.--THE USE OF THE CHURCH IS TO PASS IT ON. "Gave the loaves to the
disciples, and the disciples to the multitude." (Matt. xiv. 19.)

10.--EAT WHAT GOD SENDS. You cannot be saved by knowing the doctrine any
more than looking at bread will satisfy hunger. "They did all eat, and
were filled." (Matt. xiv. 20.)

11.--WHEN GOD IS THE HOST THERE WILL BE PLENTY FOR EVERYBODY. "As much
as they would." (John vi. 11.) "Enough for each, enough for all, enough
for evermore."

12.--OMNIPOTENCE DISLIKES WASTE. "Gather up the fragments." (John vi.
12.) "And they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets
full." (Matt. xiv. 20.) A basketful for each apostle.

WAIT HERE FOR THIRD-CLASS.

Passengers on the London "Underground" have often seen the sign-boards,
telling the travellers where to wait for the class they mean to travel
in. And there is sure to be a large group near one--the notice for third-
class passengers. It is so in the road to heaven. Forgetting that the
Master has paid first-class fare for us, too many ride third, meaning,
when they get to the station where tickets are collected, to change into
the first, for all want to die happy. Live holy. Be first-class
Christians, and then God will see to it that you die so as to bring
honour to Him.

X. SPIRITUAL FARMING.--NO. 3.
CULTIVATION.

We have already called the attention of our readers to the subject of
ploughing, but we feel we have not pressed upon them with the force it
deserves, the necessity of what the Bible calls "breaking up the fallow
ground." What the plough and spade do for the land we must have done for
the minds of those who sit in Methodist pews. Unsaved men and women must
be compelled to look the truth in the face. Farmers know that so long as
the land is hard and cloddy, the seed has no chance to get the
nourishment by which it lives; besides by turning it over, the plough
exposes that which has been hidden to the light of day, and it is by
turning it up that it gets the benefit of the atmosphere. The nitrogen
contained in the air is filled with that which the growing seed requires
to find in the land, if it is to do well for the worker. Have we not
thirty-fold crops where we ought to have hundredfold, for want of better
ploughs? The heathen who spoke of preaching as "turning the world upside
down" hit on the truth; and those of us who fail to turn up the soil are
not likely to reap all we might do.