The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-11
CORN AFTER THE MAMMA.
vAaE TELLS OF TIE MARCH
OF THE IsRAELITEs.

Mamma Probably the Best Fooo Ever
- [-ov,ded-The Renewal of the Habit
80 of the People-God's Special
SIMPLY for special EmerEencies-Ihe
old Corn Of the Gospel
long BRANCH, n. j.. Aug. lo-Ihe
at brooklyn preacher who Is staying
- -, discourses this week on the gospel pro-
- for ordinary and extraordinary
IS His text Is Joshua v. II: AND the
n0o1, ceased on the morrow after they
lit, ,--. ao+an of the old corn of the land"
10, - those who have had something to do
,,itb the commissariat OF an army know
-. lob it is to feed and clothe i've or six
,.-.-dred thousand men. Well, there is such
- os that marching across the desert.
80 are cut off from all army supplies.
TIE are no rail trains bringing down food
t,ontets Shall they all perisha No
vi u, I'D comes from heaven to the
INC ,a and he touches the shoes and
o,o+s which in year or two
ia ~ have been worn TO rags ana tatterS,
WI +bav become storm proof and time
al1 So that. after forty years of
plooi, the coats and the shoes are as good
aaE Besides that, every morning there
a shower Of bread, not sour and soggy,
e. the rising Of that bread Is made IN
baoven. and celestial fingers have mixed IL,
Ia rolled it into balls, light, tiaky and
Ct c. as though they were the crumbs
s sS,,r ont from a heavenly banquet.
IT, bstches Of bread made every day in
- ,,Dnar mansion-one for those who sit
W o the table with the King, and the other
Cor the marching Israelites in the wilder
ness. A. Yz.o,1;4o, Co..
tho fact that they had only mama TO eat.
If was. | suppose, the best food ever pro-
vidad | know that the ravens brought
food to hungry Elijah; but | should not so
we'll have liked thos5 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 Dit OF IL In
their fingers, and put the last delicate
morsel of 1t to their lips. They look out,
and there is no mama. Why this cessa-
ZION Of heavenly supply? 1t was be
cause 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 to them. All
the inhabitants had fled, and in the name or
the Lord of Hosts the Israelites took pos
session of everything. Well, the threshing
floor is cleared the corn is scattered over IL,
the oxen are brought around in lazy and
perpetual circuit until the corn Is trampled
loose then it is winnowed with a fan, and
il IS ground and it is baked, and, lol there
is enough bread for all the wornout 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
am not sure which kind of grain my text
refers to, but all tue 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 Ii 10 of dead children half buried in the
sand; then, there would have been long line
OF dead women waiting for the iackals then,
there would have been a long line of dead
men unburled, because there would have
been no one to bury them 1t would ha, g
been told in the history of the world that ii
great company of good people started out
from Egypt to Canaan, and were never
heard Of, aSthoroughly lost in the wilderness
OF sand as the City of Boston and
tie President were lost in the wilder
to them that there was plenty of
corn in Canaan, or plenty of corn in Egypt :
nat they wanted was something TO eat
right there, where there was not so much as
grasS-bade In other words, an especial
supply for an especial emergency. That is
what some of you want. The ordinary
comfort, the ordinary direction, the ordin-
ary counsel, do not seem to meet your case
1here are those who feel that they must
nave an omnipotent and immediate, supply
ana you shall have it.
Is 1t pain and physical distress through
which you must 60? Does not Jesus know
all about pain3 Did he not suffer in the
most sensitive part of head, and hand. and
Ioot' tie has a mixture of comfort. one
urop OF which shall cure the worst parox-
!sln' IL Is the same grace that soothed
noOerV hali, when, after writhing on the
v vH peI III physical fortunes, he cried out.
IN | suffered terribly, but didn't cry
W. " wni lie was suffering, did L? Did cry
uV' There is 10 such nurse as Jesus-his
AaIu tne gentlest, his foot the lightest his
~ sli yIe strongest. For especial pang es-
sbo1e NPP,' OoSuiug SOrrOWs Is IL long.
, naroi2 bereavement that you know is
vn;an because the breath Is snort, and the
r o'Ip lalnt, and the cheek is pale? Have
aou oeen calculating your capacity or in
ras'y 10 endure widowhOod or childless-
60 olsDanded home, and cried. sl
I'M uoV endure itW o, worried soul Won
ar ,li wake up amidst all your troubles. and
- ~ around about you the sweet consolation
mo huSpeI as thlckly strewed as was the
ma,1tt me- aIouhd about the Israelitish eucamD-
0r; especial solace for especial distress.
sjle1+ a trouble past, yet present2 A
r IN hursery} A vacant chair onnosita
fanny IAN az tne table, A musing upon a broken
cboLi Gtcle never again to be reunited?
grief y 90 ~ sense OF loneliness2 A blot of
Of SIM 9' a 'aige that 1t extinguishes the light
mekas , auu puts out bloom of flower. and
or die, q i9cKIess as to whether you live
trial Va sPecial comfort for that especial
thing slso u' appetite has failed for every
ness ms9,, Oh, Try little of this wilder
q win rnal will never leave thee T
Il pitiatS er Iorsake thee" Like as n father
Il them IN MS children. 50 the Lord nitiatb
q her s,, ,uaI lear him." Can a woman forgat
comnaS,ios child that she should not have
thew mo'. on the son of her wombg yes
Orist riorget, yet will l not forget thee j
long Tho ne grlef of a dissipated compan-
an not ere are those here who have it 90 7
point 1oAHlng IN the abstract, but to the
70 your ~ NJ nave not whispered it. perhans
Your horno intimate friend: but Won see
and upa.S gong away gradually from Won,
TREY .1ulngs change soon it will be- en-
depicted ~. oyed Your grief was we'll
Womau's - woman, presiding at a
INTOXICATED DT Lng In Ohio, when her
tie pIstfo rusoand stag cred up to