The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-16

an6 mauna@OuHuuy eXcepueu--bne mama
ceased. Some OF them were glad OF it. You
know they had complained to their leader,
and wondered thatthoy had to eat manna in
stead OF onions. Now. the fare is changed.
Those people in that army under 40 years
OF age had never seen q corn field mi now,
when they hear the leaves rustling and the
tassels waving and the pillows of green flow.
ing over tho 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, az they counted
the shining grains. 'Cornr' shouted the
vanguard OF the host, as they burst open the
granaries Of the affrighted populations; the
g%ranaries that have been left in the possess
sion Of the victorious Israelites. Then the
fire was kindled. and the ears of corn were
thrust into it, and fresh and crisp ind ten.
der were devoured Of the hungry ~victors; and
bread was prepared, and many things that
can be made out Of -four RECALLED ths nppe-
march. And the mamma ceased on the
morrow a,ter they had eaten of the old corn
of the land" 2
Blessed be God, we stand in just such a
field to-day, the luxuriant grain coming
above the girdle, the air full Of the odors Of
the ripe old corn Of the gospel Canaan.
"OhI' You say, 1.-THE lare is too plain"
Then l remember you will soon get tired of
q fanci III diet. While ] was in Paris, ] liked
Tor o while the rare and exquisite cookery;
but l soon wished ! was home again and had
the plain fare of my native land. So it il q
fact that we soon weary of the sirups and
the custards and the whipped foam OF fanci-
fnl r~eligiolists, and we cry. 'Give US plain
bread made out at the old corn of the gospel
Canaan This is the only food that can
quell the souls hunger.
There are men here who hardly know what
il the matter with them. They have tried
to get together a fortune and larger account
~ +h4 hOuk -~l - @A~% k~r~ ,A IRE nIlls
larger percentages. They are trying to
satisfy their soul with q dict Of mortgages
and stocks. There are others here who have
been trying to get famous, and have sue
ceeded 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 han when for the first
time they saw their names 1avornbly men,
toned. They cannot analyze or define their
feelings; but I will tell them what il the mat
ter-they are hungry for the old corn of the
gospel. That you must have, or be pinched,
and wan, and wasted, and hollow.eyed, and
shriveled up with an eternity of famine.
The infdel scientists ofthis day are offering
us a different kind ofsoul food: but they are, of
all men, the most miserable, Ihave known
many of them; but l have never known any
of them who came within a thousand miles
u DeIHS Hdppy. lne SIeAl JOuH OCuhTU
Mill provided for himself a new kind of por-
ridge; but yet, when he came to die. he ac-
knowIedges that his philosophy never gave
him any comfort in the days of bereavment,
and in = roundabout way he admits that
his life was a failure. So ~ with allinfdel
scientists. They are trying to live OF teles-
copes and crucibles and %protoplasms,
| that there ia no such intolerahle can't in all
the world as this perpetual talk we are hear
ing about positive philosophy" and the
absolute" and "the great to be-" and "the
everlasting no." and "the higher unity"
and 1.-The latent potentialities," and 1.-The
I nslating what these men have been writ
j and l have been translating what they
have been doing, and | will tell you what it
all means-it means that they want to kill
God!. And my only wander is that. God has
not killed them, l have, in other days,
tasted of their corrections, and l come back
and tell you to-day that there is no nutli-
ment of life or health in anything but the
bread made out of the old corn of the
gospel. What do l mean by that? lmean
hat Christ is the bread of life. and taking
Him, you live and live forever.
But, you say, corn Is OF but little pratical
use unless it is threshed and ground and
baked. l answer, this gospel corn has gone
throug h hat process.
When on calvary all the hoofs of human
scorn came down on the heart of Christ, and
oil the fails o%fsatanic fury beat him long and
fast, was not the corn threshed? When the
mills o. Gods indignation against sin caught
Christ between the upper and neither rollers,
was not the corn ground? When Jesus de-
scended into hell, and the flames of the lost
world wrapped Him all about, was not the
corn baked? Oh, yes! Christ is ready. His
pardon ALREADY; everything readyin Christ.
Are you ready for Him.. 49,.
You say. THAT is such a simple gospel"
l know it is. You say you thought religion
was q strange mixture of elaborate COM
pounds. No;is is 40 plain that any abece-
darian may Understand it. In it's simplicity
is it's power. II you could, this morning,
realize that Christ died to save from sin and
death and hell, not only your minister and
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, "For me! FoR MEL" God
grant that you, my brother. may see this
gosple with your own eyes, and hear it with
your own ears, and ieel with your own heart
that you are O lost soul, but that Christ
comes Tor your extrication. Can you not
take that truth and digest it, and make it Q
part Of your immortal lit? 1t is only bread.
You have noticed thatinvalids 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 inva.
lidism. very speedy death. But you have no
ticed that all persons, however weak they
may be, can take bread. Oh, soul sick with
sin, invalid iii your transgressions, | think
this gospel will agree with you! l think il you
cannot take anything else you can take this.
Lost-fonndl Sunken-raised! Cast out
invited inl That is the old corn of the gospel.