Preface

We need “medicine” occasionally for the “healing” of the soul, but we cannot thrive on medicine alone. On the other hand we need food continually, to nourish us, that we may “grow in grace.” This little book goes forth, not so much that it may search the conscience as that it may feed the soul. For of old God strengthened and sustained His people with “Bread from Heaven;” and later the Saviour said: “I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven.” May these meditations on Him and His Word be used of God in some small measure to minister “seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,” and Christ to the believer.

In the main, the chapters which form this book have appeared in “Not in Vain,” the quarterly paper of the South Sea Evangelical Mission, which will be sent to any address for a year, on receipt of name and address and twenty-five cents towards production and postage, by the Secretary of the Mission, 8 Oberon Crescent, Gordon, Sydney, Australia, or any of the representatives of the Mission listed at the end of this book. The article “In the Midst,” has also appeared in the “Revelation” Magazine by whose kind permission it is now reprinted.