The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-01

" SfSAJ SCWlon uOuoCuOlu 10 DlcS9
ed art thou, Jehovah our God, king OF
the world, who causeth to come forth
bread from the earth.'"
"As much as they would" No one
went away hungry. So ever with
Gods gospel; there is enough for all
and to spare. No one need imagine
that others will have to go without be-
cause he receives all he needs. We
have no analogy for such a miracle as
this. The making of bread cannot be
the hestening of a natural process, as
wine from the juice in a growing clus-
ter Of grapes. But here, as in all
Christ's miracles, the miracle is based
on the natural, and not separated
from the powers of God working all
around us. The same God works in
both ways. Natural means, laws and
powers go just as far as is possible
for them, and then the supernatural
comes in and does what they cannot
do"
Scene VII Gathering Up the Frag-
hlSlieos ,. lA-If. H. 0dlHtJ up
the Fragments R. v. Broken pieces"
13. FILLED twelve baskets" The
wallets or hand baskets of the twelve
apostles, such as Jews usually carried
on their journeys.
This was for these Orientals a
most important lesson in thrift. The
poor are proyerbially thriftless every
where; but nothing could exceed the
lavish wastefulness of the poor ORR
entail when a moment of good fortune
has filled his hands with plenty. He
absolutely takes no thought for the
morrow, and, if reminded of the COM
ing day, will calmly reply, The Lord
will provide Rev. VIM. Ewing
I'VE do not find that the owner Of
Fortunatus' purse is careful against
extravaganza" This is true spiritual
ly as well.
Let nothing be wasted or lost in
Gods work. Using well OF wasting
the fragments of time. of opportunity.
the hooks and corners of life, makes
all the difference between success and
failure.
The effect of this miracle was to
convince the people that Jesus was
". 14) "that prophet that should come
into the world" the expected Mes
siah and deliverer; and they tried to
real1e him a worldly king, and compel
him to fulfil their ideas of what the
Messiah should be. Where else would
they find a king who. could feed his
army without expense or trouble, who
could cure his wounded soldiers by a
word, who had wisdom and power di-
vine? Such king could easily over
come the Roman power. Jesus resist
ed the temptation, and spent the night
in prayer. For such a kingdom as
they expected was necessarily a fail
ure. The next day at Capernaum he
met many Of these people and taught
them about the Bread of Life
The Heart Of the Lesson.
The sign, that Jesus is the Bread
of Life.
The witness to the power of Jesus
to satisfy every hunger of the soul.
Jesus is the source of spiritual life
through his gift Of the Holy Spirit.
He raises men from the death of
worldiness and sin to eternal life, the
same life as saints and angels have
in heaven. His coming, his life, his
death, his resurrection and his abiding
presence. are all means to this life.
Jesus is the bread of life because
he fulfills for the soul another furc-
tion of food for the body, which is to
generate warmth, vitality, energy,
power, activity.
Il live" says Paul, "and yet no long
er I, but Christ liveth in me-" See
Gal. 2:20; Col. 2:19.
1t is often hard to translate into
the terms of common life the state
ments of Jesus that he is the bread
of life, and what is meant by eating
that bread. We gain some hint Of the
meaning from the power certain peo-
pie have to inspire, awaken, and up-
lift us. mo nobler feeling" says Car
lyle, than admiration for one higher
than himself dwells in the breast of
man. 1t is to this hour, and at all
hours, the viyifying influence in mans
life. Does not every true man
feel that he is himself made higher
by doing reverence to what is really
above him?" 1t has been said that
the teacher is the school, and the
preacher is the most powerful ele-
ment in his sermon. The character
Of the parents is the greatest power
for the character Of the child. Presi.
dent Hadley, of Yale, says in a late
article, ''All the moral precepts which
are taught, even by those great head
masters who have the greatest repu-
Lation as moral teachers, are Of little
as compared with the
Of those teachers them
selves. / have seen boys and
men who we're selfish in all their i'm.
pulses, who, nevertheless, responded
% the teaching of ideals in the school
or college, as they responded to moth
ng else"
Now from these and similar state
nents familiar to educators. It is
Easy to see that eating Christ" Is |
coming into close contact with his
leart and character by studying him, |