Article October 31, 1903 Issue

"Feed my Lambs"

KATE SWOPE.

"Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. ...So when they had dined Jesus saith to Simon Peter, ... Lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him. Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? ... And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep."

"Feed my lambs." There is such a plaintive strain of patient love and beauty in these words of Jesus. His test of love was its inspirational power to feed. "Lovest thou me more than these?"—lovest thou the giver more than the gift?—this is ever testing us in pleading tones within. With tender minor chords stirring across the heart it is ever calling us to a higher usefulness. We hear its beseeching within, it grieves us even as it did Peter. Eternally the Christ seems to beckon, to plead with a plaintive patience, "Lovest thou me more than these?" Lovest thou the Christ-life? if so, express it, prove it, feed humanity, whether it be with "song, sermon, or Science" (Science and Health, p. 234).

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