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When the Lord Jesus got across the lake with His friends, He found many people waiting for Him. When the disciples saw how anxious and troubled the people were, they were glad to help them. They taught all day and forgot they were tired. They even forgot they were hungry, for when sunset came, and the long shadows o f the hills fell across the lake, the disciples remembered they were hungry. They said to the Master, “ Send the people away so they can get something to eat. He answered, “ Give ye them to eat,” They asked, “ Shall we buy enough bread for all? It would take a great deal o f money.” The Master asked them, “ How many loaves have you ?” I could not tell you this story if our little boy had not wanted to hear the Lord Jesus so much that he had not eaten his lunch, for that was all the food that could be found among those thousands o f people. I am so glad he didn’t say, “ No, you cannot have my lunch. It is all I have.” I think he was glad to give it when Andrew, the Master’s friend, asked him to.
When thtey brought it to the Master it must have seemed very little to them. They did not remember the grain o f wheat and the Father's power. They were told to seat the people so that fifty or a hundred men should sit together and the women and children by themselves^- W e like to think o f the people on the green hillsides looking like bunches o f flowers. It wa.s easy to count (hem; there were more than five thousand. The Lord Jesus stood before them and holding the little lunch in His hand, He looked up to Heaven and thanked God that they had enough for all. Just as God does each year, the Lord Jesus caused the little to be enough to feed them all. When they had eaten all they’ wanted, he told them to gather up what was left over. There were twelve baskets full. We know He has this power because He is the Son o f God. Prayer.— That we shall remember God gives us our daily bread and thank him for it.
-----:---- —O------------ MINISTERING TO THE MULTITUDE MARCH 24, 1918. LESSON XII. Mark 6:32-56. (Omit verses 45-56). Parallel Passages: Matt. 14:13-21; Luke 9:12-17; John 6:1-14. G olden T ext : . “ The Son o f Man came not, to be ministered unto but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.”—Matt. 20:28.
THE 32 . And they departed into a des ert place by ship privately. 33 . And the people saw them de parting, and many knew hirh, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him. 34 . And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, be cause they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. 35 . And when the day was now
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far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: 36 . Send them away,' that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy them selves bread: fo r they have nothing to eat. 37 . H e answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred penny-worth o f bread, and give them to eat? $ 8 .. H e saith unto them, How ■
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