Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-12
CHRISTIAN ENDEAv0R HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill.
For Sunday. November 10, 1904.

inthiaHs, Al.<o-5l, xiii.l-i5 :
/ Corinthians, xii:2S-And God hath set
some in the church, first apostles, second
arily prophets, thirdly teachers after that
miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, gov
ernments diversities of tongues.
- Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are
all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
80. Have all the gifts of healing? Do all
speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
81. But covet earnestly the best gifts:
Yet show l unto you more excellent way.
Chapter xii:1-Though 1 speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, and have
not charity, L am become sounding
brass or a tinkling cymbal.
2 Though l have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries, and all
knowledge; and though l have all faith, SO
that / could remove mountains, and nave
not charity, l am nothing.
g. And though 1 bestow all my goods to
feed the poor, and though give my body
to be burned, and have not charity, 1t prof
iteth me nothing.
i. Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not
itself, is not pulled up:
). Doth not behave itself unseemly, seek
eth not her own, is not easily provoked
thinketh no evil
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth
In the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things
g. Charity never faileth; but whether
there be prophecies they shaii ran;
whether there be tongues they shall cease
whether there be knowledge it shall vanish
away
O. For we know In part. and we prophesy
in part. :.
TO- But when that which is perfect is
come. then that which is in part snail DC
done away.
II. When / was a child spake as
child. I understood child, l thought as
a child; but when I became a man pu.
away childish things.
ly: but then face to face: now 1 know IN
part; but then shall know even as also
am known. ,,+,
these three but the greatest OF THESE 10
charity.
One of the greatest drawbacks TO th
working life Of our churches today Is the
jealousy that Christians feel one lot the
other The Sunday school teacher Is jealous gus
of the superintendent high positlon, the
woman who is merely plain worker In the
missionary society is sometimes jealous OF
the society's president This is not always
30 but ii is often so. Even those VINO VIII
not acknowledge to themselves any sucn
feeling often think that because they are
not minister or elder or chief member OF a
committee they therefore are OF no account
In the eyes of the Lord, or at ieastI" .he
is almost more with some people-in tne
ewes of the world. We need stronger
feeling of fellowship and partnership. we
need to get away from selnshness anu
loneliness and SenSitiveneSS to SigntS ana
get more of the spirit of the DIVINE Master
whose work it all is. We need to think less
of what position we occupy ana see tnat
we occupy 1t well, even If 1t be or the very
humblest in the whole church 1t is better to
do the work of sweeping out the mousse OF
God and do it we'll and with spirit OF
love to the Master, than to De me richest;
most influential trustee of the cnurch ana
have no spirit of love to Christ.
Henry Drummond says: Love envleth
not This is love in competition with others.
Whenever you attempt good WORK you
will find other men doing the same KIND OF
work and probably doing 1t better: Envy
them not Envy is a feeling of ill-will TO
those who are in the same line as ourselves
a shirt of coyetousness and detraction.
How little Christian work even is pro
lection against un-Christian feeling. Ihat
which cloud Christians soul assuredly
waits for US on the threshold of every
work unless we are fortified with this grace
OF magnanimity. Only one thing truly need
soul, which 'envieth not:
Now we are not to discount the high po-
sitions in the church. They are truly hsh
and honorable and worthy of our ambition.
and he who is called of God and his fellow
church members to occupy such should take
the place in all humility, feeling a deep and
sacred 10Y that God has counted him worthy
to do this great work; but all the more
should he bear with him everywhere the
love which ''vaunteth not itself ana is not
puffed up" For after all. what is position?
The lower humber duties are just as nee
essary, and If left undone the whole body
suffers far more than If some Of the higher
powers fail for day or two.
Marcus DodS says: Every one, therefore,
who is drawn into the fellowship of the
body of Christ has something to contribute
to Its good and to the work 1t does. lie Is
in connection with that body because the
spirit of Christ has possessed and assiml-
lated him to it, and that spirit energies in
him. He may not see that anything the
church is presently engaged in is work he
can undertake. He may feel out of place
and awkward when he attempts to do what
others are doing. He feels himself like
reyhound-compelled to run by scent and
not by sight, and expected to do the work
of pointer and not seize his quarry, or
as If set to do the work of an eye with the
hand. He can do it only in a cropping,
fumbling. imperfect manner. But this is
only hint that he is meant for other work,
not for none, and il is for him to discover
what his Christian instincts lead him to-
The eye does not need to be told 1t is for
seeing nor the hand that it is for grasping.
The eye and the hand of the child instinc-
lively do their office, and where there is
true Christian life it matters not what the
member of Christs body be. AS there Is to
be no slothful self-disparagement in the
body of Christ, so must there be no depre-
citation of other people. Contempt for any
member of the body of Christ Is most I'M
seemly and sinful. Yet men seem unable
ever to learn how many members and how
how needful are those functions they them
selves are wholly unable to discharge"
Applied Truth.
Il made him partner in the business
when he was only lad" said business
man, speaking of his own son. land he
started at the bottom with a purpose Of
knowing that business from one end to the
other. AS it was to be his own, he wanted
to do everything thoroughly, for he knew
every stroke of work he d was for the
good of the business He never did any
thing half way, because he felt that it
would spoil the whole, and even when he
swept the office out and went on errands
he did 1t with his whole heart. l believe
the partnership was what did it. He felt
that his work was of as much Importance
as mine, no matter how humble 1t was"
If we would but realize that we are part
ners with God and that the business of His
work is our business, too perhaps our part
though humble ii might be, would be just
as important to US and just as well done as
though 1t were humble. 1t Is not
question of whether Mr.. Jones or Miss
Smith or Mrs. Brown has something pleas
anter to do in the church; 1t is question
of whether there is anybody to do our
work. for it must be done for the sake of
the kingdom coming, and the kingdom is
our kingdom and Christs.
How to Help the Leader.
Confess your own lack of fellowship, if