The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-15
FOOD FROM HEAVEN.
DR.. Talmage Discourses to the
People at Long Branch.
The Supply OF Mama to the IsraslItss-
Provision Made BY the Lord For spe-
clal EmsrEeneies-The0 Gospel
Onersd TO An.

J. DeWitt Talmage discoursed on the
Gospel provision for ordinary and extra
ordinary needs His text was Joshua
v II: 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
to do with the commissariat of an army
know what = job 1t is to feed and clothe
i've or six hundred thousand men
Well, there is such = host as that march
ing across the desert They are cut on
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 year or two would have 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 the 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,
haky and sweet rs though they were
the crumbs thrown out from a heavenly
banquet Two patches of bread made
every day in the upper mansion-one
for those who sit at the table with the
King and the other for the marching Is
raelites in the wilderness
do not very much pity the Israelites
for the fact that they had only mama
to eat 1t was, 1 suppose, the best food
ever provided know that the ravens
brought food to hungry Elijah, but /
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-
Tided 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 mama Why this cessatio
of Heavenly supply? 1t was because the
Israelites 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;
bhCh ~ II HlnuOhtu WIN IAN, anu III
is ground and IL is baked, and, 10! there
is 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 the Gospel for ordinary
circumstances.
III these lsraelites crossing the wilder
ness had not received bread from heav-
emily bakeries there would first have
been a long line Of dead children half
buried in the sand; then there would
have been long line of dead women
waiting for the jackals; then there
would have been 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 never heard of, as thorough
ly lost in the wilderness of sand as the
City of Boston and the President were
lost in the Wilderness of waters What
use was it 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 the ordinary di-
recuon, 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
Is 1t pain and physical distress through
which you must go? Does not Jesus
know all about pain? Did he not suf-
fer 1t in the most sensitive part of head
and hand and foot? He has a mixture
of comfort one drop of which shall cure
tho worst paroxysm. 1t Is the same
grace that soothed Robert Hall when,
after writhing on the carpet in physical
fortunes, he cried out: 'Ol / suffered
terribly, but didn't cry out while was
suffering, did /? Did cry out?" There
is no such nurse as Jesus-his hand the
gentlest his foot the highest his arm
the strongest For especial pang es-
peclal help.
Is it approaching sorrow? Is it long,
shadowing 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 widow
hood or childlessness or a disbanded
home, and cried: II can not endure it?'
o, worried soul, you will wake up
amidst all your troubles and find around
about you the sweet consolation of the
Gospel as thickly strewed as was the
mamma around about the Israelitish en-
oampmenti Especial solace for especial
distress.
Or is 1t n trouble past yet present? A
silent nursery? A vacant chair opposite
you at the table? A musing upon q
broken family circle never again to be
reunited? choking sense of loneli-
ness? A blot Of grief so large that 1t
extinguishes the light of the sun, and
puts out bloom of flower, and makes
you reckless rs to whether you live or
die? Especial comfort for that especial
trial Your appetite has failed for
every thing else o. try a little of this
wilderness mama: II will never leave
thee, j will never forsake thee" Like
rs a father pitieth his children, so the
Lord pitieth them that fear him. '@Can
n woman forget her sucking child. that
she should not have compassion on the
son OF her womb? yea. they may forget,
yet will not forget thee" Or is it the
grief of u dissipated companion? There
are those here who have it so am not
speaking in the abstract but to the
point. You may not whisper 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- entirely destroyed
Your grief was well depicted by a