Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-16
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Noted Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
subject. 9Th. Food in Cod. Gospel"

Sermon.
subjects "The Food in Gods Gospel.
TEXT: "And the mama ceased on the
nsorro,c after Meyhad eaten Of the old corn
of the land. Joshua ", 70.
Only those who have had something to do
with the cornmissiariat of an army know
what job it is to feed and clothe five or six
hundred thousand men. Well, there is such
ahost 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 the
coats which in year or two would have
been worn to rags and tatters and they be-
come stormproof and timeproof, so that
after forty years of wearing tho coats and
the shoes are as good as 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 flu
gers have mixed it and rolled it into balls,
light, 1aky and sweet as though they were
the crumbs thrown out from heavenly
banquet. Two patches of bread made every
day in the upper mansiun-on for those who
sit at the table with the King, and the other
ness.
do not very much pity the Israslites for
the fact that they had only mamma to eat,
1t was l suppose, the best food ever pro-
yided. l 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 dcw-cleau, sweet,
God provided edihles. But now the Israel
ties have taken the last bit of it in their
fingers and put the last delicate morssl of it
to their lips. They look out, and there is no
mama. Why this cessation of heavenly
supply; 1t was because the Israetes hal
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 He'd and IN the name of tho
Lord of Hosts, the lsraeites took possession
| of everything. Well, the threshing floor is
cleared, 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 grount
and it is baked and, loi 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,
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 re-
fers 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 ordinary circumstances.
Ii these Israelites 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 q long line of
dead women waiting for the jackals. Then
there would have been long line of dead
men unbaried, 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 COOL 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 aud 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 emergency That is
what some of YOU want The ordinary COM
fort the ordinary direction, the ordinary
counsel do not seem to meet your case.
There are those who feel that they must
have an omnipotent and immediate supply,
and you shall have it,
Is it pain 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? He has a mixture of comfort, one drop
of which shall cure the worst paroxysm. 1t
is the same grace that soothed Robert Hall
when, after writhing on the carpet in phys
ical tortures, he cried out, 30! suffered
terribly, but didn't cry out while | was
suffering, did |? Did cry outY" There is
c1tph "a bar, Il =
BIS foot the lightest His arm the strongest
For especial pang especial help.
Is it approaching sorrowi Is it long,
shadowIng bereavement that you know is
coming, because the breath Is short aud
the voice Is faint, and the cheek is pale?
Have you been calculating your capacity or
incapacity to endure widowhood or child
lessDess or a disbanded home and cried: II
cannot endure ity' Oh, worried soul, YOU
will wake up amidst all your troubles and
lind around about you the sweet consolation
of the Gospel as thickly strewed as was the
manna around about the Israelitish encamp-
nentl Especial solace for especial distress.
Or is 1t trouble past, yet present? A
silent nursery? A vacant chair opposite you
at the table? A musing upon u broken fam
lily circle never again to be united? a chok-
ing sense of lonelinessg A blot of 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 dies Es-
pecial comfort that especial trial. Your APP
petite has failed for everything else. Oh.
try little Of this wilderness mama: 81 will
never leave tEe3 | will never forsake thee ~
Like as father pitietl his children, SO the
Lor pltieth them that fear Him. 'Can n
woman torget her ST ckiiug child, that she
should not have compassion on the son of her
| form thee"
Or Is lt the grief Of a dissipated compan-
ION? There are those here who have it SO
am not speaking i'll the abstract, but to the
point You have not whispered it, perhaps
70 your most intimate friend; but you see
your home going away gradually from YOU
ana unless things change soon it will be en-
tlrely destroyed. Your grief was well de-
| plcted by woman, presiding at a woman's
meeting in Ohio when her intoxicated hns
band staggered up to the platform. to her
overwhelming modification an the disturb
atic3 Oh tne audience and sho pulled pro-
trudlng bottle from her husbands pocket
and held ltup before the au Hence an cried
out There is the cause of my wOel There
are the tears and the life blOol of a drunk
ards wlteW And then looking up to heaven
she said: How long, o Lord! how lonr?'
am then looking down TO the au lienco erie /:
Do you won Ter feel strongly on this SUBJ
Jet? Sisters, will you help me?n Aud hun
will help you" 49,
You stand, soms of you, in such tragedy
today. You cannot even ask him to stoo
drinking. 1t makes him cross, AMI he tslls
you to mimi your own business Is there
any relief in such case? Not such as is
found IN the rignarole of co Mort ordinari-
" given in such cases. But there is a relief
that drops in mama from the throne of
Col, Oh, lift up your lacerated soul in
prayer and you will get omnipotent com
Tort! L do not know in what words the
soothing influence may come, but know that
Tor especial grief there is especial deliver
ance l give you two or three passages; try
Them on; take that which best fits your soul:
| Whom the Lord loveth, He chastenetb.p
AN things work together for good to those
who love God" Weeping may endure for
nlght but JOY cometh in the morning l
Know there are those 10 when they try 10
comfort people. always bring the same stale
sentiment about the usefulness Of trial. H.
stead OF bringing up a new plaster for n
new wound, aud fresh mama for fresh
munger, they rummage their baYersack to
ma some crumb of old consolation when
from horizon to horizon the ground is white
with the new fallen mama of Gods helm not
| five minutes old!
But after fourteen thousand six hun lral
consecutive days of falling m lnue--Sun!lvs
excepted tho MANN ceased. S)ne of th5u
were glad of it, You know thoy had co n