Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-11
The Famous Divine's Discourse
Yesterday at Long Branch.
:" And the Mamma Ceased on the Nor
row After They had Eaten OF the
Old Corn of the Land"
plain Prrad Made from the Corn of tha Cos
no, Canaan the Only Food hat Can
QurlI the soui's Hunger


oreat Brooklyn preacher who is s'ayinR
80 afsroursed to-day on the Gospel |
-,orisfon for ordinary and extraordinary !
-ao5s His text Is Joshua ", 20: land
the mama ceased on the morrow after
they had eaten of the old corn of the
land
only those who have had something to
A. NTH the commissarIat of an army
rnow whit q job 1t is to feed and clothe
5oo 600 or GOO 600 men. Well, there is
s,,,.b a host as that marching ncross the
desert They are cut off from all army
sunDIies. There are no rail trains bring
mo down food or blankets. Shall they
ali nerish? No. The Lord comes from
Heaven 10 the rescue, and he touches
rbe shoes and the coats, which IN year
or two would have been worn TO rags anu
tatters, and they become
sTORM-PROOF AND TIME PROOF,
en- tbat. after forty years of wearing,
the coats and shoes are as good rs new.
Resides that, every morning there Is
shower OF bread, not sour and sogSy,
yor the rising of that bread is made In
heaven. aud celestial fingers have
,nived II and rolled il into balls, light,
fol,y and sweet, as though they were the
,rurnns thrown out from heavenly BAN
ona. Two batrhes of bread made every
dov in the uDper mansion-One for those
who SIT at the table with the king, and
rbe other for the marching lsrnelItes in
the wilderness.
I do not very much pity the Israelites
for the fact that they had only munua
IN eat. II was, l suppose, the best
food ever provided. l know that the
ravens brought food to hungry Elijah;
int | should not so well have liked those
blnck walters. Rather would L have
the fare that came down every morn
ing in buckets OF dew-clean, sweet,
God-proyided edihles. But now the
IsrnelItes have taken their last bit OF 1t
in their fingers, and put the last DELI
cate morseI of it to their lips. They
look out, and there is no mama. why
this cessation of heavenly SUPPLY II
was because the IsrHelites had arrived
in Cauuan, and they smtlled the
breath of the harvest fields, and the
crowded barns OF the country were
thrown open TO them. All the lhhaD-
limits had fed, and in the name of the
Lord of Hosts the Israelites took pos
session of everything. Well. the
threshing floor is leured, the corn is
scuitered over 1t, the oxen are brought
around in lnzy and perpetual circuit
until the corn is trampled loose; then 1t
i wiuuowed with a fan, and II is ground
and il is baked, and, 10! there Is enough
hrpnd for oil the WORKOUT host. And
the mama ceased on the morrow after
they had eaten Of the old corn Of the
land. -
FROM AMONG TIE MUNIMIEs OF EGYPT
md 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 nre familiar. So am not sure whirn
kind of grain my tex refers to, but all
the suIne is the meaning.
The dissection of this subject leads me
first, to speak of especial relief for es-
pecial emergency; and, secondly, oil th'
old corn of the Gospel for ordinary CIR
cumstauces.
II these Israeltes crossing the wilder'
ness had not received bread from tht
heavenly bakeries, there would, hrst
have been Il long line OF dead children
half buried III the sand; then, there
would have been long line of deaC
women Whiting for the isckals; then
there would have been long line
have been no one TO bury them. l
vouId have been told in the history o
the world that great company OF goot
people stGrted out from Egypt 10
Cauunu. and were never heard OF,
thoroughly lost in the wilderness of sant
as the City of Boston and the Presiueh
were lost in the wilderness of waters
What use was it to them that there wa
Dlpnty of corn in Canaan, or plenty o
corn in Egypt?
What they wanted was something [
eat right there, where there was not 3
much us a grass blade. In other words
an especial supply for an especial emer
gencv That is what some OF you want
The ordinary comfort, the ordinary oil
recrion, the ordinary counsel, do No
seem to meet your case. There are thos
who feel that they must have an omnip
otent and immediate supply, and 20
shall have It.
Is il pam and physical distress throug
which you must go? Does not jest
know oil about pain? Did he not sun.
it in the most sensitive part of head an
hand and foot?
HE HAS MIXTURE OF COMFORT,
one drop of winch shall cure the wort
paroxvsm. 1t is the same grace thf
soothed Robert Hall when, after writt
ing on the carpet in physical torture'
he cried out, "Ohl suffered terribly
but didn't cry out while was suffer
ing, did l? Did 1 cry out?' There
no such nurse as Jesus-hls hand II
gentlest, his foot the lightest. his ar
the strongest. For especial pang, g:
pec!al help.
Is It approaching sorrow? Is II Ion!
shadowing bereavement that you know
coming. because the breath is short, al
the voice is faint, aud the cheek Is pal
HIVE you been calculating your cspaci
or inrnnacity to endure widowhood
chi!dlrssness or d disbanded home, al
cried 81 cannot endure it?' Oh, wo
ried soul, you will wake up amidst
YOUR troubles, and ind around about y
the sweet consolation Of the gospel
thicklv strewed as was the mama arnni
about the Israplitish encRmpment! Esp
cIal soluCe for especial distress.
Or is it trouble past, yet present.
silent nursery? A vacant chair opposi
YOU at the table? A musing upon
broken family circle never again 10
reunited? A choking sense of loneline'
A blot of grief so large that 1t exit
tinguishes the light of sun, and puts @
the bloom Of flower, aud makes y