The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-09-18
lat.
4-rses on a Farnil-
49, -slblical Story.
. sermon Rep, etc with Scenes OF Pastoral
Iife-The beautiful Story OF Ben
jamin, the Younger Son
OF Jacob.

The following sermon vas delivere
Nv Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage before h
Washington congregation, being base
on the text:
And Judah spake unto him, saying: III
man did solemny protest unto US, sayin,
Ye shall not see my face, except your broth,
NJ with you Genesis xliii. 3.
Nothing eat! Plenty of corn i
Egypt, but CHASTITY famine in Canaan
The cattle moaning in the stall. Mer
women and children awfully whit
with hunger. Not the failing of on
crop for one summer, but the failin
If all the crops for seven years. A ma
ton dying for lack of that which is s.
common on your table, and so littl
appreciated; the product Of harvest
field and grist-mill and oven; the pric,
II sweat and anxiety and struggl,
bread! Jacob, the father, has tn,
last report from the -four bin, ant
lie finds that everything is out
and he says to his sons
0Boys hook up the wagons anc
start for Egypt, and get us something
to eat" The fact was, there was a
great corn-crib in Egypt. The people
Cf Egypt have been largely taxed in
hll ages, at the present time paying
between 70 and 80 per cent. of their
PRODUCTS to the government. No
wonder in that time they had large
rorn-crb, and it was full. To that
1rib they came from the regions
round about-those who were fam
shed-some paying for the corn in
honey: when the money was exhaust
ID, paying for the corn in sheep and
|sttle and horses and camels; and
when they were exhausted, then sell
Ing their own bodies and their families
nto slavery.
Tie morning for starting out on the
rusade for bread has arrived. Jacob
lets his family up very early. But be-
orc the elder son starts they say
Omething that makes him tremble
nth emotion from head to foot and
urst into tears. The fact was that
hese elder sons had once before been
Egypt to get corn, and they had
cen treated somewhat roughly, the
rd Of the corn crib supplying them
ith corn, but saying at the close Of
be interview: Now, you need not
pme back here for any more corn I'M
ssyor bring something better than
oney ---even your younger brother
enjamin. \" All. Ben that very
ame was suggestive of all tenderness.
be mother had died at the birth of |
at SON "a spirit coming and another
Pirt going and the very thought of
Rrting with BENJAMIN must have been
heart bleak. 1 lie keeper OF this
rn-crib, nevertheless, says to these
|der sons: There is no need of your
Pning up here any more for corn un-
IS you can bring Benjamin, your
|thers darling" Now Jacob and his
|nily very much needed bread; but
BAT struggle it would be to give up
rs son. The orientals are very
|monstrative in their grief, and /
lar the outwailing of the father as
|ese elder sons kept. reiterating in
Il ears the announcement of the
gyptlan lord: Ye shall not see my +,
r. unless YONG brother be with YOU" ,
Fhy did You tell him you had a
pther"' says the old man, complaint
and Gliding them. why, father"
ey said, he ASKED us all about our I
piy, and we had no idea that he {
|uld make any such demand upon
las he has made. mo use of ask
me, said the father, II can not, I
Eili not give up Benjamin. The t
\ was that the old man had lost a
|ldren. and when there has been be- S
Fement in family and child t
Zen, it makes the other children in S
household more precious. So the e
Fof departure was adjourned and Q
burned and adjourned. Still the 2
Frors of the faminel increased, and f
der moaned the cattle, wider open v
cRed the earth, and more pallid j
ame the cheeks, until Jacob, in "
pair, cried out to his sons: Take c.
llamin and be off. !" The older sons | b
. to cheer up their fsther. They "
!: We have strong arms and a VI
~ herrt, and no harm will come to W
'lamin. Well see that no gets back a
IN. Farewell!'' said The young 81
to the father in tone of assumed Il
cheer. Farewell" said the IL
man; for that word has more qua fir
IN it when pronounced by the. W
than by the young. it
Ell, the bread party, the bread m
'assy, drives up in front of the SO
crib of Egypt. Those corn cribs Ii
niled with wheat and barley and in
In the husk, for modern travellers pc
nose lands, both in Canaan and in
pr, tell us there is corn there COR fir
ending with our Indian msize. kl
zal the journey is ended. The W
OF the corn crib, who is also the si
: minister, comes down to these Ill
ly-arrived travellers, and says. w
'e with me to-day How is your CT