Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-11

AFTER they Had Eaten OF the Old Corn
of the LaHd"-chrIst win Feed the
Hungry IL They VIII Eat.
LoNG BRANCH, n. j., Aug. lO.-The great
Brooklyn preacher who h. staying here dis
courses this week on the gospel provision
for ordinary and extraordinary needs. His
text is Joshua V, IL: 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 commissariat of an army
know what job it is to feed and clothe five
or six hundred thousand 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 bringing
down food or blankets. Shall they persist
No. The Lord comes from heaven to the
rescue, and he touches the shoes and the
coats which in year or two would have
been worn to rags and tatters, and they
become stormproof and timeproof, so that
after forty years of wearing the coats and
the shoes are as good us new Besides that
every morning there is a shower of bread
not sour or soggy, for the rising of that
bread Is made in heaven, and celestial fin
gers have mixed 1t and rolled it into balls,
light, faky and sweet, as though they were
the crumbs thrown out from heavenly
banquet. Two patches of bread made
every day in the upper mansion-one for
those who sit ut the table with the King,
and the other for the marching Israelites
In the wilderness.
THE BEST FOOD EVER INVENTED.
l do not very much pity the Israelites for
the fact that they had only mama to eat.
1t was, ! suppose, the best food ever pro-
vided. know that the ravens brought
food to hungry Elijah; but should not so
well have liked those black walters. Rather
would | have the fare that came down
every morning in buckets of dew-clean,
sweet, God provided edibles But now the
Israelites have taken their last bit of it in
their fingers, and put the last delicate
morsel OF 1t to their lips They look out,
and there Is no mama. Why this cessation
OF heavenly supply? 1t was because the
lsraelites 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 inhabitants
had fed, and in the name of the Lord of
Hosts the Israeltes took possession of
everything. Well, the threshing floor is
cleared, the corn is scattered over it, the
petual circuit until the corn is trampled
loose; then it is winnowed with fan, and it
is ground and 1t Is baked, and, 10! there is
enough bread for all the worn out host
And the mamma 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,
nv nth lad ,.,l Al
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 dissection of this subject leads me,
first, to speak of especial relief for especial
emergency; and, secondly, of the old corn
OF the gospel for ordin ry circumstances.
SAVED BY GODS MAMMA.
If these lsraelites crossing the wilderness
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
long line of dead women whiting for the
jackals. Then there would have been
long line of dead men unburied, because
there would have been no one to bury them.
II would have been told in the history of
people started out from Egypt for Canaan
and were never heard of-as thoroughly
lost in the wilderness of sand ms the City
of Boston and the President were lost in
the wilderness of waters. What use was
II 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 grass blade-n other words, an cspe-
cial supply for an especial emergency. That
is what some of you want The ordinary
comfort the ordinary direction, the ordi-
nary counsel do nots seem to meet your
case There are those who feel that they
must have nm omnipotcnt and immediate
supply, and you shall have it.
IL it pain and physical distress through
which you must COY Does not Jesus know
all nbout painp Did he not suffer it in the
most sensitive part Of head and hand and
footf He has II mixture of comfort, one
drop of which shall cure the worst parox-
yam. II is the same grace that soothed
Robert Hall when, after writhng on the
carpet in physical fortunes, he cried out;
"Ohl | suffered terribly, but | didn't cry
out while was suffering, did II Did cry
out" There is no such nurse rs Jesus
his hand the gentlest, his foot the lightest,
HIS nrm the strongest For especial pang
especial help.
THE SWEET sOLACE OF THE GOSPEL.
IL it approaching SORROW Is it long,
shndowing bereavement that you know is
coming because the breath is short, and
the voice IN faint, and the cheek is paleY
Have you been calculating your capacity
or incapaCity To endure widowhOOd or
chlldessness or u disbanded home and
cried, Il cannot endure itsh Oh, worried
soul, you will wake up up amidst all your
troubles and find around about you the
sweet consolation Of the gospel ms thickly
strewed as was the mamma around about
the Israelitish uncampment! Especial sol
ace for especial distress.
Or is It trouble past, yet PRESENT. a
silent nursery A vacant chair opposite
you at the table, A musng upon Il broken
family circle never again to he reunitedy
choking sense of loneliness \ blot of
grief so large that it eXtinguishes the light
Of sun, and puts out bloom of flower, and
makes You reckless rs to whether you live
or dieY Especial comfort for that - ecial
trial. Your appetite has failed for every
thing else Oh, try little of this wilder
ness mama; II will never leave thee, will
never forsale thee Like as II father
spitieth his children, SO the Lord pitieth
them that fear him. Can woman for
get her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb
yea, they may forget, yet will not forget
thee"
Or is it the grief Of IA dissipated compan-
ionY There are those here who have II, so
am not speaking in the abstract, but to
the point You have not whispered it, per
haps, to your most intimate friend; but you
see your home gong away gradually from
,.ot, and unIpss things change soon il will