Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-21
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DR. TALMAGE's
STERLING DIsCoURsEa
e uDject: "rhe Food in Gods Gospel"

TExT: "And the mama ceased on the
aorrotv after they had eaten of the old corn
Of the land. Joshua ", -.
Only those who have had something TO do
with the commissiariat of an army know
what job it is to feed and clothe five or six
hundred thousand men. Well, there IS such
q host as that marching across the desert.
They are cut off from all army supplies.
There are no rail trains bringing down
food or blankets. Shall they perish'
No. The Lord comes from heaven to the
rescue and He touches the shoes and the
coats which in year or two would have
been worn to rags and tatters, and they De-
come stormproof and timeproof, SO that
after forty years Of wearing the coats and
the shoes are as good as new. Besides that
every morning there is shower OF bread,
not sour or soggy, for the rising OF that
bread is made in heaven, and celestial nm
gers have mixed it and rolled it into balls,
light fiaky and sweet as though they were
the crumbs thrown out from heavenly
banquet. Two patches of bread made every
day in the upper mansion--one for those VINO
sit at the table with the King, and the other
for the marching lsraelites in the wilder
ness.
do not very much pity the Israelites for
the fact that they had only mamma to eat.
II was. / suppose, the best food ever pro-
vided know that the ravens brought
food to hungry Elijah, but l 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 Israel
ties have taken the last bit Of it in their
fingers. and put the last delicate morsel OF it
20 their lips. They look out and there is no
mama. Why this cessation Of heavenly
kao fha Tern alifac had
arrived in Canaan, and they smelled the
breath of the harvest fields, and
the crowded barns of the country
were thrown open to them. All the
inhabitants had fed, and in the name Of the
Lord of Hosts. the Israelites took possession
Of everything. Well the threshing floor is
cleared, the corn is scattered overit theoxen
are brought around in lazy and perpetual
circuit until the corn is trampled loose; then
It is winnowed with fan, and 1t is ground
and it is baked, and lol 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
From among the mummies OF Egypt and
Canaan have been brought grains OF corn.
exactly like our Indian corn, and recently
planted, they have produced the same kind
of corn with which we are familiar. So
am not sure which kind of grain my text re-
fers 10, but all the same is the meaning.
The dissection of this subject leads me.
FIRST to speak Of especial relief for especial
emergency; and, secondly, of the old corn OF
the Gospel for ordinary circumstances.
IL these Israelites crossing the wilderness
had not received bread from the heavenly
bakeries there would first have been q 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
there would have been long line of dead
rfs.l 49, haev
been no one 70 bury them. 1t 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 Egypt?
What they wanted was something TO eat
right there, where there was not so much as
q grass blade-in other words an especial
supply for an especial emergency. That is
what some of you want. The ordinary COM
fort, the ordinary 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 il.
Is IL pain and physical distress through
which you must goy Does not Jesus know
all about pains Did he not suffer it In the
most sensitive part OF head and hand and
footf He has a mixture of comfort one drop
Of which shall cure the worst paroxysm. 1t
IL the same grace that soothed Robert Hall
when. after writhing on the carpet in phys
zeal fortunes, he cried out, 'Oi l suffered
terribly, but didn't cry out while / was
suffering, did II Did cry outy' There is
no such nurse as Jesus-His hand the gentlest,
His foot the lightest, His arm the strongest
bor especial pang especial help.
Is 1t approaching sorrows Is it long,
shadowing bereavement that you know is
coming, because the breath is short, and
the voice is faint, and the cheek is pales
Have you been calculating your capacity or
lncapacity TO endure widowhood or child
lessness or a disbanded home and cried L
cannot endure itg' Oh, worried soul, you
will wake up amidst all your troubles and
nnd around about you the sweet consolation
of the Gospel as thickly strewed as was the
mamma around about the Israelitish encamp-
mentl Especial solace for especial distress.
Or is 1t trouble past, yet present, A
silent nursery A vacant chair opposite you
at the tables A musing upon a broken fam
NY circle never again TO be unite1y A chok-
ing sense of lonelinesss A blot of grief so
large that it extinguishes the light of sun,
and puts out bloom of flower, and makes you
reckless as TO whether you live or dies Es-
pecial comfort that especial trial. Your an
petite has failed for everything else. Oh.
try little of this wilderness mama: Il will
never leave thee, viii never forsake thee
Like as father pitieth his children, so the
Lord pitieth them that fear Him" ''Can a
woman forget her srckling child that she
should not have compassion on the son Of her
womb yea, they may forget, yet will not
form thee"
Or isit the grief of dissipated compan-
tonf There are those here who have it so /
am not speaking in the abstract, but to the
point. You have not whispered it, perhaps,
% your most intimate friend; but you see
your home going away gradually from you,
and unless things change soon 1t viii be en-
drely destroyed Your grief was well de
picted by woman. presiding at a womans
nesting in Ohio, when her intoxicated hus-
band staggered up 20 the platform, to her
overwhelming modification and the disturb
ance Of the audience and she pulled pro-
fruding bottle from her husbands pocket
and held itup before the audience and cried
out: There Is the cause Of my woel There
are the tears and the life blood Of a drunk
ards wifew And then looking mp to heaven
she said: How long, o Lordi how longr'
and then looking down to the audience cried:
DO yon wonder feel strongly on this sub
1ectf Sisters. win you help mer' And hun
dreds Of voices responded: "Yes, yes we
viii helpyou."
You stand, some of you, in such tragedy