Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-08
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hni-Lutz.

Conducted by Grace Livingston Hni-Lut1.
Topic. The Indwelling Christ" Colossians
ii;6-1o; iii:s-18.
Colossians go AS we have therefore re-
ceived Christ Jesus the Lord. SO walk ye
in Him.
I. Rooted and built up In Him. and es-
tablished in the faith. as ye have been
taught, Astounding therein with thanks
giving.
6. Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the ira
dtion of men. after the rudiments of the
world. and not after Christ.
o. For In Him dwelieth all the fullness or
the Godhead bodily.
10. And ye are complete in Him. which is
the head Of all principally and power.
Colossians 3S. But now ye also put on
all these; anger, wrath. malice, blasphemy.
filthy communication out of your mouth.
8. Lie not one to another, seeing that we
have put off the old man with his DEEDS.
10. And have put on the new man, wmch
is renewed in knowledge after the image
of Him that created Him.
1.Where there Is neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian,
Scythian. bond nor free; but Christ Is all,
and in all.
T. Put on therefore, as the elect of God.
holy and beloved bowels of mercies, kind
ness. humbleness of mind, meekness, long
suffering.
49, Forbearing one another. and forgetting
one another, If any man have quarrei
against any: even as Christ forgave you,
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SO also do ye.
IA And above all these things put on
charity, which Is the bond Of perfectness
10. And let the peace of God rule In your
hearts, to the which also We are called IN
one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell In you
richly in all wisdom; teaching and admon-
ishing one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing with grace in
your hearts to the Lord.
son high In our regard and the nations
thought, should this day send you word that
he was coming to your city or village to
make an extended stay, and that he had
heard of you and desired to know you bet
ter, and therefore he going to ask you
to let him stay with you while he was in
that neighborhood, how honored you would
feel. Having written to tell him how pleas
ed you were that he was coming, you would
forthwith set about putting your house in
order. Every room would have to be clean
ed, for you would say: Suppose he should
come in here for something, or chance to
see that, how ashamed / would be!' and
every nook and Granny would be carefully
swept and garnished. All signs of anything
unpleasant would be put out of sight. and
If there was anything which you knew your
distinguished guest did not like, you would
take great care that it should not be in evil
dence. You would put far from you any
thing that would offend his tastes. You
would consider 1t an insult to have about a
ed or book of an opposite political party.
For mere courtesy's sake you would make
everything as pleasant as possible for him.
Not for an instant would you think of In
Wiling to meet him some one whom you
knew he did not like or who was his con-
fessed enemy. You would carefully select
those you knew Were his friends and urge
them to come and take dinner with you, and
never would you quarrel with some one you
knew he loved.
How Is it that # you would do this for
an earthly guest you do not, with even
more care, do this for the Heavenly guest
who today sends you word once more, as He
has many times before done. that He will
abide with you, and that He desires you to
let His peace take the rule in your life?
And we who have received Christ Jesus
the Lord have sometimes not treated Him
well as we would have treated the
President of the United States. Having &C
cepted the great honor of having Christ
come and dwell with US. we ought to so
walk" to so order our lives that our hearts
and homes will be fit dwelling places for
him.
Christ, the holy Christ, the "fullness of
the Godhead bodily" cannot be expected TO
dwell in house with malice wrath anger.
Yet you let these abide and seem not to
think them great hindrances to your spirit
ual life 1t is as though when you had a
distinguished guest you should set down
before him something which he disliked,
which had an offensive odor, and though
you knew that the smell sickened him, you
should calmly leave it there meal after
meal, close to his plate. deploring indeed
that 1t was there, but taking no means to
remove 1t from the table and the room.
Have you not done that with your temper
sometimes? Invited the Lord Christ to dwell
with you and then let your evil temper have
full sway? Angry words have arisen to
your lips. and you have not stayed them
on account of the heavenly presence. which
has promised to be always with you You
have let them go just as you felt like doing,
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have said: WELL / know l have a peppery
temper 1t isn't good thing to have but
L can't help it. It's no worse not SO bad as
what my neighbor does"
You bear malice, too, you know you do.
You take the trouble to go out of your way
to snub Mrs. B. because you fancy she
snubbed you once. Perhaps she did, but
what is that? Can a mere woman's snub
hurt one who is honored with Lord Christ
for guest? Besides, Mrs B. is your dear
Lords friend. He has called her So You
dishonor Him when you bear malice toward
her. If she has done wrong to you that is
between her and her Lord, not for Won to
settle.
If Christ is to dwell with us we must alb
solutely put Him in control of ourselves.
His peace must rule.
Alexander Maclaren says: The peace OF
Christ, then, is to sit enthroned as umpire
in the heart, or, If we might give a me-
diaeval instead of a classical shape to the
figure that fair sovereign, Peace, is to be
rain influence and adjudge the prize When
contending impulses and reasons distract
and seem to pull us in opposite directions
let her settle which is to prevail. How can
the peace of Christ do that for US? We
may make rude test of good and evil by
their effects on our inward repose What
ever mars our tranquility, ruffing the sur
face so that Christ's image is no longer
visible, is to be avoided. The stiffness of
spirit is very sensitive and shrinks away at
the presence of an evil thing Let 1t be for
us what the barometer is to sailor. and IL
1t sinks let us be sure storm is at hand
II we find that a given course of action
tends to break our peace, we may be GER
tain that there is poison in the draught
which, as in the old stories has been de-
tected by the shivered cup, and we should
not drink any more. There is nothing so
precious that 1t Is worth while to lose the
peace of Christ for the sake of it, When
ever we find it in peril we must retrace
our steps,"
Applied Truth.
How often does a mother say to her
child when putting clean snow-white
pinafore in the morning, Now my darling.
do keep it clean!' Yes, mother and she
intends to do so. but, alas, for her inten-
lions! At dinner time she comes home with
her pinafore about as dirty as she can make