, 1886-06-20

and he feels on all the foregoing
elements Of creation. This principle
rises higher than any mechanical life and
material If 1t is carried on on every level.
When the chill is born, it feeds from the
mothers DO ON, and all that economy that
was necessary to preceie the child's expert
enc, resi- lie, in her. AMI when the child hfs
50 grown as that its mind begins to lie
hungry, it eats the mothers mind, just "a
before it ate the mothers milk, and is
dependent on the mothers thought for
thinking Itself. 1t has got all the
apparatus for thinking. but no gFist,
and ths mothers mind-milk feeds
the child. What Is that, and who is that,
and why is that. and where is that, and the
child is "A little questioner, and Is gathering
knowle lge from the mothers knowledge.
The mother precsdes and prepares and the
child comes after and devours. 1t is a
much NOR, gracious method of eat
ing than the red-mouthed lions way;
nevertheless, it Is in the nature Of
feeding upon the mothers life and thought.
And the teacher and the pupil stand in the
same %relatio ). The pupil gathers knowledge
from the mind that is in the teacher, who
has g)ne before him. has studied. ha~
learned, has accumulated; and he distributes
him elf to his pupil There is this prepara-
ton In every step of exercising life. The
young hrtiSs loOks up 10 ns HIS Ut anu
WATCHES his hands. the pigments and their
composition, and everything that belongs TO
art in III II department, and he feeds on hi
master. not by outward and fsshly food, as
the lower mechanical life does, but by
thought AMI experience and taste and tie
sense of developed beauty. Experience and
knowle *, and skill are the food Of pupils.
AMI they thit collect these things ara in the
line OF the analogy of the whole lower world.
This goes on and becomes generic, so that
one race civilizes another; that is, yields
something of itself over to another race.
barbaric now, but semi-civilized and civil
lied by what 1t learns either by borrowing
or from tie stimulus OF a superior race. Thus,
too, s~oci'ty Itself grows. We are very proud
of "A good many things, but we have no con-
ception OF the hi wing out CT those
things in remote antiquity. Print
tive man was, comparatively speak
ing, empty Of knowledge; but little by
little, AMI through myriads of years, the
race accumulated treasure of thought, treas
ure of feeling, treasure of knowledge, treas
ure of society knowledge, of commercial
knowledge, of warlike knowledge, of civic
knowled ge, Of knowledge of every kind, and
that was pourel over and another generation
received 1t, AMI so the whole world at large
is dependent for its knowledge and food of
knowledge upon the preceding ages. Thi has
been 30 improved, SO variously developed,
that we cannot by n long way trace back 10
the ear lest periods what was the germ and
the blossom and the unfolding of the final
fruit OF that knowledge which maintains
civilization among great states to-day; but
there Is no question that it is keeping step
with The ana.ogy OF the whole world, anu
that nations feed upon nations not
only, but that ag IS feel upon ages; and the
later worll has been eating the preceding
Not in tife wi gar sense of lower and a ina
bodily fee ing but in the hunger of the soul
it has found its nourishment in the things
found out Tor it in preceding days Ana
that which is true in regard to nations is
trus also in regard to individuals; our
thoughts, ldea' and natures are similarly
imbu ID from those who preceded us.
Now, from this line of thorght, let us hear
the Saviour. Il am the bread that came
down from hea VEN The bread. When /
eat of the loaf, ere twelve hours have gone
round, that loaf is beating red at the door of
every single organ in my body. That bread
became me. IL was wheat, but it becomes
brain. IL was u~nthinking substance,
but it becomes phosphorescent thought.
And this grand Observation-Disclosures takes
place in me as it regards the lower
food Now it is not that the bread is
transl ited INTO God which we eat at the holy
commune ,. II Is tnaI tue InOuRnt OIL 0Ou
and the flucnce of God is transubstanti-
aied into us; and we are changed into the
diyin, in 50 tar as we are changed at all.
The proc IS OF change is not mira culous, it is
normal, 1t Is universal, IL is continuous
it is part Of the ordtr of nature, and If
Christ Is breal |, He is the food that builds
US up We do not eat him literally. / did
not eat my mother, and yet without the
food that She gave me of body and minis
what wou d | have beeni 1t Is this blessed
Transformation Of food wrought out by
others that goes into the identity and p r.
sonality of a body. and a soul; it is this
that we must think of when we
would plunge into the deeper mys-
teries of the union of Christ with hi,
disciple. They fei on Him FOWL As love
feels on love; as courage feeds on courage;
as heroism feeds on heroism; as magnanim-
ity inspires magnanimity; as example woi ks
imitation. I ere is no influence more per-
~vasive; there is nothing more universal,
than the fact that souls that are appreciative
and sensitive are borrowing their sources and
eemen S of life from those around them
in society, or those remembered; and even
books that are the embaimed men of our
time, even these are perpetually our food.
and we are transformed not into the food,
but we are transformed into our own per-
son, only M OF n hig her model than the iood
itssif Was
Now who eats Christi Who loves Him,
who initiates Him, who secs by the light o.
Cnist the dawn of immortality, who knows
what is the sacredness of humility Who
could learn anywhere el 80 but OF Him, that he
who Won d be first must be last, and the least;
and that he that would seek royalty should
become a slavei Who could teach us what
is that Inv, not of the animal life, nor OF
tna a. vic hIa hur nf fna GnpI llA
and OF the life that is above us In
the invi ibls sphere of heaven; who coull
teach us but Cdrist. Hi worls, yea.
His deeds, the example Of His life,
tue whole manifold instruction that He gave
us rs To this higher lie, for H. tnlked very
little about the lower lite. The piow was
not HIS thought Though H. handled the
saw n I'd the hammer and the plane. He
never spoke a word nor, as far ms ! know.
drew a ngure from the shop where II, wa
bred; but Il came down from heaven. ~
and He remembered His society thert,
and the commerce OF the spirits o.
just men made erfect; and He poured
out His instruction, VIII CHI is mysterl u
us, amp iecause W. are not ye- unfolde,
enuug to tax in tho e higher conceptions
OF lie an Iouy. Ami it is Christ in you,
The hope of CORY, that makes you
what you nr--expectant pr noes, ex-
lie 1 sovereigns. Any man, then, that
would come TO Chrst and under
stand His instruction under the nlleg, res
or the II sures OF bread and OF food. let hin
bear this in mind: that we are TO feed vi on
Ii m by the sou.
After the communion service had been
LIBERATED Mr.. Beecher was surroun, el by
n great throng of perse ms eager TO
shake his hand aud wish him "A safr
and pleasant voyage. He seemed In ex-
cel.ent lealth and spirits and had a
pleasant word for everyone, acquaintance
aud $ rangers alike. During Mr.. B'eche''s
Absence his Tulpit will be fllet by Mr.,
Halliday, the assistant pastor; RN DR..
Bradford, Il Montclair, N. j., and X v. D..