Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-26
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.
For Sunday August 81 1905.
Topic: "Missi,n Work Among Women" tIIome ant
Foreign Fields.) Acts xvi:13-1S; Titus ii3-5

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| Acts xvi:
| Ii. And on the Sabbath we went out of
| the city by river SIDE where prayer was
wont to be made; and we sat down and
! spake unto the women which resorted
| thther.
IA And certain woman named Lydia a
| seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira,
! which worshiped God, heard us. whose
| heart the Lord opened, that she attended
! unto the things which were spoken of
| Paul.
10. And when she was baptized, and her
| household, she besought us, saying, If We
| have judged me to be faithful to the Lord
| come into my house and abide there. And
| she constrained us.
IL. And 1t came to pass, went to
prayer. certain damsel possessed with a
spirit OF divlnatfon met US, which brought
her masters much gain by soothsaying:
II. The same followed Paul and us, and
cried, saying, These men are the servants
of the most high God, which SheW unto US
the way of salvation.
IS. And this did she many days. But
Paul. being grieved, turned and said to the
spirit, 1 command thee in the name of
Jesus Christ to come out Of her. And he
came out the same hour.
Titus II:
3. The aged women likewise, that they
be in behavior as becometh holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine,
teachers of good things:
4. That they may teach the younger
women to be sober, to love their husbands,
to love their children,
O. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at
home, good, obedient to their own hus-
bands, that the word Of God be rot bias
phemed.
The Lesson.
The story of mission work reads more
like that of Bible times than like present
day reality. We cannot fail to the
likeness as we study the story Of missions
and then read the Bible story over again.
According to their Greek derivations the
state of mind meant here by Paul in his
letter to Titus. which he wishes to have
taught to the women, means of SOUND
mind" or, in other words, "self-control.
Perhaps it also implies a stronger sense
than the ordinary acceptatlon OF the WORD,
"Self-mastery' gives the idea. 1t Is the
kind of self-control the gospel teaches, not
morality merely. And this, as we read the
story of missions, is what is being taught
to the heather. Christ comes into their
ignorant, selfguded lives and takes com
plete mastery, more complete, often, than
when He comes into the life of a civilized,
| educated person, in a land where other
| things fill so large part OF the attention,
| and religion does not become everything.
Ten daughters are in no wise equal to
| one SON Is a Chinese proverb, and an In
| dian proverb says: Woman enters life I'M
| welcomed, continues uncared for and un-
| wanted and dies unlamented." Wherever
| the Gospel of Jesus has not gone TINS Is
| the state of woman.
A century ago Japanese women had no
| hope OF any happiness in the future un-
| less they might be reborn as men
A deputy inspector of police in lndla
| when asked if he had any children said
| that he had had the misfortune to nave
| had two daughters, but he had dispatched
| them both and now he hoped God would
bless him with a son!
| Slavery and infanticide are so frequent in
China that there Is notice near poor
not far from Foochow which says: Girls
may not be drowned mere
Among the Tenneh Indians Of Alaska
polygdmy prevails, and the wires are taken
and put away at VIII.
In some parts of Africa when missions
first began "A mans wealth was expressed
In the number OF wives he possessed, which
he bought any other merchandise. In
one OF his early letters Mr.. Mackay gave
the following list of articles paid for
Corisco girl Twenty small bars of iron,
one gun, one neptune, one brass Kettle, one
coat, one shirt, one chair, one hat, two
caps, one cutlass, four knives, one UNI
brclIa, one chest. four wash basins, six
plates, four empty bottles, one key of pow
der, one iron pot, one brass pan, ten brass
rods, ten pieces of cloth, five mugs, one
small looking glass one jug, four pins,
five needles, five fish hooks, two raZors. two
pairs of scissors, eight punches of small
beads three pairs of earrings, one pocket
knife three padlocks and keys, four pipes,
| for her mother. one silk handkerchief, one
| small bell, one tunbler."
Missions in heather countries have begun
| to bring about a different state of things.
The blessed women who have dedicated
| their lives TO working for Jesus have gone
| into the women's apartments where no man
| missionary would ever be able to enter and
| speak to the women OF Christ and His sal
| walton. Here little girls are secluded at ten
| years of age in some countries. and not al
! lowed TO have any freedom in the outside
| world, and here they learn little but evil.
| Early betrothed and sedulously watched.
| seeing and hearing much that they should
| never have knowledge of, how can they be
| good and how can they learn to teach their
| children in turn2 This the woman mission
! airy and the native woman Bible reader has
! changed to a large degree. The women
| have learned of the news that is coming to
| them and many poor creatures are eagerly
| longing for sight OF a missionary womans
| face and a chance TO hear her talk
missionary recently travelling far up the
| coast OF Japan found band of women who
| had been praying for four years for visit
/ from a woman.
The fact that In India and many other
| countries some OF the chief men In the
| kingdom are trying to get for their wives
] girls who have been educated in the Chris
/ tian school shows that the whole state of
| things with regard 10 women must see Il de-
| cided change in all heather lands before
| long The girls are taken in these schools
| when little. and taught how to keep house,
| how to keep clean how to love one another
| and best OF all how to love God. 1t stands
| to reason that the homes they make for
| their future husbands must needs be better
| and brighter than those OF past heathen-
| DOM and that they will let the light OF the
| gospel shine in there brightly
| great deal is being done for the women
q, In our own land who do not know Christ
| but they are so many, and the burdens
| press so sore, and after all the great deal
| that is being done is so very little when put
| in comparison to the great need. Does II
| NOT II Christian
young and old, ought 10 take upon her heart
| TO pay for, and 10 work for, and to love
| little. and help one other woman who has
| not had her advantages? We cannot all of