sympathise earnestly with all these other schemes for helping mankind,
but this I am bound to say here--all of them put together will not reach
the need of the case, unless they start from, and are subsidiary to, and
develop out of, the presenting of the primal supply for the universal
want, Christ, who alone is able to still the hunger of men's hearts.
Education will do much, but university degrees and the highest culture
will not satisfy a hungry heart. Fitting environment, as it is
fashionable to call it, will do a great deal, but nothing outside of a
man will staunch his evils or still the hunger that coils and grips in
his heart. Competent wealth is a good-there 1s no need to say that in
Manchester-but millionaires have been known to be miserable. A heart at
rest in the love of husband, wife, parent, child, is a blessing
earnestly to be sought and thankfully to be treasured by us all; but
there is more than that wanted. Put a man in the most favourable
circumstances; give him competent worldly means; do all that modern
philosophers who leave religion out of the question are trying to do;
put in practice your most advanced Socialistic schemes, and you will
still have a man with a hungry heart. He may not know what he wants;
very often he will entirely mistake what that is, but he will be
restless for want of an unknown good. Here is the only thing that will
still his heart: 'The bread which I give is My flesh, which I will give
for the life of the world.'

Brother and sister, this is not a matter only for social reformers, and
to be dealt with as bearing upon wide movements that influence
multitudes. It comes home to you and me. Some of you do not in the least
degree know what I am talking about when I speak of the hunger of men's
hearts; for you have lost your appetites, as children that eat too many
sweets have no desire for their wholesome meals. You have lost your
appetite by feeding upon garbage, and you say you are quite content.