Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-09
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill.


For April 10, 1904.
| Topics ..fIow the Worlds Standards Conflict With
Christs." Matthew. 5:43-4s; John, 2;lo-it.
Matthew, SAB Ye have heard that it hath
| been said. Thou shalt love thy neighbor'
| and hate thine enemy.
| A. But l say unto you, Love your enc
| mics, bless them that curse you, do good
| to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you, and prosecute
| you;
| 10 That we may be the children of your
| Father which is in heaven for He maketh
His sun to rise on the evil and on the good,
and sendeth rain on the just and on the
| unjust.
| 46 For if We love them which love you.
! what reward have We? Do not even the
publicanS the same?
! Al And If we salute your brethren only.
| what do we more than others! LOO not
| even the publicanS so?
| 49, Be ye therefore perfect even as your
Father which is in heaven is perfect
l John. 2:15. Love not the world. neither
the things that are in the world. II any
| man love the world, the love Of the Father
is not in him.
| 16 For all that is in the world, the lust
| of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and
| the pride of life, Is not of the Father, but
| is of the world.
II. And the world passeth away. and the
lust thereof: but he that doeth the Will or
| God abideth forever.
| This is not Utopia" said a friend when
| a young enthusiast begged him to help her
| know that will not work in this age OF the
| world? 1t sounds all very pleasant. but
| people can't live like that. You Wouldn't
get half dozen to agree to 1t. 1t Is too
| perfect. We are mortals, and were never
| expected to live perfect lives"
| And it would seem if most Of the
| Christian world today held that same view,
| for the talk is all of ''broadness' and lib
| hal himself
| that the gate was strait" and the way
| narrow and few there be that find It,"
The world is as busy today with Its own
| concerns as it was in the days when Jesus
| walked this earth. 1t has neither time nor
| inclination to accept the standards OF
Jesus 1t sneers at the few consistent CHRIS,
tianS who do. You are fool, says the
| world. You will be left behind in the race
of life. The Nazarene's standards are inn
| possible
And even many who are leaders in Chris
| tianity today look with large leniency upon
| the worlds standards, and frown not when
| members of their flock go astray for lit
tie into by and forbidden paths We are
none Of US perfect, say they, with COM
placent smile, which speaks on the whole
| of dissatisfaction. I'VE shall never be
perfect on this earth Ard with that they
are content, without further troublesome
4 striving after 1t.
| And there is so much time spent in these
days striving to keep pace with the world,
| to make the church just as interesting as
seldom read with intentness the plain
| searching words Of Jesus, where murder
| was not merely shooting man. but bore
| that ugly name while 1t had being
only In mans heart, and was called by
the gentler name of hate.
| Jesus took that little word ''neighbor'
and broadened it to include even ones enc
| mics, and then babe us do that seemingly
| impossible thing. love them
DR.. Gibson says: How lofty, how far
! beyond the reach of the natural man! but
n r,at n lAny1
| demanded 1t is one of the things of the
| kingdom concerning which the assurance
is given later on: Ask; and ye snail re-
ceive: seek. and ye shall lind Still the
| demand He is making of poor human ma
4 ture. So at this point He leads our
| thoughts upward to our Father in heaven,
| suggesting in that relationship the posi-
| bility Of Its attainment flor why should
| not child be like its fatherD and the only
| example possible, for this was a range of
| righteousness beyond the reach of all that
had gone before = He himself as the Son
of the Father would later set it forth be-
fore the eyes of men in all its luster. But
that time is yet to come. and meantime He
| can only point upward to the Highest and
| urge them to this Hottest height of right
i eousness by the tender plea That ye may
! be children of your Father which is in
heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on
! the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
| On the just and on the unjust,
These two portions of scripture show how
Under Chgists standard We must love the
| sinner and hate the sin. The world would
say, Love the sin, but hate the sinner
4 we are told to love. even our enemies.
That means everybody in the world. We
| are told not to love the world. meaning the
| ways the lusts, the pride of the world.
Now, one thing is certain: A man cannot
| live by two opposite standards. He holds
| to one and despises the other, or the re-
! verse. If we love the world, whose stand.
| ards are so exactly opposite to Christs,
then we may know for surety that the
| love Of the Father is not in us. But IL we
| truly have the love of the Father in our
hearts we shall not find it impossible for
| us to love even enemies-those unpleasant
| people who have spoiled our plans or made
fun of something we thought good You
| time forth, for love of the Father, forgive
/ and love them?
/ No, that isn't the way the world would
| do. It may not even be the best policy for
your worldly success to let bygones be by
/ gones nor to bless them which curse you.
| Not as the world counts policy. But the
| world is to last but little time. Strange
how we forget that! Strange how we play
at hiding from death. like the man who de-
termined his children should never be told
| of death. and found, after all. that it was
| impossible to keep them from knowing that
| great. inevitable. fact Of life. Everything
| in this world passes. every desire and pleas
/ ure and when it is gone what is it? But
| you who have taken Christ's standard.
| what have you? The promise, He that
1 doeth the will of God abideth forever
1 And that standard Of love to even the en-
| envy neghbor Is the standard Of heaven
| where we shall understand and love all
/ without effort, and where there will be no
more enemies
/ Applied Truth.
MARY Godolphin lived life unspotted
from the world In the dissolute court of
Charles II. because the love of the Father
/ was in her. In the world of Charles It's
! court she lived out of the world which God
| hated: the religious world not few. GER
| tainly, live In the world which is not Gods.
1 For the world is not so much piace--it is
l the place which we make for our own souls.
| No walls that ever were reared can shut
| out the world from us. The world IN its
essence Is subtler and thinner than the
| most infinitesfmal of the bacterian germs
in the air. They can be strained of by
| the exquisite apparatus of a man of sci
ence At certain height they cease to
1 exist. But the world may be wherever we
| are; we carry 1t with US wherever we go:
| 1t lasts while our lives last. No consecra-
i ton can utterly Danish 1t, even from within
4 the church walls: 1t dares to be round US
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