EXTRACT XVIII. 



IT IS WRITTEN : MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD 

 ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH 

 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD." A LAY CREED. 



THIS is one of the most famous and subtle sayings 

 in Holy Writ. The phraseology is anthropomorphic, but 

 its meaning is divinely transcendental, the words are 

 alive with the essence, the very spirit of religion, as it 

 were, while they teach the last scientific findings of human 

 knowledge in relation to the problem of the sustenance 

 of life, and throw into the axioms deducible from human 

 experience, as they are here crystallised, a depth of mean- 

 ing and a profundity of realisation of the deepest-seated 

 problems of human life which is altogether startling in 

 its reality and novelty, and which throws a halo of 

 purposive design around the institution of the human 

 family in its higher relationships which may do much 

 to stimulate human interest in the accomplishment of 

 human destiny. 



These words prove the truth of the teaching of human 

 science, in that they acknowledge that man lives by bread 

 in so far as his material wants are concerned, and his 

 position as a member and citizen of the great animal 

 kingdom is concerned, but that there is an overwhelming 

 great reserve of life in store for him, both here and 

 hereafter, which the satisfaction of his material wants, 

 however these may be essential for his present condition, 

 do not reach or minister to, and, therefore, that it is 

 essential he should recognise that this transcendental 

 side of his being should be provided for by his employ- 



