Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-28
CORN AND THE GOSPEL.
Talmags Talk, Plainly to tn, Summer
Soiourners at Long Branch.
Tho Celebrated Brooklyn Preacher Says Corn
Has Taken the Place Of Manna-But it is
the Corn Of the Gospel that il the Bread Of

A large congregation OF the faShionaDle |
sojourners at Long Branch listened to
and eloquent discourse by Rev. Il.
De Witt Talmage of Brooklyn last Sunday. |
His text was Joshua, 5:l2:
'And the manna 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 commssariat of an army know |
what job it is to feed and clotho five or six
hundred thousand men. Wen, there is such
q 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 perish. No. The
Lord comes from heaven to the rescue, and
he touches the shoes and coats which in a
year or two would have been Worn to rags
and tatters, and they become storm-proof
and meproof, 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, tlaky 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 Israelites for
the fact that they had only mamma to eat
1t was, l 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-
er would have the fare that came down
every morning in buckets of dew-clcan,
sweet, God-provded ediblcs. But now the
Israelitcs have taken their last bit of it in
their fingers, and put the last delicate NOR
sci of it to t..er lips. They look out, and
there is no mamma. Why this cessation
of heavenly supply. 1t was because the
Israelites had arrived in Canaan, and they
smelled the breath of the harvest-iields,
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 Israelites took possession of
everything. Wen, the threshing-floor is
cleared, the corn is scattered over it, the
| oxen are brought around in lazy and per-
petual circuit until the corn is trample'
! loose; then it is winnowed with a fan. ara
| it is ground and it is baked, and 10. there
i is enough bread for all the WORKOUT host.
"And the mamma ceased on the morrow
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 dissection of this subject leads me-
first to speak of especial relief for especial
emergency; and, secondly, Of the old corr
of the Gospel for ordinary circumstances.
If these Israelites crossing the wilderness
had not received bread from the heavenly
bakeries, there would, first, have been {
long line of dead women waiting for th'
jackals; then, there would have been a Ions
line of dead men unburied, because ther'
would have been no one to bury them. l
would have been told in the history of tn
world that great company of good peopl
started out from Egypt for Canaan, ant
We're never heard Of as thoroughly lost il
the wilderness of sand as the City of Bostol
, and the President were lost in the wilder
, ness of waters. What use was it to ther
that there was plenty of corn in Canaan, o
plenty of corn in Egypts
What they wanted was something to ca
right there, where there was not so muc
l as grass-blade. In other words, a
, especial supply for an especial emergency
Z That is what some of you want. Tho OF
binary comfort, the ordinary direction, tn
. ordinary counsel, do not seem to meetyou
case. There are those who feel that the
must have an omnipotent and immcdiat
, supply, and you shall have it.
Is it pain and physical distress throug
which you must go! Does not Jesus kno'
!, all about pain! Did he not suffer it in til
Q most sensitive part of head and hand an
!, foot. He has mixture of comfort, Oh
g drop of which shall cure the worst paro,
n ysm. 1t is the same grace that soothe
Robert Hall when, after writing on IL
;, carpet in physical fortunes, he cried on
= "Oh! l suffered terribly, but didn't CT
out while I was suffering, Did l! Did
Il cry out!" There is no such nurse as Jesl
s his hand the gentlest, his foot the ligh
j. est, his arm the strongest. For especi
pang especial help.
}. Is it approaching sorrowa Is it Ion
n shadowing bereavement that you know
coming, because the breath is short, al
the voice is faint, and the check is pal
Have you been calculating your capacity
incapacity to endure widowhood or chi
lessness or disbanded home, and erie
Il GILL I1OU tUluTc vi, WOIIlcu So
g. you will wake up amidst all your trouble
=. and find around about you the sweet &C
ISOLATION of the Gospel as thickly strew
x as was the mama around about t
a. Israelitish encampments Especial sofa
m for especial distress.
m Or is it a trouble past, yet presenta
80 silent misery's A vacant chair oppos
~ you at the tablet A musing upon brok
re family circle never again to be reunite
A choking sense Of lonelinessl A blot
We grief so large that it extinguishes the liz
Of sun and puts out bloom of flower, a
FL makes you reckless as to whether you i
or die! Especial comfort for that espee
IA trial. Your appetite has failed for eve
:, thing else. Oh, try little of this wild
~ ness mamma: ~ will never leave the'
a. will never forsake thee" Like as
ng father pitieth his children, so the Il
pitieth them that fear Him." 'Can
Zee woman forget her sucking child, that
at should not have compassion on the son
nj her womb, yea, they may forget, yet W!
not forget thee"