Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-07
THE FULL CORNCRIB.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S GLOWING PIC
TURE OF PASTORAL LIFE.

Its Resuit-A Cure For Sin Starved
I Souls.
WASHINGTON, Sept 6.-No one not
born and brought up in the country
could preach sermon like this of DR..
Talmage. 1t is pastoral and full of
scenes from country life The text is
Genesis xiii, 3, And Judah spake unto
him saying, The man did solemnly pro-
test unto Us, saying, Ye shall not see
my face, except your brother be with
you.
Nothing to eati Plenty of corn in
Egypt, bat CHASTITY famine il Canaan.
The cattle moaning IN the stall. Men,
women and children awfUlly whiteswith
hunger. Not the failing Of one crop for
one summer, but the failing Of all the
crops for seven years. Z nation dying
for lack Of that which is so common on
your table and so little appreciated, the
product of harvest field and gristmin
and oven, the price CT sweat and anxiety
and struggle-bread! Jacob, the father,
has the last report from the flour 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. y 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 a large corncrib,
and it was full. To that crib they came
from the regions around about-those
who were falnished-some paying for
the corn in money; wken the money
was exhausted paying for the corn in
sheep and cattle and9lOrses and camels,
and when they We're exhausted then
selling their own bodies and their fam
lilies into slavery.
The Mission.
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 corn
crib supplying them with corn, but say
ing at the close of the interview, CHOW,
yOu 1IOOu HOb CO1i4O O<tCA u0lS IOI any
more corn unless you bring something
better than money-eyen your younger
brother Benjamin. All! Benjamin
that very name was suggestive of all
tenderness. The mother had died at the
birth Of that son-a spirit coming and
another spirit going-and the very
thought of parting with Benjamin must
have been heartbreak. The keeper of
this coIncrilA nevertheless, says to
these elder sons, s"Fhere is no need of
your coming up here any more for corn
unless you can bring Benjamin, your
fathers darling" Now, Jacob and his
family very much needed bread, but
what a struggle it would be to give up
this son! The orientals are very demon
strative in their grief, and 1 hear the
outwailing Of the father as these elder
sons keep reiterating in his ears the an
nouncement of the Egyptian lord, eye
shall not see my face unless your brother
be with you. Why did you tell him
you had a brother?'' says the old man,
complaining and chiding them. 'Why,
father they said, che asked US all
about our family, and we had no idea
that he would make any such demand
upon US as he has made. mo use of
asking me, y said the father 81 cannot,
will not, give up Benjamin. -
The fact was tha& the old man had
lost children and when there has been
bereavement in household and child
taken it makes the other children in
the household more precious. So the day
for departure was adjourned and adj
journed and adjourned. Still the hor-
rors Of the famine increased, and louder
moaned the cattle, and wider open
cracked the earth, and more pallid be-
came thecheeks, until JaoDb, in despair,
cried out to his sons, "Take Benjamin
and be of = The older sons tried to cheer
up their father. They said: I'VE have
strong arms and u stout heart and no
harm will come to Benjamin. Well
see that he gets back again. ssFare-
welll'' said the young men to the father,
in q tone of assumed good cheer.
t'F-a-r-e-w-e-l-li'' said the old man; for
that word has more quavers in it when
pronounced by the aged than by the
young.
It's Result.
Well, the bread party. the bread en-
bassy, drives up in front of the corn
crib Of Egypt. Those corncribs are filled
with wheat and barley and corn in the
husk, for modern travellers in those
lands, both IN Canaan and in Egypt,
tell us there is corn there correspond
ing with our Indian maize. Huzzal The
journey is ended. The lord Of the corn
crib, who is also the prime minister,
comes down to these newly arrived trav-
elers, and says: ''Dine with me today.
How is your father? Is this Benjamin,
the younger brother whose present de-
manded?'' The travellers are introduced
into the palace They are worn and be-