Milford chronicle., 1895-03-15
FED on ANGELS FOOD
REV. DR.. TALMAeE DIscoURsEs ON
HEAVENLY MAMMA.

Earthly Nourishment Not Needed In States
Of Spiritual ExaItation-STusic Forms a
Large Part of the seraphio AIenu-Into
the Kingdom.
NEW YORK, March 1O.-Among the
thousands who greeted Rev. Dr. Talmage
in the Academy of Music this afternoon
were a large number of strangers from dis
tant parts of the Union. At the close OF
the services the preacher, on leaving the
platform, found himself confronted by
enough people to I'll an ordinary sized
church, all intent on shaking hands with
him. The subject of discourse for the aft
ernoon was "A Seraphic Diet, the text
selected being Psalms lxxviii, %, "Man
did eat angels food. "
! Somewhat risky would be the undertak-
ing to tell just what was the mama that
fell to the Israelites in the wilderness, 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 an
gels compounded it, or because angels did
eat it, or because 1t was good enough for
angelsi On what crystal platter was it
carried to the door of heaven and then
thrown out? How did it taste2 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 cOmmingling Of
flavors-this delicacy of the skies. Itmust
have been nutritious for a nation lived on
it for 40 years. 1t must have been health
full, for it is so inspiringly applauded. 1t
must have been abundant, because it dis !
missed the necessity of a sutler for a great |
army. Each person had a ration of three /
quarts day allowed to him, and so l5,- 4
900, 600 pounds were necessary every week. |
Those were the times of which my text /
speaks, when man did eat angels food. q"
If the good Lord, who has helped me so
often, will help me now, I 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 masticatfon
and digestion and assimilation the prod
ucts of the earth. Corporeity as well as
mentality and spirituality oharacterizes us.
The style of diet has much to do with our
well being. Light and frothy food taken
exclusively results in weak muscles and
semi-invalidism. The taking of too much
animal food produces sensuality. Vegeta-
rians are cranks. Reasonable selection of
the farinaoeous and the solid ordinarily
produces physical stamina.
Above Earthly Food.
But we have all occasionally been in an
ecstatio state where we forgot the neces-
sity of earthly food. We were fed by joys,
by anticipations, by discoveries, by COM
that dwindled the dining
hour into insignifcanoe and made the
of the table stupid and uninvit-
ing. There have been cases where from
invisible sources the human ,
body has been maintained, as in the re-
narkable case of our invalid and Christian
leighbor, Nozzle Fancher, known through j
)ut the medical and Christian world for
hat she was seven weeks without earthly {
ood, fed and sustained on heavenly VI |
ions. Our beloved DR.. Irenaus Prime, I
ditor and theologian, recorded the won q
lers concerning this girl. Professor West c
he great scientist, marveled over it, and /
Willard Parker, of worldwide fame in sur {
,ery, threWup his hands in amazement at G
t. There are times in all our lives when q
he soul asserts itself and says to the body: @
Hushl Stand backl Stand downp' b
I am at banquet where no chalices O
lean, and no viands smoke, and no cult. b
ary implements clatter am feeding on q
hat which no human hand has mixed and d
% earthly oven baked. I am eating fan S
els food If you have never been in a
uoh an exalted state, 1 commiserate your I
laden temperament, and dismiss you a
rom this service as incompetent to under "
iand the thrilling and glorious sugges-
veness Of my text when it says, ''Man u
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