Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-16

the knowledge that you could yet draw
back! And you did not want to! and did
joyously to your humiliation with only a
glance. and ignoring Gods outstretched
hand that came to save you in that in
stants pause. Think back over all your
temptations. Is it not always so? Watch
when the next one comes. Always. some
where, easy to see, convenient to avail
yourself of, will be found the way to es-
cape.
did. Jesus willed to use His Fathers
strength.
You are willing God should save you by
main force, snatch you away at the last
minute. but unwilling to use the strength
He gave you to save yourself when the
temptation has become so strong that the
saving is pain to you.
Il can't help it, said young man when
his sister urged him not to return to
habit which had injured his health in the
past Don't you think you could if you
wanted tor his sister asked Eyes, maybe.
but don't" That was the secret. 'Tll
promise you won't make habit of 1t, he
said with smile of indulgence if he
were doing great things for ner, but there
can be no harm in INDUCING myself oe
casionally with my friends"
You Will not need to make habit of 1t.
The habit will make itself If you but open
the door crack for it, said the sister,
sadly. as she went her way.
People who have. gone down into college
oSteiShhChlS anu the ike, 10 i've among
the poor. and afflicted, and degraded, as
one of themselves, have been able to help
tier fallen brothers and sisters as those
VINO nave lived their fair happy lives never
could. so Christ comes to u.s. willing to
be made like unto His brethren, that He
might be merciful and faithful high
priest" 1t is not like taking our weak
nesses to some great. pure-eyed angel for
aid. who has never known the horror of
w1ckedness and temptation at all. Christ
has suffered 1t all-all that we bear when
we try to fight against our own desires. He
bore 1t to the end. and without sin!
Applied Truth.
Temptations are like jagged rocks that
rise above the water at low tide and thus
lose their peril, but when the surge Of
passion comes in we are borne unthinl-
Ing upon them to the very teeth of danger.
Fred Porter lived on Green street half
way between 9th and 10th streets. His
1atner s store was on the corner of Brown
and 10th streets. just one block away.
Edward Higley lived on 9th street, half
way between Brown and Green. He was
q pad boy and always led Fred into trouble.
Fred mad been forbidden to go with him.
Every morning before he began the day
Fred knelt and repeated the Lords prayer.
not forgetting the clause. Lead US not
into temptation"
Fred was sent on an errand to his ia th-
ers store. and. strange to say, with the
words OF that prayer still fresh on his lips.
he chose to go around y the way of 9th
and Brown streets instead of going the
shorter way down 10th. OF course he knew
ne would have to pass EdOard's house, and
that Edward would be likely to be out
But he went. Edward was at the gate. He
called Fred in to see his new pony and
before he realized how time was going Fred
had stayed all the morning and had done
several things that he had promised his
mother he would never do again.
When he went home he told his mother
that he had asked Cod n h
temptation, but it had not done any good.
Older people sometimes pray, Lead me
not into temptation" and then walk
straight into it. going out of their way to
do so. If Fred had been obliged to go
around that way and asked Gods hedp. God
would have kept him from trouble but as
1T was he blamed God for not doing what
he might have done for himself
How to Help the Leader-If you know
of some weak or tempted one. bring him
to the meeting. and then testify of some
time in your experience when God helped
you to escape temptation
Parallel passages-Matthew 6: 10; Luke
22:46; Ephesians 6:10, H. Hebrews 1925; 1
Peter 1:5; Peter go; James - g.; Jude
"a; Revelation $40.
Hints to the Leader.
Christian Endeaver hymns-S 16, "a, es,
76. IS. 100.
The Endeavor hymnal-sS, 96, 1O4. 100.
49, 1875, 49, 243
Try to make the meeting helpful to
tempted ones, and especially to the asso-
ciate members. Bring out the idea plainly
by incidents that you or others know to be
true, that only Christ can help to conquer
temptation Lay strong emphasis on the
last verse the power of prayer, coming to
be the final and central thought 1t would
not be amiss to call for series of promises
of answers to prayer in time of need and
temptation.
Il know will
That. Lord! might frail as Peters be!
heart that had denied Thee still
Even now, without a look from Thee"
SAMUEL MILLER WARING
"Forth into the Wilderness
Where my Lord was led one day
To be tempted, 1 must CO.
Help Lord. l Draw!