The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-18
BIBLE STUDIES OF BROOKLYN,
 TABERNACLE
By PASTOR RUSSELL

Five Leaves and Two Fishes.-Mark, vi:30-4
 Jesus said unto them, I am the Bread of Life. John, vi:35.
 When the 12 apostles returned to Jesus they explained the instance of their tour and what they had taught; and He called them away to desert place to rest awhile, because of the crowd and because they had not even time to take nourish- ment. So they went privately by ship. But the news went also and the crowd went on foot from various cities.
 Jesus would have no time to Himself. His entire life was devoted and being rem dered up a living sacrifice to the divine service, in feeding the sheep of Jehovah 8 flock, and, of course, His own sheep also, because all that were the Fathers were His. As He looked upon the multitude, He felt yearning compassion for them. He saw their needs: They were like sheep without a shepherd;" and He con tinued to teach them.
 But, says one, did they not have syna- gogues, and regular reading of the Scrip lures? Did they not have Scribes, Phar- sees, Priests and Levites? How could they be without shepherding? An, well, they ndu d soul hunger, Wnlcn the lOTlnS, ceremonies, rituals and burdens bound upon them could not satisfy They were really wanting the Bread of Life,' which Jesus had-which Jesus was, for He per sonified the truth. Why then did they not receive it? What was their defense? They were bound by superstition, preiu- dice, the fear of man, traditions of the encients, and the opposition of the great and the learned of their time
 Did tbeV not frauIantlV inul1ira ffIJaVp any of the Scribes and Pharisees believed on Hin?" Again, Do our rulers indee l know that this is the very Christ?" The common people always referred to the learned. The learned therefore have the greater responsibility. Jesus declared of them, "Ye have taken away the key of knowedge;" you will neither enter into the favor of God yourselves, nor will you permit others to enter in who so desire.- Luke xi: 52.
 And is not this in a large measure true today? The learned of the colleges and principal pulpits are telling the people that the Bible is not the divine message which Jesus and the Apostles declared 1t 10 be. They are telling the people that Moses and the Prophets did not write the books accredited to them: and thus indi- rectly are telling that Jesus and the Apos- ties were deceived when Jesus said Moses wrote of Me- and the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremlan Sald thus ana SO Thus the people are becoming more and more unbelievers in the Bible
 But what will the great and learned teachers of today give to the masses as a soul satisfying portion instead of the Bi- ble? Oh they tell us, This is the good 1idings, the Gospel: Your forefathers were apes; a law of evolution prevails As a result we have come as far as we are. We need no Savior, because we had no fall. We have no Redeemer, because if we were restored to our original condi- tion it would make monkeys of us. God has allowed the law of evolution to oper ate in you and in your children. You thus live in your children, and by and by will reach a very high plane of existence mot that you yourself will have any knowledge of that, for you will be dead but your children will have that joy in- stead"
 What is there in this to satisfy soul hunger? Ah, nothing, No wonder the la ment is going up all over Christendom that the public no longer care to go to church; that they can scarcely be brbed to go. even with the attractions of talent cd essays and chors rendering operatic music. nor even be attracted by vaude- villes and worldly trash. Alas. what we need is that all of Gods people should unite their hearts and voices in proclaim ing the gospel which Jesus and the Apos- ties taught-the gospel of the kingdom Messiah's kingdom-and the glorious that kingdom. Let us with one heart and