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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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life unto the world. The body is sustained by the food which grows up out of theearth, because the body is earthy. But to sustain the higher andspiritual nature of man, which is from heaven, the food is sentdown from heaven, and therefore Jesus says of Himself that He isThe bread of God which cometh down from heaven, and givethlife unto the world, I am the bread of life, he that cometh to meshall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.And in the forty-eighth verse of that same chapter He says, I amthe bread of life; your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness andare dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,that man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread whichcame down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread he shall liveforever, and the bread that I will give him is my flesh, which Iwill give for the life of the world. Now, when you desire to be good, when you desire to livelike Christ, you desire to know more concerning Him; and when
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104 Plants Reaching Out Toward the Light. BREAD. 105 you desire to read Gods Word, and to learn of that which is holyand good and right, then you have this spiritual hunger. That isthe kind of hunger of which Jesus was speaking in this chapter.The presence of Jesus in the soul and the knowledge of Him thatis given in the Bible is the best kind of food for our spiritual nature.This was the kind of spiritual food upon which Joseph fed whenhe lived in the midst of idolatrous Egypt. It was upon these spir-itual truths that David and Daniel and Paul and Luther fed daily,and this nourished their spiritual natures. I trust you all have thishunger for the bread of life. Jesus said, Blessed are they whichdo hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Did you ever see a plant growing at the window in a crockand observe how it bends or reaches out toward the light? If youturn the crock around so that the plant bends inward toward theroom, after a day or two you go to the pla

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