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America than He said that day in Galilee ? I think not. 

 If we bring to Him all we have and let Him bless it and 

 break it, we will see the continuing miracle. We our- 

 selves will have all we need and the hungry everj-where 

 will be fed. His command still holds to feed the physi- 

 cal hunger, and after that the spiritual hunger with the 

 Bread of Life that came down from heaven and giveth 

 life to the world. He came that they might have life and 

 have it more abundantly. 



I think again of that great picture drawn for us in the 

 twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel. The na- 

 tions are separated from one another as a shepherd sep- 

 arates the sheep from the goats. The sheep on His right 

 hand, the goats on His left. To those on His right hand 

 He says, ''Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the 

 kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the 

 world.'' It is significant that no commendation is here 

 given to those who have gone to their needy feUows and 

 helped them where their need was. They say unto Him, 

 ' ' Why, Lord, for what do you caU us blessed ? What have 

 we ever done ? ' ' And Jesus says, * ' You saw me hungry 

 and ye gave me to eat." They say, ''Hold on there 

 Lord, are you not going too fast, making some mistake ? 

 We never saw you, let alone saw you hungry. " "0, yes 

 you did," Jesus says. "When you went to that little 

 famine-cursed Indian village that had been growing ten 

 bushels of wheat per acre and you taught it to grow 

 twenty you were helping to feed the hungry." "When 

 you went to that village that was growing sixty pounds 

 of poor short -staple cotton per acre and taught them to 

 grow three hundred pounds per acre of good long-staple 

 cotton you were helping to clothe the naked." "When 



