The Brooklyn nvines Sanday
Bermon.
Sabjeet: “The Corncrib of Kgypt.*
Text: "Ye shall not see my face, except
pour brother be with you,"—(Genesis, xliii., 3.
This summer, having crossed eighteen of
the United States, North, South, East and
West, I have to report the mightiest har.
vests that this country "or any other
country ever reaped If the grain gam.
blers do not somehow wreck these har.
vests, we are about to enter upon the grand.
est scenes of prosperity that America has
over witnessed. But while this is so in our
own country, on the other side of the At
lantic there are nations threatened with
famine, and the most dismal cry that is
ever heard will I fear be uttersd, the cry
for bread. 1 pray God that the contrast
between our prosperity and their want may
not be as sharp as in the lands referred te
by my text. There was nothing to eat,
Plenty of corn in Egypt, but ghastly fam.
ine in Canaan. The cattle moaning in the
stall, Men, women and children awfally
white with hunger. Not the failing of one
crop for ope summer, but the failing of all
the crops for seven years A nation dying
table, and so little appreciated; the product
rice of sweat, and anxiety, and struggie—
read! Jacob the father has the
report from the flour-bin, and he
that everything is out; and
says to his sons ys, hook up
ons and start for yyt, and get us somos
thing to eat.’ was, there was a
great corn crib in The people of
Egypt bave been largely taxed in all ages,
at the present time paying between sev.
enty and eighty r cent, of their prod
to the governmer No wonder in
time orn
it was full
the regions r
famished-
when the mos
the corn in
camels; and when
milling their
into slavery.
The morning
gade for bread
fami] very
sons re t
him
foot,
that
finds
Ee
The fact
Egypt
they had
SO Ime
fran
and
to-day
jamin, the younger
temanded? Phe
wd into the palace
justed of way
in with a basin
band and a tows
Ko down before
travelers, washing off
The butchers, and
the prime min-
The guests are
They ar the
and
of Wate
in the othe and
these nowiy-arrived
the dust the way.
poulterers aterers of
ister prepare the repast.
pomted in = wigs, Wo threes nt a
table, the { tray: all the luxuries
from imper gardens, and orchards, and
acquariums, and aviaries are brought
there, and are filling chalice and platter,
Now ia the ti or this prime minister, if
he has a grudg den jamin, to show
it. Will he kill now that be has him in
his bands? © This lord of !
rib is seated a own table snd he looks
over to the table of his guests: and he sends
a portion to each of them, but sends a
larger porfaon tO jenjamin, or as
the Bible quaintly puts it: “Benja-
min's mess was five tines as muca as aay
{ theirs.’ Be quick and send word back
with the swiltest camel to Canaan to old
Jacob, that *’ Benjamin is well ; all is well;
he is faring sumptuouely ; the E
did not mean murder and dea but he
meant deliverance and life when he an
noupsosd to uson that day : * Ye shall not see
my face unless your brother be with you.'”
servar ne
sel
BIG
gaint
the corn.
struck of sin.
crop of solid satislsction. It is dying. It
fe hunger-bitten. The fact that it does
not, cannot, food a man's heart was well
tliustrated io the life of the English com-
edian. All the worki honored him did
everything for him that the world could
do. He was applandad in Eagland and
applauded fn the United States. He roused
up nations into laughter. He had no
equal, And, yet sithough many people
wappossd him entirely Lappy, snd that
this world was compieleiy satiating his
soul, be sits down and writes: “I never
in my life put on & new hat that & did not
rain and ruin jt. I never went cul in a
shabby coat becauss it was reining and
thought all who bad the choles would keep
in doors, that the sun did not burst fort
in its strength and bring out with i& all the
butterflies of fashion whom I knew and
who koew me. 1 never comssnted to ac.
pept a part 1 hated, cut of kindness to an.
stuer, that I did not get hissed by the
public and cut by the writer, I not
take a drive {or a few minutes with Terry
without being overturned and havi my
slbow-bone broken, though my frisad got
off unharmed. 1 could not meke a cove
sant with Araoid, walch 1 thought was to
asks my fortune without making bis ine
‘pend, than in an incredible space of time
| think thirteen monthe—I earned for him
inty Shonsand Sts = Joe myself
swe. | am persuar Weare nel up
as 6 beggar, everyous in my neighborhood
would leave off eating bread” That was
the laments of the world's comedian and
joker. All unhappy. The world did every-
thing for Lord Byron that it could do, and
yet in his last moment he asks a friend to
pome and git down by him and read, as most
appropriate to his cass the story of “The
Bleeding Heart.” Torrigiano, the soulptor
sxecuted, after months of care and carving,
“Madonna and the Child” The royal
family came in and admired it, Everbody
that looked at it was in ecstasy: but one
day, after all that toil and all that admira-
tion, because he did not get as much com.
