The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-09-17
Or IAIAAGES SUNDAY SERMON
A GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Subject. "Tull Granaries.'

stying. Ye shall not SEQ my face, except your
brother be with you. "-Gcnesis xliii., 8.
Nothing to eatl Plenty Of corn In Egypt.
but ghastly famine in Canaan. The cattle
moaning In the stall. Men, women and
children, awfully white with hunger. Not
the falling OF one crop for one summer, but
the falling OF all the crops for seven years.
Nation dying for lack Of that which is so
common ON your table, and so little appre-
ciatcd; the product Of harvest field and
grist mill and oven: the price of sweat and
anxiety and struggle--Brcad' jacob, the
father, has the last report from the -four bin,
and no finds that everything Il 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 great corn
crib In Egypt. The people OF Egypt have
been largely taxed in all ages, nj the present
time paying between seventy and eighty per
cent. OF their products to the Government.
No wonder in that time they had q large
corncrib. and II was full. To that crib they
came from the regions around about-those
who were famished-some paving for the
corn In money; when the money was ex-
hausted, paying for the corn in sheep and
cattle and horses and cames; and when they
were exhausted. then selling their Own
bodies and their families into slavery.
The morning for starting out on the cru
sade for bread has arrived. jacob gets his fam
lily up very easily. But before the elder sons
start they say something that makes him
trcmtle with emotion from head 20 foot, and
burst into tears. The fact was that these
elder sons had once before been in Egypt 10
get corn and they had been treated some-
what roughly, the lord OF the corn.crh sup
plying them with corn. but saving at the
close OF the Interview, "Now, YOU need not
como back here for any more corn unless Won
bring something better than money-evcn
your younger brother Benjamin" All! BEN
.t,sas
Tenderness. The mother had died Mt the
birth OF that soma spirit coming and an
other spirit goiug-Rud the very thought OF
parting With Benjamin must have bccn n
heartbreas. Tho keeper Of this corn-crib
nevertheless, says to these elder sons, "Thcre
Is no need OF your coming up here any more
Tor corn unless YOU can bring Bemiamtn
your fathers darling" Now Jacob and his
family very much needed bread: but what a
struggle II would be TO give up this son. The
Oiientals are very domonstratiye in their
grief and near the outwaiing OF the father
as these elder sons keep rcitoratiug In his
ears the announcement OF the Egyptian LORD
''1e shall not see my face unless your brother
be with YOU" "Why dld you tell him you
had brother?' says the old man complain
ing ami 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 nsho has made" "Nouse OF
hNNlNk nv FNll AllN lNlUtF, u can nnt. /
Will not, give up benjamin." The fact was
that the Old man had lost children, and when
there has been bereavement in "a household
and child taken, Il makes the other chill
dren in the household more precious. So
the day for the departure was adjourned and
adjourned. stu the horrors OF the famine
increased. and louder moaned the cattle. and
wider open cracked the earth, aud more pal
lid became the checks, until Jacob, in de-
spair, cried out 10 his sons. Take BENJAMIN
and be on The older sons tried 10 cheer
up their father. They said: "We have
strong arms and stout heart. and no harm
Will come to Benjamin. We'll see TINT he
gets back again. FAREWELL" said the young
men 10 the father, i'll tone OF assumed good
cheer. "F-a-r-e-w-e.l-l!" said the old man;
Tor that word has more quavers in II when
pronounced by the aged than by the young
Well. the bread party, the bready embassy.
drives up In front ofthe corn-crib OF Egypt
Those corn-cribs arc filled with wheat and
barley and corn In tho husi, for modern
travellers in those lands, both in Cannnn and
In Egypt, tell us there is corn there corre-
spending with our Indian maize. Huzza,
Tho journey Il ended The lord OF the corn
crib, who Is also the Prime Minister, comes
down TO these newly-arrivcd travellers. and
says, Dine with me to-day How is your
iatherG Is this Benjamin, the younger brother
whose presence demandedI" The travellers
worn and bedusted of the ,vnv. a,d scr,,,r,s
come I'm with bosin Of yn,,.r in 90 hnn5
and towel I'm the other onI tnrol I,,., ~
fore these newly nrriyei trnynicrs ,y"ybin,
Oft the lust of tho wnv Tba bntrbsrs All
poultcrers ana cater"ts of the prime NIini",nr
prepare the renast The rncsts arn ."o,"I IN
small groups TWO or tbree M T" tnli, ,hn ~,
food on n trnv' nil .bo iuy"rins -, r., s,', t'9
perial gardens and orcharIs ma onn,rf,',,,s
and ayinrIes nrc broucbt tberr a,J ar, GIi'
ing chalice and Matter No,v ia th,. ti,,o Co.
this Prime Minister A. bo bos I'm 90
against ,niamin' ,o show n Wi Ia ~,
him. now that he hns him In lis hnrJ-g ~
no, This lord of the corr-crih a. e,,.,,l -,
his own table. and he looks over ,Lo t,il"s
of his puests. and ne senJs n nor,ion b, "oc,,
of them. but sends n larger nprtion ~ IAN.
iamip. or. ns the Bihie dnointi, me- I,
,'Bsninmin's mess yns nve ,imas ~ ,dI",h ~, ~
any Of theirs. I" Re nuick ond snnd ynri h,"l, az
with tbe swif,est eamel 70 Conaon 90 aiS
Jacob. that "Beninmin ia forin'. wniI. ol 90
we'll. he Is farInpsnm nmntnonsl,'., ,l'e E1,r',i,n ,
lord did nor mem murder an3 dan,h.7 6nr,ba n,',a.
meant deliyaronca a,I itsa ''t' Nv" ~