Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-25

nevertheless. says to these elder sons, "There
is no need of your coming mp here any more
for corn unless YOU can bring Benjamin.
your fathers darling" Now Jacob and his
family very much needed bread; but what q
struggle 1t would be to give up this son. The
O1ientals are very Gemonstrative In their
grief, and l hear the outwailing OF the father
as these elder sons keep reitoratlng 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 brother?" says the old man complain
ing 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-" said the father. ~ can not, I
will not, give up benjamin" The fact was
that the old man had lost children, and when
there has been bereavement in household,
and child taken. it makes the other chill
dren in the household more precious SO
the day for the departure was adjourned and
adjourned. Still the horrors OF the famine
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 Sous, "Take Benjamin
and be off," 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. Well see that he
gets back again. FAREWELL" said the young
men to the father, in tone Of assumed good
cheer. "F-a-r-e-w -e-l-l!" said the old man;
for that word has more quavers in it 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 are filed 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 CORE
| 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, "Dlne with me today. bow 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 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
pOulterers and caterers of the Prime Minister
prepare the repast. The guests are seated in
small groups, two or three at a table, tine
food on tray; all the luxuries from I'M
perial gardens and orchards and aquarums
and aviar.es are brought there, and are fill
ing chalce and platter. Now is the time for
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against Benjamin, to show it. 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 portion to each
OF them, but sends a larger portion to Ben
jamiD, or, as the Bbe quantity puts If,
"Benjamin's mess was five times rs much rs
any of theirs. " Be quick and send word back
with the swiftest camel to Canaan to old
Jacob. that Benjamin is farinS well; all is
well; he is faring sumptuously; the Egyptian
lord did not mean murder aud death; but he
meant deliverance and life when he an
nounced to US on that day, Eye shall not see
my face unless YOUR brother be with you "
Vel, my friends, this world is famine
struck of sin. II does not yield a single
crop OF solid satisfaction. 1t is dying. 1t is
hunger-bitteD. Tho fact that 1t does not, can
not feed 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:
al never in my life put on q new hat that
1t did not rain and ruin it. never went out
in shabby coat because it 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 it all the butter
flies OF fashion whom 1 knew and VINO knew
me. I never consented to accept part
hated out of kindness TO anC Their, that did
not get Kissed by the public and cut by the
writer. l could not take drive for few
minutes with Terry without being overturned
| Ill. h,.0Ir m u
friend got off unframed. [ could not MAKE
a 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
ior him go, 900, and for myself 81. an
persuaded that if l we're TO set up as q baker
every one in my neighborhood would leave
eff 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 his last moment he asks a
friend to come and sit down by him ana
read, as most appropriate to his case, the
story of 'rhe Bleeding Heart. Torrigiano,
the sculptor, executed, after months OF care
and carving, "Madonna and the Child. v
The royal family came in and admired 1t.
Everybody that looked at it was in ecstasy
but one day, after all that toll and all tina;
admiration. because he did not get us much
compensation for his work as he had ex
pected, he took mallet and dashed the ex-
quiste sculpture into atoms. The world is
poor compensation. poor satisfaction, poor
solace. Famine, famine in all the earth
not for seven years, but for six thousand
But, blessed be God, there is great corn
crib. The Lord built it. 1t is in anothe
nn'. IT ia p iPrgo plaza. An angel once
'rsasured T.. 0n1 rs far as can calculate II
in one phrfsa. tlat corn CRIB is 1909 miles
lone and 200 miles broad and 1900 high
aui 1t IS full. Food For all nations. "Oh!
say the peoD'e. "xe will start right away
and get supply fo- our soul" But stop
moment; Tor from the Keeper Of that corn
crib there comes this word, saying, "Yor
shall not see NV face except yodr brother
be with YOU" In other words. there is NJ
such thing as getting from heaven pardon
and comfort and eternal life unless we brins
with us orr Divine Brother. the Lord Jesu
Christ. Coming without Him we shall fal
before we reach the corn-crib. AMI on
bodies shall be portion for the iackas o
the wilderness: but coming with the Divine
Jesus. all the granaries OF heaven will swini
open before our soul and abundance shall