pensation for his work as he had ex-
pected, he took a mallet and dashed the
exquisite sculpture into atoms. The world
is poor compensation, poor satisfaction, poor
soince, Famine, famine in all the earth; not
for seven years, but for six thousand. Bat,
blessad be God, there is a great corn-orib,
The Lord built it, It is a large place An
asugel once measured it, and as as I can
salculate it in our phrase, that corn-crib is
fifteen hundred miles long and fifteen hundred
broad and fifteen hundred high; and it is full,
Food forall nations. “Oh!” say the people,
‘we will start right away and get this sup-
ply for oar soul.” But stop a moment; for
{rom the keeper of that oorn.crib there
somes his word, saving: “You shall not
seo iny face except your brother be with
you." In other words, there is no such
thing as getting from heaven pardon and
somfort and eternal life unless we bring
with us our Divine Brother, the Lord
Jesus Christ, Coming without Him, we
shall fall before we reach the corn-crib and
pur bodies shall be a portion for the jackals
but coming with the Di.
vine Jesus, all the granaries of heaven will
We shall
be invited to
of
shall be given us,
ut in the palace the King
asd at the table; and while the Lord of
seaven is apportioning from His own
s He will not forget us;
of
table
: and
then and it will be found that cur Ben.
jamin's mess is iarger than all the others, for
30 it ought t WW srthy Is the
ain, to receive blessing. and riches
i was §
and glory, and power.”
ther
y De, Lamt
that
and honor,
three
to make points,
man
sinner
irom with
find you try strong drink, and vou try
{ shange of scenes, and you try new business
wsocintions, "nd anything and evervthing
mther than take the Divine companionship
ind sympathy suggested by the words of
ny text when it says, ‘You shall notsee My
Ince mgain unless your Brother be with
rou.” Oh, thet vou might understand
wmething of the height, and depth, and
ength, and breadth, and jlmmensity, aad
nfinity of God's eternal consolations
[ go further, and find in my subject a hint
8 to the way heaven opens to the departing
ipirit, We are told that heaven has
wolve gales, ¢ some people infer from
that fact that F the people will go In
without reference to their past life; but
what is the use of having a gate that is not
wometimes to be shut? The swinging of a
gate implies that our entrance into heaven
s conditional, It is not a monetary condi-
don, If we come to the door of an exqui
ite concert, wo are not surprised that we
must pay a fea, for we know that fine earthly
music is expensive ; but the oratorios
sf heaven cost nothing. Hoaven pays
sothing for its music, It is all free. ere
s nothing to be paid at that door for sn-
irance; but the condition of getting
nto heaven is our bringiug our Divine
Benjamin along with us. Do you notice how
ten dying people call upon Jesus? It is
the usual prayer offered—the prayer offered
more than all the other prayers put together
—“*Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” One of
sur congragation, when asked in the closing
moments of his life, “Do you know us?
sid: “Oh, yes, 1 know you.
rood-bye, Lord Jesus,
spirit,” and he was gone, Oh, yes In
the olosing moments of our Hie we
frust have a Christ to call upon If Jacob's
song had gone toward Egy and had gone
with the equipage, and had not
Miken Benjamin slong with ths
8 questi :
all
receive my
pt
very finest
y should have
father could not
to be
within would
us You wa
You shall no
ther
others
if
, the police of heav
the
never
QO
axhausted
them, all ths
q fore the
CRIUAILY We nay
eternal Ww
? Ae SOC
are I'e
"Sal Sern
RE-il,
pagu
cannot
heart
se of
) a whose ailments
are chronic, and [ say: “In heaven you wil
never be sick.” That does not give you
much comfort. What you want is a sooth
ing power for your J n— distress, Losi
children, have you? come to you and ted
you that in tem years perbaps you
meet these loved ones before the throne
of God. Bat there is but little condolence
in that One day is a year withoul
them, and ten years is a small eternity
What you want is a sympathy now-—pressnt
help. 1 come to thoseof you who bave lost
dear friends, and say: “'Iry to forget them
Donot keep the departed always in your
mind.” How ean you forget them when
every figure in the carpet, and every book,
and every picture, and every room calls
out their name? Suppose | come to you
and say by way of condolence: ‘God is
wise.” “Oh!” you say, "that gives me nc
beip.” Suppose I come to you and say
“(3od, from all eternity, has arranged this
trouble” "AR™ you say: “that does me
no good.” Theu I say: “With the swili
fest of prayer go direct to the corn
orib for a heavenly supply.” You go. You
say: “Lord, help me; Lord, comfort me.”
