Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-22
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR HOUR
Conducted by
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL.

GRACE G I1snsssr b HILL.
For August %.
Topic Lessons Erem Tag @,, How to MAXI Our
II Timothy, lie: Wherefore put thee in
remembrance that thou stir up the gift Of
God, which is in thee by the putting on OF
hands
Z. For God hath not given the spirit
of fear; but Of power, and of love. and of
sound mind.
s. Be not thou therefore ashamed Of the
testimony OF our Lord, nor Of me his prfs-
oner; but be thou partaker of the Affections
of the gospel according to the power OF
God.
II Corinthians. ii:23: Are they ministers
of Christ? Il speak as fool) am more:
In labors more abundant. in stripes above
measure. in prisons moro frequent. In
deaths Oft
"A. OF the Jews 1--WE times received 1
forty stripes save one.
Is. Thrice was I beaten with rods. once
was 1 stoned. thrice I suffered shipwreck,
night and day have been in the deep;
%. In 1ourneyings often. In periis OF wa
tiers, In perils Of robbers. in perfs by mine
own cOuntrymen. in perfls by the heather.
in perils in tho city, in perils in the wilder
ness. In perils IN the sea, In perils among
false brethren;
q. In WEAKNESS and painfulness. in
watchings often, In hunger and thirst, In
Hastings often. IN cold and nakedness.
%. Beside those things that are without,
that which cometh upon me daily, the care
Of all the churches.
God is all for quality; man Is for quanti-
ty. But the immediate need Of the world
at this present moment is not more OF US
Christians. but. II I may use the express
sion. better brand OF u.s." So says one
OF the worlds greatest thinkers, Henry
Drummond.
He Is only putting first century truth into
preeent-day language It takes only very
little leaven to leaven a large lump pro-
with sand and mud. II every Christian
were filed to the fun today with the spirit
of Jesus Christ there would not be. as there
are, more than three hundred millions of
OF the Pacific who do not SO much as know
whether there be any Jesus Christ.
II every member of that body that its
Founder said was to be the light Of the
world held aloft his torch Sc that others
might see themselves and their surround
ings by its light there would not be men
and women in our own communities living
goddess lives and dying hopeless deaths
and going out into a goddess future as there
are.
to giorify God is the chief business of our
lives. and that to lay down our lives is the
only way to find them. 1t looks as though
we believe that money, power, education.
social prestige and pleasure are the end
and aim of any life, and that religion is just
an incident by the way. Else why should
we go on from year to year in our happy,
careless way, doing so little for Christ,
sacrificing so little that the sacrifices we
do make seem large, suffering not at all
for the cause of Jesus?
See how Paul glories in what most men
would count life of distress and sorrow.
Not murnur has he that his lot is cast
along so rough road. Even when his dear
disciples have seemingly forsaken him. and
his heart is sad, he has courage to write
this wholesome. sane letter to Timothy.
Brief data for his biography Paul has left.
and we read over the long list of trials
through which he passed and wonder, till
we remember his words through 1t all:
For me to live is Christ, to die Is gain
Brethren, 1 count not my life dear unto
myself That was the secret of PauPs
grand life; he had laid it down. 1t was his
no longer. 1t belonged to Christ Jesus to
do with as 1t pleased Him. If the servant
of God could serve his Master better
through sorrow and imprisonment then 1t
was all one to Paul. 1t was not his life
any longer. it was Gods, and he had per
feet trust that God knew what ends He
wanted to compass. His only concern was
to do Gods work
6 How many Of us Christians feel that
way ?,n How many Of us would stand being
taken out Of our church work the way Paul
was and set down In prison. for instance3
Or suppose the prison were only darkened
sick room with a fretful invalid for taller?
would we preach to the jaiier-would we
sing the gospel to him? Or would We carry
about on our faces the saddened, burdened
look OF disappointment and interruption?
HOW many times Paul was beaten and
stoned and whipped, and yet you and are
AFRAID Of little laugh, and so keep back
the blessed word of truth often lest we NAV
De met with sneering smile of scorni
Not even WEAKNESS, hunger cold. naked
ness or sh1pwreck turned Paul back from
his steady course to the end. How quickly
DO the majority of Christians turn away
from good work when they see thew are
to lose money or position by it!
We need to get Pauls viewpoint in order
10 make our lives count. We need to re-
member that this life lasts only a little
While, and that the true life is after. of
which this is the test We need to make
the chief object Christ, our chief Thought
to please Him. We need to remind orr
selves daily that He that 1oseth his life
shall find it,
Applied Truth.
A company of people were shipwrecked
on desert island They saved. among
other things. from the wreck several bags
of wheat. With joy they set about to plant
1t. and began digging up the ground that
they might have food. But, 10! when they
turned over the soil they found evidence OF
rich gold nelds and fell instead to digging
Tor gold Eagerly they dug, day after day.
piling up the rich heaps; for, thought they.
we shall be wealthy. Then all at once the
cold came down upon them and they awoke
to the fact that the wheat still remained
implanted and they were without food for
the winter that was upon them. The sea
son was over when the wheat would grow.
and they had thrown away their chance OF
lie for gold or what use was gold to
them now?
so will 1t seem to some of us when we
suddenly realize that our lives here are al ]
most done and we have not made them
count for eternal life ~
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