Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-18
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill.
For Sunday, June 10. 1904.

for Sunuay, June IL, l5o4
Topic: what Paul Teaches Me About Rising
Above Discouragement.' Corinthians 4:7-1S.
but we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, that the excellency of the power
may be Of God, and not of US.
S-We are troubled every side, yet not
distressed; we are perplexed, but not in de-
spair;
9-Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast
down, but not destroyed;
10-Always bearing about in the body the
dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also
OF Jesus might be made manifest in our
body.
11-For we which live are always de-
livered unto death for Jesus sake, that the
life also Of Jesus might be made manifest
in our mortal flesh.
12-So then death worketh in us, but life
In you.
1--we having the same spirit Of faith,
according as 1t is written, believed, and
therefore have l spoken; We also believe,
and therefore speak;
14Knowing that He which raised up the
Lord Jesus shall raise up also by Jesus,
and shall present US with you.
15-For all things are for your sakes, that
the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many rebound to the glory
Of God
16-For which cause we faint not; but
uSn our outward man perish, yet the in
ward man is renewed day by day.
17-For our light affection, which Is but
for moment, worketh for US far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
1S-While we look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are not
seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal, but the things which are not
seen are eternal.
James Denney says:
Wherever the life of Jesus Is being
manifested in mortal fesh-wherever in His
service and for His sake men and women
die daily, wearing out nature but with
spirit ceaselessly renewed-there the unseen
becomes real again. Such people know that
what they do Is not for one dead but for
One who lives; they know that the daily in
liverances. are wrought in them, not by
themselves but by One who has all
power in heaven and on earth. The things
that are unseen and eternal stand out as
what they are in relation to lives like these:
to other lives they have no relation at all
worldly and selfish career does not work
out an exceeding and eternal weight of
glory, and therefore to the worldly and
selfish man heaven is forever an unpracti-
cal, incredible thing. But 1t not only comes
out in its brightness 1t comes out as a
mighty inspiration and support, to every
one who bears about in his body the dying
of Jesus; as he fastens his eye upon it he
ing, faintS not "
n QSk
of ourselves Is whether we are really nv
ing that life, daily dying for Christ,s
sake II we are not have we any right to
claim the encouragement of this lesson?
IS mere not something back Of DISCOURAGE
ment for US to look into? Is the dis
couragement perhaps but hurt pride or hin
oered seihshness? It is worth looking into
at the start, for really you know wa have
no right to lay a claim to discoura cement
Wnen the trouble is our own fault. SIM
pa|s iul instance, you are discouraged be-
; Eaase your Sabbath school class takes no
interest In religious matters. If YOU have
not been putting all the time nossih,a IN
nara study to make the lesson interesting
To- 10 them. and spending much earnest
Won snv anu M prayer for their sakes, have
YOU any right to go to Christ and com.
pam mat your labor is not blest with a
harvest? Sometimes we need to loot 20
' RS neit YES inat we are not out of the way
ouI rhe lesson Is to those who helone 70
me LORD Jesus fully, and who thronoh ~
mulitude OF trials feel that the verv i,ttie
.ney are able to do in the work Of tbe
thas ~ u Il, ,s SO trifing and so poorly done
a.; - is useless TO even try further There
is stoical way of saying TT win not
make make ;, any difference a hundred wears
sait .,, Ihere is worldling's way of
saying, It's all in the davis wori y bDt
there is Christian way Of SAVING "Eor
reckon that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be Compared with
i; tn tb sios s that shall be revealed" and this
IS the nigh ground that Christians should
taKe. What matter the little troubles bv
the way when we win home" at last?
but Eau! gives us another view. There IL
a reason Tor all this, he tells us n was
necessary that the treasure OF the knowI.
eoge or salvation should be in earthen.
weakly vessels in order that the good to
otners should be attributed to Gods glory
and not to our own. 1t will be we'll n
tninK, when we meet with disbursements
IN our work. that perhaps by these very
disheartening things God is gently remind
Ing US that 1t is His work, not ours and
mat IN we were taking too much the glory
But the best help of all is to rener,.
Der that by suffering under these trials
we are walking the same way with Christ
and HIS life is living again in us II is
worth while being discouraged. If thereby
we may manifest Christ to some one for
little. ~ AoA
Christ leads me through no darker rooms
Than He went through before:
He that into Gods kingdom comes
Must enter by His door.
And SO we do not need to feel that we
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