Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-08-15

sponded, Eyes, yes, we will help you"
YouSstand, some of you, in such u tragedy
to-day. You can not even ask him to stop
drinking. 1t makes him cross, and he tells
you TO mind your own business. Is there
any relief in such n casei Not such as is
found in the rigamarole of comfort ordi-
narily given in such cases. But there is
relief that drops in mamma from the throne
of God. oh, lift up your lacerated soul in
prayer, and you will get omnipotent COM
fort do not know in what words the
soothing influence may come, but l know
that for especial grief their is especial
deliverance i give you two or three pas
sages; try them on; take that which best
fits your soul: "Whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth." GAN things work together for
good to those who love God" "Weeping
may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in
the morning" I know there are those who,
when they try to comfort people, always
bring the same stale sentiment about the
usefulness of trial. Instead of bringing up
a new plaster for new wound, and fresh
mama for fresh hunger, they rummage
their haversack TO find some crumb OF old
consolation, when from horizon to horizon
the ground is white with the new-ftllen
mama of Gods help not five minutes old !
But after fourteen thousand six hundred
| consecutive days of falling manna-Sundays
| excepted--the mamma ceased. Some OF
them were glad of it, You know they had
complained TO their leader and wondered
| that they had to eat mamma instead OF
onions. Now the fare is changed. Those
people in that army under forty years OF
| age had never seen corn-teld, and now
when they hear the leaves rustling and sec
the tassels waving and the pillows of green
| flowing over the plain as the wind touched
| them it must have been new and lively
sensation. "Cornl |" cried the old man, as
he opened an ear. 'Corn!" cried the
children, as they counted the shining grains
| Corn ~ shouted the vanguard of the host,
as they burst open the granaries that had
been left in the possession of the victorious
| Israelites Then the fire was ldndled, and
the ears of corn were thrust into it, and
fresh and crisp and tender were devoured
Of the hungry victors and bread was pre-
pared, and many things that can be made
out of flour RECALLED the appetites that had
been sharpened by the long march. "And
the mama ceased on the morrow after they
had eaten of the old corn of the land"
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
| Ol Tue ripe Olu COTu Ol Juc SOSpCl Sduddu
"Oh!" you say, 'the fare is too plain. {"
| Then / remember you will soon get tired Of
a fanciful diet. While l was in Paris, 1
liked for while the rare and exquisite
cookery; but soon wished l was home
J again, and had the plain fare of my native
L-I So it is a fact that we soon weary of
| the sirups and the custards and the whip
ped foam Of fanciful religionists, and we
cry, "Give 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 men here who hardly know
what is the matter with them. They have
! tried 10 get together a fortune and larger
account at the bank, and get investments
yielding largei percentages. They are try
ing to satisfy their soul with q diet of mort
cages and stocks. There are others who are
trying to get famous, and have succeeded to
greater or less extent; and they have been
| trying to satisfy their soul with the chop
ped 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 favorably men,
toned. 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 pinched, and wan, and wasted, and hol-
low-eycd, and shrivcled up with an eter-
nifty Of famine.
The infdel scientists Of this day arc offer
ing US different kind of soul food; but
they are, of all men, the Elost miserable.
have known many of them; but never
knew one of them who came within thous-
and miles of being happy. The Great John
Stuart Mill provided for himself new kind
of porridge; but yet, when he comes to die,
he acknowledges that his philosophy never
gave him any comfort in days of bereave
ment, and in roundabout way he admits
that his life was failure So it is with all
infdel scientists. They are trying to live
on telescopes and crucibles and protoplasmS
and they charge US with cant, not realizing
that there is no such intolerable cant in al
the world as this perpetual talk we are
hearing about positive philosophy" an6
"the absolute" and ''the great TO be" and
"the everlasting no." and 1.-THE higher
unity" and "the latent potentialities," ant
'the cathedral of the immensities." have
been translating what these men have beer
writing, and have been translating what
they have been doing, and will tell yoJ
| WIdJ IL Ill UlcduS-lb luCduS budb wan
to kill God And my only wonder is thai
God has not killed them. have, in Other
days, tasted of their confections, and
come back and tell you today that there i:
10 nutriment or life or health in anything
TAT the bread made out of the old corn o.
the Gospel. What do mean by thatl
mean that Christ is the bread OF life an(
taking Him, you live and live forever.
But, you say, corn is of but little practi.
cal use unless IL is threshed and ground an(
baked. / answer, this Goepcl corn ha.
gone through that process. When on Cal
vary all the hoofs of human scorn cam,
down on the heart OF Christ, and all tn,
fails of Satanic fury beat him long anC
fast, was net the corn threshold When tn
mills of Gods indignation against sin
caught Christ between tho upper ant
neither rollers, was not the corn ground
When Jesus descended into hell, and the
flames of the lost world wrapped him all
about, was not the corn bakedi oh, yes
Christ Is ready. His pardon all ready
His peace all ready; everything ready in
Christ. Are you ready for Himi
You say THAT is such a simple Gospelr
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