Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29
CHRISTIAN ENDEAyOR HOUR
Conducted by
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL.
For August 70

GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL.
For August 80.
Topic: Our Duty to the Stranger" (Home Mis-
1898 =
Deuteronomy Wiz. The Lord did not set
his love upon you, nor choose you. because
We were more in number than any people;
for ye were the fewest of all people.
8. But because the Lord loved you and
because He would keep the oath which He
had sworn unto your fathers. hath the
Lord brought you out with mighty hand
and redeemed you out of the house OF
bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh, King
of Egypt.
II Chronicles vi 80. Moreover, concerning
the stranger, which is not of thy people
Israel. but is come from a far country for
thy great names Sake, and thy mighty
hand, and thy stretched out arm; If they
come and pray In this house.
83. Then hear thou from the heavens,
even from thy dwelling Place. and do ac-
thee for; that all people Of the earth may
know thy name and fear thee, as doth
thy people Israel. and may know that this
house which l have built is called by thy
name.
1t would seem almost as If these words
had been written straight to us, so closely
DO they fit the circumstances How this
udtlou came 10 De- out Oh the dNQCtlOnS
and prosecutions Of few devoted people
who came to this shore first that they
might worship God. How sadly have we
forgotten in these days of prosperity the
first object of the founding Of this fair
land! We have the freedom to worship
God, but do we prize it as did our fathers
who worshiped with sword or gun in their
hands to protect themselves from savage
Indians and who went through perils to
compass it?
1t is sweet to know the Lord has set His
love upon US as nation. We all firmly
believe that, but we unconsciously think it
is because of the greatness of our nation
that He has chosen us. whereas, to us Just
as to the Jews of old, comes the message,
mo, II was only because He loved us, not
for any good in u.s." That should make US
humble, when we remember from what He
has redeemed us-and from what He has
still need to redeem-for we have not given
Him back love for love in our deeds what
ever may be said of our professions.
We have built great churches and filed
our land with missions. Do we pray for
the strangers that are coming to our shores
daily. and do our acts go hand in hand
with our prayers2
You have one Of those strangers in your
kitchen, perhaps, from some foreign shore
or other. Have you made her feel that this
is truly a Christian land, or does she look
upon you as just one Of the many frauds
or disappointments she has met with since
she came to what she thought was an ideal
place of refuge because 1t was called
"Christtan land?"
For instance, do you .lnow whether that
girl in your kitchen who has a hand in tie
daily routine of your life and comfort has
a Bible of her own and reads it, or would
care to read it II she had one? Do you
know whether she knows of Jesus Christ,
and II she prays to Him daily for help?
Have you ever said a word to her about
your dearest Friend2 And If you should
decide to speak to her. are there inc on-
sistencies In your own life that would make
1t uncomfortable for you to try to preach
to her?
All! These duties to our strangers are
having reflex action upon ourselves, in
showing US our faults. Cannot you try to
be more kind to study the likes and COM
forts Of that girl in your kitchen a little
more carefully to speak to her with a new
interest, SO that when you have a message
Of Christs love to speak to her 1t will
carry some weight as from a life that is in
harmony with the words?
The man who serves you with bananas Is
one of these strangers. Has your thought
ever turned to him with wistful longing
that he may know the love of Jesus? Have
you ever invited him to your church or to
any Of it's meetings? And would he be well
come If he Gamer
A small but fourishing church In a suburb
of Philadelphia recently started a class for
study of the Sunday school lesson, for the
colored people-the servants-in that COM
munity. There was no colored church near
enough for them to go without leaving
their duties undone in the homes where
they were employed. This class was held
at an hour when the white people were not
using the church, but there was much op-
position by members OF the congregation
to having them occupy the same chairs that
their own children sat in earlier In the day.
Yet these same colored psOple handled and
cooked all the food and cared for those
same children in their own homes
Not long ago an article appeared in a
prominent periodical telling the story of
two young Chinese converts who came to
this country to takeqa college course that
they might return to- China as missionaries
There was some difficulty about their pa-
pers, which had to he sent back to China
to be adjusted, and meantime they were
confined in most unhealthy quarters and
became Ill After being In the hospital for
news that the official in, China who had
given them their credentials had died and
the whole thing must bes done over agai,.
Another long waltz of weeks perhaps
their way toward Oherlnq College, but some
laundering friend sent them by Way of
Canada from California. and once out of
the country they had the same trouble over
again to get in. At last heartsick and l en-
niless. the money they had brought from
kind missionary friends all gone to feed
them; not allowed to work to earn more,
they were told that they could not enter the
country now as students because thew
would be Obliged to work their way through
college, and the law of the land forbade
any Chinese workers coming here
That is the way we treat some of the
strangers at our gates. Something must ',e
wrong somewhere Christian Endeavorers.
you are the men and women who will sway
the morrow. Study Into these thingsi
Rouse you'll Understa nd what is going on
and set this thing right, And do it. not be-
cause mis- is great ma tion and ought to do
right. but because He hath set His love
upon you" 4
Applied Truth.
A missionary returning to this country