Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

| be traced to the spiritual convictions
and sustaining grace of the Master,
Who revealed Himself to the doubters
as the bread of life.
They understood Christ's claims as
Gods ambassador. but they questioned
whether the miracle that Jesus had
wrought the day previous was sufhclent
evidence. and they requested a more
convincing sign. The bread they had
eaten was not different from what they
partook of daily. The prevailing eX-
pectation was that the Messiah would
feed the people. just as Moses had done,
with food from heaven. The Lord had
angered them by rebuking their view
of what He had done by His bread
making, and by so doing had repudi-
that He had right to tell them what
to do, so they challenged the Lord to
give them proof of His authority.
Christ respected mems doubts and lie
tried with amazing patience and love
to reveal unto them the light and the
truth. He used their native speech and
filled the objects OF their daily meal
with spiritual significance. Jesus
was not the gift of Moses. but of God.
He offered them to give direct to each
individual without the assistance or an
agent higher gift. the true. ideal
bread, which comes from. heaven ana
gives life to men in spiritual sense.
He succeeded in awakening desire IN
them to possess the bread from heaven,
which He offered to give them, because
He promised that it would give NE 10
the world and which, if man eat, he
shall never hunger and never thirst.
Ignorant of the meaning OF MS words
they asked Him to give them this
bread"
iWhen they requested the Lord to sup
Div their desire tor miraculous gifts,
which would richly supply the wants
of nature, the Master, knowing that
they did not desire the true bread win
quiet majesty revealed HimSell unto
them and with six words asserteu MS
claim to be the Son of God by an.
nouncing, Il am the bread OF NE
Jesus saw in all the objects OF me
spiritual message, so He are" from tls
familiar scenes of His hearers ne ana
labors the illustrations for HIS ser
mons In selecting bread as a repre-
sentative of His life-givlng power ne
teaches men that just as bread sa
the hunger of the body so ne Sd 81
the intellectual. spiritual ana hea. :, ,
hunger of the soul 1t is only as oreaa
is assimilated by the body that IL I'M
narts life and replaces the TISSUES hhus
cIes nerves and bones that are coh-
stantlv breaking down anu ms
out. so it is only when the i-oru -
has been appropriated by the lnulNi '
nal soul that Christ imparts ms spll u
nal life to men. Every Christian heeus'
in order that he may becohhe iiNe t
christ. to feed daily upon the llle
His Lord either by contemplattns tIe
Masters life and words IN tne ','' aS
tures or in the church ordinances es
tablished by Christ as memorial VI
His life. .,,,as 20
emitted in the turning of the peopie
away from their Lord. They lacked me
snirituaI vision to comprehend me
christ. Some of His disciples VINO had
followed him. looking for the res ..,a,
zion of the temporal kingdom. Weht
49, o,d walked no more with him
Jesus had accomplished His purpose
10 drive away from Him all VINO We're
not in sympathy with His program
which was to carry out the father
will He might have heSltated the pre-
yious evening before He had an oppor-
tunity to have a secret conference WIN
the Father, but henceforth He would
not seek to carry out His own plans.
hut to do the will of God who had sent
Him. 1t ought to be the purpose or
every Christian to always desire 10 40
Gods will upon the earth.
Christ tested his faith and gave
Christianity to the world. The founda-
ton of the religion of Jesus is faith IN
Him as the Savio: of men, TIE sur
rendering of the believers lie to 90
His will and by assimilating His life
receive strength to carry out the COM
mission given to the church. just as the
Master carried out His commission to
seek and save the lost. Faith always
results in service. 1t is in sharing. not
keeping the knowledge learned through
personal experience of His saving
grace, that the world will come to
know of the loving welcome awaiting
and of how He will save them so that
"none shall be lost