The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-12
CORN INSTEADOF MAMA
If A MAN. EATS THEREOF HE WILL
NEVER HUNGER.

NEVER HUNGER.
Dr. Tallnase breaches q Magnificent Ser
mon of Comfort for the Wenry-GoG
Will Feed the Tamishing if They WIN
Accept Him.
LONG BRANCH, n, j., Aug. l0.-The
great Brooklyn preacher who is stay
ing here discourSes this week on the
gospel provision for ordinary and ex
traordinary needs. His text is Joshua
V, 10: and the mamma 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 IN army
know what a job it is to feed and
clothe five or 81 hundred thousand
men. Well, there is sl,ch >So$' rs that
marching across the desert Thcr-J,r,
cut off from ali army supplies There
are no rail trains bringing down food
or blankets. Shall they all perish!
No. The Lord cones from heaven 20
the rescue. and he touches the shoes
and the coats which in Il year or two
would have been worn to rags and tat
ters and they become storm proof and
time proof, so that after forty years Of
wearing the coats and the shoes are rs
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, md celestial
fingers have mixed it and rolled il into
balls, light, tally ana sweet, as though
they were the crumbs thrown out from
a 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 lsraelites in the wilder
ness.
do not very much pity the Israel
ties for the fact that they had only
mamma to eat. 1t was, suppose, the
best food ever provided know that
the ravens brought food to hungry
Elijah, but should not 50 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 Israclites have taken their
last bit Of it in their fingers, and put
the last delicate morSel Of it to their
H.. They look out, and there is no
, nS, Why this cessation Of heaven
" snnnlv'' 1t was because the Israc!
ites b,d arr ~ed in Canaan. and they
smoIiad +ho OH OF the harvest fields,
rhn crowded barns II the country were
thrown o. N to 5.lem. All the lnh30
rants had ae.l, and in tii9 na;;i' o. 'le
Lord of Hosts the IsraeliJes HOOK pos
session OF everything. Well, the '-ues.i
ing floor is cleared. the corn is scattered
over it, the oxen are brought around ID
lazy and perpetual circuit until the corn
is trampled loose; then it IS "hnoEed
with fan, and it is ground and II Is
baked. and To- there is enough bread
for all the worn out host. And the
mama ceased on the morow af,e..they
had eaten of the old corn OF the land.
From among the mummies OF Egypt
and Canaan haze been brought grains
Of corn exactly like our Indian corn
and recently pla7ted they have pro
luced the same klud OF corn with
which we are familiar. So an not
sure which kind OF gr-:in my text refers
20, but the meaning is MI the same.
The dissection of tbs subject leads
ne. first, to speak Of especial relief for
especial emergency; and. second. OF the
Did corn of the gospel for ordinary CIR
cumstanccs.
If these Israelitas crossing the wilder
ness had not received bread from the
heavenly bakeries there would, trst'
nave been long line OF dead children
lalf buried in the sand; then there
would have been long line Of dead
women waiting for the jac!lals; then
here would have been I long line o.
lead men unburied. because there would
ave been no one 70 bury them. 1t
would have been tod in the history Of
he world that 4 great company OF
rood people started out tom Egypt to
Canaan. and were never heard Of, as
thoroughly lost in the wilderness Of
and as the City Of Boston and the
President were lost in the wilderness OF
Satcrs. What use VAS il - thcm thai
here was plenty Of corn in Canaan or
,lenty of corn in Es.p;
What they wanlt,l was tmething
ocat right there. where there was not
o much as a grass bl.nle. IN other
words an especial supply for az c- ?eeiai
emergency That is what soHe Of you
want. The ordinary comfort. the or
linarv direction. the ordinary counsel
10 NOT seem to meet yoIr case. There
ire those who feel that they must have