Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-21
THE BATTLE FOR BREAD.
Tbs Bible Story of Elijah and the
Ravens
EXPLAINED BY REV. DR.. TALMAeE
And Applied to the Present Great War
Between Labor and
Capital.
!SpecidI 10 the Rs1iSter.

health, he told his congregation in tn
Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day. that he ha'
in the thirty years Of his ministery misses
bat one Sabbath through i'll health, ant
that Sabbath twenty-four years ago. ID
said that be had never been IN as robus
health as at present. Dr.. Talmage hs
been in Brooklyn seventeen years. Tit
ordinary state of things at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle on Sunday morning is, that BIZ
! thousand people assemble inside and mul
ttudes are not able to get in. At arecen
meeting of the session thirty-eight new
members were received, making the com
mupicsnt membership Of this church about
three thousand four hundred. The open
ing hymn to-day was:
"Though trouble a.sail and dangers alright
Though friends should all faI and foes all ite,
Yet oLe thing assures us, Whatever oetideI
Tne scripture assures us-'The Lord will pro-
yide.'"
The subject of the sermon today was
the Battle for Bread, and the text was
taken from I Kings, ch. xvii, " 6: And
the ravens brought him brsad and flesh in
the morning and bread and flesh in the
evening" DR.. Talmsge said:
THE oRNITHoLoGY OF THE BIBLE
ia a very interesting study. The stork
which knoweth her appointed time. The
common sparrows teaching the Lesson ct
Gods providence. The ostriches of the
desert, By careless incubation, illustrating
the carelessues3 of parents who do not
take enough pains with their children. The
eagle sym oolizing riches which take winge
aud fly away. The pelican emblemiziDg
solitude. The bat, fake of the darkness
The night hawk, the ossitrsge, the cuckoo,
the lapWing, the osprey, by the command
OF God in Leyiticus, flung out of the world q
bill of fare. | would like to have been
with Audubon as he went through. the
woods with gun and pencil bringing down
sketching the fowls OF heaven his unfoided
portfolio thrilling oil Christendom. What
wonderful creatures of God the birds are !!
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 vertebr9e OF the neck,
the three eyelids to each eye, the third eye
lid and extra curtain for graduating the
light of the sun.
Some Of these birds scsvenger and some
of them orchestra. Thank God for qusil's g
whistle and larks carol and the twitter OF
the wren, called by the aucients the king
OF birds, because when the fowls Of heaven
went into contest as to who could fly the
highest, and the ssgle swung nearest the
sun, a wren on the back Of the eagle, after
the eagle was exhausted, sprang up much
higher and was so called by the sncients
the king OF birds. Consider those of them
that have golden crowns and crests show
ing them to be festhered imperials Ard
listen to the humming birds serenade in
the ear of the honeysuckie. Look st the
belted kingfsher, striking like a dart from
sky to water. Listen to the voice of the
owl, giving the key note to all croskers
And behold the condor among the Audes,
battling with the reineeer. | do not know
whether an aquarium or aviary is the best
altar from which to worship God.
WHENCE CAME THEY2
There is an incident in my text that
battles all the pathological wonders Of the
world. The grain crop had been cut of.
Famine was in the land, In cave by the
brook Cherith sat o minister OF God, Eli
jsh, waiting for something to eat. Why
did he not 60 to the neighborS2 There
we're no neighbors; it was wilderness
Why did be not pick some Of the berries?
There were no0s. If there had been, they
would have been dried rp. Seated one
,-- - at the mouth Of bis cave the
morI.ne nhte ,ooLo ,-'n the dry and pitilels Q
heavens, and he sees a nvs'< ol oitos ap-
proachirg. Oh, if they were only f@@'t-
ridges, or if he only had an arrow with
which to bring them down! Bat as they
come nearer he finds they are not comestl-
Bile but uuclean, and the eating OF them
would Be spiritual death. The strength Of
OF their bssk, the length Of their
wings, the blackness of their
color, their loud, harsh "cruckl cruck !!
prove them to be ravens. They whirr
around about the prophets head, and then
they come on futtering wing and pau on
the level of his lips, aud one Of the ravens
brings bread and 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 Elk months,
aud some say a whole year, morning and
evening, the breakfast and supper bel
sounded as these ravens rang out on the
air their "cruck cruck!' Guess
WERE TREY GOT THE FOOD FRoN2
The old rabbins say they, got it from tht
kitchen Of King Ahsb. Others say tha
the ravens got their food from pious 0ba
dish, who was in the habit of feeding tht
prosecuted. Some say that the ravens
brought the food to their young in the trees
and that Ehjsh had Only to climt
up aud get it. Some So!
that the whole story ia improb
able; for these were csrnivorous birds snC
the TODD they carried was the torn flesh o
living beGsts, and that ceremonisllg IN
clean; or it was csrrion and it would no
have been ft for the prophet. Some sal
they were not ravens at all but that tn
word translated ravens" in my text ough
to have been translated Arabs" so
would have read: The Arabs bIough
bread and fesh in the evening" Anything
but admit the Bible TO be true.
Hew away at this miracle until all tn
miracle is gone. Go on with the depictiD
process, but know, my brother, that yo
are only robbing one man-snd that
yolrself-of one of the most comforting
beautiful, pathetic ard triumphant lesson
in all the ages. l can tell you Who thes
puryeyors were: they were ravens. / ca
tell you who freighted them with pr
visions: God. / can tell you who launch
ed them: God. l can tell you wb
taught them which way to fly: God.
can tell you who told them at what cav
to swoop: God. ] can tell you Eho il
troduced raven to prophet and prophet ,
raven: God. There is one passage / vi
whisper in your ear, for ! would not wal
to utter it aloud, lest some one shoul