Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-12

another man gives you seeming insult or
does you harm?
It never pays when you are building
house to use poor material or to slight any
part. Just you slight the kitchen. for Inc
stance. make 1t small and dark and un-
handy and say, "Oh, 1t is only the kitchen.
and ii will do well enough" Then see!
The servant won't stay. You have haro
times getting any help. Your wife gets
sick working hard in so unhealthy and
unhandy a place. Then you have to tear
1t down at great expense and make II
larger, and add on a shady piazza where
one may sit and work In the eoolness. 80
1t is in building character. If you allow
a flaw to be built in, some virtue to be
cramped or crowded out altogether, ana
think you'll get to heaven well enough
with what virtues you have, you'll fnd you
have a hard time some time in your life
tearing out the bad habits and cultiVatlns
starved little virtue. For many man,
otherwise almost saint, has let patience
get choked out of his character ana spoheu
the whole.
All his life he has spoken testy words
when things did not just please him. he
might have stopped that when he was
child If he had taken hold OF 1t wlth the
divine nature that was his to use II ne
would, but he did not 1t is like using I'M
seasoned lumber for house. for by ana by
the house will be sure to settle, and sredt
unsightly crack will mar the most beautliul
of the rooms, and paper it over as you WILL
1t will yawn again and again
Applied Truth.
A little child. once whispered to his
mother as Mr. Fairbanks, the manufac-
turer of the famous scales, came up the
aisle in church one day, and ray of beau
tiful light from a richly tinted window Tell
upon his noble, kindly face: Mamma, is
that Jesus?" 1t is not impossible for Chris
tans to live so near to Jesus and to bulld
up a character so nearly like His that
others looking at them may see Jesus
Christ shining in their faces.
I'VE have likenesses of our boys taken on
every birthday, and twelve of the annual
portraits are now framed in one picture,
so that we see them at a glance from their
babyhood to their youth. suppose such
Photographic memorials of our own spirit
ual life had been taken and preserved,
would there be a regular advance, as IN
these boys, or should we still have been eX-
hibited in the perambulator? Have not
some grown awhile. and then suddenly
dwarfed? Have not others gone back to
babyhood? Here is wide field for retiec-
ton" SPURGEON.
How to Help the Leader.
Look over all the parallel passages and
select the one that fits your own personal
experience the best. and then quote it with
a few words of your own.
Parallel passages-II Corinthians, HIS;
Ephesians iv:15,2324 Ephesians, Willie;
John, xvi:3; Colossians, ii:6,7; Acts, Xx:32;
Matthew, vii:25; Ephesians, i:19-22 l Co
i.f,r't't to the Ieader-The Endeavor Hymn
nal-36, ~, 40 81, "a, 81, 1870.
A pupil of David Wood, Philadelphias
blind organst, who had studied with
number of other teachers said that the
difference between DIR. Wood and other
players was that he paid more attention to
the little errors and would not let one
trivial mistake go UNDECIDED while other
teachers We're content with correcting glar-
ing errors in their pupils. This made the
difference between his playing and that OF
many others Use this to illustrate how 1t
is necessary for US to look out for our ut
tie faults as well as the big ones II we
would make our characters perfect Whoie
Get number of members to talk on the
different virtues we are TO add to our faltn
Let them arise in their places, following
one another briefly, and give an instance OF
how we may add these things to character
Ask the pastor to say few words ABOUT
the Divine nature and how We may become
nartakers of it. Ask members to repeat
PROMISES from memory which help US IN
character building. Close with sentence
prayers.
By trifes in common ways,
Our characters slowly pied
We lose not all yesterdays ~
The man hatb something Of the child.
Part of the past to all the present cleaVes'
AS the rose odors nnger in fading leaves
In ceaseless toll from year TO year,
Working with loath or willing hands
Stone shape ana rear
TIL the completed fabric stands ,,,
And when the last hush hath all labor stiileu
The searching fire will try what we nave st.Nen
build. W. HloftIf-i '-'''4i-'