The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-16
CORN AND MAMMA.
Dr. Talmage Eloquently Dis.
courses on the Spiritual
Needs of Man.
lie Tells us ALI How They can
Be Abundantly Sup
piled.

LONG BRANCH, Special.-Thc great Brook.
iyn preacher, ut present staying here, dis
courses on the gospel provision for ordi-
nary and extraordinary needs. His text is
Joshua ", IL: "And the mama ceased OF
the morrow after they had eaten OF the
old corn of the land"
Only those who have had something to do
with the commissariat of an army nov
what a job it il to feed and clothe five or six
hundred men. Well, there is such a host as
that marching across the desert. They are
cut off from all army supplies. There are no
rail trains bringing down food or blankets.
Shall they oil perish? No. The Lord comes
from heaven to the rescue and he touches
the shoes and the coats. which in a year or
two would have been worn to rags and tat
tiers, and they become storm-proof n
time-proor, SO that, after forty years Of wear
ing, the coats and the shoes are as good a.
new. Besides that, every morning there
is a showerof bread. not sour and soggy, Tor
the rising of that bread is made in heaven,
and celestial fingers lave mixed it, and
rolled it into balls, light aaky and sweet, as
though they were tho crumbs thrown out
from q heavenly banquet. Two patches of
bread made every day In the upper mansion
-one for those who sit at the table with the
King, and the other for the marching Israel
ties in the wilderness. =&>.~7 .
LIDO not very much pity the Israelites for
the fact that they had only mama to eat.
1t was, I suppose, the best food ever pro-
vided. l know that the ravens brought food
to hungry Elijah; but I should not SO we'll
have liked those black walters. Rather
would l AVE the faro chat came down every
morning in buckets ofdew-clean, sweet, God
provided edibles. But now the I~sralites
have taken their last bit of it in their fingers,
and put the last delicate morsel of it to their
ply? 1t was because the Isralites
had arrived in Canaans' and they
smelled the breath of the harvest fields, and
the crowded barns of the country were
thrown open to them. All the inhabitants
had fed, and in the name Of the Lord of
Hosts he Israelites took possession Of every
thing. Well, the threshing floor is cleared,
the corn is scattered over it, the oxen are
brought around in lazy and perpetual cir.
cult until the corn is trampled loose; then it
is winnowed with q fan, and it is ground and
it is baked, and. 10! there is enough bread
for all the worn out host. And the mamma
ceases on the morrow after they had eaten
of the old corn of the land"
From among the mummies OF Egypt and
Canaan nave been brought grains of corn,
exactly like our Indian corn, and recently
planted, they have produced the same kind
of corn, with which we are familiar. So l
am not sure which kind of grain my text re-
fers to. but all the san is the meaning.
The dissection of this subject leads me, first,
to speak Of especial relief for especial emer-
gency; and, secondly, OF the old corn ofthe
gospel for ordinary circumstances.
If these 1sraelites crossing the wilderness
had not received bread from the heavenly
bakeries, there would, first, have been a long
line of dead children half buried in the sand;
then, there would rave been a long line <l
lead women waiting for the jackals; then.
men unburied, because there would have
been no one to bury them. 1t would have
been told in the history of the world that q
great company of good people started out
from Egypt to Canaan, and were never
heard of, as thoroughly lost in the wilder
ness of sand as the city of Boston and the
President were lost in the wilderness OF
waters. What use wal it to them hat there
was plenty of corn in Canaan, or plenty o
corn in Egypt.
What they wanted was something to eat
right there, where there was not SO much as
a grassblade. In other words, Al especial
supply for an especial emergency. That il
fort, the ordinary direction, the ordinary
counsel, do not seem to moet your case.
There are those who feel that they must
have an omnipotent and immediate su pply,
and you shall have il.
Is 1t pain and physical distress through
which you must go? Does not Jesus know
all about pain? Did he not su fFer it in the
most sensitive part of head and hand and
foot? He has O mixture Of comfort. one
drop of which shall cure the worst parox-
ysm. tits thesame grace that soothed Rob-
ert Hall when, after writhing on the carpet in
physical tortures, he cried out: 'Oh! ] suffer-
ed terribly, but didn't cry out while l was
suffering, did /? Did I cry out?' There IL
no such nurse as Jesus-his hand the eentlest,
his foot the lightest, his arm the strongest.
For especial pang especial help.
Is it approaching sorrow? ls it long
Swallowed bereavement that o know is
coming, because the breath is short, and the
voice ia faint. and the cheek is pale? Have
syou been calculating your capacity or inca
pacity to endure widowhood or chiidlessness
or. a disbanded home, and cried, II cannot
endureit?" Oh, troubled soul, You will wake
up amidst all your troubles, and ind AROUND
about you the sweet consolation of the Cos
pei as thickly strewed as was the mama
about tho Israelitish en~campmentl
Especial solace for especial Distress.
Or is it a troubled past7 A silent nursery?
A vacant chair opposite you at the table? A
musing upon a broken family circle never
again to be reunited? A choking sense of
loneliness? A blot of grief so large that it ex-
tinpnishes the light Of sun. and puts out
bloom az Al wer and makes Won Reckless as
to whether YOU live OF die? Especial comfort
failed for evervfhinr else Oh trv q little Of
this wilderness mama: IT will never leave
thee I will never forsake thee" Like ma a
father nit,eth his children. 40 the Lord nit;etl,
them that faar him Lean y woman foroat
her sncL;pg child that she shonld not have
tSav NAV fnroat vol viii 7 not forget thee 3
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