The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-02-06

who said. How can this man give US
his flesh TO eat?"
Feeding of the Soul.
When we open the Bible there is found
on its first page a programme that looks
to the building of a something better than
world-that something is a soul fed by
the life of God. The perfect pattern is
seen in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
The soul has capacity for feeding on
this life with its power of atonement and
of example to high and spiritual aim as
true to its nature as is appetite for the
things that nature provides for its graft
fication.
When Thoma- Hughes wrote Tom
Browns School Days he delighted the
boy nature every where when he wrote
the 'Manliness of Christ" he appealed
to humanity to behold what God wants
every man to become and has made IL
possible by providing the bread which
cometh down from heaven.
The matter of soul supply is very sim
pie, after all. Some of the most deadly
things are effectively gotten rid of by
ST rvatlon and some of the most health
flu. are kept by feeding. Sin may be rid of
thus and holiness may be kept
The moment liar sets himself to the
task of telling the truth. at that moment
he becomes a little less of a liar Inc
change may be hard to observe, never
theless 1t is a change, ! have known
some men who have worked at the prob
lem for years and one has to be mighty
intimate with them to really observe any
truth telling inclination yet.
The Bible teaching, however, Is that
the ''old man" must be starved and that
the new man must be fed Call the roll
or the true and the great, and they h.. e
been precisely those who ate of the Bread
OF Life.
Chinese Gordon had habit of dropping
his handkerchief at his tent door, and no
soldier ever disturbed his commander as
long as that silent sentinel kept watch,
for the entire army knew the great chief
tain was at prayer.
When David Livingstone kept his body
on the rough fare of Africa, he fed his
the attitude of prayer God called him,
and the black men o. the dark land took
his body across the Zanzibar and the
great sea and placed 1t in Westminster
abbey, and white men in the land OF
light put over his grave the inscription.
This is Livingstone" Such men never
die
Spiritual Starvation
1t were well If more of the men of this
busy city would study the laws under
which God makes a man as they study
those laws under which man builds his
fortune and makes his houses. There ara
thousands of spiritually starved people
In our midst.
1t seems too, that the world is begin
ming to realize that "life is more than
meat and the body more than raiment."
From the land far toward the Nor h
sea, and from the isle far in the South
sea. comes the tidings that the people
are learning that man doth not live by
bread only"
In this good land of ours from pulpits
where, when the pecpl' held up their
hands for gospel bread and were given
dissertations on Ruskin and Tennyson
and Browning good men as they were
that there Is the desire to strike hands
with men across the waters, and draw
10 life the picture of Jesus as the satis-
faction for the soul
God has revealed in Christ the way of
meeting the wants of universal man.
He is many-sided. but always the truth.
He lived In one land and one age and
yet he is common to all lands and meets
the wants of all ages.
Many people are like ,nose on the ILL
fated ship that lost her course and was
adrift. When all hope was abandoned
a sail was sighted and the distress signal
given. In response to the inquiry for
what was needed most, the reply was
water. The answer came back. Drop
your buckets and draw up an you need"
The ship had drifted into the fresh water
at the mouth of the Nile.
Jesus says to one and all. Come. eat
and live"