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FRIDAY AUGUST ↑
BREAD OF LIFE.
NEARNESS OF JESUS.
WAITING TO CROSS.
Taking as his text "Jesus said, I am the bread of life" (John 6. 35), the Rev. C. Clouston Porri preached the following sermon on Sunday Inst:-
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interpretation of Jesus and ex-"brotherhood of nations" as well understand. He could also feed sciqueness of sonship of the them with the "bread of life," but Father is realised by us through planation of His unique claim to as the "League of Nations." be God's bread.
The world is hungering for God."they understood not the miracle Christ alone.
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"I am the bread of Life." The It cannot live by bread alone. All of the loaves." they were uncon- Jesus, who was supremely con- significance of His claim we strivings after unity are ultimate-scious yet of the deeper hunger ofscious of His own intimate filial believe can only be understood in ly strivings after God in whom the spirit of those who know them-relation to the Father as the Son of God is the first born of many the light of His personality, His alone the divided families of men selves to be the sons of God.
The third lesson of the bread-Is brethren. whole life and work and not as it can become one family. All efforts is usually sought in the "last directed towards promoting order taught by the miracle of the
and harmony within the world- loaves. phase" only.
The silent years He spent in family are ultimately efforts to When Jesus is not in our Nazareth make their contribution make effective the will of the All- thoughts He will be found on the the, interpretation of His claim Father.
It was predicted of Jesus that margin. Divinely patient and equally with the solemn hours of persistent He waits to cross. the Last Supper and the tragic "He should gather together in one the cross of the children of God that are "Behold, I stand." He says, "net phase
scattered abroad." any man open the door, I will come Calvary, in to him, and sup with him, and he with Me." However, securely we may guard the threshold against Him Ile entere by ways unexpected.
the bread-winner
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The "hard saying" of our text can only be difficult to those who will not act upon His word and work that they may believe in Him. Let us pray Him that He will evermore give us of that bread that "we may feed on Him in our hearts by faith with thanks- giving."
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CABINET CRISIS.
MOMENTOUS DEBATE.
RUSSIAN TREATY, FRICTION.
(Reuter's Servica.)
LOST PROPELLER BLADE:
S.S. ARCHER" LAID UP ̧ ̧.
The
(Reuter's Scrvite.)
Port Said, August 7. American steamier B. He London, August 7.
"Archer" from Singapore for Lon Parliament, which should have. adjourned yesterday, was forced to don and New York lost a blade of her meet to-day in consegnence of propeller. After a survey she was, vigorous Conservative and Liberal advised to lay up for perraanent opposition to the Russian treaty repairs before leaving Egypt." yesterday.
U.S. WORLD FLIGHT.
(Reuter's Scrvice.)
Washington, August T.... Army Air Service han ordered the fliers to remain oë. Sir R. Horne evoked angry Reykjavik until weather conditions Ministerial cries and Opposition assure a reasonably safe passage to cheers by urging that the agreed | Greenland. draft trouty should not he signed till Parlinment reassembled
Mr. MacDonald said he wished to sign the renty to-day.
PREMIER'S PLEA.
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WORLD'S SILVER,
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"As many as received Him to them gave He right or power to Jesus is something more than become the sons of God, even to one of the many spiritual bread. them that believe on His name."" winners of God's family. The It is a matter of experience that Gospelà describe Him as possess the first move we make towards ing the power to multiply loaves, a personal relation to God is He is creative, the Bread-maker. through faith in Christ, through
This "something more" in Jesus Him we know God as our Father The Government will probably In Nazareth whore He lived and
He came and taught men about Christ, which is described as the and ourselves as His children. He resign if defented as a result of the the Russian Treaty where till the age of thirty He the Heavenly Father, who provide power to crente bread, is one of is the beginning of our life of debate on
to-day.
At the outset of the debate to-day | worked as the village carpenter, ed them with bread, He taught the sayings which men are find- sonship and when He claims to be
God's provision for maintaining the Opposition secured the raling Jesus became the Bread-Winzer of them also that the same Fathering hard to-day.
The miracle of the loaves" is that life of sonship, the "Bread of the Speaker that the abortive the family. The Galilean neigh- provided them with "the bread of An artist sees Him as "the bours of His evuld not understand life." The bread of the words of not understood, and because of of Life," we should instinctively draft treaty upon which the Rus-
could God, which sustains the life of the the miracle many refuse the recognise that the same Jesus who sim negotiations broke down must The despised and rejected of men": how expresses Him on canvas. The become the "bread of life," it made great family, which strengthens "bread of life" which Jesus offers gives life to the world would Him be published.
the fact of the members of the | the "hard, saying" the hardor,
The way of understanding lies self sustain it. "rejected" attracts the crowd.
