that brings sorrow and sadness, lifting up the fallen, cheering the faint, and leading those who grope in blindness. In the quietness of this hour search your own soul and you will find there earnest longings after God. In the presence of that need look outward and upward seeking the source of satisfaction, instruction, and development. There is such a source. God has provided for every need, and he has not slighted this the deepest need of a man's soul. He has revealed himself in Christ that men might find him easily. Are you dead? There is reaction. Are you weak and unable to rise? His hand is extended. The same Jesus which had filled all Jerusalem with wonder with his words and his works has been doing greater things in these latter times. Come, let us seek him together. It will bring the profoundest joy to me if we may approach him together that I may assist you to become acquainted with him. His life and his works were based upon the two great commandments. In his presence and on those same great commandments each one of you students will find that which will supplement the culture which you have sought within these walls. ROBERT BRUMBLAY SUPERINTENDENT WENATCHEE DISTRICT, Robert Brumblay was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, July 9, 1876. He is a lineal descendant of Robert Cushman, a commissioner of the Plymouth colony, and the man who preached the first Thanksgiving sermon in the New World. He received his education in Moores Hill College and Cincinnati College of Law. In 1899 he was admitted to the Indiana Conference and has been uninterruptedly engaged in the active ministry since that date. In 1907 he was transferred to the Columbia River Conference and stationed at Waitsburg, Washington, where two pleasant years were spent, after which he was sent to Pullman, Washington, the seat of Washington State College; and, after having served it successfully for four years, he was appointed superintendent of the Wenatchee District in 1913. Mr. Brumblay has been a frequent contributor to the denominational press. He has been active in the Epworth League Institutes of the Northwest, having been a member of the faculty of the Liberty Lake and Redondo Beach Institutes and in the summer of 1914 was appointed dean of the faculty of the Lake Chelan Institute. THE FAITH WHICH SATISFIES ROBERT BRUMBLAY "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."-John 6. 35. MAN is a being of many needs. In reality the demands which he makes upon the world and life about him are multitudinous. First, there is his physical life. This calls imperatively for food, drink, raiment, and shelter. Not only does he require the things necessary for the maintenance of his physical life, but countless luxuries and comforts as well. But man is not merely an animal. He is taller than his bodily stature. Man is a thinker. He has been endowed with mind, and so there is the intellectual appetite demanding food for its satisfaction. The Divine Economist has provided the storehouse of truth, and these man may unlock and obtain from them that for which his mind hungers. Closely allied with his thought-life, yet higher and deeper, is something in man which we have called the soul-life. Made in the image of God, man is a living soul. While this soul-life is almost too deep for words to describe, yet it too has its needs. These needs are as real and as imperative as those of the body. Undeniably, the human soul has its hunger, its thirst, its longings, and its aspirations. These demand satisfaction. Any system of religious faith which is adequate must be able to respond to the fundamental needs of the universal life. It must have adaptation to the needs of the individual, and, to the needs of human society; in short, before any of its claims to supremacy can be recognized it must show that it possesses the power to satisfy the heart-hunger and quench the soul-thirst of the race. There have been, and to-day there are many religions. The founder of each one of these has maintained that his religion is superior to all others, and that finally it will triumph and be accorded the recognition which it merits deserve. When we sweep our gaze over the field of comparative religion, and then for a moment let it rest on each of the warring faiths; when we consider the fact that of the total population of the globe, estimated at about one billion five hundred million, more than one half, or one billion and forty million, are marshaled under the standards of non-Christian religion, and only four hundred and sixty million march under the cross; when we reflect that if it were to be decided today by the choice of the world, who is entitled to primacy as a teacher of religion and what system of religious faith is the really inspired and supreme revelation, that three hundred and forty |