Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-01-10
NUMBER %
CHRISTIAN EN0EAvoR.


Topic For the Week beginning JAM I8-
Comment by Rev. q. H. Doyle.
ToPIc.-Soul hunger ana sorl Geoa.-Fs.
ixxxiv, liz
In this psalm the psalmist poRrs pEt
the longing Of his soul for the ecmmun-
ION of the sanctuary and points out the
blessedness Of those who dwell therein
he says, My soul longeth-yea, even
fainteth-for the courts Of the Lord: my
heart and my flesh cry out for the liy-
ing God II"
This ID only an expression Of uni-
versal feeling possessed by mankind.
Men the world over have soul hunger.
Their hearts and their flesh cry out for
the living God There is indelibly stamp
cd upon the heart OF man the belief IN
supreme Being above ana beyond him
self, and there is an earnest longing In
every soul to come iEto the proper rala-
ton to this Being This is evidenced by
the fact that all natioRs have believed
In God and have had some way by
which they thought they could approach
their God
This soul hunger is an evidence that
there must be such q Being. N mot,
whence came this universal belief in
God. and this universal longing aftar
God. and this universal attempt tQ wCr-
ship God in some way7 We can oaly
explain it in one way, and that is tisat
there must be God that meets this
idea and want. To perform its work in
life the eye must have rays Of light
and we have the rays Of light; the ear
must have waves Of sound. and we have
sound waves The human soul Graves
and demands supreme Being over and
above ii, and Ia It possible that while
the eyes have light and the ears sound
there il nothing to satisfy this intense
craving Of the human s0nl fry Godg
Such thing is not possible. There
must be something to satisfy this Iced
and want Of the highest and noblest part
Of mans nature.
And there is something, and thas
something Is Jesns Christ, the bread of
life, of whom, III we eat, Ee shall never
hunger, and OF whom, liz we drink, we
shall never thirst. Theirs iB God 10
satisfy this longing Oh the soul, and
Christ, the Son Of God. pointsus 20 Elm.
We may not understand just how Christ
satisfies this soul hunger. but this should
not worry u.s. We do not know just
how and Just when bread becomes life
to the body, and Jet we know it and eat
it. So we know Christ can satisfy this
soul hunger; that He is the only true
soul food, and therefore we should
taste and see that He is good. fcr He
Himself has said; III am the living
bread, which came down from heaven
III any man eat Of this bread III shall
live forever" (John VII 5Il
Bible Readings -Ps. xiii. 4, q; xiii.
/; lxxiii. 26; cxix, 90; cxxxrii, 8. 81
Isa. ", /, 8; lxv. 13; Math. v, o; Mark
viii, 81; Luke xiv, 1897; John ".
IA; vi, 50; vii, 81; Rev. xxi. 6; xxi, II.
Home Missions and Christian Endeavor.
In the report Of the executive com
mittee Of the American Missionary a.
sociation mention II made in several
places Of the work OF Congregational
Christian Endeavor9rs In connection
with home missions In thB work on the
Congregationalists with the poor people
Of the mountains Of eastern Tennessee
and Kentucky large portion Of the
time and strength has been spent in sys-
tematic Christian Endeavor work
Many societies have been established.
and great good will be accomplished. as
these societies will doubtless develop
the p0ssibilities Of their neiRhburhood