The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-05

IIdue fortune by getting half way.
Railroads are abandoning color sig
nails. Years ago / saw Signor Blitz
sleight of hand man. throw a bag
on the floor, tramp all over it. bang
il on a chair and then take a lot Of
eggs out OF 1t. Then he broke the
eggs in mans hat, stirred them up
and out flew half a dozen canary
birds. Everybody saw IT, but nobody
believed any Of II. The only real
things were the birds. Signs wouId
be no help in believing. Gods pIan
Is believe first and then you will see
signs everywhere 20 confirm your
faith. The glory of God is all
around but it is yelled until we be-
lieve. John 11:4O.)
ARE YOU ONE?
Verse 81. Our fathers ate*%%*man-
na""He gave them bread out of heay-
EN-.
Here is what they say, in effect, TO
Jesus: No big thing in feeding. 5000
for one meal! Moses got bread forty
years for 100000 of us. Moses
bread was sweet delicious stun from
heaven yours is nothing but a poor
old barley cake, cheapest there Is
II you are going to deliver us
from Caesar as Moses did from
Pharaoh, bring on your three SQUARE
meals day" Hundreds OF people
nave the same mental attitude toward
Jesus today. Almost every congre.
cation has members who are there
Tor what they can get. Some have
belonged to many churches I'm their
time. Always after the loaves and
fishes of Influence and position. Are
easily offended Either the preacher
or the preaching, the singers or the
or perhaps Mrs. Smith did
OF she didn't do-at any rate thev
quit and go to the other church
Church Tramps," have heard them
called. We don't grow them In the
Iron Rose Bible class.
A MYSTERY.
verse 36-Jesus said unto them. T am
the bread of life.
j wonder how | can mako vou Fol
lows understand this? What did Won
nave Tor breakfast? II was all pre-
pared by some other life. The milk
by the COW life and the toast and
the cereal by the plant lift. The
COW gets its life from the grass All
comes ont Of the sunshine and the
soil We cannot cat the ground or
drihk the sunshine so the vegetable
ana animal lives are our medlators
Tin the midGle) and give us the ele..
ments Of the ground and of the sun
shine made food, Nobody has ever
told us what sunshine really is. We
get our spiritual food from God
through Jesus. He Is the bread of
life. q Cor. lO:16-1O. Our med
iator. 0Ieb. $3.50.
JESUS GRIP.
Verse Him that cometh unto
mel will in no wise cast out.
That means everybody, no matter
how low and bad Nice, clean, well
dressed Sunday School boys like you
and those hoodlums running wild and
dirty down in the brick lot. Men
''Aii''iiii'o CON pNbplt W NDlllt anu
then drive them away. | have known
Sunday School officials who have
asked boys to come TO them and then
cast them out for being tough"
Jesus never did that and never will.
GIno, 10:2SI7:12). If he ever gets
hold of you you are his forever. II
You think you cant hold out" re-
member che Is able" and you have
his word against any casting out +"
Did you ever notice those big hy-
draulic machines down In the mill,
for putting steel lngots in and out
of the furnaces? When they get
hold of an ingot it has got to come.
There is no such thing as let go.
Jesus is just like that machine in his
holding on power. mo man shall
pluck thm out of my hand" And
would like to see all the men in
creation pluck an ingot out of the
jaws of hydraulic charging ma
chine. 4