The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-07
THEY HAD FULL CORN CRIBS.
DIR. TALMAGE's SERMON a PAS
TORAL ONE.

Xiii 3-PIenty OF Corn in Egypt
and n CHASTITY Famine In Canaan
The world Fnmine-struck of SIN
Heavens Great Corn Crib Is FIJI
ed with the Food of Life for All
Nations-It Is Either Faith in
Christ or Famine of the Soul.
Washington, Sept. 6.--No one not born
and brought up in the country could
preach a sermon like this of Dr. Talmage.
Ii is a pastoral and full Of scenes from
country life. The text is Genesis 1913: And
Judah spake unto him saying, The man
did solemnly protest unto us, saying Ye
shall not see my face, except your broth
er be with you.
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 nation 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 straightforward
Jacob, the father, has the last report from
the fiour-bin, and he finds that everything
6s 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. at the present time pay
ing between 20 and so per cent. of their
products to the government. No wonder
in that time they had a large corn crib,
and it was full. To that crib they came
from the regions around aDout-those who
We're famished-sOme paying for the corn
in money; when the money was exhausted,
paying for the corn in sheep and cattle
and horses and camels; and when they
were 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
family up very early. But before the elder
sons start they say something that makes
him tremble with emotion from head to
foot, and burst into tears. The fact was
that these elder sons had once before been
in Egypt to get corn, and they had been
treated somewhat roughly, the lord of the
corn crib supplying 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" All! Benjamin-that very
name was suggestive of all tenderness
The mother had died at the birth of that
soma spirit coming and another spirit go
ing-and the very thought of parting with
Benjamin must have been a heart-break
The keeper of this corn-crib, nevertheless,
- he's al L.
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 Orientals are very demonstrative in
wailing Of the father as these
elder sons keep reiterating in his
ears the announcement of the Egyp-
tian lord ''Ye shall not see my face unless
your brother be with you" why did you
tell him you had a brother?' says the
old man complaining and Gliding them
why father" they said, ''he asked us
all about our family, and we had no idea
that he would make any such demand up
on US as he has made" mo use of asking
said the father, II cannot, 1 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
in the household more precious. So the
day for departure was adjourned and adj
journed and adjourned. Still the horrors
of the famine increased, and louder moan
ed the cattle, and 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 heart, and no harm viii come to
Benjamin. Wen see that he gets back
again." FAREWELL said the young men
10 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 II when
pronounced by the aged than by the
young.
Well, the bread party, the bread en-
bassy, drives up In front of the corn crib
of Egypt. Those corn cribs are filled 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 corresponding with our Indian
maize. Huzzal the journey is ended. The
lord of the corn-crib, who is also the prime
minister, comes down to these newly ar
rived travellers, and says "Dine with me
to-day. How 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 ser
wants 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
repast. The guests are seated in small
groups, two or three at table, the food
on a tray; all the luxuries from imperial
gardens and orchards and aquariums and
aviaries are brought there. and are filling
nj
time for this prime minister, If he
has a grudge against benjamin, to show
it. VIII 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 TO the tables Of his guests;
and he sends a portion to each Of them,
but sends a larger portion TO Benjamin,
or, as the Bible quantity puts II, "Benja-
minis mess was five times as much as any
of theirs" Be quick and send word back
with the swiftest camel to Canaan to old
Jacob, that Benjamin is WELL all is well:
he is faring sumptuously; the Egyptian
lord did not mean murder and death; but
he meant dcllverance and life when he
announced to us on that day, we shall not