Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-04-06

which enJoins daily reading of the scrip
lures, is justified by the development in
the character OF countless young Chris
tians which has resulted. Strength, SYM
metry and comliness follow a daily feed
Ing upon the food which God has provided
for the sustenance of his children.
The worlds spirit-hungcr has been most
fully satisfied by Christ.
The soul-sickness that most generally eff
fects Christians Is simple spirit-starva-
non. due to neglected bibles.
The daily prayer of C~hristcndom con-
tains Give us this day our daily bread"
1t is a recognition that God is the great
providcr. All that man needs for body
and spirit must come from above: and all
that comes from above is food. Whatever
God sends, be it sorrow, pain or adversely.
or joy. health or prosperity, is meant to
be received as daily bread. His provi-
dences are his providing. There is abso-
lutely nothing that enters Il Christians
life. sent from the Father above. that is
not designed for his truest sustenance and
prosperity.
The hunger of souls in all ages has been
for communion with God. No period of
history has been so dark that it has not
produced shining lives which have fed on
Him. 1t was in a period of churchly de-
cline that Thomas a Kempis wrote his in
comparable Imitation and St. Francis
OF ASSIST. whose life even scoffers declared
to he perfect, grew to Christlikeness in a
hostile age by much feeding upon Christ.
To the humblest as we'll dis to the highest
this passion for Jesus is possible, and it
is spiritual life.
One of the Christian paradoNes Is that
~soul-hunger Is soul-food.
Spurgeon, the great English preacher.
once said: IF you can live without
Christ. the bread of life. l fear your soul
is not that of Gods people. for they all
httnua and tbirct altar IN
There is a certain dear old grandmother
whose frequent serious illnesses the doc
tors attribute to ndiscretious in eating.
Yet one of her WITNESSES is that she can
eat anything that she may fancy. and
without injury. She will scarcely have
rcjoincd the family at the table, after Il
period of weeks of suffering. before she be-
gins to eat again the very food that caused
her sickness. Tho family smile despairing-
ly, for the invalid is incorrigible. Exact
ly similar is the case of the spiritually
sick. When, say. worldliness has blighted
their souls and robbed them of the peace
which Is the seal of divine approval, do
they learn the lesson of the perils OF
worldliness? Not much. knowing full
we'll that they cannot retain their sweet
communion with Jesus If they persist in
walking with the world, they yet adopt
the latter course. And SO 1t is with bible
study. Every Christian knows that his
spirit cannot thrive If 1t be deprived of
the food of Gods word. Yet still the dust
remains upon the unused bible. Saints
suffer, not from lack of knowledge, but
from lack of obedience.
Men are constantly seeking to feed their
higher nature upon wrong food, which
may satisfy for a time, but in the long
run cannot keep back the pangs of a
noble spiritual hunger.-Wayland Hoyt.
Loss of appetite is Il sign of physical
arrangement: loss of appetite for spirit
ual food is a certain sign that one is in
Urgent need of going to the Great Ply
Sician.