12 Pages BREAD, THE The International Sunday School Lesson For March 24th Is "Jesus Ministering to the Multitude."--Mark 6:32-56. By William T. Ellis. "Food will 'win the war!' shout the bill-boards at us. Even Ameri- ca is slowly waking up to the realiza- tion of the fact that bread is the bhsic factor in the world struggle. Nobody ever gets far away from the bread problem. In Russia, as one travels about, he notices that all con- versations are interspersed with the word "klet," or bread. Breadlines, long queues of cold and weary wom- en, are the ultimate political factor in other countries beside Russia. High and low, spiritual and worldly, ignorant and learned, all quickly subordinate every interest to con- cern for bread; just as did the crowd who thronged about Jesus by the shores of the Lake of Galilee. Most interesting of all "bread lines," is that horde of more than five thousand hungry persons who were lined up and fed on the hillside overlooking the Sea of Galilee by the great Nazarene teacher, two thous- and years ago. Picturesque, impres- sive, moving miraculons--the scene bas gripped the imagination of paint- er, student and people, even as it laid su¢h strong holds of the minds of all four evangelists that they have in common only this one of all the miracles of Jesus. No Time For Tears, As the soldier is given leave from the trenches and the hurried, har- ried, overwrought business man of to-day seeks a few days of rest at mountain or seaside, so Jesus and His followers planned a quiet "re- treat" for themselves. One reason was that the Twelve had just" re- turned from a taxing missionary tour of Galilee. Their Leader had sald, "Come ye yourselves apart in- to a desert place and rest a while; for there were many coming and go- ing, and they had no leisure so much as to eat," The importance of quiet times in the life of His servants was clearly perceived by Jesus; and these words are still in force, There was another reason why Jesus sought seclusion from the clamorous, uncomprehending rabble. A great sorrow had come upon Him, an event of deep significance to His life and to His ministry. His kins- man and herald, John the Baptist, had been decapitated by Herod. What this meant to the sensitive spirit of Mary's Son even a dull im- agination can: partially comprehend. He bad lost His great witnesser and His friend. Because of Him, John had died. This great sorrow over- shadowed His spirit, making of slight importance the fact that He, too, had to flee from the jealous Her- od's jurisdiction, As a wounded deer seeks the densest wood, so the smitten heart of Jesus sought solitude In His grief. Right here entered another duty, and a higher; for even the Son of God may not chérish His own sor- row above the world's need. True grief is so holy that it dare not be selfish. © Ah, the glory of the brave smiles and tireless service the cause of those who have dear ones at the front. x The multitude pursued Jesus, whose hand and heart had been proved to be of such helpfulness to men's varied needs. Thelr motive was selfish, but their want was real. The miracles had brought to each man a hint of ;possible succor for his own peculiar needs. The neighbor- hood crowd was augumented by.the hosts of pilgrims en route to "the Passover at Jerusalem, for the fame of the Wonder-worker had spread widely, So eager were the masses to see and hear Him that they ran afoot around the head of the lake, which He was crossing by boat, to lost The Compassionate One That spectacle was irresistible. All thought of His own grief and of bership privileges 2 To The work for all boys, young men, soldiers and civilians who live in Kingston; for all the boys who are coming to Kingston, and to provide free mem- : the needs of himself and followers} was submerged, in the mind of Je-| sus, but the sicknesses, griefs and| ignorance of this claimant host So | he taught them and healed them un-| til eventide, There is a great deal of nebulous; humanitarianism in the world today.) Some persons would offer it as al substitute for Christianity. Let it-be remembered that it was in Christ] that this spirit was perfectly mani-| fested; anad that even to-day it is| best found among those who bear | His name. Where His spirit does not | permeate and dominate, the great) works of charity and benevolence | will be looked for in vain. Heathen-| ism builds no asylums, hospitals or} soup kitchens; neither does agnos-| ticism or infidelity, { | An evangelist was preaching the| | Gospel in San Francisco's Barbary | Coast Among his hearers was a well known infidel, who challenged | the evangelist to meet him in a pub-| lic debate in some hall. The chal-| lenge was accepted; but the preach-| er made one condition He asked] the infidel to come to the hall on the| appointed evening and bring with | him a drunkard, who had been made! | a sober man by infidelity; a fallen! | woman, who had become clean] | through hearing a lecture on infidel-| { ity, and a gambler, who had been| | delivered from the awful passion | by accepting infidelity. Then the evangelist said, "I promise you when| the time for the debate comes, that I will march into that hall at the head | of a small army of former drunkards, hariots and gamblers-who heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and were saved by the power of God." The infidel, with a sneering laugh-| ter, left the street-meeting. | A Co-operative Charity, Where help is, the needy resort: be it the soup-kitchen for the hungry, a dootor's office for the sick, a church for the spiritual needy. That is why the miscellaneous multitude, with their varying wants, dogged the footsteps of Jesus. 