But wherewith? We may look, my friends, appalled at the danger and
the need. We may cry to our Lord, 'From whence can a man satisfy
these men with bread in the wilderness?' But his answer will be, as
far as I dare to predict it, the same as to his apostles of old on
another and a similar occasion, 'Give ye them to eat. They need not
depart.'
I am not going to draw any far-fetched analogy between the miracle
recorded in the gospel, and the subject on which I am speaking. I
am not going to put any mystical and mediaeval interpretation on the
seven loaves, or the two small fishes. I only ask you to accept the
plain moral practical lesson which the words convey.--
Use the means which you have already, however few and weak they
seem. If Christ be among you, as he is indeed, he will bless them,
and multiply them you know not how.
Use the means which you have; though they may seem to you
inadequate, though they may seem to the world antiquated, and
decrepit, try them. They need not depart from us, these masses, to
seek spiritual food, they know not where, if we have but faith. Let
us give them what we have; the organization of the Church of
England, and the teaching of the Church of England.
The organization of the Church. Not merely its Parochial system,
but its Diocesan system.
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