Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-04-11
CHRISTIAN f. DFAvoR.
Topic For the week BEGINNING April

Topic For the week Beginning April
I5-Comnsent By Rev. :. II. Doyle.
ToPrc-Ihe bread Of life.--johl Vi. g3-sd. Gas
ter meeting
Easter speaks Of lie. a-d not oaly
so, but OF new life. This IS trae ia both
the natural aad ecclesiastical worlds
NatAe is al This season putting en-
forms ef life, after q coalition, typical
of death. The season Ia the church
calendar speaks Of the new life of
Christ. Ills resurrection after being
three days in the tel1A. How apRre-
pirate at such a time that olT
thoughts siio4ld rise 10 the possible
new life Of the soul in Clrist-cternal
life,
Bread feeds and supports the phys
zeal life. Christ gives life 10 the seal
Therefore. in marvellous metaphor.
Christ iIkcns Himself to bread. In
this chapter lie speaks of Himself as
bread IN four different ways. which
IL WIZ profit Us TO consider,
/. Christ. the true bread" verse
81 My Father siveth you the true
bread" Christ is the true, the real
bread. There is 40 pretense or hollow
mockery in the gift which God of
fers the soul as its support and life.
This bread is able to accomplish that
which is desired. Assimilated, it will
convey both the consciousness aud
reality of eternal hessedness. God
created the soul He knows what will
satisfy its desires and cravings. and
therefore the spiritual sustenance that
He offers is the true bread.
=. Christ. THE bread of God" verse
IS. Christ. the bread. is the gift of
God. God 80 gave his only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlast.
ing life" God has made abundant pro
vision in nature for the sustenance Of
the body. Is it not natural therefore
that He would make ample provision
for the soul? 1t would have been most
unnatural If He had not done so, Be
ing from God, this bread is free to ALL
1t is offered without money and with
out price
3. Christ. the bread of life" verse
So. Il am the bread of life" Christ
Is Himself the bread of life. In Him
and its eternal life made secure and
certain. THE veritable life, eternal
bread, which Christ as the steward of
divine bounty gives. Is Himself His
divine humanity" This bread is ap-
propriated by faith. He that cometh
to Me shall never hunger. and he that
believeth in Me shall never thirst" He
who comes in faith to Christ shall
never hunger and never thirst again.
Bread satisfies for a time Christ
satisfies forever. He is the bread of
eternal life
4. Christ the bread a from heav-
en-" verse 20. This is the bread
which cometh down from heaven. that
a man may eat thereof and not die"
Christ is the bread from heaven. FroE:
heaven alone can come the gift of eter-
nal life. Christ as the bread from
heaven was foreshadowed in the man
ma. Moses gave not this gift to the
people. but God sent the mamma from
heaven to satisfy the hunger of His
people From the same source the soul
hunger of the world is to be satisfied.
Let us accept this bread Of life from
heaven that we, like Him, may rise
from the dead and enjoy ever after,
with Him, eternal life.
THE PRAYER MEETING.
The United society's special Easter
programme should be used. or a special
programme arranged. with appropriate
Easter music as the principal feature.
BIBLE READINGS.
Elk. xvi, Ills: Ps. lxxyiii. % %:
cxxxiii. 1-3; lisa. IL, 10; Math. iv, IL;
Luke ri. is; xii, 1921 John /. 4; iv, 5-l5;
vi. 47-5S; Rom. xii. /. .; ii Tim. i. $40;
~, Z. s: Heb. Y. 5-i0; Rev. xii, II.