Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-09-23
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent DiVsne's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject. "Fun Grauaries."

TExr: "And in iah spaks unto him say,
nS, Fha man did soiemniy protest unto US,
sar,ng. Ye shail not see my face, except your
brother be with you. ."-Genesis kill, 8.
o'hing to eat! Plenty OF corn In Egypt
ut ghast'y famine in CarRan. The cattle
moaning IN the sta J. Nm, women anG
children, awfully white with hunger. Not
the failing OF one crop for one summer, but
the fatiing OF all the crops Tor seven years,
Nation dying for lack of that which Ia so
common on your table, and 80 little appre.
ciated; the product of harvest field and
grist mill and oven: the price of sweat and
anxiety AMI iusgle-Bread' Jacob, the
ani he finds that every hing Is out; and he
says to his sons: "B ,ys, hook up the wagons
and start for Egypt aud get us something to
ea;." The fact was, there was great corn
crib in Egypt. The people OF Egypt have
been LARGELY taxed in all ages, at the present
time paying between seventy and eighty per
cent. OF thsir products to the Government,
No wonder in thai time they had a large
corncrib and II was fuil. To that crib they
came from the regions around about-those
who We're famished-5ome paying for the
corn in money; when the money WAS ex-
haustei, paving for the corn in sheep and
Gait . and horses and camels; and when they
bodies and their families into slavery.
The morning for st arting out on the cru.
sade for bread has arrivsi Jacob gets his fam-
lily up very easily. But before the elder sons
start they say something that makes him
tremtie with emotion from head to foot, and
burst into tears. The fact was that these
elder sons had once before be N In Egypt to
get corn and they hao been treated some
what roughly, the lord OF the corn-crih sup
plying them with corn, but saying at the
close of the interview, Now, you need not
come back here for any more cora unless you
bring something better than monsy-even
your younger brother Benjamin" Ahl Ben
jamin-that very name was suggestive of all
tenderness. The mother had died at the
birth OF that son-a spirit coming and an
other spirit going-ani the very thought OF
parting with Benjamin must have been n
heartbreak. The keeper of this corn-crib,
nevertheless, saysto these elder sons. "Fhere
Is no need of your coming up here any more
Tor corn unless YOU can bring b 'mjamiD.
your fathers darling" Now Jacob and his
family very much needed bread; but what
struggle il woull be to give up this son. The
OItentals are very denonstraiive in their
grief. and hear the outwailing of the father
as these elder sons keep reteratIu; 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 him you
had u brotber?" says the old man complain
ing and chiding 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" mo use Of
asking ne. said the father, II can not,
will not, give up Benjamin" The fact was
that tne Old man had lost children and when
there has been bereavement in a household, ,
and a child taken, 1t makes tina other chill
dren in the household more precious. So
the day for the departure was adjourned and
Nttl L.
Increased, and louder moaned the cattle, and
wider open cracked the earth, and more pal
lid became the cheeks, until Jacob, in de-
spair, cried out to his sons, Take Benjamin
and be off," The older sous tried to cheer
up their father. They said. 'we have
strong arms ami a tout heart. and no harm
will come TO Benjamin. We'll see that he
gels back again. Farewell' said the young
mer to the father, in tone OF assumed good
cheer. "Fa-r e-w-e-l-i!" said the old man;
Tor that wori has NOR. quavers in it when
pronounced by the aged than by the young
Well, the bread party, the bready embassy,
drives up in front of the corn-crib of Egypt.
Those corn-cribs 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 corre-
spending with our Indian maize. Huzza!
The journey is ended. The lord of the corn
crib who is also the Prime Minister comes
down to these newly-arrived travellers, and
says. "Dine with me to- lay. How is your
father? Is this Benjamin, the younger brother
whose presence demanded?" The travellers
are introduced into the palace. They are
Worn and bedusted Of the way; and servants
come IN with a basin OF wafer in one hand
and towel in the other, aud kneel down be-
fore these newly arrived travellers, washing
Off the lust of the way. The butchers and
poullerers and caterers of the Prime Minister
prepare the repast. The guests are seated In
small groups. two or three at q table, the
food on tray; al the luxuries from i'm
perial gardens and orchards aud aquariums
and aviar. es are brought there. and are fill
ing chalice and platter. Now is the time for
this Prime Minister, II he has a grudge
against Benjamin. to show II. Will he kill
him now that he has him In his hands? 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 a larger portion to Ben
jamin, or, as the Bible quantity puts 1t,
"Benjamtn's mess was five 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 farinS we'll; all Is
well; 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 see
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. 1t Is dying. 1t is
bunger-bttten. The fact that 1t does not, can
hot feed a mans heart was well illustrated
in the life of the English comedian. All the
world honored him-did everything for him
that the world could do. He was applauded
in England and applauded in the United
States. He reused ur Nations into laughter
He had no equal. And yet, although many
people supposed him entirely happy, and
that this world Was completely satisfying his
soul, he sits down and writes:
Il never IN my life put on a new hat that
1t did not rain and ruin 1t. I never went out
in shabby coat because II was raining and
thought all who had the choice would keep
indoors, that the sun did not come out In its
strength and bring out with 1t all the butter
flies of fashion whom knew and who knew
me. 1 never consented to accept a part !
hated out OF kindness to ano ther, that did
not get Missed by the public and cut by the
writer. could not take q drive for few
with Terry without being overturned
and having my elbow broken, though my
friend got of unharmed. I could not make
q covenant with Arnold, which thought
was to make my fortune, without making
his instead, than In an Incredibly short space
of time-I think thirteen months-I earned
for him f20, 900, and for myself f1. lam
thatff we're TO SET up as baker,
every one In nv neighborhood would leave
of eating bread"
That was the lament Of the worlds come.
dian and joker. All unhappy. The world
did everything for Lord Byron that it could
do, and yet in bis last moment he asks a
friend to come and sit down by him and
read, as most appropriate to his case, the
story of ''The Bleeding Heart" Torrigiano.
the sculptor, executed, after months Of care
and carving, Madonna and the Child"
The royal family came in and admired It.
Everybody that looked at It was In ecstasy;
but one day, after all that toll and all that
because he did not get as much
for his work as he had ex-
pected, he took a mallet and dashed the ex-
quisite sculpture into atoms. The world is
poor compensation. poor satisfaction, poor
solace. Famine, famine in all tho earth;
not for seven years, bat for six thousand.
But. blessed be God. there is q great corn-
crib. The Lord built It. IT IL In another
land. Il is large place. Ar angel once
it. and as far as can calculate it
in one phrase, that corn-crib il 1sco miles
long and 1900 miles broad, aad $500 high:
and It is full. Food for all nations. "Oh!'