Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-31
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 mind may be sai r lc- tions of the mouIN4m AAE EwA M he functions of thef HME E & kA d receives the trut N W HM | mixing it with t HE & H & l,' | for God never oF z0 4@ UdW Whm 2 | his reason if he dc ve | the heart and a Tt | from performing ,ith | the mind filled aI C) Il all | the facts in regarl bread I: ::::; :;';: ::: ::;::::;h@@:. E: '5: t: | part and 'believY ;" That was the . ma | jority of the Je,, WVTTned to | Jesus as He Gec3I< ~ Nkl12 the Liv- ing Bread whicb. uo ,,vn from Heaven; if any ne-H,5f l0.o5f this Bread he shall live for .E HIGnd the Bread | that will give iso0 Prsh, which 1 will give for the life he world" And that is the grea- trouble with the people in the wol d to-day as these words are repeate in their ears. Don't hold Gods truths too long in the head or they will cause congestion and starve the soul. Send them down into | take place and the soul be fed with the Living Bread. The world is not per ishing because it does not know the way of saliva tion, but because, knowing the way of salvation with the mind, the heart does not act in conjunction herewith; the digestive process has been interrupted; assimilation has not taken place.
 Tine process of assimilation works a wonderful change in the food. The marvellous human laboratory of the stomach takes the food and by mys- terious process transforms it into | life and flesh and bone and sinew The soul feeds upon the Living Bread and by the wonderful operation of the | Holy Spirit in the heart, the Living Bread becomes thlNSSfe of that soul. A popular saying with some food manu- lecturers to-day is ''Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are" | The prevailing article of diet of indi- viduals and nations bears a striking and important relation to their char acter. And as the kind of food par | taken of determines in such large de- gree the physical temperament, so | that which the soul feeds upon deter mines what that soul really is. It is | easy to trace the connection between | the frivolous mind and the trashy | novel; it does not require long contact with a boy to discover whether he is | feeding his mind on dime novels or upon wholesome reading matter. As a man thinketh, so is he. We under stand all this when it comes to phy- | sical and mental conditions. The same is true in regard to spiritual things. Only the Living Bread which | came down from Heaven can feed the soul and give it life. The world is full of substitutes that the Devil is rec ommending to be just as good, and the souls of men are trying to feed upon them, but according to Gods Word only the Bread which God has pro- vided can feed and give life to the soul.
 "It is known," says Marcus Dods. "that the weakness of starvation eX- poses men to every form of disease; it is lowered vitality which gives dis ease it's opportunity. In the spiritual | life it is the same. The preservatlve against any definite form of sin is strong spiritual life, healthy condi- tion not easily fatigued in duty, and not easily overcome by temptation"
 Broken Bread.-Christi implies in our text the manner in which He is to give life to the world by giving His flesh. The night before His crucifXion while in the upper room with His disciples, "He took bread and gave thanks, and break it and gave unto them, saying:
 This is My body, which is given for you." And the next day on the cross it was literally fulfilled. Christ gave
 His flesh for the life of the world. Marvellous truth! The whole world set free from death, and yet the world
 perishing in it's trespasses and sins be- cause it will not accept the truth and believe in the accomplished work of
 Christ. Not many months ago news item announced that a colored woman in New ork state had just learned that she was a free woman. All these | years since the eInduclPdllou protld- nation of President Lincoln giving liberty to every black slave in the Unit
 ed States she had been serving her master in ignorance of the blessed fact that she was free. But her freedom
 dated back to the time that the stroKe
 of President Lincoln's pen placed his name at the bottom of the proclama- | +ion and not from the time when she first heard the news, and because of