Connecticut western news., 1890-08-13
CORN IlSSTEADOF HANNA
IF A MAN EATS THEREOF HE WILL
 NEVER HUNGER.

l IF A MAN EATS THEREOF HE WILL
 NEVER HUNGER.
 Dr. Talmage Breaches 9 Magnificent Ser mon of Comfort for tho Weary-God Will Feed the Famishing if They Will Accept Him.
 LONG BRANCH, N. J., Aug 10.-The great Brooklyn preacher who is stay 1 ing here discourses this week on the l gospel provision for ordinary and ex- traordinary needs. His text Is Joshua V, 12: "And the mama ceased on the l morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land"
 Only those who have had something 1 to do with the commissariat of an army l know what ;ob it is to feed and clothe five or six hundred thousand men. We'll, there is such host as that marching across the desert. They are cut off from ali army supplies. There arc no rail trains bringing down food or blankets. Shall they all perish2 No. The Lord comes from heaven to the rescue, and he touches the shoes and the coats which in a year or two would have been worn to rags and tat ters, and they become storm proof and time proof, so that after forty years of wearing the coats and the shoes are as l good as new. Besides that, every morning there is shower of bread, not sour and soggy, for the rising of that bread is made in heaven, and celestial fingers have 4alixed 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
 I do not very much pity the Israel ites for the fact that they had only mama to eat. It was, suppose, the best food ever provided. know that the ravens brought food to hungry Elijah, but I should not SO 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 mama. Why this cessation of heaven ly supply? It was because the Israel ites had arrived in Canaan, and they s1nelled 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. We'll, 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 fan, and it is ground and it is baked, and To! there is enough bread for all the worn out host. "And the mamma 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 I am not sure which kind of grain my text refers to, but the meaning is all the same.
 The bisection 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 long line of dead children half buried in the sand; then there would have been 8 long line of dead women waiting for the jackals; then there would have been a long line of dead men unburied, because there would have been no one to bury them. It would have been told in the history of the world that 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 was 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 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 comfort, the or dinary 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 goa Does not Jesus know all about paint Did he not suffer it in the most sensitive part of head and hand and foot2- He has a mixture of comfort, one drop of which shall cure the worst paroxysm It is the same grace that soothed Robert Hall when, after writhing on the carpet ill physical tortures, he cried out, 'sOh suffered terribly, but didn't cry out while was suffering, did IF Did I cry out2" There is no such nurse as Jesus his hand the gentlest, his fc'ot the lightest, his arm the strongest. For especial pang especial help.
 Is it approaching sorrow9 Is it long, shadowing bereavement that you know is coming, because the breath is short, and the voice is faint, and the cheek is