Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-09-05
THE BREAD CRUSADE
Or. TALMAGE breaches UPON A
sEASoNAsLe SUBJECT.

OH. lRlmR0e fhERCF1EO OFON -
SEASoNABLe SUBJECT.
4 Journey From Canaan To Egypt to Get
Corn A Famine Struck World - The
Point which Discomfts Many a Sin
Starved Soul.
WASHINGTON, sept. 6.-No one not born
and brought up in the country could
preach n sermon like this OF DIR. Talmagc.
Ii is pastoral and fun Of scenes from
country life. The text is Genesis kill, 3;
And Judah spake unto him saying, The
man did solcmnly protest unto us, saying,
Ye shall not see my face, except your
brother be with you.
Nothing 10 eat Plenty Of corn in Egypt,
but CHASTITY famine in Canaan. The cat
tie moaning In the stall. Men, women
and children awfully white with hunger.
Not the falling Of one crop for one sum
mcr, but the failing of all the crops for
seven years. 4 nation dying for lack Of
that which Is so common ON your table
and so little appreciated; the product Of
harvest field and gris;mill and oven; the
price of sweat and anxiety and struggle
bread Jacob. the father, has the last re-
port 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 "a eat. 7" 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 40 and so per cent of
their products o. the government. No
wonder In that time they had II large corn
crib, and it was fun. To that crib they
came from the regions around about-thuSc
who were fanishcd-somc paying Tor the
corn in money When the money was cx-
haustcd, paying for the corn in sheep and
cattle and horses and camels and when
they We're exhausted, then selling their
own bodies and their families into slavery.
The Start For Bread.
The morning for starting out on the
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob gets
his family up very early. But before the
elder sons start they say something that
makes him trcmblc with emotion from
head to 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 somewhat roughly. the lord
Of tho corncrib supplying them with corn.
but saying Mt the close of the interview,
Now. you need not come hack here for
any more corn unless you bring something
better than moncy-cyen your younger
brother BENJAMIN All Bcnjamin-that
very name was suggestive Of all tender
ness Tho mother had died at the birth Of
that SOMA spirit coming and another
spirit going-and the very thought Of part
ID, -
heartbrcak. The keeper Il this corncrib,
nevertheless, says to these elder sons,
There Is no need Of your coming up here
any moro 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 bc to
give up his son. The oricntalS are very
demonstrativc In their grief, and l hear
the outwailing Of the father as these elder
sons keep rciterating in his ears the an
nounccmcnt Of the Egyptian lord, "Yc
shall not see my face unless your brother
be with you. 4" why did you tell him you
had brother" says the old man, com
planning and chiding them. why, IA
thcr," they said, The asked us all about
our family, ard we had no idea that he
would make any such demand upon us as
/
said the father 81 cannot, will not, give
up Benjamin The fact was that the old
man had lost children and when there has
been bereavement In household and d
child taken IL makes the other children in
the household more precious. So the
day for departure was adjourned and ad.
journcd and adjourned.
Still the horrors Of the famine increased,
and louder moancd the cattle and wider
open cracked the earth and more pallid
became the cheeks, until Jacob, in despair
cried out 10 his sors, Take Benjamin
/ and be off, The older sons tried To cheer
up their father. They said: 1--WE hav,
strong arms and stout heart, and nc
harm will come 10 Benjamin. Well SEE
that he gets back again. ''Farcwellr
said the young men to the father, in n tone
Of assumed good cheer. "F-a-r-c-w-e-l-lv
/ said the old man. For that word has mort
quavers in 1t when pronounced by the aged
than by the young