The Forrest City times., 1890-08-16
CORN AND THE GOSPEL.
TaImags TsIs Plainly to ths Summer
 Ociournsn at Long Branch.
The cslsbratsd Dreoklyn rrssehsr Says Corn
 Has Taken tho Ylacs of Msnna-But 1t is
 the Corn of the Gospel that is the Broad of

Life.
 A largo congregation of tho fashionable sojourners at Long Branch listened to a masterly and eloquent discourse by Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage of Brooklyn last Sunday. His text was Joshua, 512:
 "And the mama ceased on the morrow Efter they had eaten of the old corn of the land.n
 Only those who have had something to do with the commissariat of an army know what a job 1t is to feed and clothe five or six hundred thousand men. We'll, there is such host as that marching across the desert They are cut of from all army supplies. There are no rail trains bringing down food or blankets. Shall they perishi No. The Lord comes from heaven to the rescue, and he touches the shoes and coats which In n 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 the shoes are as good as new. Besides that every morning there is shower of bread, not sour and soggy, for the rising of that bread is made in heaven, and celestial fingers have mixed it, and rolled it into balls, light, flaky and sweet, as though they were crumbs thrown out from heavenly banquet. Two patches of bread made every day in the upper man sion-one for those who sit at the table with the King and the other for the marching Israelites in the wilderness.
 do not very much pity the 1sraelites for the fact that they had only mama to eat. It was, suspose, the very best food ever provided. know that the ravens brought food to hungry Elijah; but should not so well have liked those black walters. Rath- CT would l have tho fare that came down every morning in buckets of dew--clean, sweet, Godprovidcd edibles But now the Israelites have taken their last bit of it in their fingers, and put the last delicate nor sel of it to their lips They look out, and there is no mama. Why this cessation of heavenly supply. It was because the lsraelites had arrived in Canuan, and they smelled the breath of the harvcst-fields, and the crowded barns of the country were thrown open to them. All tho inhabitants had fled, and in the name of the Lord of Hosts the Israelitcs took possession of everything, We'll, the threshing-foor Is cleared, the corn is scattered over it, the oxen are brought around in lazy and per- petual circuit until the corn is trampled loose; then it is winnowed with fan. and IL is ground and it is baked, and lo there is enough bread for all the worn-out host. And 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 produced 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 Is the meaning.
 The bisection of this subject leads me, first, to speak of especial relief for especial emergency; and, secondly. of the old corn Of the Gospel for ordinary circumstances
 If these Israelites crossing the wilderness he'd n3s received bread from the heavenly bakeries, there would, first have been a long line Of dead women waiting for the iaclals then, there would have been a long line of dead men unburied, because 'Aere would have been no one to bury them. Ii would have becn told in the history of the world that great company of good people started cut from Egypt for Canaan, and were never heard Of. as thoroughly lost in the wilderness of sand as tho City of Boston and the President were lost in tho wilder. ness of waters What use was il to them that there was plenty of corn in Canaan, or plenty of corn in Egypt
 What they wanted was something 10 cat right there, whero there was not so much as a grass blade. In other words. an especial supply for an especial emergency That is what some of you want The or, dinary comfort. the ordinary dircctinn. the ordinary counsel. do not seem 10 meet your case. There ar. those who feel that they must have an onnipotent and immediate supply. and you shall have it.
 Is ii pain and physical distress through which you must guf Does not Jesus know all about paini Did he not suffer it in the most sensitive part of head and hand and footi He has mixture of comfort, one drop of which shall cure tho worst parox, ystn. IL is the same grace that sooshetl Robert Hall when, after writhing on the carpet in physical tortures, he cried out, "Oh I suffered terribly. but didu't cry out while I was suffering, Did i. Did | cry .outiN There Is no such nurse as Jesas his hand the geutlest, his foot the light. est, his arm the strongest. For especial pang especial help.
 Is it approaching sorrowf Is 1t long shadowing bereavement that you know k coming, because the breath is short, aud the voice Is faint, and the cheek Is pale Have you been calculating your capacity ol incapaei,y 10 endure widowhood or child lessness or disbanded home, and cried "I can not endure itsi Oh, worried soul you will wake up amidst all your troubles and find around about you the sweet con solation of the Gospel as thiciSly strewed as was the manna around about the lsraelitish encampmcnti Especial solact for especial distress.
 Or Is it trouble past, yet present. A silent misery A vacant chair opposite you at the table! A musing upon broken family circle never again 10 be reunited A choking sense of lonelinessi A blot oi grief so large that it extinguishes the light of sun and puts out bloom of flower, and makes you reckless as to whether you live or diei Especial comfort for that cspecia trial Your appetite has failed for every thing else. Oh, try little of this wilder ness mama: II will never leave thee, will never forsake thee" Like as { father pitieth his children, so the I.ord pitieth them that fear Him" Can ' woman forget her sucking child, that she should not havc compassion on the son oi her womb, yea, they may forget, yet will not forget thee"
 Or is it the grief of n dissipated compan ioni There are those here who have it, SC l am not speaking in the abstract, but ts the point You have not whispered it. per haps, 10 your most intimate friend but you sec your home going away gradually iron you, and unless things change soon it will be entirely destroyed. Your grief was wei depicted by woman, presiding at s woman's meeting in Ohio, when her intoxi cated husband staggered to the platform to her overwhelming modification and ths disturbance of the audience, and she pulled a protruding bottle from her husband pocket, and held 1t up before the audience and cried out There Is the cause of my woel There arc the tears and the life blood of drunkard's wifel' And thct looking up to heaven, she said, "How long 0 Lord how longln and then. looking down to tho audience, cried, Do you wonder l feel strongly on this subiecti Sisters. will you help me.n And hundred of voices re spondcd, Yes. yes, we will help you'