Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-11

and timc-prOOt. SO that, aIleI lOIly
wears 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 the bread is made in heaven,
and celestial fingers have mixed it, and
rolls it into ball, light, faky, and
sweet, rs 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 at the table with the King, and
the other for the marching Israel
ties in the wilderness.
do not very much pity the lsraeliieS
for the fact that they had only mamma
To eat. Ii was, l suppose, the best food
ever provided. / 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
I'M buckets of dew-clean, sweet, God
provided edibleS But now the Israel
ties have taken their best bit OF ii their
fingers. and put the last delicate morSel
of ii to their lips. They look out, and
there is no mama. Why this cessation
OF heavenly supply? 1t was because
the ISraeliteS had arrived in Canaan,
and they smelled the breath of
the harvest fields, and the crowded
barns of the country were thrown open
90 them. All the inhabitants had fed,
and I'm the name of the Lord OF Hosts
the ISraeliteS took possession of every
thing. Well. the threShing floor is
cleared, the corn is scattered over 1t,
the oxen are brought around in lazy and
perpetual circuit until the corn is tram
pled loose: then it is winnowed with
fan. and IL is ground and il is baked,
and To, 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
SPECIAL RELIEF N EMERGENCY.
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.
If these ISraeliteS crossing the Wild
erness had not received bread from the
heavenly bakeries, there would. first,
have been long line of dead children
half buried I'm the sand; then, there
would have been long line OF dead
women waiting for the jackalS; then,
there would have been long line OF
dead men unburied. because there
would have been no one 10 bury them.
+ 10 would have been told in the history
/ of the world that a great company OF
GOOD people started out from Egypt FOR
/ Canaan, and were never heard OF, as
I thoroughly lost i'm the wilderness OF
sand as the CuI Of Boston and the Pres
/ dcpf 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 i'm Egypt?
What they wanted was something to
eat right there. where there was not so
much as a glaSS-bladc. In other words,
an especial supply for an especial en-
ergency. That is what some OF YOU
want. The ordinary comfort, the
ordinary direction. the ordinary coun-
sci. do not seem TO meet your case.
There are those who feel that they must
have an omnipotent and immediate sup
ply, 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 i'm the most sensitive part OF
head and hand and foot? He has mix
ture of comfort, one drop OF which shall
Icurc the worst parONySm. 1t Is the
same grace that Soothed Robert Hall
when. after writhing on the carpet IN
phvsicial tortures, he cried out "Oh.
suffered terribly, but l didn't cry out
while was suffering, did l? Did cry
oute~ There is no such nurse aS Jesus
his hand the gentlcSt, his foct the
HghteSt, his arm the strongest. For
especial pang especial help.
Is it approaching sorrow? Is II long,
+ shadowing bereavement that you
/ know is coming, because the breath Is
short. and the voice is faint. and the
cheek is pale? Have you been calcu-
lating YOUR capacity or incapaciJy to
endure widowhOOd or childleSSnesS or
D disbanded home, and cried, Il cannot
endure it2" Oh. worried soul, You Will
wake ND amidst all your troubles, and
find around about YOU the sweet conSo-
lation Of the Gospel rs thlckly SlreWh
rs was the mama around about the
Israelitish encampment, Especial So
lace for especial distress.
rrtr rNFIpEL SCIENTISTS OF THIS DAY
are Offering us a different kind Of soul
food: but they are, of all men, the most
miserable. I have known many OF them'
hint never knew one OF them VINO
came within thousand miles OF 0elng
bappv. The great John Stuart Mill
provided himself a new KIND OF por-
ridge; but vet when he comes to de, ne
ACKNOWLEDGES that his philosophy never
gave him any comfort in days OF be-
reavement, and i'm a roundabout way ne
admits that his life was failure: 30 IL
is with an infdel scientists. Ihey are
irving olive on telescopes ana crucl-
bleS and protoplaSmS, and they chaIge
us with can't, not realizing that
there is no such intOlerable cant
I'm all the world as this perpetual
talk we are hearing about post
tive DhilOSOphy." and 1.-THE absolute,
and 'sthe great TO be, and 1.-THE ever
lasting no" and "thc higher unity,
and 1.-The latest pOtentiOlitieS, and 1.-THE
cathedral of immenSitieS." l have been
translating what these men have been
writing. and l have been tranSlating
what they have been doing, and VIII
tell vou what il all meanS-it means
that they want to Kill God! And my
wonder is that God has not killed them.
have. in my days, tasted of their con-
fectionS. and l come back and tell you
to-day that there is no nutriment or
life or health in anything but the bread
made out of the old corn of the Gospel.
What do l mean by that? mean that
Christ is the bread of life, and taking
Him. YOU live and live forever. ..
But, YOU say. corn is of but little
practical use unless it is threShed and
ground and baked. answer. this Cos
pel corn has gone through that process
When on Calvary all the hoofs OF hu.
-. ,,,,a 5ovrp an the heart OF