Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-14
FED ON ANGELS FOOD
REV. DR.. TkLMAGE DlScoURSES ON
HEAVENLY MAMMA.

HEAVENLY MAMMA.
Earthly Nourishment Not Needed In States
Of Spiritual Exsltation-Musio Forms a
Large Part of the seraphio Menu-Into
the Kingdom.
New YORK, March 1o.-Among the
thousands who greeted Rev. Dr. Talmage
in the Academy of Music this afternoon
were 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 fill 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, 90, MAN
did eat angels food"
Somewhat risky would be the undertake
ing to tell just what was tho mama that
fell to the Israelites in the wilderness, of
what it was made and who made 1t. The
mama was called angels food, but why
SO calledf Was it because 1t came from
the place where angels live, or because an
gus COLpUuuu6u III DoOuuno uuBclS ulu
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 outi How did it tastep We are
told there was in 1t something like honey,
but If the saccharino taste in 1t 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. 1t must
have been nutritious, for q nation lived on
it for 40 years. 1t must have been health
full, for 1t is SO inspiringly applauded. 1t
must have been abundant, because it dis
missed the necessity of sutler for great
army. Each person had ration of three
quarts day allowed to him, and SO 49,
900, 900 pounds were necessary every week.
Those were the times of which my text
speaks, when "man did eat angels 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 prod
ucts of the earth. Corporeity as we'll as
mentality and spirituality oharacterizes us.
Tho style of diet has much to do with our
we'll 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 farinaceous 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 wore fed by joys,
by anticipations, by discoveries, by COM
Partnerships that dwindled the dining
hour into insigni1cance and made the
pleasures Of the table stupid and uninvit
ing. There have been cases where from
seemingly invisible sources tho human
body has been maintained, as in the re-
markable case of our invalid and Christian
neighbor, Mollie Fancher, known through
out the medical and Christian world for
that she was seven weeks without earthly
food, fed and sustained ON heavenly vi
sions. Our beloved DR.. Irenaus Prime
editor and theologian, recorded the won
ders concerning this girl. Professor West
tho great scientist, marveled over it, and
Willard Parker, of worldwide fame in sur
gerry, threw up his hands In amazement at
~ 1hefe are eliheS AL an our Al'os Wheh
the soul asserts itself and says to the body:
"Hushi stand oack! Stand DOWN.
l am at q banquet whore no chalices
gleam, and no vlands 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 "an-
gels food" II you have never been in
such an exalted state, I commiserate your
leaden temperament, and dismiss you
from this service as incompetent to under
stand the thrilling and glorious sugges-
uveness OF my text when 1t says, Man
did eat angels food.
A Feast OF Soul.
Now, what do the supernaturals live on?
They experience none of the demands of
corporeity and have no hindrance or en-
vironment in the shape of bone and muscle
and flesh, and hence that which may de-
lectate 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 I know of five or six
styles of food always on celestial tables
when cherubim and seraphim and arch
angel gather for heavenly repast-the mys-
terry OF redemption, celestialized music,
the heavenly picturesque, sublime col
ioquy, eternal enterprises, sanity associa-
tion, divine ompanionship, celebrative
Jubilance There Is one subject that ex-
cites the curiosity and inquisitiveness Of
all those angels. st Peter says (which
thlng tne angels desire to look lnto'-that
ls' why old Chrls6 exchange palace for