furnish a table in the wilderness," (Ps.lxxvii. 19) and Who can enable you to suck " honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone." (Deut. xxxii. 13.) He will never suffer those to want, who trust in Him.
II. " And they did all eat, and were filled." (Matt, xiv. 20.) The delights of this world may please and even fascinate us for a time, but they can never fill " the cravings of our immortal soul." The capacity of this immortal soul is greater than can be filled with any thing earthly and transitory. Being itself immortal, it can only be ultimately satisfied with imperishable goods. Christ alone can satisfy it. Hence the Prophet asks, "Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you." (Is. lv. 22.) Approach, therefore, to Christ, in order that you may be filled.
III. After all had been fed, Christ ordered His Apostles to collect what remained; and they collected more than had been originally distributed, viz.: "twelve full baskets of fragments." Thus God is accustomed to reward the charity of His servants, and to be liberal to the liberal. " He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord, and He will repay him." (Prov. xix. 17.) Give, therefore, to your brother, " good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over," in order that you may receive the like " into your bosom." (Luke, vi. 38.)
SATURDAY.
Christ flies, to avoid being made King.
I. "Then those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said, this is the Prophet indeed."
