[Alexander McLaren, in S. S. Times.] In the widest, deepest sense it is true that no hungry heart needs to go away from the bread which Christ's servants have put into their hands to dispense. All the needs of mind, heart, will, all the desires and wishes of all men, all social problems and diseases, may find what they crave and need there. The church has not sufficiently awakened to its resources, and has been too often willing that men should go away to satisfy their hunger at tables spread by social or political reformers, by philosophers, poets, and thinkers. If Christians had more confidence in Jesus Christ as being the all-sufficient, all-satisfying, all-sustaining bread of God, they would have more power to hold the multitudes from feeding on ashes, and there would be fewer complaints from famished men that the churches have nothing to give them. Capacity involves responsibility, so \"give ye them to eat\" follows. The task is laid on the twelve before the means of fulfilling it are visible. That was for the purpose of stimulating experience and faith. But we have the bread that we are to dispense, and whoever possesses Christ is thereby bound to impart Him. It is an obligation laid on every Christian. Alas, that it is so partially and poorly discharged! \"He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse him;\" but what of him who withholds the bread of life?