Yes, at present; but deep down there lies in your hearts a need which
will awake and speak out some day; and you will find that the husks
which the swine did eat are scarcely wholesome nutriment for a man. And
there are some of you that turn away with disgust, and I am glad of it,
from these low, gross, sensuous delights; and are trying to satisfy
yourselves with education, culture, refinement, art, science, domestic
love, wealth, gratified ambition, or the like. There are tribes of
degraded Indians that in times of famine eat clay. There is a little
nourishment in it, and it distends their stomachs, and gives them the
feeling of having had a meal. And that is like what some of you do. Dear
friends, will you listen to this?--'Why do ye spend your money for that
which is not bread?' Will you listen to this?--'I am the Bread of Life,'
Will you listen to this?--'In this mountain will the Lord make unto all
people a feast of fat things.'

II. Where does the unveiling that gives light to the world come from?

My text, as I have already remarked, emphatically repeats 'in this
mountain' in its next clause. 'He will destroy in this mountain the face
of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over
all nations.'

Now, of course, the pathetic picture that is implied here, of a dark
pall that lies over the whole world, suggests the idea of mourning, but
still more emphatically, I think, that of obscuration and gloom. The
veil prevents vision and shuts out light, and that is the picture of
humanity as it presents itself before this prophet--a world of men
entangled in the folds of a dark pall that lay over their heads, and
swathed them round about, and prevented them from seeing; shut them up
in darkness and entangled their feet, so that they stumbled in the