Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-21
with the new fallen mamma of Gods help not


excepted the mama ceased. Some OF them
were glad of it. You know they had com
planned to their leader, and wondered that
they had to eat mamma instead OF onions
Now the fare is changed. Thoss people In
that army under forty years OF age had never
seen corn field. and now, when they hear
the leaves rustling and see thetassels 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.
"Cornl" cried the children as they counted
the shining grains. "CornV shouted tne
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, aud. fresh aud crisp and tender, were
devoured of the hungry victors; and bread
was prepared, and many things that can be
made out of -four RECALLED the appetites that
had been sharpened by the long march.
"Aud 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
field to-day, the luxuriant grain coming
above the girdle, the air full of the doors OF
the ripe old corn OF the gospel Canaan.
aOhp'yo say, ''the fare is too plain" Then
l remember YOU will soon get tired of a fan
ciful diet. While l was in Paris liked for
while the rare and exquisite cookery, but |
soon wished / was homs again, and had the
plain food of my native land. So it is a fact
that we soon weary OF the sirups and the
custards and the whipped foam Of the fauci-
full religionists, and we cry: "five us plain
bread made out of the old corn Of the gospel
Canaan" This is the only food that can
quell the souls hunger.
There are mez here who hardly know what
is the matter with them They have tried
to get together fortune and larger account
at the bank and 10 get investments yielding
larger percentages. They are trying 70 sat,
isfy their soul with diet of mortgages and
stocks. There ara others here who have been
trying to get famous, and have succeeded to
a greater or less extent and they have been
irving 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 favoraby mentioned. They
cannot analyze or define their feelings; but
will tell them what is the matter-they are
hungry for the old corn of the Gospel. That
you must have, or be punched and wan and
wasted and hollow-syed and shriveled up
with an eternity Of famine.
The infidel scientists of this day are offer
ing US different kind OF soul food; but they
are, of all men, the most miserable. l have
known many of them; but | never knew one
Of them who came within a thc1slnd miles
OF being happy. The great John Stewart
Mill provided for himself a new kind OF por-
ridge; but yet when he comes to die he ac-
knowledges that his philosophy never gave
him any comfort in days OF bereavement, and
in a roundabout way he admits that his life
was failure. So it is with all intidel scien-
fists They are trying to live on telescopes
and crucibles and protoplasns and they
charge us with can't not realizing that there
is no such intolerable cant in all the world as
this perpetual talk we are hearing about
positive philosophy and the absolute,
and 'sthe great TO be- and ''the everlasting
no. and ''the higher unity" and ''ths
latent potentialitiesn and the cathedral Of
the immensities.n | have been translating
what these men have been writing, aud
have been translating what they have been
doing, and viii tell you what it all means
IL means that they want to kill God And
my only wonder is that God has not killed
them. lhave in other days tasted OF their con
fections, and l come back and tell you to-day
that there is no nutriment or life or health in
anything but the bread made out OF the old
corn of the Gospel. What do | mean by
thati mean that Christ is the bread OF
life, and taking Him, you live and live for
ever
But, you say, corn is Of but little practical
use unless il is threshed and ground and
through that process. When on Calvary all
the hoofs OF human scorn came down ON the
heart OF Christ, and all the fails OF satanic
fury beat Him long and fast, was not the
corn threshold When the mills Of Gods in
dignation against sin caught Christ between
the upper and neither rollers was not the
corn grounds When Jesus descended into
hell, and the flames Of the lost world wrapped
Him all about. was not the corn bakedg Oh,
yasl Christ is ready; His pardon all ready:
His peace all ready; everything ready in
Christ. Are you ready for HIM
You say: That is such a simple Gospel. ~
l know it is. You say you thought religion
was a strange mixture OF elaborate COM
pounds. No; it is so plain that any apscs-
darian may understand it. In its simplicity
is its power II you could this morning re
alize that Christ died to save from sin and
death and hell not only your minister, aud
your neighbor, and your father, aud your
child, but you. it would make this hour like
the Judgment day for agitations and no
longer able to keep your seat, you would
leap up crying: 'sFor me. for mes God
grant that you. my brother, may see this
Gospel with your own eyes and hear it with
your own ears and feel with your own heart
that you arc a lost soul, but that Christ
comes for your extrication. Can you not
take that truth and digest it. and make it a
part of your immortal life; 1t is only bread.
You have noticed that invalids cannot
take all kinds Of food. The food that will
do for one will not do for another. There
are kinds of food which will produce. in
cases OF invaiidism, very speedy death.
But you have noticed that all persons, how
ever weak they may be- can take bread
Oh, soul sick with sin, invalid in your
transgressionS / think this Gospel will
agree with you'll think il you cannot take
anything else you can take this. Lost
found Sunken = raiseds Condemned -
pardoned Cast out-invited int That is
the old corn of the Gospel
You have often seen a wheel with spokes
Of different colors and when the wheel was
rapidly turned all the colors blended into a
rainbow of exquisite beauty. l wish /
could to-day, take the peace, and the life
and the JOY and glory Of Christ and turn
them before your soul with such speed and
such strength that you would be enchanted
with the revolving splendors Of that name
which is above every name-the name writ
ten once with tears Of exile and in blood OF
inartyrdom, but written now in FURNISHED
crown, and lifted sceptre, and transangelic
throne
There Is another characteristic about
bread, and that is, you never get tired of it,
There are people here seventy years Of age
who find it just as appropriate for their APP
petite as they did when, in boyhood, their