Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-01
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR


CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOK Hulk
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz
| For Sunday, April 2, 1905.
Topic: 1.-The Making of Christian: His Food"
| 9 Timothy 3 :14-17; John :47-5s.
| 2 Timothy 81
| IA. But continue thou in the things which
| thou hast learned and hast been assured of,
| knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
! 10. And that from a child thou hast
known the Holy Scriptures, which able
! to make thee wise unto salvation through
| faith. which is in Christ Jesus.
is. All scripture is given by inspiration of
God. and is profitable for doctrine. for re-
| proof, for correction, for instruction in
| righteousness:
II. That the man of God may be perfect,
| thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
John, 6:
A. Verify. verify. say unto you. he that
| believeth on me hath everlasting life.
4S. am that bread of life.
| 40. Your fathers did eat mama in the will
| derness and are dead.
| 80 This is the bread which cometh down
| from heaven, that a man may eat thereof
| and not die.
81. 1 am the living bread which came
down from heaven; if any man eat of this
bread he shall live forever: and the bread
| that 1 will give Is my flesh, which l will
| give for the life of the world
%. The Jews therefore strove among
themselves saying, How can this man give
| us His flesh to eat?
%: Then said Jesus unto them: Verify.
verify L say unto you, except ye eat the
flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his
| blood, ye have life in YOU
"a. Whose eateth my flesh, and drinketh
| my blood, hath eternal life; and will raise
| him up at the last day. e :
80, 80. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my
| blood is drink indeed
o. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh
| my blood dwelleth in me, and in him.
| 81 AS the living Father hath sent me, and
I live by the Father: so he that eateth me.
| even he shall live by me.
o. This Is that bread which came down
| from heaven: not your fathers did eat
mama, and are dead: he that eateth of this
| bread shall live forever.
The Lesson.
More attention is being given to the oues-
| ton of health and what we shall eat today
| than ever before in the history of mankind
Books and articles are being written upon
| this and that phase of the question, and lee
| lures are constantly being given. In every
| trolley car advertisements of new and
healthful preparations stare us in the face
and our breakfast tables fairly bristle with
| boxes of prepared food, each one claiming
| to nourish brain, muscles and nerves in a
| new and wonderful way. Some Of them are
| matted. some Of them are pre-digested, some
| of them require hard work to grind up be-
| fore they are fit to swallow. but all of them
| are more or less good and helpful in our
| struggle to regain the health that genera
| lions of high living and wrong doing have
tried to steal from US.
| Even our government has entered with
| zest into the great reform, and established
| what is called poison class" consisting
| OF number of young men volunteers, who
| live upon certain foods prepared with acids
| and certain poisonous preservatives, said to
| be comparatively harmless by those who
1 Nut ftnnv,, for COL
| the suspected food for a time and an exact
record is kept of it's effect upon every func-
! ton of the body. If found to be deleterious
to the human system, a law is passed pro-
| htbiting the further sale of any such pre-
| pared food Now, these young men do not
| know just what Is being fed to them. They
| may eat harmless food for week or more,
| and they may live for month upon sus-
| pected meats. Sometimes the thought of
| this takes hold upon man and causes him
| to worry lest he is being slowly poisoned,
and he loses appetite and grows pale. Such
| men have to be weeded out from the class
before a full test can be made. because
| there must be no worry Of the mind to be
calculated upon in making final test of
| large And all this is being done merely
for the good Of this poor earthly, dying
| body.
1 dying spiritually just for the lack of little
/ nourishment. It is worse than the famine
| In India, because the end of the victims is
| eternal death. not merely earthly death.
| We are told that during the famine In India
many people went on dying of starvation
even after corn had reached them from
/ other succoring lands, just because the poor
sufferers did not know how to prepare the
| strange material, and In some cases be-
| cause they were too far gone to be able to
| assimilate the hearty food. But starving
souls need not die for that reason The
bread that Jesusrgiv is simple enough for
| the merest babe, and strong enough for the
| hearty man. And no man need stop to ques-
ton about this food whether 1t is fit for his
| system. and whether or not it contains
poison. From little children we at least
| of this favored land of America have
known the Holy Scriptures" Look back
| at the long line of gentle and brave saints
who have lived and died by them. Are they
not witnesses of these things il ever a doubt
| shall enter our minds? The blessed grand
| father, how he pondered those pages. and
| murmured the promises on his dying bed.
| The patient grandmother! How she bore the
years of loneliness and trials, leaning upon
the words of the Book which she read 80
| often! All, we know wen OF whom we have
| learned the Holy Scriptures. What we
have not known, all of us, with saving
| knowledge, is the fact that 1t Is liable to
| make us wise unto salvation" If we would
| once take in the thought and believe IT,
| perhaps we should have healthier, hap
| pier set of Christians In our societies than
| we have now. Joseph Cook says: May /
whisper that have a Bible marked when
was about fourteen or seventeen years of
| age, and had just united with the church,
/ and that today 1t is the most unspeakable
/ record on which can put my hand In my
| little pasti IL every five years YOU can
| mark a Bible thoroughly, and memorize
| what Is marked. 1t will be your best diary.
| You can do little better reading than to fill
| the margins OF a copy of the Scriptures
| once every FIVE years full Of the records of
| the deepest inmost in your souls, to be In
/ telligible to yourself and to no one else.
| Shut the door on that record. Enter into
your closet and keep your secrets with AL
| mighty God"
Applied Truth.
"But most emphatically OF all does our