Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-21
THE BATTLE FOR BREAD.
The Great Question Of To-Day IS MOI
''Home Rule" but Shall There
be Any Home to Rule.
rke Fret OF the World is That We Want
Surplus--A Lack Of Confidence
In the Royal Bank OF Heaven.
''And the Ravens Brought Him Bread ana
Flesh in the Morning, and Bread
and Flesh In the Evening"
ornr BATTLE FOR BREAD"

Special 10 tho Gazette,
BROOKLYN, N, Y, June 20.--As a report
had been published IN many papers that
the Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage was In
poor health, he told his congregation In
the Brooklyn tabernacle to-day that he
had In the thirty years Of his ministry
missed bat one Sabbath through Ill
health, and that Sabbath twenty-iour
years ago. He said that he had never
been In as robust health as at present.
DR.. Talmage has been In Brooklyn seven
teen years. The ordinary state Of things
at the Brooklyn tabernacle on Sunday
mornings Is that six thousand people
assemble inside and multltudes are not
able 20 get in At a recent meeting Of the
session thlrty-eight new members were
received, making the COMMUNICATE mem
bersnlp OF this church about 800. The
opening hymn to-day was
'sThongh trouble assail and dangers alright,
Though friends should all fai and foes ali unite,
Yet one thing assures Us, whatever betide,
The Scripture assures ps-'Ihe Lord VIII pro
vide.'"
The subject of the sermon to-day was,
1.-THE Battle for Bread, " and text was
taken from l. Kings, xvii, 9: Sand
the ravens brought him bread and flesh
III bliS iuplnluEt anu UItuu anu utsu III
the evening" Or. Talmage said
The ornithology Of the bible is very
interesting study, The stork which
knoweth her appointed time. The com
mon sparrows teaching the lesson Of
Gods providence. The ostrlches Of the
desert, by careless incubation, Illus
trating the recslessness Of parents
who do not take enough pains with their
children. The eagle symbollzing riches
which take wings and fly away. The peli-
can emblemlzlng solitude. The bat,
lake OF the darkness. The night-bawk, the
ossifrage, the cuckoo, the lapwing, the
osprey, by the command of God in Levitt
Gus, flung out Of the worlds bill Of fare
| would like to have been with Audubon
as he went through the woods with gun
and pencil, bringing down and sketching
the fowls OF heaven, his unfolded port
folio thrilling all Christendom. What
wonderful creatures of God the birds
arel Some OF them this morning, like
the songs Of heaven let loose, bursting
through the gates of heaven Consider
their feathers, which are clothing and
conveyance at the same time; the nine
vertebrate OF the neck the three eyelids to
each eye; the third eyelld and extra cur.
tain for graduating
THE LIGHT or THE SUN.
Some Of these birds scavengers and
some Of them orchestra. Thank God for
the quaiPs whistle and lark's carol and
the twitter of the wren, called by the
anclents the king of birds, because when
the fowls Of heaven went into Il contest
as to who could fly the highest, and the
eagle swung nearest the sun, wren on
the back OF the eagle, after the eagle was
exhausted, sprang up much higher and so
was called by the anclents the king of
birds. Consider those OF them that have
golden crowns and crests, showing them
10 be ieathered imperials. And listen to
the humming birds serenade in the ear
of the honeysuekle. Look at the belted
ktnghsher, striking like dart from sky
TO water. Listen TO the voice of the owl,
giving the keynote to all croakers. And
behold the condor among the Andes, bat.
Ting with the reindeer. | do not know
whether an aquarium or ayiary is the best
altar from which to worship God
There Is an Incident in my text that
babies all the archaeological wonders of
the world. The grain crop had been cut
on. Famine was In the land. In cave
by the brook Cherlth sat a minister of
God, Elijah, waiting for something to
eat. Why did he not 90 to the neighbours?
There were no neighbors; II was wilder
ness, Why did he not pick some of the
OerrlesE There werc none. II there had
been, they would have been dried up.
Seatgf one morning ut the mouth of HIS
cave the prophet looks into the dry and
pitlless heavens, and he sees flock OF
birds approaching. Oh, II they were
only partrldges, or IL he only had an ar
row with which n hptney a
But as they come nearer he finds thew
are not comestlble but unclean, and the
eating OF them would be spiritual death
The strength OF their beak the length of
their wings, the blackness of their color,
their loud, harsh "cruck! cruckW prove
them to be ravens, They whlrr around
about the prophets head, and then they
come on iiuttering wing and pause on the
level OF his lips, aud one OF the ravens
brings bread aud another raven brings
meat, and after they have discharged
their tiny cargo they wheel past and
Others come, until after awhile the
prophet has enough, and these black
servants OF the wilderness table are gone.
FOR SIX months, and some say a whole
year, morning aud evening, the breakfast
ana supper bell sounded as these ravens
rang out on the air their "cruokl cruckli'
Guess where they got the food from.
The old rabbits say they got II from The
kitchen OF KING Ahab. Others saw that
the ravens got their food from pious
Obadiah who WAS In the habit OF feeding
the prosecuted. Some say that the
ravens brought the food to their young
IN the trees, and that Elijah had
only TO climb up and get n.
some say that the whole story Is inprob.
ablei for these were csrniyerous birds,
and the food they carried was the torn
tesh OF living beasts, and that ceremon.
tally unclean, or II was carrion, and a
would not have been 6t for the prophet
some say thoy were not ravens at ali
but that the word translated ''rayens' M
my text ought to have been translated
ARABS so II would have read. HThe
Arabs brought bread and nesh in Inc
morning and bread aud flesh IN the even
ing,' Anything but admit
rhR BiBLE TO NIX TRUE.
Hew away at this miracle until all the
miracle Is gone. Go on with the deplet-
ing presses, but know, my brother, that
you are robblng only one man-and thai
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