Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25
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nations and over the kingdoms, to root out,
and to pull down. and to destroy. and to
throw down, to build, and to plant.
IL. Moreover, the word of the Lord came
unto me, saying, jeremiah, what seest
thou? And 1 said, see rod of an almond
tree.
T. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou
hast well seen: for l will hasten my WORD
to perform 1t.
49, And the word of the Lord came
unto me the second time, saying, what
seest thou? And 1 said 1 see a seething
pot; and the face thereof is toward the
north.
IA. And the Lord said unto me, Out of
the north an evil shall break forth upon
all the inhabitants of the land
Is. For, 10, will call all the families
of the kingdoms of the north, saith the
Lord; and they shall come and they shall
set every one his throne at the entering
of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
all the walls thereof round about, and
against all the cities of Judah.
1G. And 1 will utter my judgments
against them touching all their wicked
ness. who have forsaken me, and have
burned incense unto other gods, and wor-
shipped the works of their own hands.
H. Thou therefore grid up thy loinS,
and arise, and speak unto them all that
l command thee" be not dismayed at their
faces, lest / confound thee before them.
49, For, benold, 1 have made thee this
day a defenced city, and an iron pillar,
against the kings of Judah, against the
princes thereof, against the priests there
of and against the people of the land.
ID And they shall fight against thee;
but they shall not prevail against thee
for am with thee, saith the Lord, to de-
liver thee.
The Lesson.
jeremiah is said by students and critics
to have had a shrinking, almost feminine
character. The foregoing passage, in the
light of that fact, shows what God can do
for the weakest of His servants whom He
has chosen fer an heroic office. Rev. {. j.
Ball. NJ. A., says:
From the moment that he became de-
cisively convinced of his mission Jere-
miah's career is marked by struggles and
vicissitudes of the most painful and peril
Gus kind his perseverance in his allotted
path was met by an ever increasing hard
| ness on the part of the people; opposition
and ridicule became persecution, and the
| messenger of Divine truth persisted in pro-
claiming his message at the risk of his own
| life. That life may, in fact, be called a
prolonged martyrdom; and, if we may
| judge of the unknown by the known, the
| tradition that the prophet was stoned to
death by the Jewish refugees in Egypt Is
only too probable an account of its final
scene. If the natural shrinking of some
what feminine character is traceable in
| his own report of his conduct a particular
junctureS, does not the fact shed an in
tenser glory upon the man who overcame
| this instructive timidity, and persisted, In
| face of the most appalling dangers in the
path of duty?'
Well chosen is this old pioneer of home
missions for the key note of study of
| such heroes. And for all whom He has
! called to this blessed life of sacrifice and
| love our Father has the same words of en-
| couragement and promise and strength.
| 1t does not seem possible that during the
! rapid march of civilization in the last fifty
years there is much hardship left for the
| home missionary, unless, perhaps, it may
| be the common lot of small salary and
much hard work. We are apt to look upon
| the home missionary as favored Delng,
| forgetting that we never knew now many
| trials he often has to pass through. Take
| the regions in the north of our possessions,
| and think deeply before we speak again
| lightly of the home missionary's trials. DR..
| Fnks speaks of the example of DR.. koonce
| in central Alaska on the Yukon. He built
| his own hut, manufactured his own furnl-
| ture, erected his own house of worship,
visited the mining camps with the Their
| mometer 60 below zero, to care for the
| hopeless and desperate. When appointed
| a commissioner from the new Yukon pres
| bytery to represent it's great needs to gen.
orally assembly he travelled with his dog
sled 1900 miles to reach the coast, over
almost unknown regions, through arctic
| SHOWS and zero colo, much of the way
alone. He has since taken trips over his
| immense parish-hundreds of miles-to visit
| mining camps on the Tanana, when he
| could not even get dog team, but hitched
himself to the sled and dragged his sup
plies" And the awful need of the mis-
sionary in these places is voiced in this ap-
peal from one of the miners:
Life among us is hard at best. Death
alone is certain and inevitable The pay
streak of eternity is as wide as the heav-
ems and deep as Gods love. The trail to
those dggings. through the snow of life. is
dim and wind blown, and has many
branches. We have no guide. VIII you
send US one?'
There are heroes working joyously among
the SHOWS and bitter cold lying down at
night in a hole they have dug in a snow
drift, knowing that bowling wolves will
walk about them as they sleep They live
their lives out in that far place, with no
thought of saving themselves, and we fell
lOw-Christians think it hard if we have to
go to PRAYER meeting in furry of flakes.
Some of these heroes are only out on our
western prarieS, but they must often face
binding storms and Billiards, they must
eat the coarsest of food and get along with
all sorts Of Inconvenience, while we get
laZlly out of our warm beds, dress in 4
pleasant summer heated bat ROOM where
hot and cold water and toilet articles are
ours for the taking, and where the porcelain
tub and beveled mirrors suggest the life of
the luxurious. We dress in the latest style
and go down to a carefully prepared break
fast with frown upon our faces, and we
dole out the tenth to the Lords treasury
anu call ourselves CHRISTIANS! Nay, per-
haps we even have aspirations toward hero
ism ourselves. Have we not a lesson vet
to learn from Gods servants who are Civ
ing their lives in our own country to save
souls? Can we listen without tears to the
story of the home missionary who when he
was to come east to talk to us in some of
our missionary meetings about his work
had no good white shirt to wear and it
had to be made from an old white garment
of his wife's, with much pains and many
tears and prayers of wife and daughter to
make their beloved respectable to appear
here, that Gods cause might not be dis
sraced?
But we do not even have to go to the far
west to find these heroes of Christ They
are close at hand, at your own door, You
will find them in every city, and even in
small towns, those who are giving up their
own desires and wishes for the sake of
helping others to Jesus. Foreign missions
have been taking such strides of late that
presently we shall have to turn our atten-
ton more strongly to our own land for it
may even be that the heather Will have to
send missionaries to us yet, if we do not
live more consistent lives.
How to Help the Leader.
If you know of any one who is doing
heroic work to save souls tell about him.
Parallel passages: Matthew, $500; Isaiah,