Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-08-11
CORNINSTEADO MAMMA
If A MAN EATS THEREOF HE WILL
NEVER HUNGER.

DIR. Talmage breaches n Magnificent Ser
mon of Comfort for the Weary-God
Will Feed the furnishing if They VIII
Accept Him.
LONG BRANCH, \. J., Aug. 1o.-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, u: 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 an army
know what a job it is to feed and
clothe five or six hundred thousand
men. Well. there is such a host as that
marching across the desert. They are
cut off from ali 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 the coats which III a year or two
would have been worn to rags and tat
tiers, and they become storm proof and
time proof, so that after forty 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, tlaky and 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 at the
table with the king, and the other for
the marching Israelites in the wilder
ness.
| do not very much pity the Israel
ties for the fact that they had only
mamma to eat. 1t was, I suppose, the
best food ever provided. [ know that
the ravens brought food to hungry
Elijah, but l 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 Israelites have taken their
last bit Of it in their fingers, and put
the last delicate morsel of it to their
lips They look out, and there is no
mamma Why this cessation of heaven
Iy supply! It was because the Israel
ties had arrived III Canaan, and they
smelled the breath of the harvest fields,
the crowded barns of the country were
thrown open to them. All the inhab-
itants had fled, and in the name Of the
Lord of Hosts the Israelites took pos
session Of everything. Well, the thresh-
ing 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 a fan, and it is ground and it is
baked, and lo 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 "
RELIEF FROM HEAVEN.
From among the mummies of Egypt
and Canaan have been brought grains
of corn exactly like our Indian corn,
and recently planted; they have pro-
duced the same kind of corn with
which we are familiar So [ am not
sure which kind of grain my text refers
to, but the meaning is all the same.
The dissection of this subject leads
me, first, to speak of especial relief for
especial emergency; and, second, of the
old corn of the gospel for ordinary cir
cumstances.
If these Israelites crossing the wilder
ness had not received bread from the
heavenly bakeries there would, first,
have been a long line of dead children
half buried in 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 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 to
Canaan, and were never heard of, as
thoroughly lost in the wilderness of
sand as the City of Boston and the
President were lost in the wilderness of
waters What use vas 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
50 much rs a grass blade. In other
words, an especial supply for az especial
emergency That is what some of you
want The ordinary comfort, the or
binary 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.
NO SUCH NURSE AS JESUS
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 physical fortunes, he cried out, oh!
l suffered terribly, but [ didn't cry out
while | was suffering, did l? Did [ cry
OUT There is no such nurse as Jesus
his hand the gentlest, his foot the
lightest, his arm the strongest. For
especial pang especial help.
Is it approaching sorrow? Is it 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 calculating your
capacity or incapacity to endure widow
hood or childlessness or a disbanded
home, and cried, 81 cannot endure it?'
Oh, worried soul, you will wake up
amid all your troubles, and find
around about you the sweet consolation