The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-16
FOOD FROM HEAVEN.
DR.. TalmaRe Discourses to the
People at Long Branch.
Tho Supply OF Mamma TO the Israelltes-
Provision Made by the Lord For spe-
oIal Emergenoies-The Gospel
offered to All.

In a late sermon at Long Branch Rev.
i. Dewitt Talmage discoursed on the
Gospel provision for ordinary and extra
ordinary needs. His text was Joshua
IL: And the mama ceased on the
morrow after they had eaten of the old
corn of the land" He said:
Only those who have had something
10 do with the commissariat of an army
know what a job it is to feed and clothe
fve or six hundred thousand men.
Well, there is such a host as h a march
Ing across the desert They arc cut off
from all army supplies. There are no
rail trains bringing down food or blank
cts Shall they all perish? No. The
Lord comes from Heaven to the rescue,
and he touches the shoes and the coats
which in a year or two would nave been
worn to rags and .tatters. and they be-
come storm proof and time proof, so
that after forty years OF wearing, the
coats and he's shoes are as good as new.
Besides that every morning there is a
shower OF bread, not sour and soggy,
for the rising of that bread Is made in
Heaven and celestial fingers have
mixed 1t and rolled 1t into balls, light,
naky and sweet as though they were
tho crumbs thrown out from a heavenly
banquet. Two patches of bread made
every day In the upper mansion-one
for those who sit ut the table with the
King and the other for the marching Is
raelites in the wilderness.
do not very much pity the ~Israelites
for tho fact that they had only mama
to eat 1t was, | suppose, the best food
ever provided know that the ravens
brought food to hungry Elijah, but I
should not so we'll have liked those
black walters. Rather would / have the
fare that came down every morning in
buckets OF dew-clean, sweet, God-pro-
vided edibles. But now the Israelites
have taken the last bit of it in their
fingers and put the last delicate morsel
OF 1t to their lips. They look out and
there is no mamma. Why this cessation
Of Heavenly supplyP 1t was because the
lsraelites had arrived in Canaan, and
they smelled the breath OF the har-
vest 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 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 II Is winnowed with a fan, and 1t
10 ground and 1t is baked, and, lol there
IL enough bread for all the worn out
host "And the mama ceased on the
morrow after they had eaten of the old
Corn OF the land"
The dissection Of this subject leads
me, first, to speak of especial relief for
especial emergency; and, secondly, OF
the old corn OF tho Gospel for ordinary
circumstances
II these ~Israelites crossing the wilder
ness had not received bread from heav-
emily bakeries there would first have
boon a long line Of lead children half
buried In the sand; then there would
have boon q 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. 1t would
have been told in the history Of the
world that a great company Of good peo-
pie started out from Egypt for Canaan
and were " heard of, as thorough
ly lost In the wilderness Of sand as the
City Of Boston and the President we're
lost in the wilderness of waters. What
use was 1t 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 n grass blade. In other words,
an especial supply for an especial emer-
gency- That is what some Of you want.
The ordinary comfort, tho ordinary d.
r%ection, the ordinary counsel, do not
seem to meet your case. There ara
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 go2 Does not Jesus
know all about pain? Did he not suf-
fer 1t in the most sensitive part OF head
and hand and foot2 He has. o mixture