The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-11
MANS DIET OF ANGELS FOOD.
TALMAGE o. THE FEEDING or THE
HOST n THE WILDERNESS.

Exactly what the Mamma sent Down
to the IsraeIifes Was Not known
Yet-The Courses of the Eternal
banquet in Heaven-CeIcstfaIiH
Music-Lnying out OF Mighty En-
terprise - CeIeBrntive JubiIance
the Last and Best Course.
New York. March 10-AmonE TIE
thousands who greeted Rev. Dr Taluage
in the Academy Of Music. this afternoon.
were a large number Of strangers from
distant parts of the uuiou. Al the close OF
the services. the preacher, on leaving The
platform. found himself confronted by
enough people TO iii an orlinary-size1
church. an intent Of shaking hands with
him. The subject of discourse for the
afternoon was. "A seraphic Diet" the text
selected being Psalms Is .25. Man ola eat
angels food"
Somewhat risky would be the un1ertak-
ing 20 tell just what was the mama that
fell TO the Israelites in the wilderness; of
what it was made. how = was made and
who made IL. The mama was called
angels food. but why so callel2 Was it
because it came from the place whore
angels live or because angels compounded
IT: or because angels did eat IT; or because
it was good enough for anEels2 on what
crystal platter was it carried 20 the door
of heaven, and then thrown out2 How
did it taste We are told there was in 10
something ike honey. but If the sacchar-
inc taste in IL had been TOO strong. many
would not have liked il. and so Sc may have
had. a comminglng Of navors-this deli
cacy Of the skies II must have been nutri-
tious, for nation lived on Sc for forty
years. 1t must have been heaIthful, for 1t
Is so inspiringly applauded. 1t must have
been abundant. because it dismissed the
necessity Of a sutler for a great army.
Each person had a ration Of three quarts
a day allowed 20 him. and so fifteen million
pounds were necessary every week. Those
were the times Of which my text speaks.
when imam aid eat angels food" If the
good Lord who has helped me so often.
will help me now. viii 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 masu-
cation and digestion and assimia-
tion, the products Of the earth. Corporeity,
rs well as mentality. and spirituality,
characterizes us. The style Of diet has
much TO do with our well being. Light and
frothy food taken exclusively results in
weak muscle and semi-inValidism. The
taking Of too much animal food produces
sensuality. Negetarians are cranks. Reas
enable selection of the farinaceous and the
solid ordinarily produces physical stamina.
But we have all occasionally been in an
ecstatic state where we forgot the neces-
sity of earthly food. We We're fed by
joys, by anticipauons, by discoveries, by
comprehensive that dwindled the dim
ing hour into insignihcance, and made
the pleasures of the table stupid and un-
inviting. There have been cases where
from seemingly invisible sources the hui
man body has been maintained, as in the
case Of our invalid and Chris
tian neighbor. Mollie Fancher, known
throughout the medical and Christian
world for that she was seven weeks with
out earthly food, fed and sustained on
heavenly visions. our beloved Doctor
Irenaeus Prime. editor and theologian,
recorded the wonders concerning this
girl. Prof. West, the great scientist
marvelled 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 as
serts itself, and says TO the body.
Hush Stand back Stand down!
/ am at a banquet where no chalices
CLEAN. and no viands smoke, and no Gull
nary implements clatter. ] am feeding on
that which no human hand has mixed,
and no earthly oven baked. l 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
tho thrilling and glorious sug-
gestivGness of my text when IL says:
''AIan did eat angels food
Now. what do the supernaturaIists live
on2 They experience none of the de-
mands of corporeity, and have no hin
drance or environment in the shape Of
bone. and muscle and flesh, and hence
that which may delectate our palate or
anvigorate our poor, dying frames. would
be of no use to them. But they have
food of their own. Ny text says so.
There may be other courses of food in the
heavenly menu that / am not aware of,
hut know Of five or six styles of food al
ways on celestial tables when cherubim
and seraphim, and archangel gather for
heavenly repast; the mystery Of redemp-
ton; celestialized music; the heavenly pic
turesque. sublime colloquy. eternal en-
ferprises; sanity association; Divine com
partnership; celebrative jubilance.
There is one subject that excites the curl
psity and inquisitiveness of all those an
gels. St. Peter says: Which thing the
angels desire TO look into" That is why
did Christ exchange a palace for a barn?
Why did he drop scepter
from his right hand to take
a spear into his left side? Why
quit the anthem of the worshipping heav-
ems to hear the grooming of a weary moth
er's voice? Was a straw better than gar
land? Gould 1t not have been done in
some other way?" says angel the first.
WAS the human race worth such a sacri-
fice?" says angel the second. How could
heaven get along without him for thirty
three years2' says angel the third.
Through that assassination may sinful
man rise into our eternal companion
shipn' says angel the fourth. And then
they all bend forward toward each other
and talk about and guess about it, and
try to fathom 1t, and prophesy concerning
1t. But the subject is too big, and they
only nibble at it. They only break off a
piece of it. They only taste it. They
Just dip into it, And then one angel
cries: worthy is the Lamb that was
SLANT And another says, "Unsearcha-
ble!" And another says, Past finding
outr' And another says, "Allelulia"
And then they all I'LL their cups of gold
with the new wine of the kingdom"
Unlike the beakers of earth, which pois-