News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

we will help you"
You stand, some of you, in such a
tragedy today. You cannot even ASK
him to stop drinking. 1t makes INN
cross. and he tells you to mind your
own business. Is there any relief IN
such a case? Not such as is found In
the rigmarole of comfort ordinarily
given in such cases. But there is q re-
lief that drops in mamma from the
throne of God. Oh, lift up your LAGER
ated soul in prayer, and you will get
omnipotent comfort! | do not know
in what words the soothing influence
NAV come, but | know that for especial
grief there is especial deliverance. l
give you two or three passages; try
them ON. Take that which best fits
vour soul: ''Whom the Lord lOveth h2
chasteneth." "All things work togeth
err for good to those who love God.
Weeping may endure for night, but
ioy cometh in the morning" l know
there are those who, when they try to
comfort people, always bring the same
stale sentiment about the usefulness OF
trial. Instead of bringing up a new
plaster for new wound, and fresh
mamma for fresh hunger, they rummage
their haversack to find some crumb OF
old consolation, when from horizon to
horizon the ground is white with the
new fallen mamma of Gods help not
five minutes old.
THE MAMMA erased.
But after fourteen thousand six hun
dred consecutive days of falling mamma
= Sundays excepted - the mamma
ceased Some of them were glad of it.
You know they had complained to
their leader, and wondered that they
had to eat mamma instead of onions.
Now the fare is changed. Those people
in that army under 40 years of age
had never seen a cOrntield, and now
when they hear the leaves rustling and
see the tassels waving and the pillows
of green flowing over the plain as the
wind touched them, it must have been
a new and lively sensation. Corn"
cried the old man as he opened an ear.
Corn" cried the children as they
counted the shining grains, Corn"
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
victorious Israelites. Then the fire
was kindled and the ears of corn
were thrust into it, and, fresh and
crisp and tender, were devoursd of the
hungry victors; and bread was pre-
pared, and many things that can be
made out of flour RECALLED the appetites
that had been sharpened by the long
march. And the mamma 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 today, the luxuriant grain COM
ing above the girdle, the air full of the
odors of the ripe old corn OF the Cos
pei Canaan. "Oh!" you say, the fare
is too plain" Then l remember you
will soon get tired of a fanciful diet
While / was in Paris liked for while
the rare and excellent cookery; but |
soon wished was home again and had
the plain ire of my native land. SO
it is a fact that we soon weary of the
sirups, and the custards, and the whip
ped foam of fanciful religionists, and
we cry, ''Give us plain bread made out
of the old corn of the Gospel of Ca
naan." This is the only food that can
uuell the souls hunger
HUNGRY FOR THE GOSPEL.
There are men here who hardly know
what is the matter with them. They
| have tried to get together a fortune
and larger account at the bank, and to
| get Investments yielding larger per
| centages. They are trying to satisfy
| their soul with a diet of mortgages
and stocks There are Others here
who have been trying to get famous
and have succeeded to a greater or less
extent, and they have been trying to
satisfy their soul with the chopped feed
of magazines and newspapers. All
these men are no more happy now than
before they made the first thousand
dollars. No more happy now than
when for the first time they saw their
names favorably mentioned They
cannot analyze or define their feelings,
but l will tell them what is the matter
they are hungry for the old corn OF
the gospel. That you must have, or be
| pinched and wan and wasted and hOl-
| low eyed and shriveled up with an
eternity of famine.
The infdel scientists of this day are
| offering us a different kind of soul
| food; but they are, of all men, the
| most miserable have known many
of them, but | never knew one Of
them who came within a thousand
miles of being happy. The great John
Stuart Mill provided for himself new
kind of porridge; but yet, when he
comes to die, he acknowledges that hi:
philosophy never gave him any com
fort in days of bereavement, and in {
roundabout way he admits that his life
was a failure. So it is with all infide
scientists They are trying to live OF
telescopes and crucibles and proto
plasms, and they charge us with cant
not realizing that there is no such in
tolerable cant in all the world as thi
perpetual talk we are hearing abou
positive philosophy" and 1.-The alb
solute," and 1.-The great to be-" anC
1.-The everlasting no." and 9Th
higher unity" and ''the latent poten
tiaIities," and ''the cathedral of the i'm
mensities." l have been translatin!
what these men have been writing, an;
I have been translating what they hav
been doing, and l will tell you what i
all means. 1t means that they want t.
kill Godl And my only wonder is tina
God has not killed them. l have il
other days tasted of their CONNECTIONS
and l come back and tell you tOda
that there is no nutriment or life o
health in anything but the bread mad
out of the old corn of the gospel
What do 1 mean by that2 1 mean tina
Christ is the bread of life, and takin
him you live and live forever.
CHRIST Is READY.
But you say corn is of but little praC
teal use unless it is threshed and groun
and baked answer, this gospel cor
has gone through that process. Whe
on Calvary all the hoofs of huma
scorn came down on the heart of Chris
and all the fails of satanic fury bee
him long and fast, was not the cor
, threshed? When the mills of Godsindit
, nation against sin caught Christ betwee
, the upper and neither rollers, was nC
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