, or jam, or peanut
butter spread over the top--my, it makes the mouth water, doesn't it!

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.

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 Father above, our Father of
love. Do you remember those beautiful lines,

"Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
And back of the flour, the mill;
And back of the mill, the seed, and the sun, and the shower,
And the Father's will."

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.

MEMORY VERSE, _John_ 6: 51

"I am the living bread which came down from heaven."

MEMORY HYMN [325]

_"Break thou the bread of life."_

GOD'S MEASURE

Here I have some measures. This is a rule, we call it a folding foot
rule. Here is a square. And here is a tape measure. There are other
measures, quarts and pecks and bushels. Then there are liquid measures,
quarts and gallons and barrels. There are also measures of weight,
ounces, pounds and tons. Now these different measures are the same all
over the United States. A pound of butter in New York is the same as a
pound of butter in California. There are other countries that do not
have measures like ours. France, for example, has the metric system.
Should you go into a dry goods store in Paris you would not ask for a
yard of cloth, but for a meter.

God's measures are the same. God has a measure for girls and boys, and
that measure is the same in Ohio, Mexico, England or Spain. If it is
wrong to steal in Germany, it is wrong to steal in Brazil. If it was
wrong to commit murder in the first century, it is wrong to take life
in this century. The Ten Commandments are some of God's measures for us.

John, come up here, I want to measure you. Stand there, that's right. I
have the mark, now let us see how tall you are. Four feet, three and
one-half inches. That is fine. You are a big boy, aren't you? I wish too
that I could measure you according to God's mea