Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-31
CHRIST THE BREAD.
Discourse on One of the Six Striking
 Claims of Jesus.
Figures of Speech Which He Used in Speaking of mself-SermOn by the "Highway and By
 way" Preacher.
Copyright 1902, by A. N. Kellogg News
 paper Col

down from Heaven: if any man eat oI tHIS Bread, he shall live forever: and the Bread that l will give is My flesh, which will give for the life of the world."-John 6:5l.
 Introdu ductory.-The Gospel as re- corded by John is the deepest and most profound of all the four Cos pels. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he wrote, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye might have life through His name.
 John reverently and faithfully starts his story ''in the beginning with God" introduces the reader to the Christ as coeXistent with God, and records such acts and words of His as reveal Him as the Son of God. For this reason we find in Johns Gospel some most startling, but slm- ple declarations of Christ in regard to Himself, and which are to be found in none of the other Gospels. There are six of these declarations to which we wish to call your atten- tion, and which, as we have said, are to be found in none of the other three Gospels.
 It is to these six declarations of Christ we wish to direct your atten- tion, and the Lord willing, and with His help, we will endeavor to unfold in a series of six sermons, each com plete in itself, the marvellous and blessed truth which they contain. May the Lord, by His Holy Spirit, enable us as speaker and hearers to l. hot ho1 come to know Christ as never before, as 'the Living Bread of God," as 'the Light of the world," as the only Door" into the fold of God, as "the Good Shepherd" as 'the Way, and the Truth, and the Life," and as "the True Vine" To-day we are to speak of Christ as the Living Bread"
 Text Setting.-The words of our text were spoken by Jesus during a discourse called forth by the feeding of the 5000 and the subsequent desire and purpose of the multitude to make Jesus their king. The disciples are troubled, for it is a desert place and the 5000 men. besides women and chil- dren, are tired and hungry. In their eagerness in finding Jesus they have recklessly disregarded every physical need. Oh, that to-day we might be as eager to find Jesus! The difficulties which the human reason can offer against the wisdom of such eager search would quickly disappear before Che certain blessing and feeding a the hands of the Lord. The great company of people is fed, the fragments are care fully gathered and the disciples sent away across the lake in their ship, while Jesus withdraws Himself to se- cluded spot, for He perceives that, all though the stomachs of the people have been filled, their hearts have not been touched, and they would make Him their king for the sake of material blessings. During the night Jesus joins His disciples, walking to them upon the sea, and teaching Peter and the rest of the disciples that great les son of faith. But before the day has fairly begun the multitudes come flock ing back to the city seeking Him. Then it is that He rebukes them by charging that they seek Him not because they beheld the unseen Hand of God mani fested in the miraculous feeding of the multitudes, but because their bellies were filled with the loaves and fishes. And a similar company of people with the same material aims are Hooking to Christ to-day.
 The Type.-The temper of the Jew fish multitudes is readily seen in their quick defense, as they suppose, of Moses. Their blind loyalty to the tra- ditions of their fathers and their re- markable national history prevent their perceiving that the prophet like unto Moses, and yet greater than Moses, was before them, and that the mama which fed the children of Isra el in the wilderness was but type of the true Mama which God was to send into the world to feed a perishing world. To paraphrase what the Jews said to Jesus would be something like this: "You have just fed the great multitude in the wilderness by the miraculous increase of the Ioaves and fishes, but do not forget that our fathers did eat mama in the desert. Moses did not multiply loaves and fishes, but he gave them bread right from Heaven, greater miracle. Therefore, what sign showest Thou, that we may see and believe? What dost Thou work?" But they made a vital mistake and overlooked an i'm portant point, to both of which Jesus at once calls their attention. "True, your fathers did eat mama in the will derness, but they died, notwithstand- ing. And Moses did not give them that