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Show THE OGDEN STANDARD. EXAMINER I "" ' , SUNDAY MORNINr. immbm1MmwmmmwjmwJ . APRTI 17 . 1Q91 4. . A A ' " r. ii .. Rvi7 A M I ST n ... . .f--vt riff mr1 fij oo . i - n u frsw V7 w v Feri Interesting Confirmation of the Scriptural Story in the Discovery That a Delicious, Sweet, Nourishing Food EeaUy Does Fall from the Sky in the Palestine Wilderness Just as the Bible Says , v stiyuiiyidi dm UM 1 ft! I SI ii ii a 7 . i. . 0fl .,. - 1 J If" i r AT r7' 7.r IT ' -- x5- h A - : I I f t r- - . .1 f I I ' y t .1 . J ' , . j : - . i "I , V : r 4 ' r r t . .V L If f F J1' f if ' r A Plant Known as "Manna," Found in the Sinaitic Desert, According to professor Peloubet, but Scientists Have Now Found That It Was Another Plant -- a Kind of Fungus r on Which the Israelites Fed 3,000 Years Ago. 'Numbers, Chap. XL, vs. ' - ' ' 1 ''' , ... -- V 5 ' , ' - - , - . - ' J v , v - 1 ' r S)t' I i' c ' J y'. , f t ' . ' " ' " l ' " 1 t ( "If" - I i , . - . ' ' l -- - ' " - " " . The Children of Israel Complained of the Tiresome Diet of Manna, ana God, Listening to Their Protests, Sent a Great Wind from the Sea Which Brought Them Quails Which They Caught and Ate. From Painting by TissoU- ; - - c -. j . ; i , I s J k Wl-- 5. We remember the fish, which we did eat in EfHt freely j the encumbers, and the melon! aad the leeks and the onloni and the garltck: - 6. Bat now onr soul is dried away: there Is nothing- at all, beside this manna, before 'our eyes;. 7. And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof ' as the colour of bdellium. , And the people went about, and gathered 8. it in .w morit, and ground it in mills, or beat and made cakes of tar, and baked it in pans,was as the taste of it: and the taste of it ' , . r - f 5-3- 0. f " : vr;: 2, 'v--7- '- '- - - ' - - freh oil. 9. And when the dew fell npon the camp In the night, the manna fell upon it. 10. Then Moses heard the people wep the throughout , their families, eTery man inLOKI door of his tent: and the anger of the was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. , ; '" ' -- 4' - ii '.;:.;..,.,:.:...:.. L ' ' ' , - - t c v i , 7 ' , 4. V. ! 1 J " ' : "' 1 . , ' - ei-tlre- , - - - 18. And the LORD said unto Moses. say thon unto . the people. Sanctify yourselves gainiS tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye haTr wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for It was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat., 19. Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, r twenty nor fire days, days, neither ten ' ' '-- . i . - . ' . : . . ' i. . ' . . . . ; , sr . f m .ML"-- it . a the Tablets with the Ten Commandments. 7 7 7J western Asia, -- w: ; f. ,V7-- - 7- :; ( . .1 J hJ'-il- ffl . .h ; ' '"' y -- . - i-r- ,.sV77 00 ' r , . r-- f- v, ir v - y.i. t, " : 1 ' 1... - d - the-mann- a ' 1 es-Xor- (O 1121. XnttrnHloc! Ktsturs BmUst, I 'I far dlitant In the Spring cf 1SU there was an asl lonlshlng fall of manna near Lake Van. la the eaitera part of Asia "Minor, coverts c many square miles to a depth of four Inches. It was tray in color and 'earast to the taite. White meal prepared from it one-thir- d pr ce s m -- ly 1 . where manna is used as a substitute for wheat in ' 7C7-.,'. .A years of famine, being gTound In The Holy Ark of the Covenant. the same way and ' - ; . . f baked into bread. stones and rocks: On the outside its color So plentiful is the supply ' ' : 7IK" . Is grayish yellow, but, when broken, the .4 X , ':!. : w '"" . v ! obtainable on occasions that ,W . l interior is white as a crushed grain Of one man In a day can colwheat. lect from 12,000 to 20,000 As it gets older it loosens its grip on pieces of manna (five to the rock, its edges roll back, and soon it eight pounds), varying from becomes detached altogether, forming a the size of apea to that of a rounded body with a central cavity. It is Brazil nut. Their average feather-lighand the slightest breeze will weight is about of blow it hither and thither. a dram. Thus It often happens that a wind-storThe lichen growing on a The Children of Israel Gathering Manila purine Their Wanderings in the lichens of these carries great quantities rock derives Its water supply Wilderness. Yrom fainting by Tissot. , Ion? distances, and afterward they are from the atmosphere. It found piled In heaps and windrows. It can absorb 83 source from that cent of whither to direct his route, having prob- - crossed It, Araln they turned and wan. appears as if they have fallen out of the dered In a southeasterly direction until sky. and Ignorant