The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-19
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR.
rcpic For the Week Beginning Nov. FL.
Comment by Rev. =. III. Doyle.

fvpic For the Week beginning Nov. FL.
Comment by Rev. 5. III. Doyle.
ToPIc.- Gratitude-to whom, for what,
how shown T'-Lulke xvii ll-l9. "a Thanksgiv-
| ing topic.)
The topical inference contains the
story of the healing of the ten lepers
AS Jesus was entering certain city He
met a crowd of lepers, perhaps without
eyes, nose, hair or hands, holding up
| their handless arms and exclaiming in
their unearthly, gurgling tones: I'm
eleanl Unclean" To their usual cry
they add the prayer, Jesus, Master,
have mercy ON usp He heard their
prayer. 60" He said, "show your
selves unto the priests. This was to
| test them. They believed and obeyed,
and as they went they were healed, but
after they had presented themselves and
| procured their certificates of health only
one of the ten returned 10 thank their
benefactor and he was a Samaritan
The nine were probably Jews. The
Master was touched by the gratitude of
the one, and perhaps in the thankful
ness of the nine contrasted with the
conduct of the one He saw the ingrati-
tude of mankind as whole.
To every benefactor we should show
our gratitude. We are constantly under
obligations to our fellow men for kind
nesses and blessings received. In the
home, in society, in business, we owe
debts of gratitude. Are we thankful? If
so, do we express our thankfulness?
Gratitude is often felt, but not mani
tested. We should both feel and mani
fest it. God, being our greatest, our
daily benefactor, should receive our
greatest, our daily gratitude. Christ
healed the leper. He did for him what
no one else in all the world could do
How great, therefore, was the debt owed
to Christ His gratitude should have
been correspondingly great. God in
Christ has done for us what none else
could do. To Him, therefore, we should
feel and express our gratitude above all
others.
We should be grateful to God for all
things Every good and perfect gift
cometh from above. If we would only
pause in the mad rush of life often
enough to contemplate the manifold
blessings that come from God daily and
hourly, and recall at the same time the
extent of our gratitude, we would be
overwhelmed with shame at our ingrati-
tude.
Gratitude should be shown by actions.
Ahasuerus did something to show his
gratitude to Mordecai for saving his
life. Actions speak louder than words.
BY life for God we should speak to
the world of our gratitude to God.
A farmer who had been abundantly
blessed with this world goods, but who
had never thanked the Giver, listened
one Thanksgiving day to a sermon on
the text 1.-The OK knoweth his owner,
the ass his masters crib, but Israel doth
not know, My people doth not consid-
er." 1t made no impression upon him.
He returned to his home, and as he
went out into his barnyard one of his
favorite cows ran to him and fondly
rubbed her head against him. This led
him to think. "This dumb BRUTE" he
says, recognizes me as its benefactor
and shows its gratitude, yet / have re-
ceived all these things from God and
have never thanked Him" He did
thank Him from that day forth. Let us
Endeavorers do the same
Bible Readings lisa. i, IA; Ps.
xxxiv, Is; l, IA, 10; kew, Ill; C,
10; CIV, 10; evil, Is; cxxxvi, 1-9; Mark
V, 1921; Acts ii, 44-47; iii, lilo; III
Cor. TX, Sill; Phil. iv, 1-6; Col. ii, 6,
2; iv, 2; Rev. vii, IL, ~.