Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Famous Diyine's Discourse
Yesterday at Long Branch.
sand the Mamma Ceased on the Nor
row After They had Eaten Of the
Old Corn OF the Land"
Plain Bread Made from the Corn of the Cos
pei Canaan the Only Food that Can
Quell the Soul's Hunger.
sreciaI TO the Gazette.

LONG BRANCH, N. j. Aug. l0.-The
great Brooklyn preacher who is staying
here discoursed to-day on the Gospel
provisiou for ordinary and extraordinary
needs His text is Joshua ", 25: "And
the mama ceased on the morrow after
they had eaten of the old corn OF the
land"
Only those who have had something TO
do with the commissarlat of an army
know what a job it is to feed and clothe
300, 900 or 600 900 men. Well, there is
such host as that marching across the
desert. They are cut off from all army
supplies. There are no rail trains bring
ing down food or blankets. Shall they
all perish? No. The Lord comes from
Heaven TO the rescue, and he touches
the shoes and the coats, which in o year
or two would have been worn TO rags and
tatters, and they become
sToRM-PRooF AND TIME-PRooF,
so that, after forty years of wearing,
the coats and shoes are as good as new
Besides that, every morning there is q
shower OF bread, not sour and soggy,
for the rising of that bread is made in
heaven, aud celestial fingers have
mixed it, and rolled i. into balls, light,
faky and sweet, as though they were the
crumbs thrown out from heavenly ban
ouet. Two patches of bread made every
day in the upper mansiou-one for those
who sit at the table with the king, aud
the other for the marching Israelites in
the wilderness.
do not very much pity the Israelites
for the fact that they had only mama
to eat. 1t was, suppose, the best
food ever provided. l know that the
ravens brought food to hungry Elijnh;
but l should not so we'll have liked those
black walters. Rather would l have
the fare that came down every morn
ing in buckets OF dew-cleau, sweet,
God provided edibIes. But now the
lsraelites have taken their last bit of il
in their fingers, and put the last deli
cate morsel of II to their lips. They
look out, and there is no mama. Why
this cessation of heavenly supply? 1t
was because the Israelites had arrived
IN Canaan. and they smelled the
breath of the harvest fields, and the
crowded barns of the country were
thrown open TO them. All the inhab-
itants had fed, and in the name of the
Lord of Hosts the lsraelites took pos
session of everything. Well, the
threshing- is feared, the corn is
scattered over it, the oxen are brought
around in lazy and perpetual circuit
until the corn is trampled loose; then it
is winnowed with fan, and it is ground
and it is baked, and, 10! there is enough
bread for oil the worn-out host. "Aud
the mama ceased on the morrow after
they had eaten of the old corn of the
land.
FROM AMONG THE MUMMIES OF EGYPT,
and Canaan have been brought grains
of corn, exactly like our Indian corn.
and recently planted, they have pro-
duced the same kind of corn, with which
we are familiar. So am not sure which
kind of grain my text refers to, but all
the same 10 the meaning.
The dissection of this subject leads me,
first, to speak OF especial relief for eg-
peciul emergency; and, secondly, of the
old corn of the Gospel for ordinary cir
cumstAnces.
If these Israelites crossing the wilder
ness had not received bread from the
heavenly bakeries, there would, first,
have been long line of dead children
half buried in the sand; then, there
would have been a long line of dead
women waiting for the iRckals; then,
there would have been long line of
dead men unburied, because there would
have been no one to bury them. 1t
would have been told In the history of
the world that great company of good
people started out from Egypt for
Canaan, and were never heard of, as
thoroughly lost in the wilderness of sand
as the City of Boston and The President
were lost in the wilderness of waters.
What use was it to them that there was
plenty of corn in Canaan, or plenty OF
corn in Egypt?
What they wanted was something to
eat right there, where there was not so
much as a grass blade. In other words,
an especial supply for an especial emer-
gency. That is what some of you want.
The ordinary comfort, the ordinary di-
rection, the ordinary counsel, do not
seem to meet your case. There are those
who feel that they must have an omnip-
otent and immediate supply, and you
shall have It.
Is pam and physical distress through |
which you must go? Does not Jesus
know all about pain? Did he not suffer
it in the most sensitive part of head and |
hand and foot?
lie HAS A MIXTURE OF COMFORT,
one drop of which shall cure the worst
paroxvsm. 1t is the same grace that |
soothed Robert Hall when, after with
ing on the carpet in physical fortunes,
he cried out, "Ohl 1 suffered terribly,
but didn't cry out while l was suffer-
ing, did 1? Did 1 cry out?" There is
no such nurse as Jesus-his hand the
gentlest, his foot the lightest. his arm
the strongest. For especial pang, es-
pecial help. . |
Is 1t approaching sorrow? Is 1t long, !
shadowing bereavement that you know is |
coming, because the breath is short, and |
the voice is faint, and the cheek is pale? !
Have you been calculating your capacity
or incapacity TO endure widowhood or
childlessness or O disbanded home, and |
cried ~ cannot endure it?'' Oh, wor-
ried soul, you will wake up amidst all !
your troubles, and find around about you |
the sweet consolation of the gospel Us
thickIy strewed as was the MANN around |
about the Israelitish encampmentl Espe- |
cial solnce for especial distress.
Or is 1t q trouble past. yet PRESENT. |
silent nursery? A vacant chair opposite
YOU at the table? A musiug upon |
broken family circle never again 10 be |
reunited? A choking sense of loneliness? |
A blot OF grief so large that it extln- |
tinguiahes the light of sun, and puts out |
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