Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz
For Sunday, March 5. 1905.

| For Sunday, March D. l3oo.
Topic: 1.-The Making Of a Christian: His Speech, :"
iConsecration Mee-ing) Psalm 145 LIZ. Il;
Matthew 10: 3D. SO.
| Psalm 145-1- | will extol thee. my GOD.
| o king; and 1 will bless thy name forever
| and ever.
| . Every day will I bless thee; and l will
| praise thy name forever and ever.
| 3. Great is the Lord. and greatly to be
praised; and his greatness is unsearchable
4. One generation shall praise thy works
| to another and shall declare thy mighty
acts.
| s. 1 will speak of the glorious honor of
| thy majesty. and Of thy wondrous works.
| 6. And men shall speak of the might of
| thy terrible acts; and l will declare thy
greatness.
| Z. They shall abundanuy utter the men,
DRY of thy great goodness. and shall sing
of thy righteousness.
s. The Lord is gracious. and full of COM
passion: slow to anger. and of great mercy.
g. The Lord is good to all, and his tender
mercies are over all his works.
| 10. All thy works shall praise thee, o
Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee.
| IL. They shall speak of the glory OF thy
| Kingdom and talk of thy power;
f. IL To make known to the sons of men his
| mighty acts. and the glorious majesty Of
! his kingdom
81 My mouth shall speak the praise of
| the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy
name forever and ever.
| Matthew 1922: whatsoever therefore shall
| confess me before men, him will l confess
also before my Father which is in heaven.
| 49, But whatsoever shall deny me before
men, him will l also deny before my Father
which is in heaven.
| One of the quaint old writers of the Purl-
| tan days says that some are of the opin-
ion that nature hath shut up the tongue
| with a double portcullis of lips and teeth
on purpose that man, by his manner OF dis
position might have constant and silent
| kind of admontion that he should not De
oyerhasty to speak," Yet, while silence Is
| often golden, while it often marks victory
| of the grandest character for the Christian
| soldier still there are times when to speak
| is an imperative duty, when merely to Keep
silence is cowardice. For the man who is to
be thoroughly furnished unto every good
work it is essential that he be prepared to
meet such an emergency to improve every
such opportunity. The question of speaking
in prayer meeting must give every true
Endeavorer much thought as to how to do
it to the very best advantage. 1t is rare
that error is made here in the direction of
speech; there is usually surplus of gold
en- silence" Some one has said that our
PRAYER meetings are often like the Siberian
rivers-'frozen at the mouth God, listen
ing for His little human praise must
often miss it He Stands within the
| shadows
voice of praise in singing is often silent. We
perhaps do not take the trouble to open the
book or if we do we stare about the room,
our thoughts on other things, never think
ing that the singing is a part of the worship
of God, and though our voices may not be
of the sweetest and we do not know one
note from another, we yet may sing unto
Him with the heart. That Is a part OF
Christians duty. We should be ready al
ways to confess Christ if it be but in
word before men. if we expect Him 20 con-
TESS us before the Father. And we must
take care that the word we speak Tor
Christ in public comes from the heart and
be not merely form with the lips, else
there is no true praise of God in 1t. If
God has been anything at all to US in our
Christian lives there will surely be some
little thing He has done for us that we
can tell others about A Christian Who
does not make known to the sons of mel
'tiis mighty acts is not doing the duty
which God put him on earth to perform
Tho old PRESBYTERIAN catechsm question is
well tt. be remembered in this connection.
THE chief end of man is to glorify God
and enjoy Him forever. Let us ALL q
our Father, love Thee enough so that we
shall "abundantly utter the memory of
Thy great goodness
But 1t is not only in prayer meeting that
we may make our lips speak Gods praise
There is the quiet little word that may be
snoken to the friend acquaintance. the
testimony for Christ. the letting the other
soul know that you are praying for him.
Then there Is the HOHie ldih. OuT ttAt
saws: zone generation shall praise thy
works to another" and sometimes young
Christian Endeavorers forget when they
come home from church that the ears of
their little brothers and sisters are open
and listening to see if they praise God or
the world in their conversation. Who can
measure the power for good i'll that
dwells in the tongue? Only God. Be sure
that He does measure 1t, and will hold
YOU to a strict accounting for the same |
Remember that weeds will grow faster |
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full. therefore, not to drop even a seed of
II especially into youthful ears.
There also is the Sabbath conversation |
To he considered In the 18th verse of the |
5sSh chapter of Isaiah where told |
to call the Sabbath a delight. and to honor |
the Lord through it, mot doing thine own J
WAYS nor finding thine own pleasure, nor |
speaking thine own words, we have a |
standard set for Sabbath talk. Yet how
often we come from church and talk about |
our neighbor's bonnet, or the worldly af- |
fairs of our friends, and by no way could |
a stranger tell whether we believed in and |
loved the Lord our Redeemer or not, that |
is if he were to judge from our conversa-
ton The Christian should look out that /
his Sabbath conversation is different from
that on the week day.
But there is also need for guarding 1t in |
week days There are certain kinds of |
talk that Christian should never in |
dulge in at any time or before any one. |
The Christians conversation should be pure
and wholesome. He has no right to soil his /
tongue with a shameful story, nor lend |
Il to sharp words Soothing as a gentle |
and sweet ointment that causeth q Tester /
ing wound to heal. SO does wholesome |