South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-06
PROBLEM OF LIFE
NOT BREAD PROBLEM
DR.. Edwards Says Capacities
of Life Not Exhausted When
Stomach is Full.

Rev. DR.. Loren NJ. Edwards.
preaching from the text: 'Not by
Bread Alone" in the Methodist Me-
mortal church sunday morning. gave
a ~succinct exposition Of the histO-
rical as well as the practical applica-
ton OF the text. In the course of
his remarks DIR Edwards said that
there are nODIer experiences n
eating when one is hungry that the
big problem in life, after all, Is not
the bread problem; that n capacl-
ties OF life are not exhausted when
the stomach is full or appetite salts
fed: MAJ doth not live by bread
prOach ETAOIN ETAOI ETAOINNA
alone. but by every word that pro-
ceedeth out of the mouth of God"
Bread and all that it stands for is
good and is highly needful TO man.
A religion truly divine makes ample
allowance for the claims of the body.
starvation gratuitously accomplished,
is neither religious nor moral and
certainly could be anything but pleas
ant TO the Lord. Abstinence as a
religious hnality is as devoid of vir-
tue as uncut diamonds are of beauty,
hut as q means of communion and as.
promOtive Of soul enlargement is TO
be cultivated with conscientious care.
Jesus Sanctioned Pleasures of Table.
Jesus himself sanctioned the leg
intimate pleasures of the table when
He graced the marriage feast at
Cana with His presence and when
weary and thirsty at the well of Ly-
char He asked from the
woman a drink. The religion Of Je-
sus Christ is not ascetic nor ~fanattcal,
il has no place for the doctrines or
the empty stomach except as such
hunger or the abstinence ministers
to the needs Of the sOul-life. God IS
not edited by the vision Of emaciated
saints, while the votaries OF those
religious who think themselves nigh
in the scale of spiritual attainment
because Of p~rOtracted fasts and gnaw-
hunger. have missed entirely the
great lesson of this text. Christ's
meaning here is clear. Bread is good,
physical needs demand attention,
legitimate worldly affairs should nave
due consideration. But this life IS
not ali, physical and worldly interests
are not supreme. there is q higher
life and more important cOnsldera-
tons. Fullness of stomach must
never obscure the riches of the heav-
emily kingdom. Man lives by bread
partly, but not wholly-above every
thing else his life is from God. and
by His word he must live %eternally.
CAS- q result of the union of the
physical with the spiritual there is
going on a ceaseless contest, whose
certain issue is that the lower must
be sacrificed TO the requirements or
the higher order, if we are TO live
the truly Christian life. There come
times when we must choose between
bread for the body and bread for the
soul. Narrow, indeed, must be LIES
register if it does not include some
experiences of ungratified lower pas
siOns for the cultivation of the high.
er graces of the spirit-life.
Food for soul Is Forgotten.
"FrOm the eagerness OF some peo-
pie for wealth from the assiduous-
ness with which they apply them
selves to worldly pursuits from the
Ceaseless toll, the clever plans, the
sharp bargains fOOr h mere acqui-
sition of lands and stocks and secur-
tiles. il would seem that plutocracy
we're their highest goal and a brief
three-scOre and ten years their tern
ity. The great alarming danger in
such a life is that there grows up a
feeling Of satisfaction and self-suffi-
cheney. which repudiates obligations
and induces an independence h a is
fatal to trust in God. Bread and
worldly pleasures are had in such
abundance that food for the soul is
/ forgotten and the life that is to come
seems unreal. on the contrary when
life is a story of poverty or of mere
/ competence. when we prefer labor TO
a counterfeit comfort, when we eat
bread Of sorrow according to n
Will of God then we see that the
lives of the world are produced to
/ another. We discern a quality in
duty and drudgery for functions
elsewhere. If we had all we want for
| the body, we should feel that we were
spent in power and actiOOn here, and
there is nothing more for US. But
discomfort with the outward rela-
+ lions and achievements discovers to
us the finer contents Of Our being and
the play of divine activities upon our
lives. And SC as we learn h lesson
that although we live by bread, we
do not live by bread alone, but with
living bread from the hand Of our
Heavenly Father we are fed"
PEACHES FOR SALE.