The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-03-22
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Rapturous. Inspiring Theme OF
the Worlds Ransom.



&ho following sermon in the Academ,
81 music. New York city, on the sub
Jet: "A Seraphic Deed" basing it o,
the texti
Man did eat angels food Psalms lxxyiii
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Somewhat risky would be the under.
taking to tell just what was the man,
M that fell to the Israelites in the
wilderness; OF what it was made, how
1t was made, and who made 1t. 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 be-
cause 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 commingling
OF davors-this delicacy of the skies.
IL must have been nutritious, for a ma
ton lived upon it for forty years. 1t
must have been healthful, for it is SO
inspiringly applauded. 1t must have
been abundant, because it dismissed
the necessity of a sutler for great
army. Each person had a ration of
three quarts day allowed to him, and !
30 fifteen million pounds were neces-
sary every week. Those were the |
times OF which my text speaks, when |
'-men 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 can
get some of it for ourselves. In our
mortal state we must have for masti-
cation, and digestion, and assimilation,
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 re-
suits in weak muscle and semi-invalid-
ism The taking of too much animal
food produces sensuality. Vegetarians
are cranks Reasonable.selection of the
karinaceous and the solid ordinarily
produces physical stamina
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 dis !;
coveries, by companionships that /,
dWindled the dining hour into insig- .
nifcance, 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 !.
ease of our invalid and Christian neigh y
Dor, Mollie Fancher, known through L
0ut the medical and Christian world :,
for that she was seven weeks without =,
earthly food, fed and sustained on =,
visions. Our beloved DR.. =. ',
Erenaeus Prime, editor and theologian, -
recorded the wonders concerning this "
girl. Prof West, the great scientist, ~
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 y
The soul asserts itself, and says to the 1 re
body: a
"Hush! Stand back Stand down! / o.
Inn at banquet where no chalices ~
yieam, and no viands smoke, and no -
culinary implements clatter. am feed a.
ng on that which no human hand has n
u. |
am eating angels food" If you have on
lever been in such an exalted state, N
your leaden tempera- be
nent, and dismiss you from this serv- HI
&c as incompetent to understand the 90.
drilling and glorious suggestiveness NO
4 my text when'it says: MAN did eat de
ngels' food" ba
Now, what do the supernaturals live re,
n2 They experience none of the de- w
lands of corporeity, and have no him err,
rance or environment in the shape of to,
one, and muscle, and flesh, and hence He
nat which may delectate our palate, ms
r invigorate our poor, dying frames of
rould be of no use to them. But they of
ave food of their own. My text says wi
,. There may be other courses of food tn,
| the heavenly menu that 1 am not str
ware of, but / know of five or six ses
syfes OF FOOD always on celestial ta- thi
les when cherubim and seraphim. and lv
rcbangel gather for heavenly repast; WI
ne mystery of redemption; celestial an
ed music; the heavenly picturesque; tn,
lblime colloquy; eternal enterprises; prs
unity association; Divine companion Pa
Zip; celebrative jubilance. be,
There is one subject that excites the toe
,riosity and inquisitiveness of all ha'
lose angels st. Peter says: (which VIII
ling the angels desire to look into" VIII
hat is, why did Christ exchange a dis
lace for a barn? Why did He drop a SUI
epter from His right hand to take a mi,
ear into His left slider Why quit the Ter
lthem of the worshiping heavens to viii
ar the grooming Of q weary mothers tina