Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-01-10
CHRISTIAN ENDFANOR.
Topic for the Week Beginning Jan.
Is Comment by Rev. :. II. Doyle.

Is Comment by Rev. :. II. Doyle.
TopIc-Soul hunger and soul food.-Ps.
hxxiy, LIZ.
IL this psalm the psalmist pours ont
tho lc,,r-inc IF his sOr,l f~~ tho coror,un-
ion of the sanctuary and points out the
blessedness tf those who dwell therein
Le sass, My soul longeth-yea, even
fainteth-for the courts of the Lord; my
heart and my flesh cry out for the liv-
ing God. -
This is 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
a supreme Being above and beyond him
self. and there is an earnest longing III
every soul to come into the proper rela-
ton to this Being Z i..s 10 ., fenced by
the fact that all nations have believed
in n GOD ard have had some way by
which they thought they could approach
heir God
This soul hunger is an evidence that
shere must be such q Being. If not,
whence came this universal belief in
God, and this universal longing after
God, and this universal attempt to wor-
ship God in some way? We can only
explain it in one way, and that is that
there must he a God that meets It's
idea ard want To perform its work il
life the eye must have rays of light,
and we have tho rays Of light; t. car
must have waves of sound, and W haze
sound waves The human soul craTeS
aud demands supreme Being over and
above it, and is it possible thai whsle
the eyes have light and the ears sou.1d
there is nothing to satisfy this i.lt.a2
craving of the human soul for God:
Such thing is not possible There
must be something to satisfy this need
ana want of the highest and nobleSt part
of mans nature
And there l. something, and that
something is Jesus Christ the bread Of
life, nf whom if we eat, we shall never
hunger, and of whom, if we drink, We
shall never thirst, There is a God to
satisfy this longing of the soul, and
Christ. the Son of God, pointsus TO Him.
We may not understand just how Christ
satisfies this soul hunger, but this should
not worry Us. We do not know just
how and just when bread becomes life
to the body, and yet we know il and eat
it. So we know Christ can satisfy this
soul hunger; that He is the only true
soul food, .asHl therefore We should
taste and Sf$4hat He is good = fer He
Himself has said; Il am the living
bread, which came down from heaven
IF - an eat of this bread, he shall
live forever John Vi, ii J.
Bible Readings -Ps Xiii, / }; u,
(; lxxiii, 26. xix, 20: cxxxvii, %;
lisa. IL, /, 3; Ky. 10; Math. Y, s; M..lh
viii, 81; Luke xiv, 1921; john iv,
"A; vi, 35; vii, :; Rev. xxi, s; xxi. :.
Home Missions and Christian Endeayor.
In the report Of the executive caal-
mittee of the American Missionary a.
ISOLATION mention is made II :. III
places of the work of ConSregat! nal
Christian En1eavOrerS in GonLt.,.13.
with home missions. In the work Of t.
Congregationalists with the poor pcuI L
Of the mountains Of eastern Tenn >ste.
and kentucky large portion Of ti.e
time and strength has been spent il sys-
tematic Christian Endeav9r worl;
Many societies ave been eatat. I'd.
and great good Will be accomplish
these societies will doubtless G,v,
the possibilities of their Heighh...-.a.
until church Is the result.
Many Christian Endeavor st.
have been organized by the Indian W.
have gone ont from the Indian >lA.uis
onder the control of the Congrega:)c=.-
alists, and IN this work the Indi,,I:. az
exceedingly z ,lou>. The committee as
makes gratefu. acknowledgment II the
notable increase in the contribute DIS ef
Congregational EnGeavorers 10 homs
missionary work and declares tnat thu
spread OF these societies in the varior.s
departments Of that work is a mark and
means Of great progress. Ruiz.
Under Heavens Captaincy.