The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15
ANGELS FOOD.
The Subject of the Latest Sermon
by DR.. Talmage.
The Evil Results of Too Much Meat-veg'
otarians as Cranks-The Celestial Ban.
quet Awaiting the Redeemed
In Heaven.

Va a AdlC oCTtiVn OF ANCN 1OIh
by Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage, the text
being from Psalms lxxyiii. 25: "Man
did eat angels food" DR.. Talmage
said:
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 mama was called angels
food, but why so called? Was it be-
cause it came from the place where
angels live; 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
strong, many would not have liked it,
and so it may have had a commingling
of havors-this delicacy of the
skies. 1t must have been nutri-
tious, for a nation lived on it for
forty years. 1t must have been
healthful, for it is so inspiringly APP
plauded. 1t must have been abundant,
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sutler for great army. Each person
had ration of three quarts a day al
lowed to him, and so fifteen million
pounds were necessary every week.
Those were the times of which my text
speaks, when imam did eat angels
food" If the good Lord. who has
helped me so often, will help me now,
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, characterizes 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 companiOnships that
dwindled the dining hour into insignifi-
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, as in the remarkable
case of our invalid and Christian
Mollie Fancher. known
throughout the medical and Christian
world for that she was seven weeks
without earthly food, fed and sustained
on heavenly visions. Our beloved DIR.
Irenaeus Prime, editor and theologian,
recorded the wonders concerning this
girl Prof. West, the great scientist,
over it; and Willard Parker,
of world wide fame in surgey, 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
culinary implements clatter. 1 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, commisserate your leaden tenn
and dismiss you from this
service as incompetent to understand
the thrilling and glorious suggestive
ness of my text when it says: MAN
did eat angels food"
Now, what 90 the supernaturals live
on? They experience none of the de-
mands of corporeity, and have no
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 a 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 Away on celes-
tial tai les when cherubim and seraphim
and archangel gather for heavenly re-
past: The mystery of redemption;
music; the heavenly pic
turesque; sublime colloquy; eternal
sanity association; divine
celebrative jubilance.
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 Christ exchanged 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 an
them of the worshiping heavens to
hear the grooming of a weary mothers
voice? Was straw better than gar
land? Gould it not have been done in
some other way?" says angel the first.
'Was the human race worth such a
sacrifice?" says angel the second. ''How
could Heaven get along without Him
for thirty-three years?" says angel the
third. Through that assassination
may sinful man rise into our eternal
says angel the fourth.
And then they all bend toward each
other and talk about it, and guess
about it, and try to fathom it, and
concerning it. But the sub
ject is too big, and they only nibble at
it. They only break off piece of it.
They only taste it. They just dip into
it. And then one angel cries: Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain!' And an
other says: ''Unsearchablew And an
other says: "Past finding out"' And
another says: "Alleluia"' And then
they all fill their cups of gold with the
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Unlike the ,beakers of earth, which
poison, these glow with immortal
health, the wine pressed from the
grapes of the heavenly Eschol, and
they all drank to the memory of man