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They had not the wherewithal in sight to feed them, nor had they anything: like the immense stm of thirty or forty dollars necess ry food from the The Lord a Master y to neighboring vil- lages. does not believe in these easy evasions of obligation He puts up to the individual the clainm of the many: if obedient to Him, nobody could disregard the so- cial problems of our time, "Give ye them to eat," is the way He turn- ed this big responsibility over to His disciples. Similarly, Americans are called upon to modify their ra- tions that their Allies may have food. The resultant incidents capital instance of ity. First, there was the Master's part: He provided the motive, the spirit-of economy, holding the others up to their duties. In. the great scheme of present-day co-operative benevolence; Jesus represents the spirit of love and compassion: the sustaining force that makes all else possible, The second party in this organized relief were the disciples. They had the practical work to do: they were the ways and means committee All the moving to and fro was theirs The most efficient member appears to have been that quiet man, An- drew, who had a knack of producing the person whom Jesus needed. It was the disciples who arranged the "bread line," seating the company in orderly rows on the grass, and who carried out the actual work of distribution, and later of the collec- tion of the fragments. They were the essential mediums of the whole charity. No convention, church or organization would "go" if it were made up of speech-makers 'and preachers, and no humble workers, Then, a vital link in the chain of relief was the small boy. "Only a boy," yet though him five theusand were fed. His provident mother had put up a lunch of five flat barley cakes, with some fish relish What a remarkable boy he was--or, rath- er, what exciting sights he had been hearing--that he had not gobbled up that lunch long before noon! Wouldn't you like to hear the story of this day's events as he afterwards rehearsed it to his family, his neigh- mii were organized char- a Vv hy W y v "The While Feather, presented by Albert Brown and his Saturday, ' the military play to be English company at the March 23rd, matinee and and grandchildren? Every year we witness the wonder of a grain of wheat made into many, plus stocks and roots and leaves. We call that, and the subsequent pro- ceses in mill and kitchen 'that pro- duce the bread we eat, "natural," and such a quick increase as went on in this present instance, when five loaves fed five thousand, a "mir acle." In beth cases the agent is the | same; and shall not God be permit- ted His own way of working? Because of the extent of the "sikn" wrought, and the number of persons affected, and the multitude of wit nesses, this miracle 1s commonly considered onecof the greatest per- formed by Chri Note, however, as commentators "have pointed -out, it was not a miracle of new creation, but of multiplication. "Jesus in- creased, transformed, healed, restor- ed; He never created. The work of creation is finished, the work of pro- vidence continues," So outstanding and marvellous an act as this feeding of five thousand soarcely meeds comment. It still speaks its own medsages. It was born of Christ's compassion for men's need; divine power has ever Loen exerted for human service. Let the man who i8 tempted to think that the Lord is too high to be concerned for his temporal affairs remember the miracle of the loaves and fishes. It was, also a "sign," one more at- testation of the deity of Jesus, Incidentally, it conveyed practical and needed suggestions. There was the "grace before meat," which ac-| companied the miracle. Too many ! Christian tables:are unblessed and] unthankful. Again, the whole pro- cedure was orderly, works so. There id warrant in this incident for the modern 'organized! forms of religion. "Let all things | be done decently and in order." And, finally, and most practically, here was a lesson in thrift to an im- provident company of people. A les- son newly being learned to-day. Of the fragments which remained, en- ough was gathered to fill the wallets | of the twelve, The Lord's givings! are always to overflowings, but He permits no waste. Jesus could mul- tiply loaves at will---yet He carefully saved the food left over from the; feast. The pinch of to-day is a bit- ter reminder to many of the waste of yesterday. - Thrift is not a denial of faith, but an expression of it. "Carry On" or every returned soldier. 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