A modernist interprets "Him There are reasons, to believe family, who live in obedience to in obedience to what is understood. Our Lord does not demand the sur- afresh. The Press finds in new that bread was sometimes scarce the will of God.
The world to-day is tempted to render of the intelligence but of interpretations good copy and fly the household dependent upon increased circulation. Immediately the labours of the carpenter. The turn desert-stones into bread and the will. "If any man will do His Fan angry storm of protest out-dependent are often led to depend heeds not the Christ who offers will" He says he shall know of
the teaching." breaks, a multitude of the most upon God for the common neces- the true and living bread.
His words äre to it as to the The story of the feeding of the obscure and unknown friends of saries of life,
The Lord is my shepherd. Galilean crowd "hard sayings." five thousand is followed in the Jesus rise in His defence against
shall not want. He shall feed His The hard sayings demand hard fourth Gospel by an account of a the scholarly enemy.
thinking. Jesus is never obvious, sermon delivered by Jesus. in the The story of Jesus and His dock like a shepherd" were combut He id always intelligible to synagogue of Capernaum, with portrait fresh and intriguing are fortable words and sure promises those who will seek to understand the miracle as its theme and ever waiting to be re-discovered onto the family in Nazareth..
While Mary, the mother, turned Him. "This is the work of God illustration. the Gospels. The same Gospels
The sermon reads very much to which modern scholar. artist the little hand-mill and ground the that ye should believe on Him."
Faith has been allowed to like a sermon upon a sermon, in and journalist own their inspira-corn, and Jesus, the Son, turned
ploughs, His degenerate into
vague which the theme is the first Lord's the wood into tion.
The discovery of the Christ of thoughts would wander from the religious sentiment The latest supper on the hill-side and the the Gospels has invariably proved corn to the golden cornfields He description of faith I read is of Last Supper in the upper room at to be the greatest epoch-making
The crowd which Jesus had fed event in the history of the in- The fields around and the shep-Jean. "It is a feeling, that, you i dividual discoverer and in the herded flocks spoke to Him of God. have when the church organ says wanted Him to be their Bread-will give is My flesh, which I will
But the fields where the neigh- "pom." That is what makes you maker. He replies in effect "Man history of any period in which He hours ploughed, and sowed, and a Christian, that and the boys' shall not live by bread alone."
the appeal of Mr. Clynes to dis
- SCORN, IN COMMONS. The Churches have made the the harvests were gathered to the voices and west windows and sun-"Labour not for the meat which
as an adjournment. You perisheth" He says to the crowd
A scorial reception has beent most wonderful claims on behalf joyous songs of the reapers taught light on Crusaders tombs.
given to the proposed Anglo- of Christ, claims which to-day are Him a fresh lesson about God. could die for Christ on the chancel but for the meat which endureth They spoke to Him of a God, who steps of a cathedral, but you would unto life eternal, which the Son
{ Soviet treaties both inside the regarded as extravagant. The
The whole of the Liberal front House of Commons and outside. Gospels, however, surprise those like a Father, feeds His children not do it in a Methodist meeting- of Man shall give you."
house made of corrugated iron"! « Perplexed the crowd asks,
benet, including Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Ponsonby's speech was who turn to them by showing that with bread..
Mr. A. S. Hutchinson in "If "What work must they do? Jesus!
left the Flouse, presumably to con- several times interrupted by de- Christ made even more wonderful
answers their work is to believe
sult together Winter comes." claims on His own behalf.
regarding their risive laughter; ****** atlitude.
Mr. Lloyd George's unsparing on Him. "What work does He co,
Mr. MacDonald, after pointing denunciation of the Treaty whichi that they might believe on Him? They rumind Jesus that Moses
out that the House had to secept be described as a fake, finds "con- Jesus is vividly conscious in ovariect the Lausanne Treaty as it siderable though apparently nos fed their fathers in the wilderness
those last hours that He is the stood, gave a pledge that the Gov-manimous party sug with bread from heaven.
would not follow the Conservatives, contrariwise, We quote the dialogue with Father's gift to the world, that in
Him the Father is giving to the Lausanne predém and would not united in condenination. utmost, giving sacrificially, giving insert a clause, that every word. journment of the debate as the supreme expression of His line and provision in the present pressed to enable Mr. Mur Donald treaty must be aerupted rn bloc or to attend to nduess the House to love. His beloved Son-
The House, day, a penatior fact was that sab rejected altogether. gould amend, consider, pass or resequent in the Ponsonby speech in the Commons Lord Haldane quer- jet what had been done.
is discovered.
loved.
