The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-05
TALMAGE'S IDEAS OF FOOD.
he DISCOURSEs ON THINGS THAT
ARE TABOOED.

he DISCOURSES ON THINGS LA
ARE TABOOED.
The vultures of Society, the Bats OF Re-
ligiop, the Chameleon In Church and
Business, the Lugubsious Owl and the
Slow and Bcneless Snail-So1le Hard Hits
At the Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday
the Rev. DR.. Talmage preached to q
large audierce on forbidden Diet. d
He took his text from Leviticus XII, 49,
30-"And these are they which ye shsll
have in abomination among the fowls:
the owl, the 7ulture and the bat. There
also shall be unclean to you among the
creeping things that creep upon the
earth, the chameleon and the snail.
"The Bible offers very possible variety
OF theme, of argument and OF illustra-
tion," said the preacher. "We care not
much in what kind of pitcher The
water OF life is. brought, if it is only the
clear, pure water. God gave the ancients
list of the animals that they might eat
and q list of animals that they might not
eat. These people lived in hot climate,
and certain forms of animal food cor
rupted their blood and disposed them to
scrofu!ous disorders, deprayed their
appetites and bemeaned their souls. A
mans food, when be has the means and
opportunity Of selecting it, suggests his
moral nature.
s'The reason the wild Indian is as cruel
as the lion, is because he has food that
gives him the blood of q lion. A
missionary among the Indiana says, that
by changing bis style of food to CORE
spond with theirs, his temperament was
entirely changed. There are certain
forms of food that have q tendency to
affect themoral nature. Many Christian
is try ing to do by prayer, that which
cannot be done except through corrected
diet.
PORK A POOR DIET.
For instance, he who uses swine's flesh
for constant diet, will be diseased in
body, and polluted OF soul-al his itur-
gies and catechis1ns Notwithstanding.
The Gadarene swine were possessed of
the devil, and ran down steep place
into the sea, and all the swine ever since
seem to have been similarly possessed.
In Leviticus, God struck this meat of
the table OF his people, and placed be-
fore them bill of fGre, at once health
ful, nutritious and generous.
sBut higher than this physical reason,
there was spiritual reason why God
chose certain forms Of food for the
ancients. God gives peculiar diet to
his people, not only because he wanted
them to be distinguished from the
surrounding nations, but becsuse certain
birds and animals, by reason of their
habits, have always been suggestive of
moral qualities. By the list of things
from which they were to abstain, God
wished to prejudice their minds against
certain evils; and in the list of lawful
things given, he wished to suggest
certain things given, he wished to suggest
certain forms of good. When God
solemnly forbade his people to eat the
owl, the vulture, the bat, the chameleon,
and the snail, He meant to drive out of
his people all the sins that were thus
emblemized.
81 take the suggestion of the textT
and say that one of the first unclean
things the Christian needs to drive out
of his soul is the owl. The owl is the
melancholy bird of night. It matches
OUT whole broods Of superstitions. 1t is
do!eful and hideous. When it sings it
sings through its nose. It loves the
gluon OF night better than the bright
nsss OF the day. Who has not slept in
the cabin near the woods and been
awakened in the night by the dismal
'stoo-hoo" of the owl? Melancholy is the
owl that is perched in many Christian
soul. It is an unclean bird, and needs
to be driven away.
sUNRHINE Is LIFE.
GA man whose sins are pardoned and
who is on the road to Heaven has 10
right to be gloomy. He says: i have SO
many doubts That is because you are
lazy Go actively to work in Christ's
cause and your doubts will vanish. Yoa
say have lost my property, but [ reply:
'lou have infinite treasures laid up II
Heaven, You say: ( am weak and slekly
aud going to die Then be congratulated
that you are so near eternal health and
perpetual gladness. Catch few morn
ing Iarks Tor your soul, and stone this
owl OF your premises.
Gas a little girl was eating the sun
dashed upon her spoon, and she cried,
%, mamma, l have swallowed u spoon
full Of sunshiner Would God that We
might all indulge in the same bevsragel
CLeerfulness; it makes the homliest face
handsome; it mskes the hardest mattress
soft; it runs the loom that weaves butter
cups and rainbows and auroras. God
made the grass black? No; that would
be too sombre. God made the grass red?
No; that would be too gaudy. God
made the grass green, that by this
parable all the world might be led TO
subdued cheerfulness. Read your Bible
in the sunshine. Remember that your
physical health is closely allied to your
spiritual. The heart and the liver are
only few inches'apart, and what affects
one fleets the other. A historian records
that oy the sound OF great laughter in
Rome, Hannibals assaulting army was
frightened away in retreat. And there
is in the great outbursting JOY of a
Christian soul that which can drive back
any inferna! bes esement. Rats love
dark closets, and satan loves to bur:oT
in gloomy soul.
s'k. joics in the Lord, Oh ye righteou