Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hin.
For June u, 1904.

Disciple Matthew 18:24-26; John Is
Matthew 16:2kThen said Jesus unto His
disciples, if any man will come after me
let him deny himself and take up his cross
and follow me.
25-For whatsoever will save his life shall
lose 1t: and whatsoever will lose his life for
my sake shall find It,
26-For what is man prof1ted. If he
shall gain the whole world. and lose his
own soul? or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?
John 13:33-Little children, yet a little
while I am with you. Ye shall seek me-:
and 1 said unto the Jews, whittier
go we cannot come; now I say to YOU
34-A new commandment l give unto
you, that we love one another; as l have
loved you, that we also love one another.
35-By this shall all men know that We
are my disciples, if we have love one to
another.
1t needs no long list of commands and
have to study this week. 1t can be COM
pretended in one brief sentence, even in
one word. "self-surrender.'
You cannot take young woman in so
ciety, who has every hour of her day
filed with engagements and every evening
of her life devoted to balls and receptions
and operas, and make a fine college student
out of her unless she absolutely sufrenders
her old life of society and gives herself en-
tirely to study. You cannot take city
youth whose health is broken down with
the grind of business and make a strong,
hearty farmer out of him unless he leaves
the counting room and the crowded city
and goes out and absolutely surrenders
himself to Gods free air and hard work.
No more could Jesus take those Galilean
fishermen who knew little or nothing save
to catch a fish, and how to mend a net,
and how to sail boat, and teach them of
the things of the kingdom so that they
would be fit disciples of the Christ unless
they left all to follow Him.
AND how do you expect Jesus can take
you with your mind full OF your new
your days filled with having a good time,
or your hands filled with the cares of this
world, and make of you fit disciples!
There are many little questions that you
ing to Jesus. You wondered II you ought
to give up dancing or card playing ana
whether 1t would be wrong for you to STUDY
your lessons on the Sabbath sometimes and
have company on WEDNESDAY evening wnIa
there was prayer meeting In the churcn:
Some of those things you hesitated great
deal over giving up. You asked your pas
tors advice, and your Sunday school teach
another, until you decided you would do as
YOU pleased about those you liked very
much, and you felt quite SATISFIED WIN
yourself when you set apart a Few niue
fond of and said you would indulge In them
no more But after all, what did that
an.ount to? God is rot heather idol that
He should need us to lay cur petty httie
trifes upon His altar, saying: Here,
have given up dancing. 1t was a great
thing for me to do. and think l ought to
stand high in the heavenly kingdom 1or 50
doing" God wants ourselves. He wants
of Nxrh a
us not to have questlon Oh OIL, VIVA. w" 70 Give
give up when we come to Him. out 10 sIIe
all To give ourselves. absolutely! ne
warts US to understand that 1t Is a desper
ate situation we are in, a matter OF li1e anu
death for US For what shall 1t pront US
If we gain the whole world and lose!
And so when a soul comes to Jesus ne
should never let there be question oi .n,o
or that little thing he has been DONG ne
surrenders himself. If God gives nm uat n
any of his pleasures. well and good. put IL
some of them are gone from his NE ioI
ever. well also, for he must De "liiiils ~
deny himself and follow Jesus. ohly So
will the rich blessings promiseu " 'ii''
who are His be given. ,..
And this does not mean a sad nara ne
TRY it and see. You will find 1T much nap,
nier than the halfway Christian lie soihe
of you have been trying 10 ieao. h+ n our
Now. there Is one other thought IN our
tonic When Christ summed up the zen
Commandments He put first TINS apsoiu.e
surrender of self in the command 10 loFs
I,
like unto the first''-a natural result or Inc
tirst-to love ones neighbor
This loving of ones neighbor Is test
of our absolute seif-surrender, Tor IL tnere
remains in us any of self then we are gong
to consider self first every time, and our
neighbor second and this tendency Is not
a help to loving one another
by this shall all men know that we are
NV disciples, If we have love to one an
other" said Jesus. Are We willing to test
our lives by that? Do you want the world TO
Judge your discipeship by the way you treat
and love those brothers and sisters OF yours
in the church? Absolute surrender to the
Master means loving others as He loved
How did He love? Greater love hath no
man than this. that a man lay down MS
life" That is the kind of loving Jesus did
for us. LAS have loved you" You know
how much of Jesus love you claim; then
know that he claims just so much for those
other children of His. no matter whether
you like them or not.
to a chief place in the synagogue. even
though it may be your turn. or you may be
more fit for the position. II you are abso-
lutely emptied of self you will take the
lower place, and let all men see that you
are Christ's disciple indeed, who himself
washed the feet of those who followed Him.
Applied Truth.
It was a Christian Endeavor strawberry
festival and the young women stood on the
''Annabel hasn't been here all day nor
done a thing and yet she is going to have
the best place of all this evening, of course.
She has been assigned to the candy table.
think it's mean. We've worked harder
than anybody else and made most of the
candy, too and I think might have it,
Just because she's rich and pretty she gets
all the honors. She'll have crowd around
her all the evening while We are stuck
away in the back porch serving ice cream
and cutting cake
Yes said another disconnected voice,
land Ellie sent down cake by the coach
man and the president gushed about it and
said it was SO lovely of her to bake that
cake, when don't suppose she even saw it.
The cook baked it. She's too fine to come
and eat some ice cream
We'll the president kissed Helen and
rade a great fuss because she took the
time from her studies to come. and she has
done nothing but sit and talk to the boys
the whole afternoon. We've done all the
work and we never get kissed
And on the outside of the group stood
visitor a guest of one of the members. and
not a Christian taking notes. And she
said in her heart, Behold, how unhappily
these sisters dwell together in this society.
l will never be a Christian Endeavorer. 1
am better than they if l am not Chris
tian, for I never talk about my fellow
workers in that way.
How to Help the Leader.
Tell the meeting what dscipleship meant