Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-09-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME By THE
wAsHI>GToN PREACHER
Subject; "Fum Granaries."

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nut ghastiy iamine in Canaan. The cattle
moaning IN the stall. Men. women aud
children, awfully white with hunger. Not
the FALLING OF one crop for one summer, but
the falling OF all the crops for seven wears.
A Nation dying for lack Of that which is 50
common on your table, and SO little appre-
GLAZED; the product Of harvest field and
grlst mil and oven: the price OF sweat and
anxiety and struggle-Breadi Jacob. the
lathrr, mas the Inst report from the -four bin,
ana ne nnds that everything is out: and he
says 10 MS sons; "BOys, hook up the wagons
and start Tor Egypt and get us somethingto
ea;. The fact was, there was great corn
crio IN Egypt The people OF Egypt have
been largely taxed in all ages. at the present
ume paying between seventy and eighty per
cent. OF their products to the Government
No wonder in thar time they had large
eorncr'o. and 1t was full. To that crib they
came from the regions around about-thoSe
who were famtshed-some paving for the
corn IN money; when the money was ex-
hauSte1, paving for the corn in sheen and
Gait and horses and camels; and when they
We're exhausted, then selling their own
bodies and their families into slavery.
The morning for starting out on the cru
SADIE for bread has arrived. Jacob gets his fam
fly up very easily. But before the elder sons
start they say something that makes him
tremtle with emotion from head to foot. and
burst into tears. The fact was that these
elder sons had once before been in Egvpt 10
get corn and they had 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 corn unless you
bring something better than money-even
your younger brother Benjamin." Ali Ben
iamin-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-and the very thought OF
parting with Benjamin must have been a
hearbreak. The keeper of this corn-crib.
nevertheless, says TO these elder sons. "There
is no need OF your coming up here any more
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 be to give up this son. The
OIientals are very demonstrative in their
grief, and near the outwailing of the father
as these elder sons keep reitoratIng in his
ears the announcement of the Egyptian lord.
"Ye shall not see my face unless Your brother
be with YOU" "Whv did Won tell him Won
had brother?" says the old man complain
ing and Gliding them. "Why, father,h they
said, "he asked us all about our family, and
we had no idea that he would make any such
demand upon us as he has made" "Nouse of
asking me, said the father, 81 can not, |
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 a child taken. ii 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 Quito his sons, "Take BENJAMIN
and be off," The older sons tried to cheer
up their father. They said: ave have
strong arms and stout hear. and no harm
will come to Benjamin. Wen 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-crbs are filled with wheat and
barley and corn in the husk for modern
I 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. Dine with me to-day. How Is your
father Is this Benjamin, the younger brother
whose presence demanded?" The travellers
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 table, the
food on tray; all the luxuries from i'm
| perial gardens and orchards and aquariums
and ayiaries are brought there, and are fill
ing chalice and platter. Now is the time for
this Prime Minister. II he has q grudge
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
MS own table, and he looks over the tables
OF ms guests; and he sends portion to each
OF them, but sends larger portion to Ben
lamln, or, as the Bible quantity puts it,
"BenIamin's mess was five times as much as
any OF theirs Be quick and send word back
! Win the SWlteSt camel to Canaan to old
JACOB: that benjamin Is farinc wells all is
Well hels faring sumptuously; the Egyptian
| Iord dld net 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,'"
| We'll, my friends, this world is famine
| struck OF sin. 1t does not yield a single
! crop OF solid satisfaction. 1t is dying. 1t is
hunger-bitten. The fact that it does not, can
not feed mans heart was we'll illustrated
| IN the Lille 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 UP 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
II never in nv life put on a new hat TINT
1t dld not rain and ruin it. l never went out
IN shabby coat because it was raining and
thought all who had the choice would keen
indoors, that the sun did not come out in its
strength aud bring out with it all the butter
flies OF fashion whom knew and who knew
me- never consented to accept part I
mated out OF Kindness to anC Their that did
not get Kissed by the public and cut by the
writer. could not take drive for a few
minutes with Terry without being overturned
| ana having my elbow broken, though my
| friend got off unframed. l could not make
covenant with Arnold, which l thought
was to make my fortune, without making
his instead, than in an incredibly short space
! OF tlme-l think thirteen months-I earned
| for him 100000, and for myself G1. lam
| persuaded that If l were to set up as baker,
every one in my neighborhood would leave
off 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
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 1t.
| Everybody that looked at it was in ecstasy;
but one day, after all that toll and all that
admiration, because he did not get as much
compensation for his work as he had ex-
pected, he took malet and dashed the ex-
| quisite sculpture into atoms. The world is
| poor compensation, poor satisfaction, poor
| SOlnce Eamine fnm1nn in oil the 90 rt h.