The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-08-20
CHRIST THE BREAD OF LIFE.


International Sunday-School Lesson for
August 23. 1891.
Especially Arranged from s. s. Quarterly.]
LESSON TExT.-John 6:2340
GOLDEN TExT.--Lord cvernore give US this
bread.-Joan 0:34
CENTRAL TRUTH. Jesus is the bread Of life.
TIMB.-April. A. D. 20. The day following our
last lesson.
PLACE.-CaDerraun, on the northwest shore
of the lake of GaiilcS.
INTERVENING I-IsroaY.-Q The night OF
prayer. (Alatt. i4:23-e3.) t2) The storm at sea.
Tvs. 16.1S.) (3) Jesus walking on the sea. Tvs.
10, 2o) t) Pctors attempt to walk on the
water. Matt 14:25-3i)
Observation-Disclosures after Jesus came to
His disciples with cheer end power in the
storm, they all came TO land near Clpernaurn.
Ii was the morning after the feeding of the
5000. Great numbers came to Jesus, some to
be healcd. some for such bread as they had re-
ceived at Bethsaida.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs.-o8 "Not be-
cause ye saw tho ini-ccles:" not for the teach
ing of the miracles, but for the benefits they
obtained from them. "a Labor not:" do not
make the wants of the body the chief end OF
life. THAT meat which endurcth:" the food OF
the soul that satisfies its immortal wants
Hath the Father sealed:" attested us His
Son aad sent from HIM with tho true message
Sealing to the encicnts was like signing the
name with us. Gods seal was CD the Divine
character of Christ; f2) His miracles; fS His
Heavenly message. 30 THE work OF God that
ye believes" faith Is tho source and fountain
Of all o5d works 81 What si3n:" by which
to prove you are tho great prophet, the Mes.
siah. 81 "Our fathers did eat nanna:" (Ex.
1e). Moses did this for us: what have you
dones Only one meal, instead Of food for forty
years-and only five thousand fed, instead Of
two inillion--only barley bread, instead Of
mama. SO. Jesus reply shows His superiority
t,rf ~
was not Moses WHO gave tao mamma, 1t was
Cod, through Moses. But Jesus came from the
Father, Whose gift He was to the world Sec
ond. 1.-The true pread." tho real bread bread
for the soul, OF which the mama was only o
tyre Third: from Heaven:" the real Heav-
en-, whilo the mama came only from the at
mospherc heavon. Fourth. 3d. "Giveth life:"
as well as sustai2s it. The mamma lasted but
day or two; the true broad is eternal. Fifth.
Unto the world:' tho mama vas for Jews
only the true bread for all men. The mama
was for Que age, TIE true bread for all ages.
35. Never hunger:" with pain and unsatisfed
desire but only as In the Beatitude 81. "The
| FatNer giveth Mc:" the Divine side Of SILVA
| tion, life, desire, new hearts, come from God
| only. Him that cometh" this is the human
| side OF saivaticn 3D. Raise it up again" at
| the resurrection. Death shall not destroy those
| who believe.
LESSON COMMENTS.
The morning after the miracle Of the
loaves and fishes, the people again
| sought for the miracle worker. They
were pleased with the experiences Of
the previous day. and longed for their
! repetition. Finding that Jesus had gone
over the water, they took boats and fol-
lowed. When they came to Him, they
inquired, with wonder, how He had
| T. ~
no answer, but lays bare at one stroke
the motive that led them to follow Him
! so closely. He then exhorts them to
seek for something higher than the
mere satisfaction of bodily wants, and
to give heed to their eternal interests
The first thing that strikes one, in
reading this lesson, is g point of SINH
larity between Nicoden1us, the woman
at the well, the disciples and the
people. They are all alike in this one
respect, that they misapprehend His
| words He talks of things spiritual;
they think of things carnaL. He is on
one plane; they on another and lower
plane. ''Ye must be born again" says
Christ to Nicodemus. How can man
be born again?" is the carnal reply.
To the woman at the well lie speaks
of "a well of water springing up into
eternal life;'' and she answers: "Sir,
give me this water, that | thirst not,
neither come hither to draw" To His
disciples even He says: "Take heed.
and beware Of the leaven of the Phar.
isees;" and they say among themselves:
sit is because we have taken no
bread" Matt 16:6). So also in this
case, while He talks Of things Heaven
ly, they are only thinking about things
earthly. Thus Jesus was, in deep
spiritual sense, lonely man. He spoke
about the heart, and they, in their con-
ceptions and desires, rose no higher
than the stomach. He discoursed about
Heavenly food, and they discoursed
about bakers bread. This bitter ex-
perience of loneliness in purpose con-
tinued all through the life Of the Master.
We can easily see and heartily con-
denim the sordid thought and desire Of .
throng that lived eighteen hundred
years ago. But we need not 60 back
eighteen hundred years nor eighteen
years to find the exact counterpart of
that Galilean multitude. Our church
| papers arc full OF articles on how to
reach ''thc unchurched masses" All
agree in the statement that they are
unreached. They never come within
the walls Of our churches Now, there
is nothing easier than to reach them
man, woman and child. and to crowd
our churches to the very walls. Just
send forth a proclamation that every.
one who comes to your church shall
have loaf of bread and silver dollar
each time he attends Now you may at
once open your church not only on Sum
day but three times each day in the
week and you will have 1t packed.
They will rush and crowd around the
doors before the time for opening and
fight for places, and such throngs will
be gathered that they will tread one
upon another. Go to any dispensary
for the poor and see the crowd. Mark
how patiently they will wait their turn