The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-03-16
ANGELS FOOD.
The Subject of the Latest Sermon
by DR.. Talmago.
The EVIL Results of Too Much Meat-VeG-
etarians as Cranks-Thc Celestial Ban
quet Awaiting the Redeemed
in Heaven.

"a Scraphic Diet was the subject
of q late sermon preached at New York
by Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage. the text
being from Psalms lXvviii. -: Man
did eat angels food" Dr.. TalInage
said:
Somewhat risky would To- the under
taking Ia tell Just what was the mamma
that fen to the ~Israclitcs in the wilder
ness; of what il was made and who
made it. The mamma vas called angels
food, but why 50 called? Was it be-
cause ii came from the place where
angels live; or because it was good
enough for angels? ON what crystal
platter WAS il carried To the door of
Heaven. and then thrown ont? How
did it taste? We are told there was
in it something like honey, but if the
~sacchariuc taste in it had been too
strong. many would not have liked it,
and so it may have had a co%mminglIng
of -flavors-this delicacy of the
skies. 1t must have been nutri-
tious. for n nation lived on it for
forty years. 1t must have been
healthful, for it is SO inspiringly APP
plauded. 1t must have been abundant,
because it dismissed the necessity for a
sutler for a great army. Each person
had a ration of three quarts a day al
lowed to him, and 5 70 fifteen million
pounds were necessary every week.
Those were the times of which my text
speaks, when imam did eat angels
food" II the good Lord, who has
1,.lnaI -, ~ .ft,, ,,,l1 hal, r,a n1u,
| will tell you what is angels food, and
how we may get some of it for our-
selves. In our mortal state we must
have for mastication and digestion and
assimilation the products of the earth.
Corporeity, as well as mentality and
spirituality, ch~aractcrizes us. The
style of diet has much to do with our
we'll being. Light and frothy food
taken exclusively results in weak
muscle and semi-invalidism. The TAX
ing of too much animal food produces
sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks.
Reasonable selection of the farinaceous
and the solid ordinarily produces ply
steal stamina.
But we have all occasionally been in
an estate state where we forgot the
necessity of earthly food. We were
fed by joys, by anticipations, by dis
coveries, by comprehensive that
dwindled the dining hour into insignif-
canoe and made the pleasures of the
table stupid and uninviting. There
have been cases where from seemingly
invisible sources the human body has
been maintained.
am at a banquet where no chalices
CLEAN and no viands smoke and no
culinary implements c~latter. 1 am
feeding on hat which no human hand
has mixed, and nj earthly oven baked.
] am eating angels food" If you
have never been i'm such an exalted
state, I commisserate your leaden TEN.
permanent, and l dismiss you from this
service as incompetent tn understand
the thrilling and glorious suggestive.
ness of my text when it says: MAN
did eat angels food"
Now, what do the supernaturals live
on? They experience none of the de
mands of c~orporeity, and have nc
hindrance or environment in the shape
of bone and muscle and flesh, and
hence that which may delectate our
palate, or invigorate our poor, dying
frames would be Of no use to them.
But they have n food of their own. My
text say so. There may be othe,
courses of food in the heavenly menu
that | am not aware of, but know OF
five or six styles of food Away on celes-
tial tables when cherubim and ~seraphin
and archangcl gather for heavenly re
past: The mystery of redemption
celestialized music; the heavenly pic
t%uresque; sublime colloquy; eternal
enterprises; sanity association; divine
companionship; celebrative jubilance
| There is one subject that eXcites the
curiosity and inquisitiveness of al
those angels. st. Peter says: (Which
thing the ANGELS desire to look into
| That is. why Christ exchanged q palace
for a barn? Why did he drop a sceptei
from his right hand to take u spear
into his left side? Why quit the an
them of the worshiping heavens Il
hear the grooming Of n weary mother,
voice? Was straw better than a gar
land? Gould it not have been done il
some other wayY' says angel tho first
WAS the human race worth such
sacrifice says angel the second. ''IIov
could Heaven get along without Hin
for thirty-three years?' says angel tn,
third. Through that assassination
may sinful man rise into our eterna
companionship!' says angel the fourth
And then they all bend toward eacl
other and talk about it, and CUES
about it. and try to fathom it, an,
prophesy concerning it. But the sub
ject is too big, and they only nibble a
it. They only break off u piece Of it
They only taste it. They just dip int
it. And then n angel cries: Worth,
is the Lamb that was SLANT" And an
other says: "Unsearchable!' And an
other says: Past finding out" AM
another says ''Alleluia!" And thel
they all fill their cups Of gold with tn,
"New Wine of the Kingdom"
Unlike the beakers of earth, whicl
poison, these glow with immorta
health, the wine pressed from tn
grapes of the heavenly Eschol, an
they all drank to the memory of man
ger and cross, shattered sepulcher an,
Oliyetic ascension, Oh, that rapturous
inspiring, transporting theme of tn
worlds ransom. That makes angel,
food. The taking of hat food give
stronger pulse to their gladness; add
a~eyeral mornings of radiance to thei
forehcadsS gives vaster circle TO tn
sweep of their wings on mission inter
constellation. Some of the crumbs c
that angels food fall all around on
wildGrness camp to-day, and W. fet
like crying, with Paul, ''0h. the dept
of the riches, both Of the wisdom an
knowledge of God!' or with eXpirin
Stephen. "Lord. Jesus, receive my spil
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