Newport weekly independent., 1902-08-08

bod W ere gwen to f1lm Qa1lN. W no was it came to Him and ministered to Him after the tempt tion in the wilderness? :? Angels from Heaven! Think of it! And l tell you to-day, if we were seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteous ness firSt-if there were no human hands to minister unto us-we should have the very same experience which Jesus had. Jesus didn't turn stones into bread at the behest of Satan but angels brought Him bread from Heav- en to strengthen His weak and tired body. He did not fall down and wor- ship Satan and obtain the kingdoms which he held out to Him, but He heard the angels whispering to Him Heav- en-sent message that God was going to give them to Him later.
 Jesus was seeking c cd and His right eousness, and because His hands were safe hands into which to deliver the "all things" God gave Him food enough in the wilderness to feed five thousand men besides women and chill dren. Do you know what God will do for you, "Oh ye of little faith" if you will really and truly first seek the righteousness of God? Why, He will place the riches of Heaven and earth at your disposal and permit you to min ister to the needy as Jesus did. As a Meuller did to his hundreds of or phaned children. As a Moody did to the thousands and hundreds of thou sands to whom he preached and raised money lavishly to use in the Lords work.
 Jesus didn't have where to lay His head. He didn't have purse. Notice that Judas, the son of perdition, car ried that. The rest trusted in the keeping care of the Lord, and when tribute money was needed Peter goes down to the waters edge and takes it out of the mouth of fish God sent. When a draught of fishes is needed to strengthen the faith of the disciples and turn their hearts from seeking the things of the world to the seeking the things of God, God fills their nets until they break. And notice that they im- mediately left all and followed Jesus. Do you know, half believe that when they realized the bounty of God and His care for them, before they forsook their boats that day, they thrust back into the water that great finny hoard, and as they darted off with glad f1irts of their tails and graceful waves of their scaly sides, the disciples gave one glad look upward to the God who had given and then followed Jesus. If they never knew it before they realized that day that the Lords fish swan in Cali lees blue waters; they knew that the Lords birds sang in the tree tops; they knew that it was Gods grain waving in the fields and Gods cattle on a thou sand hills, and when God knew that they had need of these things He would supply with bountiful hand.
 Never was person better fed than the prophet Elijah as he sits by the brook and Gods ravens bring him bread and meat! Never was such glorious banquet held as that out on the grassy slopes of the lake when God fed the multitude on the few loaves and fishes! God wants you to know and me to know that but one thing is need full, to seek His Kingdom and His right eousness and that He will provide the rest. Jesus cited the birds of the air and the lilies of the field to illustrate the certain care of God for His children. For, Eff God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, Oye of little faith 9"
 A Summertime Lesson.-In the sec- tion from which our text is taken. from the twenty-fourth to the thirty fourth verses of the sixth chapter of Mat thew, Jesus gives us a glorious mes sage for contemplation during the days when nature smiles her sweet est, wooing us away from the noise and hustle and heat of the city to some quiet nook, where the grass of the field rolls away from our feet like a carpet of green to the banks of the stream which ripples and gurgIes sweet music over the stones and brings quiet, calm and enchantment to our souls: where the bright flowers in the mead ows which stretch away in the distance nod us welcome and challenge even Solomon in all his glory to display such beauty as that with which God has clothed them; where the rustling leaves in the trees overhead whisper messages from the unseen world and the birds carol with voices tuned to the Heavenly melody of the angels. Oh, then, if you will read these words of Jesus and let the soul in faith go reach ing out towards God you will feel creep ing into the soul a peace and rest which 4 ], rnr.ld l. nf A c I