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<h2><SPAN name="BREAD" id="BREAD" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_86" id="Page_86"></SPAN>[86]</span>BREAD</h2> <p>I have here a loaf of bread. This is good-looking bread, is it not? I can almost hear you say, "Please pass the bread." That is, I hope you say that. I hope you do not say, "Gimme the bread."</p> <p>Now every girl and boy here knows what it is to be hungry, I'm sure of that. And when one is real hungry there is nothing that tastes as good as bread. Of course there should be some butter, or jam, or peanut butter spread over the top—my, it makes the mouth water, doesn't it!</p> <p>We speak of bread as the staff of life because we could not be strong in body if we did not have bread. We love ice cream and cake, meat and potatoes, and many other things, but our meal is not properly balanced unless there is a plate of bread on the table.</p> <p>Jesus taught us to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread." I think this has a twofold meaning. It refers to our physical hunger and our spiritual needs. All bread comes from the<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_87" id="Page_87"></SPAN>[87]</span> Father above, our Father of love. Do you remember those beautiful lines,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>"Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,<br/></span> <span>And back of the flour, the mill;<br/></span> <span>And back of the mill, the seed, and the sun, and the shower,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And the Father's will."<br/></span></div> </div> <p>Jesus once spoke of himself as the Bread sent down from above. Our Father gives us daily bread for our physical needs, and he has also sent us Christ for our spiritual strength. My dear young people, take him as your Saviour.</p> <p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>John</i> 6: 51</p> <div class="blockquot"><p>"I am the living bread which came down from heaven."</p> </div> <p>MEMORY HYMN [325]</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span><i>"Break thou the bread of life."</i><br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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