Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-03
THE BATTLE FOR BREAD.
The Tabernacle Pastor Draws a Lesson
from the Miracle of Oherith Brook.
The Struggle for Bread Carried on in Every
Country and Cline.
Black Providences Sometimes the Souls
Salvation.
Gods Command to the Ravens to Feed
Elijah.
The Royal Bank of Heaven Always SOL
The Lord Has Numerous Ravens to Feed
His Children.
Beautiful Peroration Of a Remarkable
Sermon.
The Royal Bank of Heaven Always SOL
vent,
The Lord Has Numerous Ravens to Feed
His Children.
Beautiful Peroration of q Remarkable
Sermon.

BROOKLYN, June 20.--As a report
had been published in many papers
that the Rev. DR.. Il. Dewitt Talmage
was in poor health, he told his congre-
CATION in the BrooklyR tabernacle to-
day. thar he mad in the thirty years of
his ministry missed but one Sabbath
through i'll health, and that Sabbath
t~wenty-four years ago. He said he had
never been in AZ robust health as at
present. DR.. Talmage has been in
Brooklyn seventeen years. The ordin-
AIRY state of things in the Brooklyn
tabernacle on Sunday mornings is, that
5000 people assemble inside and null
6tudes are not able to get in. At a re-
cent meeting of the session thirty-eight
new members were received, making
the communicate membership of this
church about 3,400. The opening
hymn to-day was:
tThough trouble assail and dangers alright,
Though friends should all fail and foes all
Yet one thing assures US, whatever betidc,
The Scripture assures us-'The Lord will
provide"
The subject of the sermon to-day
was:
THE BATTLE FOR BREAD"
and the text was taken from / Kings,
Oh. xvii, v. 6: land the ravens
brought him bread and flesh in the
morning, and bread and flesh in the
evening"
DIR. Talmage said:
The ornithology Of the Bible is a very
interesting study. The stork which
knoweth her appointed time. The COM
mon sparrow teaching the lesson of
Gods providence. The ostriches
of the desert, by careless incubation,
illustrating the recklessness Of parents
who do not take enough pains with
their children. The eagle symbolizing
riches which take wings and fly away.
The pelican emblemizing solitude. The
bat, a flake Of darkness. The night
hawk. the ossifrage, the cuckoo, the
1apwing, the osprey, by the command
of God in Leviticus, flung out of the
worlds bill Of fare. would like to
have been with Audubon as he went
through the woods with gun and pen
Oil bringing down and sketching the
fowls of heaven, his unfoldcd portfolio
thrilling all C~hristendom. What won
derful creatures the birds of God 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
xertebrae of the neck, the three eyelids
to each eye, the third eyelid and extra
curtain for graduating the light of the
sun.
There is an incident in my text that
battles all the
PSYCHOLOGICAL WONDERS
of the world. The grain crop had been
cut of. Famine was in the land. In
q cave by the brook Cherith sat a min
ister of God, Elijah, waiting for some
thing to eat. Why did he not go to
the neighbors7 There were no neigh
bors; it was a wilderness. Why did he
not pick some of the berriesp There
were none. If there had been, they
would have been dried up. For six
months, and some say "A whole year,
morning and evening, the breakfast
and a supper bell sounded as these
ravens rang out on the air their
secruck! cruck!'' Guess where they
got the food from. The old rabbins
say they got it from the kitchen of King
Ahab. Others say that the ravens got
their food from pious Obadiah, who
was in the habit Of feeding the perse-
cuted. Some say the ravens brought
the food to their young in the trees, and
Elijah had only to climb up and get it.
Some say the whole story is improb-
able; for these were carnivorous birds
and the food they carried was the torn
aesh of living beasts, and that cere.
pionially u%nclean; or it was carrion
and it would not have been fit for the
prophet. Some say they were not
ravens at all, but that the word trans.
lated ''ravens" in my text ought to
have been translated arabs" s il
would have read: The Arabs brough,
bread and flesh in the morning, and
bppad and flesh in the evening" Any
ching but admit the Bible to be true.
Hew away at this miracle until al
ss;ie miracle is gone. Go on with tht