But no help yet. No comfort yet. It is al
dark. What is the matter * [| have found.
You ought to go to God and say : ** Here, O
Lord, are the wounds of my soul, and |
the
wil
wounds pay for my wounds. His bereave
ments for my bereavements. His loneliness
heart break. © God! for the sake of the Lord
Brother-—dellver my agonined
0 Josus of the weary foot, ease my
0) Jesus of the aching head, heal
O Jesus of the Bethany,
soul,
fatigue.
ye." That is the kind of prayer
i
i
i
i
i
ars getting no help at all for the reason that
there is in your soul, perhaps, a secret
trouble. You may never have mentioned
it to a single human ear, or you may have
mentionsd it to some one who ls now e
sway, and that great sorrow is #fill in
your soul, After ashiogton Irving was
Soally they found a litte box that contained a
bra
The strop is made by
i b
shaft of th ¢ and
of twelve
M8 many ‘‘quarters’” as pos.
axing
cutting it int
lengths inches; these are split
sible, allowing to each piece a sufficiency
of the pulp or heart of
sent a surface of lena
of not
on which to strop a
TAZOT.
BEPTEMBER,
“Bammer heard a hidden locust whirring
stooped she to the mowers with a sigh
Dariings, she sald; we mu-t be
Hear the Herald! Autumn dra
ome stirring,
weth nigh!
have
flowers
Autumn bas come and we
little more time to enjoy our
should be kept trimmed ard free from
watered so as to be in good order
blossoming should have the
stalks cut down and the plants left
for next summer's blooming. In fact,
this is true of nearly all bulbous and
i
I
i
are done blooming.
brought out aud given a good washing
with strong soap suds, to destroy
germs of mould and must be perfectly
clean and sweet for use.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1
Christ
i.
the Cood Shepherd
LESSON TEX
i-18 Memory
LESSON PLAN.
Toric ov tlie
San of God,
rE Lt
ARTER
Goroes Texr
These are wrills 1,
that Jesus is
and that
through
OR THY { AHTER
that ye might Lie.
the Christ, the
Lelieving
hi
J
ie Non
G1 (fod,
have life
A 31,
we might
John
neLrne,
liessox Tovic:
Good
planned, just as we plan for
seeds and flowers and any
preparations made therefor,
Bulbs for early blooming
Spring should also be procured
set out in beds prepared for them.
Croenses, snowdrops, snow flake, hya-
aud ilies of the valley
necessary
in
INAY
Many of the fic
or this purp
¥
T $b
in Lhe
» full catalogue
rile
used, and the flo
and naturally lubricated surface for strop-
ping a razor, —New York, Telegram.
bn IA S55
An Immoral Flock.
fins ended in a most remarkable man
:
useful birds, in addition to being ex-
ceasively greedy, are also given to an
over-indulgence in strong drinks, Four
hundred and twenty-nine pi
conveyed by train from Tours to La
Behalle, and there let loose. To the
astonishment of the various societies in-
terested in the experiment, only forty
returned home, and these were in a
dazed condition and quite incapable of
finding their respective quarters.
An inquiry resulted in the discovery
that at a roadside station a large ocon-
signment of black currants had been put
in the same van as the birds. Fe
inebriating qualities of the currant juice
proved too much for the little travelers,
and they were quickly in such a con-
dition that only a small proportion were
sober enougn to find their way back to
Tours, — London Times.
Coughing and Sneezing.
Dr, Brown-Bequard in one of his lec.
tures dwells with great emphasis on the
importance of general knowledge in the
matter of checking cough and saeez-
ing. Ho states that coughing can be
topped by pressing on the nerves of the
lips in the neighborhood of the nose and
may be stopped the seme way,
Pressing in the neighborhood of the eer,
t in front of the ear, may stop
It is #0 also of
DARL ES,
“uM all the fi
Than love 1 1
that
nN I WAS
fred in the meade
es withe and rede,
in our town."