teoole assign to the Dho its weight In three days. On the other ably little knowledge of geography, and nomenon a supernatural cause, hand. It surrenders moisture with equal as a result, the unfortunate migrants wan they came to Ez'ongaSVr, on the other In the desert regions where these lich--g- o over all side of the peninsula,, at the head of fashion aimless a In time sort the of it is ready to dered rapidity; and, by ens grow, heavy rains usually follow a long detach Is almost absolutely dry. it itself,the peninsula, Journeying southward nearly what is now called the Gulf of Akaba, dry season. Rivulets wash quantities of Hence its remarkable lightness. them into depressions in the ground, end to the southern Up. and, after circling Thence "north through the Wilderness of small of of manna water the leaves are Mount Sinai, pursuing a track which, as Sin; back aain 'toward the outh and Only quantities subsequent evaporation around tbe mountain chain lying to the behind. them of The superstitious found nowadays in the region traversed heaps Bible east, and a final "trtk" earthward to the natives consider such a happening mirac- by the Israelites on their Journey from marked out cy modern of a students, crawlfly the resembled Promised Land. Infants newly born when meandering ulous. ever the Israelites left Kgypt were midi!-agorcachel table. a That Great "rains" of manna are recorded as Egypt to Palestine a fact which botanical they ing over men and women by the tlx thy arrlToi marvel. seems a to in occurred all 1328, at in in are to inclined 1824, in attribute 1841, a Palestine rad experts having Jo Palestine. 1846. in 1863, and in 1864. All of them ical change in vegetation that has since miracle of the manna rain seems The Just hre it seems worth while to panto arrived, It Is noticed, between January - taken place. In the days of the Exodus to have first occurred after the children come moment a and ask the question. What is a had into Klira and and March, the. season of heaviest rain- - vast tamarisk forests covered most of the of Israel had left was in which the miracle? Sin. of fall in the regions wnere the lichen grows, "wilderness spoken of in tbe Bible. These Wilderness the The flying machine. Is not a miracle. This circumstance is at least sueees- - forests have been destroyed by the Anh western part of the Sinai Peninsula and WlreVefs south of miles telegraphy is not a mlrscle. The uve; dui tne mnaoiiania were, m eacn in- largely for tne proaucucra or cnarcoal, and more than one hundred Red a miracle lies in the super-- , crossed esenco the of Rtance fully persuaded that had become desert and dea- - the point where they the territory has .;. ( of fifteenth heaven. natural. on from the day olate. dropped Sea It happened ' When mysterious phenomena, which Manna "rains" occur not infrequently As the Bible tells us, Moses and his the second month after their departure hare been regarded as miracles, come to in the steppes and deserts of Armenia, the ieople wandered for "forty long years be-- from EgTPt. Caucasus, Persia, Kurdistan. Arabia and ' fore they finally reached the "land of Thence they made their way northward fce understood, they ceoie to be supernatnonnera Ainca. since prenisionc times Canaan." to within lessjhan one hundred miles of ural, and are recojrrfld as repreentlag they have furnished food for man and After they had crossed the Bed Sea, Jerusalem (then a town xt the Jebuiltei), the working of natural laws. Lightning, beast" in Reasons of scarcity. This is for instance. Moses and hi3 people found themselves but turned back and all but reached tho case in the the But ia former! times very little waa of southhighlands in the Sinai Peninsula. He did rrot know pecially Red Sea at the place where they had - 1 " . . ' Moses Holding Up in itr origin Science is able to confirm the Scriptural fiory of the food which saved the children oE Israel and to explain the astonishing Ktatement that it came down from heaven like rain. Of its edible quality we may have a chance to Judge for ourselves, Inasmuch as the American" Consul at Jerusalem, Oscar S. Heizer has forwarded a sample to the Department, of Commerce. at Washington, with a suggestion that the stuff might be cbtained in commercial Quantities, for sale in. this country,1 from merchants In Mosul and Bagdad. He says that In these modern days manna is found in tipper Mesopotamia and Kurdistan the same wonderful and us seemingly miraculous rood wnich or tno xneir israei auring cnimren tained wanderings in the wilderness. "It falls" he states "in the form of