Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
For Sunday, March 90, 1905.

Acts II: 24-God that made the world
and all things therein, seeing that ne IS
Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands;
25-Neither is worshped with mems
hands, as though he needed anything, see
ing he giveth to all life and breath, and all
things;
2IAnd hath made of one blood all
tons of men for to dwell on all the face of
the earth, and hath determined the times
afore appointed, and the bounds of their
habitation;
27-That they should seek the Lord, if
haply they might feel after him, and find
him, though he be not far from every one
of US;
2S-For in him we live, and move, and
have our being; as certain also of your
own poets have said, for we are also his
offspring.
John IT: 2o-Neither pray for these
alone, but for them also which shall be-
lieve on me through their word
21-That they all may be one; as thou,
Father art in me, and L in thee, that they
also may be one in US; that the world may
believe that thou hast sent us.
The Lesson.
We have grown accustomed to the
thought that Christian Endeavor has en-
circled the globe. We take it a matter
of course that there is an annual Christian
EndeaYor convention in China which calls
land for a two days waiting upon the
Lord. 1t does not seem strange to us that
in one city alone of Persia there are five
Christian Endeavor societies numbering in
their united membership $50. We eX-
claimed over these things when they first
came to pass, but now they are an old
story We seldom think of the brother
hood of Christians stretching over the earth
to which We belong. The JOY of Scripture
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yet We have not thrilled with the thought
that the kingdom of Christ is beginning to
come upon the earth We need to take
trip about the globe, either in reality or
ina gination, and see our own joys and Sor-
rows, our difficulties and mistakes and
endeavorings repeated in our brothers of
the black or red or yellow or dusky coun-
tenances We need to get ready for hea-
ven and the great congregation of the
tribes of the earth, and to remember often
er than we do. He hath made of one
blood all the nations of the earth
For instance, one missionary tells US that
it is hard for the young people in America
to learn to talk in public, but that in In
da the hardest thing for many Is to learn
to say something when they talk in public.
Perhaps we can sympathiZe in that also.
There is a leper village in China, in
which is Christian Endeavor Society, con-
Quoted by the lepers themselves. These
lepers speak of themselves as ,outcasts
from home and friends, but beloved of
Christ" Cannot the resignation of these
brother sufferers of ours over there help US
to bear with some affiiction which makes
us for some portion of our lives outcaStS
from places where we fain would be? Can
you think of yourself as member OF that
leper village? Their life burden yours?
Does 1t not bring throb of sympathy TO
your heart? Is there not a new joy in the
remembrance that all sorrow will be over
some day and that these suffering children
of Jesus will be gathered home away from
1t forever in little while? Why not send
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through your pastor or your denomination
al church board the address of some such
leper village (the one spoken of in Canton,
China) and write a letter of greeting TO
these far-away fellow citizens of the heav-
emily kingdom. You do not know how
much joy and brightness you might bring
to them by some words of brotherliness
You might even send them some little book
let or bit of poem, just to show your remem-
brance at Easter time or Christmas, or some
world wide holiday. And while they could
not write to you, yet they might De able
to send a message through some missionary,
any anyway in little while you will meet
them over on the other side of this life
Pass on your own comfort in some form to
your unknown brothers.
DR.. JeSSup writes OF young man VINO
entered the Christian boarding school at
Shweit, Syria, from the Christian Endeavor
Society in Zahleh. He says that his earn
estness and outspoken sincerity in the mat
ter of prayer and devotion to Christ won
the whole school to his side. When he en-
tered the boys made fun of his saying his
prayers at his bedside. When he left, he
had them all interested in holding regular
prayers by themselvesin the dormitory. The
head of the school testified Of him, He has
a stronger Christian influence in the school
than any teacher in the institute" One of
his comrades said Of him, He turned the
school upside down within year." This
young man has to work during his vaca-
lions as a carpenter to earn the money for
his next years schooling. Is he not Chris
tan brother of whom we may be proud?
Two years ago seven young girls in a
Christian Endeavor Society in Cairo, Egypt,
united in prayer for special work among the
Mohammedans. The result of this secret
meetings for which have been held in the
Bulak quarter of Cairo for three years.
On a Sabbath morning when We are go
ing In leisurely way to our pleasant
church there are places in Florida and away
up in the north where our brothers and sis
tiers cannot attend church service without
walk Of several miles through deep sand or
deeper snow. Do we ever think of them
lovingly as we sit in our favored corner OF
the church? And do they think of us?
Their loving, patient service for Christ and
the church counts nightly in the king
dom's grand summing up. They are doing
the pioneer work. But our Bible teaches
that one place is just as honorable as an
other In the vineyard. Wherever the Lord
has placed US. there we are to do our best.
Let US not compare the laborers, but let US
have loving fellowship with all.
Applied Truth.
Sixty-five years ago two young men from
Scotland went to the wilderness of upper
CanA1a. They had been warned that they