Chancery,
a flower more
Wordsworth
it is
everywhere accepted as the emblem of
Innocence. Children weave their
“daisy chains’ and the socieiy belle
oul these 6
men callen d
There
loved than
is scarcely
the daisy.
corsage - bouquet,
also speaks of
garden weeds,
vation and
troublesome
fnglish Daisies may be sown in
September and will winter nicely if
protected with evergreens, ete.
them for a border for beds in the
lasting most of the summer. The next
fall they should be divided if the plants
are very large, else they might die
ont.
first year, but are usually double the
second year,
quite cool. Weeds differ es much a
plants; what will thrive in one place
will not thrive in another. Some
weeds will always be found where the
land is rich and other grow on soil too
poor to raise anyting good. Chick-
weed and Shepherd's Purse both thrive
on the fat of the land, taking from the
soil that food which is needed
plants and vegetables, Ohiickweed is
the bane of my lawn and flower beds,
1t grows and flourishes and I pull, pull,
all till | mm tired out, Every year it
the same thing over again, and I
make but little heaB®way after all. 1
try to prevent any of it from going to
seed, but it is certainly most prolific in
spite of my wondrous propensities.
East Indian oalled lasoars,
when they marry,
i
i
i
!
|
i
ing (Luke 19
The sheep fille
his
sheep
VOI
HOAT IY YOIOL
i1. Foliow his Steps
He goeth before them,
follow him (4).
and the sheep
He leadeth me beside the still waters
d’ those that RIVE
I know
John 10
The Lamb
fountains of waters
II Live Him:
I came that they may have life
hie they follow me
guide
Rev,
shall them unto
1:17
by
10%,
Whosoever believeth may in him have
eternal life (John 3 : 15).
.. .my flesh, for the life of
the world (John 6: 51).
I give unto them eternal life (John 10
28,
Eternal life through Jesus Christ
Lord { Rom. Hh: 21).
1. “The sheep follow him.’
Leader; (2) His attractions;
The followers {1y Who?
our
(3)
(2)
5 W yy:
, “They know hs voice.”
Shepherd's voice (1) Uttered how?
(2) Commanding what? (3; Lead.
ing whither?
“J came that they may have life,
and may have it abundantly.” (1)
The sheep without
Shepherd bringing life; (3) The
life abundantly bestowed.
IL THE SHEPHERD'S CARE.
I, Redeeming the Sheen:
Tue good shepherd layeth down his
life for the sheep (11).
He was wounded for our transgressions
(Isa, 53 : 5).
The Son of man came... to give his
life a ransom (Matt, 20 : 28),
1 lay down my life, that | may take it
n {John 10 : 17),
He Ml down his life for ns (1 John 8
1 16),
il. Defending the Sheen:
He that is a hireling, and not a shep-
herd, . . . .fleeth (12),
I went ont after him, and smote him,
and delivered it (1 sam. 17
Let them ever shout for joy,
thou defendest them (Psa, 5
1 will fear nou evil
(Pea, 23 - 4
We are more 1 conquerors throngh
him (Bom. 8 ; 37
355.
because
11)
for thou art with me
Gathering the Sheeo:
iso 1 m
beeornms
The in
shall
He shall
{ Ioan, 1.
I will... gather the
tries (Ezek. 34 : 1
I pray that
(John 17
Ye are
Shepherd
3 ‘
es det) },
and they
must bring:
one flock (16
gather the lambs
$0) ]
in his arm
the ooun-
m Irom
‘
3
may all be one
returned unto
your
the
souls (1 Pet
I. ‘I am the good shepherd. A
title (1) Assumed by the Lord; (2
Justified by his life; (3) Enjoyed
by the saints; (4) Honored by the
Father :
“I know mine own, and min
know me.” What
knows of his people
1 O1NEe KLOW f the L.0
4 flock, one shephs
1) One
One Bhepherd
—— ain
Ihe Irrepressible Chinese,
i ¢ pops
10 ive
home,
stroggle
rowding,
fevastating causes
i because
brotherhood of
r foreigners do
recedes as the
sf ler
hinese detested
are
never enter the
He thie
iv
ization
hinese gain & footing.
[his experience is not confined to
America. It is said to prevail in all
countries where the Chinese are found
ge numbers. In the Philippine
which they have inhabited for
three hundred years, they
They retain
all the habits and vices of their own
Not only have they maintained
{ past
they have proved
far as the ac-
quisition of material wealth and ad-
Even the
American soil
young Chinese born on
bave sll the habits,
customs of
advantage which
isbor
by the evils
cocntry by the
Any
lost
upon the
and other vices peculiar to the Mon
golian,
In San Francisco the Chinese have
#0 far become masters of the situdtion
that they are governed by secret tri-
bunals, and have a regular organiza
tion for thwarting the operations of
the law by “removing witnesses,” one
forcing perjury, and other methods.
AO 5 5
Even after a now variety has been
shiained in a scientific manner here is
a tendency to revert to one or both of
the parents, and experience has proved
that under the most favorable condi
tions three years of careful selection
is necded to fix permanently the cross.