News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Corn Instead of Mama.
IF A MAN EATS THEREOF HE WILL,
NEVER HUNGER.


mon of Comfort for the Weary-God
Will Feed the furnishing if They Will
Accept Him.
LONG BRANCH, n. J., Aug. 1O.-The
great Brooklyn preacher who IS stay
ing here discourses this week ON the
gospel provision for ordinary and eX-
traordinary needs. His text Is Joshua
V, 12: And the mamma ceased on the
morrow after they had eaten of the old
corn of the land"
Only those who have had something
to do with the commissariat of an army
know what job it is to feed and
clothe five or six hundred thousand
men. Well, there is such host as that
marching across the desert. They are
cut off from ali army supplies. There
are no rail trains bringing down food
or blankets. Shall they all perish?
No. The Lord comes from heaven to
the rescue, and he touches the shoes
and the coats which III year or two
would have been worn to rags and tat
;ers, and they become 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 it and rolled it into
balls, light, flaky and sweet, as 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 Tor
the marching Israelites in the wilder
ness.
| do not very much pity the Israel
| ties for the fact that they had only
mamma to eat 1t was, suppose, the
best food ever provided. know that
Che ravens brought food to hungry
| Elijah, but l should not so well have
! liked those black walters. Rather
wOuId / have the fare that came down
every morning in buckets of dew
/ clean, sweet, God provided edloles.
| But now the Israelites have taken their
last bit of it in their fingers, and put
/ the last delicate morsel of it to their
| lips. They look out, and there IS no
| mamma Why this cessation OF heaven
ly supply 1t was because the Israel
| ties had arrived in Canaan, and they
| smeIled the breath of the harvest fields,
the crowded barns of the country were
/ thrown open TO them. All the inhab-
a. 4 in
Lord of Hosts the Israelites took pos
session of everything. Well, the thresh-
ing 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; then it is winnowed
with fan, and it is ground and it is
baked, and lol there is enough bread
for all the worn out host. ''And the
mamma ceased on the morrow after they
had eaten of the old corn of the land. !"
RELIEF FROM HEAVEN.
From among the mummies of Egypt
and 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 are familiar. So | am not
sure which kind of grain my text refers
to. but the meaning is all the same.
The dissection of this subject leads
me, first, to speak of especial relief for
especial emergency; and, second, of the
old corn of the gospel for ordinary cir
cumstances.
If these Israelites crossing the wilder,
ness had not received bread from the
| heavenly bakeries there would, first
have been a long line of dead children
half buried in the sand; then there
would have been a long line of dead
women waiting for the jackals; then
| there would have been n 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 people started out from Egypt to
| Canaan. and were never heard of, as
thoroughly lost in the wilderness OF
sand as the City of Boston and the
| President were lost in the wilderness OF
waters. What use vas it to them that
| there was plenty of corn in Canaan OF
plenty of corn in Egypt
What they wanted was something
to eat right there, where there was not
| so much as a grass blade. In Other
words, an especial supply for an especia
emergency. That is what some of you
want. The ordinary comfort, the or
! binary 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.
"No SUCH NURSE AS JESUS"
Is it pain and physical distres
| through which you must goi Does no
Jesus know all about pain2 Did he no
suffer it in the most sensitive part o
head and hand and foOtl He has
mixture of comfort, one drop of whicl
shall cure the worst paroxysrn. 1t l
the same grace that soothed Rober
Hall when, after writhing on the carpe
in physical fortunes, he cried out, ''Oh
suffered terribly, but didn't cry on
while was suffering, did |! Did or
outY' There is no such nurse as Jesu
his hand the gentlest, his foot tn
lightest, his arm the strongest. 70
especial pang especial help.
Is it approaching sorrow' Is 1t long
shadowing bereavement that you kno'
is coming, because the breath is short
and the voice is faint, and the cheek
pale? Have you been calculating you
capacity or incapacity to endure widow
hood or childlessness or a disbande
home, ard cried, 81 cannot endure itl
Oh, worried soul, you will wake Vi
amid all your troubles, and fin'
around about you the sweet consolation
/ of the gospel as thickly strewed as wa
J the mamma around about the Israelitis
, encampment! Especial solace for e.
) pecial distress.
Or is it a trouble past, yet present
i A silent nurseryl A vacant chair OF
posite you at the table? A musin
e upon a broken family circle never agai
d to be reunited? A choking sense {
I loneliness2 A blot of grief SO large thu
e it extinguishes the light of sun, an
: puts out bloom of flower, and max,
o you reckless as to whether you live {
: die2 Especial comfort for that especii
trial. Your appetite has failed fC
i everything else. Oh, try a little of tn
4 wilderness mamma: Il will never leay
t thee, 1 will never forsake thee" ''Lik