The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-22
HOW To SATISFY
= SOULS HUNGER
Field Secretary of Y. M. c. A.
Points Way to Congrega.'
ton at Phillips Church.
QUOTES WORDS OF JESUS
TEXT BASED ON PHRASE 81 AM
THE LIVING BREAD"

! THE congregation at Phillips Congre-
gational church yesterday morning en-
joyed an inspiring and thoughtful dis
course upon the Bread of Life" The
speaker was Bruno Hobbs. the inter-
national field secretary of the Y. NJ. c.
A, who is visiting the city in the in
terests of the general work of the asso-
citation. He showed himself to be man
of power and spiritual wisdom. His
talk was keeniy enjoyed by an audi
ence that filled the church.
Addressing himself to his subject, Mr..
Hobbs based his thought upon the plain
statement OF Jesus: i am the living
bread which came down out of heaven;
if any man eat Of this bread he shall
live forever, yea, and the bread which
I will give is my flesh, for the life of
the world
THE ethical reDugnanCe to the idea
expressed in the text rests wholly on
the unsDiritual vision of the man who
is 50 impressed said the speaker "Je-
sus is addressing the spiritual and eter-
nal in man. The universal scheme is
one which shows an answer for every
hunger of the human heart Apart
from the divine revealings, the intui-
tions of the human heart demand that
which Jesus claims to be, q satisfac-
ton for the hungers of the soul.
THE soul hunger, the demand for
satisfaction, is one of the greatest reali-
ties of life And Jesus claim is that as
men eat of his flesh. and receive Him
into their lives, the deepest hunger is
satisfied.
And it is noteworthy that Jesus sets
the claim i'm front of all others. He is
the bread The love and purpose of
God are visUa1ized, sensualized in Him.
1.-THE miracle of it is that He is liv-
ing bread. Great is the mystery, but
sure it is that the life which fills the
demands of Christ finds the indwelling
life of God. As q present power to in
dwell and iTradiate human lives, He
attests the truth Of the claim found in
this word. The human Christ is to US
in revealing and clarifying what He
could not be i'm the apartness and glory
of spiritual life. The rose drawn into
2 beauty of expression by the kiss of
the suns ray that breaks in the dew
drop, as il to lend the glory of the pris-
matte colors to the fragrant petals.
would be scorchcd in near approach
To- the luminary of the sky. But with
what gentleness tire sunlight rests on
the flower to WOO 1t to perfcctness. So
the human Christ, bringing near to US
the warmth and glory of the Fathers
feel that we can approximate some
thing of the dream our hearts hint.
And this bread abides. a continuing
force for the satisfaction of the heart.
There is in il the divine overshadow-
lng. for the age As the clear-eyed
singer said in his vision of ultimates:
+" Back of the loaf is the flour, and
hack of the -four is the mill,
And back OF the mill is the rain and the.
sun and the heavenly Fathers will.
$50 one finds in the expression of all
this life of Jesus, all its long ministry
the background and the power of it
i God. The satisfying bread is Christ
When life bUrdened, weary. tired of
itself and things. sick of the continued
fading and downbreakiug OF all that
the heart has leaned upon. turns to eat
tlHe bread of Christ, it is completely
satisfied"
In a closing apostrophe To Jesus as
the satisfieT- the preacher made n ten
der appeal to the lives he addressed to
find the abiding heart satisfaction and
peace in taking Him who came down
from heaven to be the bread Of mems
souls
Rev. v. c. Veazie preached in the
evening, and will continue his sermons
up to Wednesday evening of this week.