Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-18
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Luts.

For Sunday February 10, 1905.
| Topic: "Glorifying God In Our Home" Ephesians
| 6:19.
| 1. Children, obey your parents in the
Lord. for this is right
2. Honor thy father and thy mother;
which is tie first commandment with
| promise;
3. That 1t may be we'll with thee, and
| thou mayest live long on the earth
| f. And, we fathers, provoke not your chill
dIen to wrath; but bring them up In the
| nurture and admonition Of the Lord.
5. Servants be obedient to them that are
| your masters according to the fesh with
fear and trembling, in singleness OF your
heart as unto Christ;
9. Not with eye service, as men pleasers;
but as the servants of Christ, doing the
will of God from the heart
Z. With good will doing service, as to
the Lord, and not to men;
8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing
any mar dOeth the same shall he receive
of the Lord whether he be bond or free.
8. And, we masters, do the same thing
unto them, forbearing threatening; knowing
that your Master also is in heaven: neither
is there respect of persons with Him.
The Lesson.
Paul begins with the very little ones in
the household, in this his lesson of how all
all children, or we have been. 1t matters
not if some of us have grown to be older
children and think we can manaGe our own
affairs the lesson is the same It the root
Of things And the larger part of the
Christian Endeavor Society is made up of
those who while they would not perhaps
strictly be called children, are yet chill
dren' in the home, being still more or less
dependent upon father and mother for sup
port and guidance.
1t has become pitably common for the
children of today after they reach the age
of twelve and fourteen to disregard this
command of God. Mary, put on your rub
berS when you go out today, says mother,
and Mary slips unseen from the door with
out the rubbers and says impatiently at
night when charged with the disobedience:
"Oh, well, knew l didn't need them L m
not going to- wear rubberS any more. None
of the girls do" Then if mother signs and
worries lest a cold will be- the result. but
says no more, Mary goes happily on and
never seems to know that she has broken
one of Gods fundamental laws of the fam
lily. And if Mary begins that way at
twelve or sixteen. little wonder is it, that at
twenty she letS>her own VIII lead her INTO
far graver wrong than the mere wearing OF
some garment to protect her against the
weather. God has put us in families for
His own wise reasons. He has given US
parents to teach us the way heavenward.
their hands until we are able to take it for
ourselves Even then when we are old
enough to guide ourselves. and sometimes
have to choose other ways than the father
or mother would choose for US, we nave
still the command left to honor" them.
Then the going contrary to them must be
done in the right spirit. There is only one
higher authority than the parents, and that
is God If a wicked father or mother COM
mand a child to commit sin, something for
hidden by God. then the child is to obey
God first Now in the face of this. how
many boys and girls, young men and young
women are forgetting to glorify God in
their homes by the simplest and cas- est way
in all the world, just plain home obedience,
and yielding to the wish of father or
mother, in all matters that do not keep
the soul from God!
There is admonition to fathers, too,
but if we are not fathers and mothers that
does not concern us now. Many children
have only read that part, however, and
passed over their own part lightly, laying
the blame upon the proyocation given by
father or mother. 1t is often the case that
parents are unnecessarily harsh and sharp
in their requirements. Nevertheless, that
fact does not take away the obligation of
the child, and more often the unwillingness
of the child has been the cause of the
harshness after all. The glory of home
where the children willingly follow the de-
sires of the loving father and mother
shines out into this dark, sinful world with
a brightness that nothing dim. 1t is
brilliant sermons or much active work IN
church. If you cannot glorify God in the
home where He has placed you it is eX-
ceedngly doubtful whether you will ever
be able to glorify Him anywhere. He that
is faithful in that which is least, re-
member.
But not all of us are children parents
in the home. There are servants many,
and masters. The kind of service that the
Bible here speaks of, mot with eyeservice,
men pleasers, but servants of
Christ" has almost gone out of fashion.
1t may be partly the fault of the masters
not remembering that in the eyes of the
Lord there is no respecting of persons, and
that Christ is master over the master and
the mistress on earth.
MY lady wants me to sweep up on Sum
day. and she is so harsh and cross to me L
can't be a Christian says an old colored
woman. "And could not you prevent the
Sunday work Hannah, by doing your work
unusually carefully on Saturday, ques-
toned her friend Then the old woman
laughed consciously and said II 'spose L
could f I'd try. 1t was cause l didn't
sweep de corners clean had to do 'em
over
The servant of today has wider field
than almost any other Christian to show
forth the glory of God in triumphing over
the kitchen and making the corners shine
with cleanliness. the biscuits puff fine and
white, the service willing and cheerful
for Christs sake. Oh, for a few such serv-
ants! Wages could not pay for SUCH serv-
lce-Only love ana gratitude WOulu De a Ut !
return. There are kitchens waiting all |
over this earth for some servants of Christ |
to enter them and let His glory shine forth. |
There are masters and mistresses who |
know not Jesus, who might be led, yes, |
actually led to Christ, through such |
servant as Paul describes. No position |
in life is too lowly in which to win pre- |
ciouS souls for Jesus. Try it in your cor |
ner, your home, wherever, whatever that |
home may be, though it may be only an |
uncomfortable boarding house, you can by |
your every act show forth the glory of God. |
Applied Truth.
For twenty-five years a lovely Christian |
woman prayed that her husband might be |
brought to know and love her dear Re- |
deemer. She could not speak to her hus- !,
band about it, because he grew very angry |
at any reference to personal religion, and |
became profane and blasphemous. In ST.
lence, therefore, she watched and prayed |
living consistent Christian life every day
When the hair had grown white upon that |
husbands temples he went to his wifes
minister day, and with tear-filled eyes
asked to be received into the church, say
ing that he wanted a religion that had
helped his wife to live with him and keep
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