16. Moreover he called for a famine upon the land. He had only to call for it as a man calls for his servant, and it came
at once. How grateful ought we to be that he does not often call in that
terrible servant of his, so meager and gaunt and grim, so pitiless to the women
and the children, so bitter to the strong men, who utterly fail before it. Hebrake the whole staff of bread. Our feeble life cannot stand without its
staff—if bread fail us, we fall. To God it is as easy to make a famine as to
break a staff. He could make that famine universal, too, so that all countries
should be in like case: then would the race of man fall indeed, and its staff
would be broken forever. There is this sweet comfort in the matter, that the
Lord has wise ends to serve even by famine: he meant his people to go down into
Egypt, and the scarcity of food was his method of leading them there, for “they heard that there was corn in Egypt.”
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