Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-11
THE BREAD OF LIFE.
ASupply Of Food to Satisfy the Souls
Hunger Found Only
In THE 0LD-FASHIONED GOSPEL.
The Substitutes offered BY Scientists Found
unWhOleSOme.
THE CORN OF CANAAN EVER PURE
In THE OLD-FASHIONED GOSPEL.
THE CORN OF CANAAN EVER PURE


great Brooklyn preacher who is staying
here discourses this week on the Gospel pro-
vision for ordinary and extraordinary needs.
His text is Joshua V. 10: "AEd 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 eommissariat of an army know
what Job it is to feed and clothe 10000
or 600 600 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 all perish? No. The
Lord comes from heaven to the rescue, and
He touches the shoes and coats which in
wear or two would have been worn to rags
and tatters, and they become storm-proot
and time-proof, so that, after 40 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 and soggy,
for the rising of that bread is made In
heaven, and celestial fingers have mixed it,
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
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, 1 suppose, the best food ever provided.
1 know that the ravens brought food to hun
gry Elijah; but / should not so well have
liked those black walters Rather would
have the fare that came down every morn
ing in buckets of dew-elean, 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
il to their lips. They look out, and there is
no mama.
BREAD FOR THE HOST.
Why this cessation of heavenly supply?
1t was because the Israelites had arrived In
Canaan. and they smelled the breath of the
harvest-felds, 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 pos
session of everything. Well, the threshing-
floor is cleared, the corn is scattered over it,
the oxen are brought around in lazy ana
perpetual circuit until the corn is trampled
loose; then it is winnowed with a fan, and
it is ground and it is baked, and, 10! there
is enough bread for all the worn-out host
''and the mama 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 l
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,
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emergency; and, secondly, of the old corn
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 children half buried in
the sand; then, there would have been a
long line of dead women waiting for the
iackals: then, there would have been long
line of dead men unburied, because there
would have been DO one to bury them. 1t
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, thoroughly lost in
the wilderness of sand as the City of Boston
and the President were lost in the wilder
ness of waters What use was it to them
that there was plenty OF corn In Canaan, OF
plenty of corn in Egypt?
AN IMMEDIATE SUPPLY.
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.
But after Il, 600 consecutive days of fall
ing manns-Sundays excepted-the mama
ceased, Some OF them were glad OF 1t.
You know they had complained to their
leader, and wondered that they had to eat
mama instead OF onions. Now the fare is
changed. Those people in that army under
40 years of age had never seen corn field,
and now, when they hear the leaves rustling
and see the tassels waving and the billows
of green flowing over the plain as the wind
touched them, it must have been a new and
lively sensation "Cornr' cried the old
man, as he opened an ear. ''Corn!" cried
the children, as they counted the shining
grains. "Cornr shouted the vanguard of
the host, as they burst open the granaries of
the affrighted population, the granaries that
had been left in the possession of the VIC
torious Israelites.
corn were thrust into it. and, fresh and
crisp and tender, were devoured of the hun
cry vietOrs; and bread was prepared, and
MANY things that can be made out Of flour
regaled the appetites that had been sharp
ened by the long march. "And the mama
ceased on the morrow after they had eaten
of the old corn of the land
Blessed be God, we stand in Just such a
field to-day, the luxuriant grain coming
above the girdle, the air full of the odors OF
the ripe old corn of the Gospel Canaan.
"Ohr' you say. "the fare is too plain"
Then remember you will soon get tired of
a fanciful diet. While 1 was in Paris,
liked for awhile the rare and exquisite
cookery; but l soon wished l was home
again, and had the plain fare of my native
land. So it is fact that we soon weary of
the sirups and tine custards and the whipped
foam of fanciful religionists, and we cry:
'Give us plain bread made out of the old
corn of the Gospel Canaan" This is the
only food that can quell the SOULS hunger.
THE WRONG KIND OF FOOD.
There are men here who hardly know what
is the matter with them. They have tried
TO get together fortune and larger account
at the bank, and to get investments yielding
larger percentages. They are trying to sat
lsty their soul with diet of mortgages and
stocks. There are others here who have
been try ng to get famous, and have sue
ceeded TO greater or less extent; and they
have been trying to satisfy their soul with
the chopped feed of magazines and news
papers. All these men are no more happy
now than before they made the first thou
sand dollars; no more happy now than
when for the first time they saw their names
favorably mentioned. They cannot analyze
or define their ceilings; but will tell them
what is the matter-they are hungry for the
old corn Of the gospel. That you must have,
ha mir nd !