dew, which, ana assumes tne snape 01 a hardens when gathered, it is stored for grain." Winter use or shipped to Bagdad for sale in the markets. In Bagdad and Mosul the manna is cooked with sugar and made into little Tound white cakes three Inches in diam- eter and half an inch thick, with a sprinkling of wheat flour on the outside. These are sold as candy, by street vendors, and are much esteemed by Europeans, as well as by the" natives, for their delicate aro matic flavor. it- is cases or xnis Kina mat nave Deeu forwarded by Consul Heizer to the De- partment of Commerce as a sample. This is indeed the very same manna which kept alive the children of Israel in tbe wilderness. Science now knows that tnis remarisaDie looasiun, wnicn was in "veritable manna of the Bible, is In reality a kind of lichen a humble plaot which wrinkled and warty crusts on - .: .... .. ' , - , - ites ate? War therft such a food as and was it miraculous . - - .' tub-stan- TTTT HAT was this "manna" the Israel "manna, r ... - 4 Bat even whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto yon: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among yon, and have wept before Him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 31. And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and " let them fall by the camp, as it were a Journey on this side, and as it were r side, round journey on the other about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. , 32. And the people stood ui all that day. and all that nirht. and ail the next day.- and they he that the onailsgathered lease srathered gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad .for themselves round about the camp. w v - ' ' days;. - ,' known about the laws of nature, and henct everything that was cot understood was attributed to the supernatural." An epidemic of disease was attributed to anrry gods. Moses, when he failed la his effort to persnsde the Pharaoh tolet the children of Israel go, may haTe pretended that It was through his own influence that certain plagues were brought upon the land. That the Israelites la the wilderness nhoutd have looked upon rain of food a miracle Is cot in the least surfirli'::; Scientific rnvert'gators have made U clear what the manaa was and how It came to appear like a ram from heaven. During all the forty jears of their wanderings they were sustained at least to some extent by manna, poubtless on occasions it kept them from starving. And well it mlitht. Analyses have shown that the dried lichens contain 6S per cent of oxylate of lime and IS per cent of a starchllke and highly nutritious which la al.o found in the mors on which reindeer feed in far .northern latitudes, and which In the lajter rae is the chief food element.. Mouses and l:e ens ar nearly related botanlcs'.ly. Since time Immemorial manna has hsd important economic value as a famine food in desert regions all the way from Algeria to Tartary. In IS 29. during the war between Persia and Russia, there was acute famine in districts southwest of the Caspian Sea. One day, after a violent wind storm hsd Sen raiting, the surface of the country ' found covered with food which "fell'dotr from' heaven. Sheep devoured It irrdlly" thereby augireitlng to the Inhabitant ttat it might 'be rood for them to eat. They grcund'It to flour and made bread, which Proved palatable and nourishing. The r.sturallst. Parrot, in IS!?, had an opportunity to observe a shower of manna in Persia which core red the ground to a depth of tit. inehe. It wss undoubtedly carried by storm-windfrom somewhere was made into bread, which was declared , to ba little Inferior to wheat bread. A similar fall occurred In the wettera part of Asia Minor in IS46, lasting seme as days. It was mot cppo'rtuae, inain-.oc- h was of food serious at there the scarcity time. In the following jrar General Juttqf, ccmraandlng a body of rtecch troops erf gaced In military oreratlons ia Alcerl. cflfclally rercried that during the campaign manna hsd been a most va'aat'o help, furnishing focd for his men and thMf horses. Thus It would teem that manna ii even now no great rarity, and that its rroluc tlon is not necessarily a miracle. As alopporready suggested, we may hare an decide to and It to taste ourselves tunity article cf fool whether it is a worth-whilor otherwise. in the form of candr-cake- s we can when even arrive The time may delicatessen the Jt at boxes in paper buy ehop around tho comer. confirms the And so ence araln we llvj away and the further Scriptures from Bible times tho rccro we know abut . them, s - e ec!-nc- e Jet rr |