THE KING’S BUSINESS
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SUNDRY SOURCES Brooks.
COMMENTS FROM By K. L.
T ”'H E Y ran out o f cities (v. 33). “ Oh, that every Christian was as desirous to keep Christ in view.”—Marsh. Outwent them. “We have sometimes to do as Jesus was driven to do in this case; to forego cheerfully, after brief repose, the blessed hour o f quiet.”—Maclaren. v. 34. Saw much people. “A crowd is a pitiful sight, for it represents so much of sin, sorrow and suffering.”—Torrey. “A theological professor said—‘the ' masses’ should be pronounced ‘them-asses’. The people were never' a rabble to Christ.”— “ One o f the saddest features o f modern church life is the way in which" the church forsakes masses' for classes.”—Torrey. v, 35, A desert place. “ Think o f the disciples coming and telling Jesús the geog raphy o f his own world. That is just off the style o f some of our committees, instructing God what He shall do.^^^lf! McNeill. v. 36. Send them away. “They could think o f nothing but to get rid o f the responsibility. He answered with a para dox o f conscious power which commands a seeming impossibility," and therein prophe cies endowment that will make it possible.” —Maclaren. “Man’s method is—send them away. Jesus’ method is—give them to eat.” v. 37. Give them 'to eat. “ Don’t, fear because your resources to carry on His work are small. Trust Him.”—“Responsi bility is response, to His ability.”¿D ‘Look at the difficulties through the Lord and look at the Lord through your difficulties.” —“Our Lord’s zeal never outran His dis- cretion.”- r ‘‘Our hearts sometimes palpitate at the tasks H é gives us to do, but calm ness sits enthroned on Jesus’ brow.”—“If you try to solve the problem o f feeding the hungry multitude without the two mighty factors, His power and His Word, you will bungle it instead o f fathom it.”—McNeill. “ The Lord deliver us from tying Him down to our little peddling estimates and figures.”—“Men turn the church into the
adjunct o f their own counting-house and everything is paralyzed.”—“ It is good to learn our own weakness if it drives us to lean on His strength.”-—“ The word—G IVE — may serve as an eternal rebuke to the helplessness o f the church, face to face with a starving World, and regarding her own scanty resources with dismay.”— Expos. Bible, v, 38. How many loaves? “ Never mind what is impossible—see what is possible.” —“True faith is remote indeed from the fanatacism which neglects any resources brought within the reach o f our study and toil. To show how really these materials were employed, the broken pieces which they gathered are expressly said to have been composed o f the barley loaves and of the fish.”—Chadwick. v. 40. Sat down. “ There must be quiet ness before the Lord ( Psa. 42:1) and will ingness to receive from the Lord (John 1:12) before there can be satisfaction in the Lord” (Psa, 16:2).—Marsh. v. 41. Looked up to heaven. “T o have your powers multiplied, look to heaven first.”— “Jesus on the edge of the great need took time to pray. In pH your hunger to give the Gospel to a dying world, take time to look up ."—Disciples set before them. “ Christians are distributors o f the Bread o f Life,”—-“ No matter who brings our blessings, they come through His hands.”—“The . gifts are His, bestowed through His children, decently and in order, and herein we have the germ o f church organization.”.—Plummer. “ It should be felt an honor by Christians that through them, Christ wills to feed a hungry world.” —“ Some congregations are 1 choking on chaff and breaking their teeth on stones. The preachers took an eight years’ train ing and can read the inscription on the cross in all the languages, but when they stand up to preach, there is no bread in their message. If the Lord does not bless, it, it will feed nobody.” —McNeill. “ Selfish ness with much can do little. Love with
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