The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-31

mixing it with the saliva of reason.
for God never objects to a man using
his reason if he does not exalt it above
the heart and thus prevent the heart
from performing it's functions. With
the mind filled and saturated with all
the facts in regard to Christ, the Bread
of Life, the soul would perish, If the
heart were not permitted to act its
part and "believe unto salvation"
That was the trouble with the ma
jority of the Jews who listened to
Jesus as He declared: II am the Liv-
ing Bread which came down from
Heaven; if any man eat of this Bread
he shall live forever; and the Bread
that l will give is My flesh, which l will
give for the life of the world" And
that is the great trouble with the
people in the world to-day as these
words are repeated 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
the heart, where assimilation may
take place and the soul be fed with the
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ishing because it does not know the
way of salvation, 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.
The process of assimilation works a
wonderful change in the food. The
marvellous human laboratory of the
stomach takes the food and by a mys-
FERROUS 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 the life of that soul. A
popular saying with some food manu-
facturers to-day is Tell me what you
eat and l will tell you what you are"
The prevailing article of diet of indi-
viduals and nations bears a striking
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. 1t 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 ply
steal 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
o~mmending 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 a lowered vitality which gives dis
ease it's opportunity. In the spiritual
life it is the same. The p~reservative
against any definite form of sin is
strong spiritual life, a healthy condi-
ton not easily fatigued in duty, and
not easily overcome by temptation"
This must not be forgotten in con-
sidering the absolute need of the soul
to be fed on the Living Bread. Not
only is it absolutely essential to the
life of the soul. but without this Liv-
ing Bread the soul in its starved con-
dition becomes an easy victim to the
disease of sin.
Broken Bread.-Christ impliesin u
text the manner in which He is to give
life to the world, by giving His flesh.
| The night before His crucifixion, 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 its trespasses and sins be-
| cause it will not accept the truth and
believe in the accomplished work of
Christ. Not many months ago a news
item announced that a colored woman
in New \ ork state had just learned that
she was a free m All these
years since the emancipation procla-
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-
tion- and not from the time when she
first heard the news, and because OF
this she was going to bring suit in the
courts to ecove back pay. The
emancipation of the world from sin and
death dates back to the cross upon
which Christ gave His life for the life
of the world. And yet the world is
still in ignorance of the blessed truth,
Satan continues to hold it in bondage,
lust contemplate the awful sin of unbe-
lief! Heaven-sent Bread to feed the
starving and dying world, and the
world filing itself with the beggarly
elements of the world which will perish
with the using! Think of it!
Individual Appropriation.-It istrue
as our text implies that the Living
Bread from Heaven is intended to feed
the whole world. for
There's a Wilderness in Gods mercy Xix
the Wilderness of the sea-"