When He left the carpenter'a shop and went forth to teach men about God. He gave them the lessor of the cornfields which He learnt at Nazareth.
some
that order. "What is faith?" said Jerusalem.
"Man cannot live by bread alone, the churches tell him, but he says, I am living on bread alone and doing well on it." But I tell you
The two claims often appear in conflict. The worki, grown weary of divided Churches and warring
He taught them to pray, "Our theologies. has turned from the Gospels and the Christ. Our text Father in heaven, give us this daya Hapgood, that plumb down in might be used to illustrate what our daily bread."
world.
which the Gospel introduces "our text.
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Mr. MacDonald emphasised that the sigunture of the Treaty, did not.
Salt Lake City, August 7. Lastly and briefly. The First involve the sanction of the Com- Lord's Supper on the Galilean hill-mons. The Government pledged
world's Three quarters of the side and the Last Supper in the themselves to produce the Treaties silver producers were represented upper room are linked together as and lay them before Parliament at a conference convened here for The purpose of organising to end they are related in the chapter for acceptance or rejection.
Government was anxious that not the depression in silver and to ex- from which our, text is taken.
The committed "I am the living bread" said clause, prevision or line of the pund the market. Jesus in Galilee," which came Treaties should be operative antil adopted tentative plans for the per- down from heaven: if any man the House had sanctioned them. lection of an organisation to act in shall eat of this bread he ghall The House in fairness ought to conjunction with the Government. allow the Agreement to be signed; live forever, and the bread that
ble precedent would be estab- otherwise an extraordinary intoler- give for the life of the world."
"He took bread" at the Holy listed. He could not assent to Supper in Jerusalem and brake it this. The Opposition was unable and gave to them and said "Take to point to a single thing that could ecrie into operation as a result of the inere signature. cut, this is My Body."
The crowd has, departed, the little intimate circle of disciples, friends, brethren remains; with those who believe on Him Jesus shares His last meal.
"In the solemn leave-taking Jesus reveals Himself as the Broken Bread.
LIBERALS CONFER.
emment the crypt and abyss of every man's soul is a hunger, a craving for other food than thsi earthly stuff. And the churches know it, and instead of reaching down to him what he wants-light, light instead
it would be well for the Churches The first great lesson about the and the world to forget And what "bread." is that it is the provision for and the rift made by God, and the Churches of the future-will-
the Father, to the great family of not remember
Our aim is not to discuss sacr-men dependent upon His care. mentarianism but to try and We shall not understand the full of that they invite him to dancing understand Jesus and His claim to meaning of our text unless we und picture shows, and you're a be God's gift of bread to a hungry learn the first lesson about the jolly good fellow, and religions is "bread"; the lesson most readily a jolly good thing, and no spoil learnt by children at their sport, and all that sort of latter
day tendency: Why man, he can get that all outside the churches and get it better. Light, light! He wants light, Hapgood, the padres come down and drink beer with him, and dance jazz with him, and call it making religion a
US:
Jesus meatis something to all of
mother's knees."
The temptation of Jesus in the He claims to be the staff and stay of life, of life fimitless 'as
wilderness helps us to understand eternity: have we found Him to be how He becomes "the bread of "the bread of life" of which we those who hunger for God." eat and our soul lives?
And
Jesus corrects: "It was Moses" who fed your fathers, "My Father giveth you the truth bread of heaven."
The daily bread is the gift that reveals His care of the family.
The bread of His word is the gift that reveals His concern for the ordered and harmonious life within the family.
My Father is giving Me to you as the true bread of heaven,
"I am the bread of life, he that cometh to Me shall never hunger, he that believeth on Me shall never. The gift of His Son Jesus Christcedent for uegotiations, thirst."
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He particularly urged the Contioned Lord Curzon in the Lords, servatives not usuly, on the last and he professed ignance of any day of the session, to set a pre-greement having been reached. The Government's only friends in
· Mr.
· LABOUR REJOINDER, the morning Press are the "Daily opens up the family circle to those
Mr. Morel said the whole of the News," which is mildly sympatho We can understand the amaze who receive Him and believe, on
supin, and the "Daily Herald," which ment of the crowd on hearing Hith, Jesus as the bread of life Labourites, enthusiastically
TAKEN BY SURPRISE, these words. They found them a sustains the faith by which the ported Mr. MacDonald in refusing is in high feather,
The official announcement of the feriority-in-the-negotiations com A hungry Christ was tempted to
"hard saying," their enthusiasm personal relation of the sons to the to be placed in a position of in-
pared to his predecessors, and failure of the Anglo-Soviet negotia Men work for the bread which turn desert stones into brend to
died out, they turned away from Father is maintained.
