Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-11
THE SJ1RAPHIC DIET.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES ELO-
QUENTLY ON ANGELS FOOD.


NEW YORK, March 1O.-Among the
thousands who greeted Rev. DR.. Tai
Image in the Academy of Music this aft
irnoOn were a large number Of strangers
from distant parts of the Union. At the
ulose of the services the preacher on
leaving the platform found himself con-
fronted by enough people to fill an ordi-
nary sized church, all intent ON shaEing
hands with him. The subject Of dis
course for the afternoon was "a Sc
raphic Diet, - the text selected being
Psalms xviii, %, MAN did eat angels
food. .
Somewhat risky would be the under
taking to tell just what was the mamma
that fell to the Israelites in the wilder
ness, of what it was made and who
made it. The mamma was called angels
food, but why so called? Was it because
it came from the place where angels
live, or because angels compounded it,
or because angels did eat it, or because
it was good enough for angels? On
what crystal platter was it carried to
the door of heaven and then thrown
out? How did it taste? We are told
there was in it something like honey,
but if the saccharine taste in it had been
too strong many would not have liked
it, and so it may have had a commin-
Cling of favors, this delicacy Of the skies.
1t must have been nutritious, for a ma
ton lived on it for 40 years. It must
have been healthful, for it is SO inspir-
ingly applauded. It must have been
abundant, because it dismissed the ne
cessity Of a sutler for a great army.
Each person had ration Of three
quarts q day allowed to him, and SO s.,
900, 600 pounds were necessary every
week. Those were the times Of which
my text speaks, when imam did eat an
gels food - If the good Lord, who has
helped me so often, will help me now,
will first tell you what is angels food,
and then how we may get some of it for
ourselves. In our mortal state we must
have for mastication and digestion and
assimilation the products of the earth
Corporeity, as we'll as mentality and
spirituality, charaCteriZes US The style
of diet has much to do with our we'll
being. Light and frotly food taken ex-
clusively results in weak muscle and
semi-invaIidism. The taking of too much
animal food produces sensuality. Vege-
tarians are cranks. Reasonable selection
of the farinaceous and the solid ordina-
rily produces physical stamina
Angels Food.
But we have all occasionally been in
an ecstatic state where we forgot the
necessity of earthly food. We were fed
by joys, by anticipations, by discoveries,
by cOmpanionships that dwindled the
dining hour into insignifcance 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,
as in the remarkable case of our invalid
and Christian neighbor, Mollie FanCher,
known throughout the medical and
Christian world for that she was seven
weeks without earthly food, fed and sus-
tanned on heavenly visions. Our beloved
DR.. IrenRus Prime, editor and theolo-
gian, recorded the wonders concerning
this girl. Professor West, the great sci
enlist, marveled over it, and Willard
Parker of worldwide fame in surgery
threw up his hands in amazement at it.
There are times in all our lives when
the soul asserts itself and says to the
body: Hush, stand back! Stand down.
am at banquet where no chalices
CLEAN and no viands smoke and no cul-
mary implements clatter. / am feeding
ON that which no human hand has mix
ed and no earthly oven baked. [ am
eating 'angels' food. :" If you have
never been in such an exalted state, I
commiserate your leaden temperament
and dismiss you from this service as
incompetent to understand the thrilling
and glorious suggestiveness of my text
when it says, MAN did eat angels
food -
What tho Text Says.
Now, what do the supernaturals live
on? They experience none of the de-
mands of corporiety and have no him
drance 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
food of their own. My text says SO.
There may be other courses of food in
the heavenly menu that am not aware
of, but l know Of five or six styles of
food always on celestial tables when
cherubim and seraphim and archangel
gather for heavenly repast-the mystery
of redemption, celestialized music, the
heavenly picturesque, sublime colloquy,
eternal enterprises, sanity association,
divine companionship, celebrative jubi-
lance. There is one subject that excites
the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all
those angels St. Peter says, (Which
thing the angels desire to look into''-
that is, why did Christ exchange pal
ace for barn? Why did he drop a
scepter from his right hand to take
spear into his left side? Why quit the
anthem of the worshiping heavens to
hear the grooming of a weary mothers
voice? Was a straw better than a gar