Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
Christian Endeavor Hour
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutx.

For Sunday. December 81, 1905.
Topic: Looking Backward: What Have Learned
This Year" Deuteronomy viii :2-20.
2. And thou shalt remember all the way
which the Lord thy God led thee these
forty years in the wilderness. to humble
thee, and to prove thee, to know what was
In thine heart, whether thou wouldst keep
His comma dments no.
3. And He humbled thee, and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with mama,
which thou knewest not, neither did thy
fathers know; that he might make thee
know that man does not live by bread only
but by every word that proceedeth out Of
the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
1. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee
neither did thy foot swell, these forty
years.
5. Thou shalt also consider in thine
heart that, as a man chasteneth his son,
SO the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
9. Therefore thou shalt keep the COM
mandments of the Lord thy God, to walk
in His ways, and to fear Him.
Z. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee
into good land, land of brooks of water,
Of fountains and depths that spring out OF
valleys and hills;
s. land Of wheat and barley, and
vines and fig trees, and pomegranates; a
land of oil, olive and honey;
9. A land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scaNeness, thou shalt not lack any,
thing in It; q land whose stones are iron
and out of whose hills thou mayest dig
brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full,
then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God
for the good land which he hath given
thee.
II. Beware that thou forget not the
Lord thy God. in not keeping his com
mandments, and his judgments, and his
statutes, which 1 command thee this day:
IL. Lest when thou hast eaten and art
FULL and hast built goodly houses, and
dwelt therein:
Is. And when thy herds and thy focks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is null
tiplied;
Il Then thine heart be lifted up. and
thou forget the Lord thy God, which
brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Is. Who led thee through that great and
terrible wilderness. wherein were fiery ser
pents, and scorpions. and drought, where
there was no water; who brought thee forth
water out of the rock of flint;
10. Who fed thee IN the wilderness with
mama, which thy fathers knew not, that
he might humble thee and that he might
prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter
end,
II. And thou say in thine heart, My
power and the might of mine hand hath
gotten me this wealth.
Is. But thou shalt remember the Lord
thy God; for it is he that giveth thee
lish his covenant which he swore unto thy
fathers as it Is this day.
The Lesson.
AS we stand on the border land of a
new year and look back over the way
which we have come. some of us are able to
look upon the wilderness as past, and have
even come to the time when there is danger
of forgetting its lessons. Perhaps the les
sons though grievous In the learning, have
already been forgotten or obliterated in the
joys of the new land of plenty into which
our Lord has brought US, and we are for
getting that 1t Is He. and He alone who
could have led us here.
Ali but II must have been a joyous
morning when the few foolish children who
were left to pass over stood at last upon
the peaks of the promised land and might
call the wilderness past. And they
piled their stones of remembrance up so
ought we to put up ours.
What has the year brought to you? And
! have you learned it's lesson?
Andrew Harper says: THESE two then
that hardship was testing discipline foi
Israel and that It also intended to be
| the means of revealing spirit the SUI
| preme force even in the material world are
/ the mains lessons of the eighth chapter
| OF these, the last is by far the most i'm
| portant. Casting back his eyes upon the
past, the author of Deuteronomy teaches
! that the trials and victories, the wonders
and the terrors of their wilderness time
| of their own conceits and to make them
! know beyond all doubling that God alone
| was their portion, and that apart from Hin
| they had no continuance in the future an6
| no sustainment in the future"
| When you stood by that sick bed when
| you babe goodbye to that dear one, not tG
| meet again until time was past, when you
| bent beneath the heavy load Of sorrow an6
| your heart seemed breaking, then you could
/ not understand why God had made earth
/ so, nor how you could go on living any
| more IN the bright world, with its music
| and happy faces everywhere who knew MOI
| your bitterness. You saw no loving kind
/ ness in 1t, and you could not see what YOU
1 had done to need all that Christening from
| your heavenly Father. Now. as you stand
| and look back upon that time. with perhap.
1 the sadness still shadowing your life, bu
| yet the knowledge that you had to live tina
| you did live. in spite OF 1t all. and thai
| there was something In God which upheld
/ you and made even a smile and feeling O.
/ pleasure possible. Now. can you look bacl
and understand any better what God wal
! doing for your Do you sec He was bringing
out your spirit. Kidding It OF every hin