Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-17

drink
and see how you can help them. Help them
to stop drinking, to make their homes pure
and bright, help them to Jesus Christ, who
alone can save them from the tempter.
Applied Truth.
A Christian negro. who was a waiter In q
large and fashionable hotel where wine
was served freely. one day came to the pro-
prietor and announced his intention of keay-
ing. Upon being Questioned as to the cause
he said: well, sir. I've just been reading
my orders in the Bible. and found there
is says, Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drina,,' and I've got to go out Of
the business didn't know that was In
the Bible before. or wouldn't have been
in it." There are great many Christians
who go out Of the business of religion
sooner than give I'D their worldly business,
when they find the orders are at variance.
A very polite old southern gentleman
was one day asked by neighDor to come
into saloon and take a. drink with him:
Thank you, I don't care for anything"
he replied. But come in and take some
thing, just for sociabilitys sake" urged
the other. mo, want to be sensible, but
I can't drink with YOU" The other man
offended by the refusal. Soon the pair
neared drug store. II do not feel very
WELL" said the old southerner, and think
I'll step in here and take some castor oil.
castor Oil? No. I hate the stuff" and he
shuddered as If suddenly struck with a
chill.
''But want you to take glass Of oil
the old gentleman. But when his friend
still refused he added. Your sociable
whisky Is just as distasteful to me as my
sociable oil is to you. Don't you think I've
as much reason to be offended with you as
you have with me?"
It is related of an old Mohegan king
named Zachary that he had been great
formed. He was in the habit of taking
dinner once a year with the governor Of
Connecticut On one of these occasions
a son of the governor, thinking to test
this beer is excellent vial you taste it?''
The old man dropped his knife, his black
eyes sparkling with Indignation, and said:
John, do you know what you are doing?
that am an Indian; and that If I should
but taste the beer I could not stop until
got to ruin and became again the drunken,
contemplate wretch your father reznem-
live never tempt a man to break good
resolution"
How to Help the Leader.
Tell the story Of the two Quaker ladies
who visited saloon in Chicago during the
keeper tract with these words: Friend,
dost thou know what thou art doing? Dost
thou know that thou art destroying souls?
And, after they left, their words haunted
him until he was forced to close his sa-
loon.
Parallel Passages.-Isaiah, xxviii:7; Prov
cribs, XXI; Proverbs, xxiii:21, 81; Daniel,
i:S; Deuteronomy, xxi:2O; Romans, xtv:21;
Isaiah, vii; Isaiah. xxviii:1; Corinthians
WHO: Galatians. VII.
Hints to the Leader.-The Endeavor Hymn
nal: 1873. 14O. 1853, PIP, 219. 24s.
Open your meeting by a season Of pray
pecially for individuals under the curse
of drink in some way, not by NAME of
course. Ask all to pray at least SEN
tence.
Have a chain Of verses showing how the
Bible condemns tntemperance, and another
chain of promises of encouragement, first
for the worker and then for the drunkard.
personally to them where drink has
brought sorrow Of some kind also call
for instances Of the power of God to save.
Do not forget to mention the response
bility Of every Christian in some measure,
that this curse rests upon our nation.
Said Christ our Lord. II will go and see
How the men, my brethren, believe in Me-"
But still wherever His steps they led
The Lord In bent down His head,
And from under the heavy foundation stones
T1e Son Of Mary heard bitter groans.
''Have you founded your thrones and affairs, then,
On the bodies and souls of living men7
And think We that building shall endure
Which shelters the noble and brushes the poor7
l have heard the dropping of their tears
In heaven these eighteen hundred years
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.