The broken bread which gives characterised, Mr. Lloyd George's tious, on Tuesday was followed by perishes, said Jesus to the crowd, sustain His life after a long fast. Living Thing in the Lives of the the Teacher who had fed them on men must also work for "the bread Life is more than bread-winuing People. Lift the hearts of the the hill-side, "and from that time life to the world nourishes and attitude in attacking the Treaty oficial announcement of sai of life" which entureth unto life was the lesson taught in the people to God they say, by, show many of His disciples went back,sustains the life of love within and pretending to sympathise with ress yesterday, but when Mr. Fon- the family circle, a circle which the Russian people, as revolting. sobby sinter the terms of tha eternal. Faith in Him is the fruit wilderness. From the temptinging them that religion is not and walked no more with Him."
The claim of Jesus to be the death is powerless to break for He TREATY CAN BE AMENDED. agrement rprise was succeciled of the labour of minds which renet stones Jesus turns, "Man shall not incompatible with having a jully
Sir Robert Horne sail the by mystification.". Parliament had live by bread alone, but by every me time. And there's no God bread of life was the beginning of that eateth the bread that is to His claims.
there that a man can understand the desertion which became total broken shall never die."
world's belief that the signature of niet for the penultimate day of a Much of the religious indiffer-word of God."
when on the cross He became the Jesus still feeds the multitudes. the British Ministers should be remarkable session under the im- ence of to-day is the less to the Man is dependent upon God. He for him to be lifted up to."
Faith is more than that. It is broken bread of life.
We are thinking of the great confirmed by t "Commons ob-pression that the Bussion Confer spirit of revolt against the is dependent upon a Father's care.
The world to-day is hungry for orotherhood movements through-viousty did not appertain in the ence, after its final all-night session, had resulted in a hopeless break- authority of the past fun to the for his daily bread, He is depen the belief that God has revealed
case of a majority Govenment. lack of the spirit of inquiry. Men dent also upon a Father for guid-Himself as the Father of men and the bread which Jesus alone can out the world which directly or
their life and Mr. MacDonald interrupted, down. Suddenly Mr. Clynes an reject as outworn the religious ane; for the daily bread of the His will for the conduct of the life give, the bread which alone can indirectly owe
of His children. It means that we satisfy man's hunger of soul for inspiration to Him, who is the pointing out that he pledged that need early in the evening that an agreement had been reached and ideas of yesterday and in doing so word of God.
this Treaty and be amended, bread of ife.
Mr. The man, who lives by bread must create an intelligent content God.
Jowett (Liberal), while signied. The House gasped. are left without mental energy to
God's words are The claim He made is misunder-
Jesus still feeds with broken readjust their ideas.
alone, lives outside the family of for our faith. We quote from an article which God. The children, who eat the thoughts, directions, and Ideas, stood, men either believe too little bread the smaller circles which in criticising the Treaty, indicated Clynes statement was subsequent Messages flow between appeared recently in "The Times." Father's bread, are not content food for minds that feed on Him or too much. Doubt and credulity remembrance of Him gather round that the Liberals were unlikely toy denied and re-armed in the
the famiy table where faith is support the Conservatives' effort to obbies.
the House of Comzooss and tho "The bane of indolence is the with Father unknown and of by faith and convert His words alike defeat His claim.
The indifferent dismiss the strengthened, hope revived and delay the signature.
Mr. MacDonald then left the Foreign Office. A report "came degeneration of life in unfaith, whose will they are ignorant, into nourishment for the life of
claim of Jesus until the Churches love-which binds the children in House.
back that the resumed Conference Those who reftise to act in the They hunger for words which shall the spirit.
Jesus was found oftener among which are divided in their inter- holy fellowship with each other Mr. Clynes asserted that the was still sitting and that a conclu- light of the truth they acknow. break the silence, reveal the ledge, and do not express their Father, make known His will, the the crowds than in the desert. He pretation of it reach agreement and in communion with the Father constitutional right of Governmention had not been reached. Later faith in life, will sooner or later work He would have His children "came eating and drinking," a The practical man mystified by the makes the hearts of the children as to complete the initial stage of in the evening, Mr. Ponsonby ar
Friend of many friends. Multi- metaphor may 'regard Jesus sim-as one.
an honest endeavour to restore rived at the House from White- lose the faith they have. "Life and do.
