and so little apure-
eimed, tho product az harvest neld ana
eust mill and oven. the nrIcN of sweat and
anxiety and struggle-Breadi Jacob. the
rather, has tho ast report from the 1our BIN.
Nnd he tludR that everything q out; and ha
saws % his sons. "D0ya. hook up thewarona
ana START Tor Eypt. and get ne somethingto
cay The Tact was, there vas q crent corn
ern On Egypt Tho people Of Egypt have
been larrelv taxed I'M an aces. AZ tho present
time paying between seventy and eighty ner
cent OF their products 90 The Government.
40 wonder IN that time fhev had n large
cornerlh and u was full To That crib they
came from the regOus around nhout-thOse
VINO were iamished-5ome paving for the
corn TN money when the monov was ex-
haustei, having for the corn M sheen and
cattle and horses and camee, and when they
were exhausted. then selling tholr own
bodies and their families into slavery.
SAGE iorhread has arrived. Jacob gets his fam
lily up very easily. Rut before the elder sons
start they say something that makes him
tremfle with emotion from head 10 foot and
burst into tear. The fact was TINT these
elder sons Ind once before been In Fyvpt TO
get corn and they han hpen treated some
what roughly, the lord OF the corn-crlh sup
plying them with corn, but saying NJ the
close 81 the interview, "Now, you need not
come back here for any more corn unless YOU
bring something better than monav-aven
your younger brother BENJAMIN" Ali Ben
lamln-that very name was suggestive OF all
Tenderness The mother had died ut the
hlrth OF that son-a spirit coming and an-
other spirit going-and the very thought OF
parting with Benjamin must have been a
heaHbreak. The keeper OF this corn-crib.
nevertheless, says 10 these elder sons. "rhere
Is no need Of your coming MP here any more
Tor corn unless Won can bring B,miamin.
your fathers darling" Now Jacob and his
family very much needed bread but what
struggle It would be to give uD THE son. The
Ottentals are very demonstraiive In their
grief and hear the outwallng OF the father
as tfese elder sons keep reltOrating in his
ears the announcement Of the Egyptian lord.
I'VE shall not see nv face unless your brother
be with you." "Why did YOU tell him you
had brother2' says the old man complain
" r.
said, "he asked us all about our family and
we had no idea that he would make any such
demand uponus as he has made" ''No use Of
asking me" said the father. ~ can not,
viii not give mp Benjamin" The fact was
that the old man had lost children. and when
there has been bereavement In a household,
and child taken. It makes the other chill
dren In the household more precious. So
the day for the departure was adjourned and
a. a l. A..
increased. and louder moened the cattle and
wider open oracke the earth. and more pal
lid became the cheeks, until Jacob. IN de-
spair, cried out 10 his sons, "Take Benjamin
and be of" The older sons tried to cheer
up their father. They said: ave have
strong arms and a stout hear. and no harm
will come to benjamin. We'll see that he
gets back again. FAREWELL" said the young
men TO the father, in a tone Of assumed good
cheer. "F-a-r-e-w-e.l-l!" said the old man;
Tor that word has more quavers In il when
pronounced by the aged than by the young.
Well, the bread party, the bready embassy,
drives up in front oftbe cnrn-crlb OF Egypt.
Those corn-oribs are filled with wheat and
barley and corn In the husk, for modern
travellers in those lands, both In Canaan and
la Egypt tell us there Is corn there CORE
spending with our Indian maize. Huzza!
The journey IS ended, The lord of the corn
GAiDg WIN - ul5O AlH 1Illu6 NlulSlbIe EOul6S
down to these newly-arrived travellers, and
says, "Dine with me to-day. How is your
father? Is this Benjamin, the younger brother
whose presence demanded2" 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 be-
fore these newly arrived Travellers washing
off the lust Of the way The butchers and
M 0ufn - a iuon n
prepare the repast. The guests are seated in
small groups, two or three at table, the
food on a tray; all the luxuries from im-
perlal gardens and orchards and aquariums
and aviares are brought there, and are fll-
ing chalice and platter. Now Is the time for
this Prime Minister IL he has a grudge
against Benjamin, to show II. viii he kill
him, now that he has him In his hands2 o,
no, This lord OF the cOrn-crib is seated at
his own table, and he looks over the tables
Of his guests; and he sends a portion to each
Of them, but sends larger portion to Ben
amin or, as the Bible quantity puts IT.
hBenjamin's mess vas We times as much as
any Of theirs" Be quick and send word back
with the swiftest camel to Canaan to old
Jacob. that Benjamin Is faring we'll; all Is
we'll; he is faring sumptuously; the Egyptian
lord did not mean murder and death; but he
meant deliverance and life when he an
nounced TO us on that day, 'Ye shall not sef
my face unless your brother be with you.
Well, my friends, this world is famine
struck Of sin. 1t does not yield single
crop OF solid satisfaction. It Is dying. 1t L
hunger-bitten The fact that it does not, car
not feed mans heart was we'll illustrated
in the life OF the English comedian. AL thu
world honored him-dd everything for hin
that the world could do He was applaudet
in England and applauded in the UniteC
States. He reused ny Nations into laughter
He had no equal. And yet, although man.
people supposed him entirely happy, ant
that this world was completely satisfying hi
SOUL he sits down and writes:
~ never in my life put on new hat tina
1t did not rain and ruin 1t. never went on
IN a shabby coat because It was raining ant
thought all who had the choice would kee
indoors, that the sun did not come out in it
strength and bring out with ii all the butter
flies of fashion whom I knew and who kne'
me. I never consented to accept part
hated out of kindness 10 another, that di
not get Kissed by the public and cut by th
writer I could not take a drive for fey