Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-08-15

DlODNl VI IL vi tlslhdIu = WIG. anu lACi
looein% up to heaven she said, "How long
@ Lord, how long?" and then looking down
to the audience cried. "Do you wonder
feel strongly on this subject? Sisters, will
you help mep And hundreds Of voices
responded, Yes, yes, we will help you"
RELIEF FROM TIE THRONE
You stand, some OF you, in such Il trag
cdy today. You cannot even ask him to
stop drinking. 1t makes him cross, and
liz cells you to mind your own business
Is there any relief in such a caseY Not such
as is found III the riEmarole of comfort
ordinarily given In such cases. But there
is a relief that drops in mama from the
throne Of God. Oh, lift up your laccrated
soul in prayer, and you will get omnipotent
comfort do not know in what words
the soothing influence may come, but !
know that for especial grief there is espe-
cial deliverance. give you two or three
passages; try them on; take that which
best fits your SOUL Whom the Lord loveth
he chasteneth' All things work together
for good to those who love God" Weep
ing may endure for u night, but joy cometh
in the morning" | know there are those
who, when they try to comfort people, al
ways bring the same stale sentiment about
the USEFULNESS u trlhl. lEsICbu OI DrluR-
ing up new plaster for a new wound, and
fresh mama for fresh hunger, they rum
mage their haversack to find some crumb
of old consolation, when from horizon to
horizon the ground is white with the new
fallen mamma of Gods help not five min
uteS old
But after fourteen thousand six hundred
consecutive days of falling manna-Sun-
.l5.,- H.,
of them were glad of it. You know they
had com planned to their leader, and won
dered 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 field. and now,
when they hear the leaves rustlng and see
the tassels waving and the pillows of green
flowing over the 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 Corn" cried the chill
dren, as they counted the shining grains.
Corn shouted the vanguard OF the host
as they burst open the granarieo Of the
afirighted population, the cranarios that
had been left in the possession of the vic
torious Israelites Then the fire was kin
died, and the ears of corn were thrust into
H. anu iNNli anu ~ LNp anu itlI'ltI, NtTt
devoured of the hungry victors; and bread
was prepared, and many things that can
bo made out of flour regaled the appctites
that had been sharpened blythe long march.
And the mama ceased on the morrow
after they had eaten of the old corn of the
land"
Blessed he God, we stand in Just such a
field today, the luXuriant grain coming
oh Ea fvi,,,lla D, NJ ft,l1 e b., l..
Of the ripe old corn of the gospel Canaan.
oh" you say, the fare is too plain s.
Then remember you will soon get tired
of fAnciful diet While l was in Paris |
liked for a while the rare and exquisite
cookery, but | soon wished ] was home
again, and had the plain fare of my native
land. So it is a fact that we soon weary OF
the sirups and the custards and the
whipped foam of the fanciful relieionists
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.
HUNGRY FOR GODS WORD.
There are men here who hardly know
what is the matter with them. They have
tried to get together fortune and larger
account at the bank and to get investment
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ing 60 satisfy their soul with a diet of mort
cages and stocks There are others here
who have been trying to get famous, and
have succeeded 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 nc
more happy now than before they made the
first thousand dollars; no more happy now
" hon kA fi.lr = no, I ,..;,
names favorably mentioned They cannot
analyze or define their feelings; but will
tell them what is the matter-they arc
hungry for the ldcorn of the gospel That
you must have, or be pinched and wan and
wasted and hollow eyed and shriveled NJ
with an eternity of famine
The intidel scientists Of this day are of
fering us a different kind of soul food; but
they are, of all men, the most miserable.
have known many of them; but never
knew one of them who came within Il
thousand miles of being happy. The great
John Stuart Mil provided for himself a
new kind of porridge; but yet, when he
comes to die, he acknowledges that his
philosophy never gave him any comfort in
days of bereavement, and in roundabout
way he admits that his life was "A failure
So it is with all infdel scientists They
are trying to live on telescopes and cru
cibles and protoplasms, and they charge us
with cant, not realizing that there is No
such intOlerable cant in all the world a,
this perpetual talk we are hearing about
positive philosophy" and ''the absolute,
and 1.-THE great to be, and "the everlasting
no. and "the higher unity" and 18th,
latent potentialities, and ''the cathedra
OF the immensities" ! have been trans
lating what these men have been writing
and / have been translating what they
have been doing, and will tell you what
it all means-it means that they want Il
kill Cod And my only wonder is that
God has not killed them. | have in Other
days tasted of their confeCtions and
come back and tell you today that there is
no nutpiment or life or health in anything
but the bread made out Of the old corn OF
the gospel. What do | mean by that?
mean that Christ is the bread Of life, anc
taking him, you live and live forever.
ARE 700 READY FOR HIMl
But, you say, corn is OF but little practi
cal use unless 1t is threshed and grounC
and baked. I answer: This gospel corr
has gone through that process. When OF
Calvary all tho hoofs Of human SCOTT
came down on the heart of Christ, and al
the fails of satanic fury beat him long anC
fast, was not the corn threshedY WheT
the mills of God q alienation oUoinst Il r