The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-19
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Discourse Devoted to Scenes OF
Rural Life.
Lessons Drawn From tho Famous Jour-
uey to Egypt In search of Cora
The Beautiful Story OF tho
boy Benjamin.

the following sermon before his WASH
,ngton congregation, basing it on the
text:
And judah spake unto him, saying: Tho
man did solemnly protest unto US, saying:
Ye shall not see my face, except your brother
be with you.-Genesis Kill, q
Nothing to eat! Plenty of corn in
Egypt, but CHASTITY famine in Canaan.
The CATTLE moaning in the stall. Men,
women and children awfully white
with hunger. Not the failing of one
crop for one summer, but the failing
of all the crops for seven years. A ma
ton dying for lack of that which is SO
common on your table, and SO little
appreciated; the product Of harvest
field and grist-mill and oven; the price
of sweat and anxiety and struggle
dread! Jacob, the father, has the
last report from the -four bin, and
be finds that everything 10 out;
and he says to his sons:
.Boys, hook up the wagons and
start for Egypt, and get us something
70 eat" The fact was, there was a
great corn-crib in Egypt. The people
of Egypt have been largely taxed in
all ages, at the present time paying
between 20 and so per cent. of their
products to the government No
wonder in that time they had large
corn-crib, and it was full. To that
crib they came from the regions
around about-those who were fam
ished- some paying for the corn in
money: when the money was exhaust
TO- ha in nd
cattle and horses and camels; and
when they were exhausted, then sell
ing their own bodies and their families
into slavery.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob
gets his family up very early. But be-
fore the elder son starts they say
something that makes him trenble
with emotion from head to foot and
burst into tears. The fact was that
these elder sons had once before been
~ Egypt to get corn, and they had
been treated somewhat roughly, the
lord OK the corn crib supplying them
with corn, but saying at the close of
the interview: "Now, you need not
come back here Cor any more corn I'M
less YOU bring something better than
Mcney-even your younger brother
Ben amin All. Ben iamin-that very
name was suggestive of all tenderness.
Tie mother had died at the birth o!
that soma spirit coming and another
spirit going-and the very thought of
parting with njamin must have been
heart.breali. The keeper Of this
co,n.crib, nevertheless, says to these
eide: sons: There is no need OF your
coming UP here any more for corn I'M
less YOU can bring Ben jamin, your
father 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
administrative in their grief, and l
hear the outwailing of the father as
these elder sons kept rciterating in
hie ears the announcement of the
Egyptian .ord: "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 Gliding them. why. father"
they SAID, he asked us ali about our
family, ami we had no idea that he
would make any such demand upon
US as ne has made" NO use of ask
Ing me" said the father, Il can not,
viii not give up Benjamin The
fact was that the old man had lost
children. and when there has been be-
reavement in family and child
taken, Il makes the other children in
the household more precious. So the
dayof departure was adjourned and
adjourned and adjourned. Still the
horrors OF the famine increased. ,.nd
louder moaned the cattle, wider open
cracked the earth, and more pallid
became the cheeks, until Jacob, in
despair, cried out to his sons: Take
Benjamin and be off," The older sons
tried TO cheer up their father. They
said 1--WE have strong arms and a
stout herrt, and no harm will come to
Benjamin. Wen see that he gets back
again" Farewelll' said the young
men to the father in tone Of assumed
good cheer. "F-a-r-e-w-e-l.lr said the
ED man; for that word has more qua
we're in 1t when pronounced by the
sged than by the Young.
wi, thc oreau pdTty, VIC ofSao
embassy, drives up 10 front of the
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 cor
responding 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
pewly-arrived travellers, and says,
"Dine with me to-day. How is your
father? Is this Benjamin, the younger
brother whose presence demandedp"
The travellers are introduced into the
palace. They are worn and bedusted
OF the way; and the servants come In
with basin of water in one hand and
towel In the other, and kneel down
before these newly-arrived travellers,
washing off the dust of the way. The
butchers and poulterers and caterers
OF the prime minister prepare the re-
past The guests are seated in small
groups, two or three ut a table, the
Iood on a tray; all the luxuries from