The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-30
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR.

gopic For the Week Beginning May -
Comment by Rev. 3. II. Doyle.
Topic. -"Christian enterprise. Jonah hi.
lilo.
This is an age Of enterprise. The
world is more active and energetic than
ever before. Gigantic schemes, OF which
the world scarcely dreamed IN days gone
by, are being hourly put into practical
effect This spirit also pervades the
church of Christ. The church Is more
enterprising today than at any time in
the past. Christianity is coming to
mean more than mere profession and
formal and occasional worship OF God.
1t stands today for activity, energy
work. Nothing, perhaps, has done more
| to bring about such desirable state OF
affairs than the Christian Endeavor
movement, and no one should more
| earnestly desire and anxiously labor for
| its continuance and spread than the true
Endeayorer. Active. energetic, enter
prising men and women are needed III
the Christian world today as never be-
fore, and the Endeavor societies should
furnish them.
In the topical reference, taken from
the life of Jonah, we see some OF the
practical phases Of Christian enterprise
illustrated
/. Christian enterprise is divinely
commanded. ARISE, Ego" was the
command of God TO Jonah. ARISE,
go" is the command OF God to the
Christian church today. go work III
My vineyard today, " Go ye into al
the world and preach the gospel, are
!. the commands of Christ Himself. 1t II
: the "arise and co. spirit that is needed
i. i'm our churches today. The loyal Chris
v tian cannot sit still He must arise
n Nor is that all. He cannot stand still
d He must go. "Arise and go" is the oil
ID vine command to every church, to ever
= society, to every Christian, today.
~ Q. The object of Christian enterprise
~ It is included in Gods command
re Jonah, arise, go and preac
a xxx that bid thee" The work OF I'll
r. church is TO preach, to proclaim wh'
az God commands it-all the word OF Go'
ng There may be methods OF various KING
nd introduced into the church life to attra
and interest men, but these are on
.,a means to an end The end and ann
ON all Christian work should be to proclai
rec the word of God to men, that they III
ell he saved from the destruction III
nst awaits them. 1t requires labor to do u
in and do it we'll. 1t took Jonah three ola
to 90 through the principal streets
res Nineveh and proclaim what God co
ny, manded him. Nothing can be acco
nav plished without time, trouble expei
out and labor.
ing 3. The effect of Christian enterpri
oks a. It had its proper effect upon the !,
one nile toward whom it was directed. IL
believed God, they repented III sackci
IS and in ashes. The word and worf
me- God faithfully and truthfully procia
LIZ, ed and carried ON will have their Ell
II among men. b. Itreceived the appr'
off, of God. God was pleased with DO
e on and with the people. He heard their
race Of repentance. Speaking as OF men,
niled repented. The conditions being chan'
said: M ;,,+ont;ons were changed, and n
oN0 yeh was spared. 90.
,auo, Bible Readings. -Math. " io'
was 1.16; xxi, 27-3l XIV, 1870; xviii
it'll n 90: Luke xix. 1926; Acts vi, 10;
md IA: Rom. xii, IL; Cor XIV, 0o'
ne to iv. is; vi, 8; Phil. ii, ~; III lhes'
G I'M II; Titus ii, IA; Heb H. -