THE FIGURE OF EATING has many lessons for us, such as the need of a spiritual appetite ; how a healthy digestion causes the food to yield up all that it contains of nourishment ; the need to use by right activity the food we eat.

"The figure of eating reminds us that the acceptance of Christ is an

act which each man must do for himself. No other man can eat for me.

" It also reminds us that as the food we eat is distributed, without our

own will or supervision, to every part of the body, giving light to the

eye and strength to the arm, making bone or skin in one place, nerve or

blood-vessel in another, so, if only we make Cnrist our own, the life that is in Him suffices for all the requirements of human nature and human duty." 

— Prof. Marcus Dods.