The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

53).
Often there are delivered to the people
discourses destitute of the bread of life, the food
essential for spiritual growth. Those who have been
appropriating for themselves the bread of life, will
be able to break it to others.
Christ further declares: "Whoso eateth My
flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life; and
I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is
meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He that
eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth
in Me, and I in him" (Verses 54 - 56). These words
are very similar to those He used in representing
Himself as the Vine, and His followers as the
branches: "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in
the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I
am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth
in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing" (John
15:4, 5).