Where there is no hunger fortudes followed the spiritual bread- ply as one of many spiritual The family of God as often as Anglo-Russian relations, and apall and announced an agreement religions are for them without
God the soul is dead indeed. winner, who fed them with the teachers. The ordinary religious it gathers round the Lord's Tablepailed to the Commons to pass to had been reached. It had been a meaning."
Crowds which man suspects sacramental and bears witness to the world that an adjournsent for discussion." ce against time. Ho was ob "Men seem to exhaust their How abundant have been the words of God.
DEBATE FIZZLES OUT, viously ill at ease in explaining tho energies in criticism or in approval harvests reaped by minds which sometimes hungered more for the mystical meanings which are out the claim of Jesus to be the "bread
nature of the preliminary agroa- of life" is Justified by the experi- of Christianity as a system of have laboured to hear and to know daily bread than for the bread of eide his experience.
life.
Can we find a simple method of ence of those who feed on Him in The Russian debate fizzled out ments designed to lead ultimately to teaching or a mode of life. Having the life-giving words of God!
when Mr. Lloyd George supported the agreements, passed, their judgment on it they The prophets, the world-religi- The Gospels tell of His com approach which may help us their hearts by faith and live. retire, as if it required more than oua, teachers, poeta, mystica, passion upon the multitudes and to understand what is unique in they can be expected to give it in philosophers and saints are the describe two occasions on which the claim of Jesus?.
We can understand the curly such a world as ours.
inspired spiritual bread winners of He provided Lord's Supper parties "In this way the "rotten-hearted the family.
on the Galilean hill-sides. When lessons about the bread. ́sin" of apathy comes over a man,
Supreme and unique amongst with bread and fish sufficient for We pray after Jésus "Our the meal of one He fed thousands. Father give us this day our dally robbing him of life's glow, them is Jesus.
He knew Himself to be God's The four Evangelists are careful bread." All Knowledge of God na enfeebling his will, and leaving
Imost him in hopelessness.**
chosen Spiritual Bread to convey the impression that the Father of mankind and of men The earliest rejection of the Winner. "The Father which sent Jesus was more than one of the as Hie children dependent upon "No man knoweth the Son but claims made by Jesus and the Me, He gave Me a commandment, bread-winners of God's large His care derives from Jesus, latest have much in common. what I should say, and what I family, He was the wonderful
Bread-Maker, who multiplied the the Father, neither knoweth any "This is an hard saying, who can should speak."
man the Father, aave the Son and hear it?"
"My doctrine is not mine but leaves.
He to whomsoever the Son will The Gospels relate the effect reveal Him." The synagogue in Capernaum His who sent Me." was crowded. Jesus is preaching The second lesson of the "bread" produced upon the crowd by the We can understand Jesus "that to a multitude which Ile had fedis, that it is the symbol of the miracles. The multitudes were man shall not live by bread alone."
with with bread and fishes on the hill-provision which the Heavenly filled
enthusiasm, and
All knowledge of God's Fatherly side the previous day, ae, they Father has made to satisfy the patriotism, they chose the Bread-guidance the life of His children listen they begin to hunger for hunger of Hia family for know-maker as their king. Jesus within the family circle comes 'the "bread of life" of which Jesus ledge of Himself. His will and His withdrew Himself from them, through those to whom God reveal- is speaking, He, who had multi-work.
hastily. They had mistaken Him, fed Himself. His will and purposes.
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plied the loaves and fishes in order Jesus, was supremely conscious. He sought no such royalty. He The bread of the words of God to feed them, announces Himself of Himself as God's special gift to would not multiply loaves to sustains the life of filial obedience. na "the bread of life" which would His family, He was the Bread-ration a loyal army.
My meat and drink, said Jesus satisfy their soul-hunger. "I am, winner of the children of men, He
"They understood not the is to do the will of Him that sent said He, the bread of life." They provided them with the "bread of miracle of the loaves. dlumlas His claim. "This is an words." "I have given them Thy Jesus might teach them con If we believe that God as our hard saying.". "From that time word."
cerning the Father, and the pro- Father has broken the silence of many of His disciples went back The world to-day is full of con-vision He makes of bread for the eternity, we give to Jesus a place and walked no more with Him." fusion and unrest, weary of strife temporal needs of His children; unique and unshared among those We may not be able to soften it yearns for peace and order, and the provision of the bread of who have heard His voice and com- the "hard saying," but we may signs are everywhere present of words. He provides for their municated His will. find in the Gospels, the simplest, the stirring of a world-wide family spiritua wants. He might feed All knowledge of an individual most satisfying and convincing consciousness. We hear of the them with bread that they might relation to God, all personal con-
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