Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
REV. DR.. TALNAGE.
The Noted Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon,
Subject. "rhe Food In Cod. Gospel"

Subject. "The Food In Gods Gospel"
TENT: "And The mama ceased on the
mo,7otc after they had eaten Of the old corn
of the land. Joshua v, IL.
Only those who have had something to do
with the conmissiariat of an army know
hundred thousand men. Well, there is such
ahost as that marching across tho 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 q year or two would have
been worn 10 rags and tatterS, and they be-
come stormproof and tiineproof, so that
after forty years Of wearing the coats aud
the shoes are as good as now. Besides that
every morning there is shower Of bread,
not sour or s,ggy, for tho rising OF that
bread is made in heaven, and celestial FIN
gers have mixed it ard rolled it into balls,
light, laky and sweet, rs though they were
the crumbs thrown out from heavenly
banquet. Two patches OF bread made every
day in the upper manson-one for those who
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 mama to eat.
It was. / suppose, the best food over pro-
vidcil. 1 know that the ravens brought
food to hungry Elijah, but l should not so
well have like; those black walters, Rather
would have the fare that came down every
morning in buckets Of dew-clean, sweet,
God provided cdihles. But now the Israel
ties have taken the last bit of it IN their
fingers and put tho last delicate morSel of it
70 their lips. They look out, and there is no
mama. Why this cessation OF heavenly
supply? 1t was bscause the Israeites had
arrived in Cauaan and they smeled tho
breath of the harvest fields, and
the crowded barns of the country
were thrown open to them. All the
Lord of Hosts the lsraelteS took possession
OF everything. We'll, the thrcshing floor is
cleared, the corn is scattered it, the oxen
are brought around in lazy aud perpetual
circuit until the corn is trampled loose; then
it is winnowed with fan, and it Is ground
and it is baked, and, 10. there is enough
bread for all the worn out host. Aud the
mama ceased on tine morrow after they had
eaten Of the old corn of the laud'
From among the mummies OF Egypt aad
Canaan have been brought grains OF corn.
exactly like our Indian corn, AMI recently
planted they have produced the Same kind
OF corn with which we are familiar. So l
am not sure which kind of grain my text re-
fcrS to, but all the same is the meaning.
The dissection of this subject leads me.
first, tospeak OF especial relief for especial
emergency; and secondly, of the old corn OF
the Gospel for ordinary circumstances.
II these lsraelites crossing the wilderness
had not received bread from the heavenly
bakeries there would first have been long
line of dead children half buried i'll the sand.
Then there would have been 4 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 10 bury them. 1t would have
been told in the history of the world that
great company OF COOL 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 aud the President
were lost in the wilderness of waters. What
use was it 10 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
grass llade-in other words an especial
supply for an especial emergency. That is
what some &C you want. The ordinary conl-
fort, tho o. mary 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 it.
which you must go? Does not Jesus know
al about pain? Did He not suffer it in the
most sensitive part of head and hand and
foot? He has mixture of comfort, one drop
of which shall cure the worst paroxvSm. 1t
is the same grace that soothed Robert Hall
when, after writing on the carpet in phys
ical tortures he cried out, 'O suffered
terribly, but L didn't cry out while was
suffering, did I? Did 1 cry out?' There is
no such Nurse as Jesus-His hand the gentlest,
His foot the lightest, His arm the strongest.
For especial pcng especial help.
Is it approaching sorrow? Is it long,
Swallowing bereavement that you know is
coming, because the breath is short, and
the voice is faint, and the cheek is pale?
Have you been calculating your capacity or
incapacity to endure widowhood or child
lessness or dSbauded home and cried: II
cannot endure it?' Oh, worried soul, you
find around about you the sweet consolation
of the Gospel as thckly strewed as was the
mamma around about the ISraelitish encamp-
ment! Especial solace for especial distress.
Or is it trouble past, yet present? a
silent nursery? Avacant chair opposite you
at tue table: A musiug upon broken fam
ily circle never again TO be united? A chok-
ing sense of loneliness? A blot of grief so
large that it extinguisheS the light of sun,
aud puts out bloom of flower, and makes you
reckless as to whether you live or die? Es-
recal comfort that especial trial. Your ap-
rctitc has failed for everything else. Oh,
try little of this wilderness mama: II will
never leave thee, will never forsake thee
Like as father pitieth his children, 50 the
Lord pitieth them that fear Him" "Can a
woman forget her sticking 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 dssipated compan-
ion? There are those here who have it, so I
am not speaking in the abstract but to the
point. You have not whispered it, perhaps,
to your most intimate friend; but you see
your home going away gradually from you,
and unless things change soon it will be en-
tirely destroyed. Your grief was we'll de-
picted by woman, presiding at a womans
meeting in Ohio, when her intoxicated hus-
band staggered up to the platform, to her
overwhelming modification and the disturb
ance of the audience, and she pulled pro-
trudinS bottle from her husbands pocket
and held itup before the audience and cried
out: There is the cause Of my. woe! There
are the tears and the life blood Of drunk
ards wife" And then looking up to heaven
she said: "How long, Lord! how long"
aud then looking down to the audience cried:
DO you wonder feel strongly on this sub
ject? Sisters. will you help me?' And hun
dreds of voices responded "Yes, yes, we
will help you"
You stand, soma of You, in such tragedy
to-day. You cannot 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 a case? Not SUCH as is
found in the rigmaroie of comfort ordinari-
ly given in such cases But there is relief
that drops in mamma from the throne Of
Col Oh, lift up your lacerated soul in
prayer. and you will get omnipotent COM
fort! 1 do not know in what words the
soothing influence may come but know that
for especial grief there is especial deliver
auce give you two or three passages; try
thom 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" Weeping may endure for
night, but joy cometh in the morning" 1
know there are those who when they try to
comfort people, always bring the same stale
sentiment about the usefulness Of trial In
stead of brinoiur LID q new niaStar for n