The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
FRne Gospel Provision for Ordinary.
and Extraordinary Needs.
EAo Bread of Life a Food that Nevev
Grows Stale, Neither Does. II Pail on
the Appetite. and No Famine
Curtails the Supply.

D., taking for his text:
Ane the mamma ceased on the morrow
SIIef tney had oaten Of the old Icorn OF the
sand.--Joshua ", IA
Only those who have had something
20 90 with the commissariat of an army
know what job it is to feed and clothe
4te or six hundred thousand Den
Wetlr there Is such host as that
marching across the desert. They are
cut of from all army supplies There
We no rail trains bringing down food,
81 blankets. Shall they all perishP No.
'Rne Lord comes from Heaven to the
rescue, and He touches the shoes and
she coats which in year or two would
gave been worn to rags and tatters, and
shey become storm-proof and time
proof, so that, after forty years Of
gearing, the coats and the shoes are.
as good as new. Besides that
every morning there Is a shower of
Ssead-nos sour and soggy, for the ris.
ing Of that bread rs made in Heaven,
and celestial Angess have mixed it and
colted 1t into balls light, aaky and
sweet, as though they were. the crumbs;
tnrown out froma Heavenly banquet.
Two batche s of bread made every day
IL, the upper mansion, one for those who
sit at the table with the King, and the
other for the marching Lsraelites in the
wilderness
7 i do not very much pity the Tsraelites
for the fact that they had only mama
60 eat. 1t was, ! suppose, the best food
ever provided know that tho ravens
brought food to Elijah; but I should
not so we'll have liked those black wait
oss. Rather would have the fare that
came down every morning in buckets Of
dew-elean, sweet GOd-provided edi-
Dies But now the Israehtes have taken
eheir last Bit of it in their fingers, and
put the last delicate morsel Of it to their
Tips. They look Out, and there is no
manDa. Why this cessation of heaven
~ SUPPLY It was because the Israelites.
had arrived in Canaan, and they
saelled! the breath Of the harvest
helds, and the crowded barns Of the
country! were thrown, open to them All
the. inhabitants Had fed and in, she
name. Of the Bord5 Of HOsts the fsraelites
took possession Of every thing Well,
the threshing 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 IL is, winnowed with fan, and it
IA Nd I'D - 70 hol xnA, onA In.fA
IS enough bread for all the worn out
host And the mama ceased on the
norrow after they had eaten Of the old
corn Of the land"
From among the mummfes Of Egypt
and. Canaan have been brought grains
Sfcorn exactly like our Indian corn,
and; recently planted, they have pro-
ahced, the same kind Of corn with
which we are familiar. So Z am not
sure which Kind of grain my text re-
eerS to, but all the same in. the meaning
The dissection of this subject leads
mo; first, to speak Of especial relief for
especial emergency; and, secondly, of
she old corn of the Gospel for ordinary
circumstances.
II these Israelites crossing the wilder
ness 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 long line of dead
women waiting for the jackals; then,
tffere would have been long line Of
aead, men, unburried, because there
would have been M one to bury them.
IL would have BEEN told in the history
Of the world that. great company Of
good people started out from Egypt for
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 was it to them that
there was plenty of corn in Canaan, or
plenty of corn in EgyptH
What they wanted was something to
eat right there, whore there was not SO
much as a grass-blade. In other words,
an especial supply for an especial emer-
gency. That is what some of you want.
The ordinary comfort the ordinary di'
rection, 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 1t.
Is 1t pain and physical distress
through which you must goP Does not
Jesus know all about pain? Did He not
suffer 1t in the most sensitive part Of
head and hand and foot? He has a
mixture of comfort one drop Of which
shafD cure the worst paraxysm. 1t Is
tho same grace that soothed Robert
Hall when, after writhing on the car
net is physical tOrtures, he cried out
i'Oh! / suffered terribly, but l didn''
ory out while | was suffering did II
Did ! cry out?" There is NO snof
nurse as JesGs-His hand the geRtfest
His foot the highest His arm tht
strongest. For especial pang especial
hAlp.