Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

live ~ you do. and must you Keep your
self separate from them, peculiar peo-
p1e,s' looking and waiting for ''the city
WHICH hath foundations whose builder and
maker Is God7" Can your faith make you
endure hot kitchen as II the Lord sat
by your side helping with the homely task?
Did 1t help you last week when you had
to offer up or expected to have to, some
one CT thing very dear to you? We need
and whether It VIII stand the tests that
the men and women who have lived and
died by 1t stood
Applied Truth.
1t is said that In the days of Bloody Mary
poor Protestant was condemned to be
burned alive. When he came in sight OF
the stake he exclaimed: "Oh, l cannot
burn! I cannot burnt Those who heard
him supposed he intended to recant. but
they misunderstood him. He felt he need
ed more confidence 10 bear the ordeal, and
being left for few minutes ne cried ~
an agony of prayer that God would reveal
Himself to him. Then he cried out trf-
umphantly: Now can burn! Now can
burnt"
James Large tells the story of poor old
Nanny the Scotch Christian who was bed
ridden and dying, yet rich IN lallh. Her
young minister used to call upon her more
to get help for himself than from any ne
cessity of helping her, and one day, just to
try her faith, he said to her: suppose,
Nanny. that after all your praying and all
your trusting. God were to cast you on az
herself upon her elbow and said; Eth.
mon Is that a. the length ye got to yet?
Why, mon, God wad be the greater loser.
Poor Nanny wad lose her soul, to be sure,
and that wad be sair loss indeed, but
God wad lose His character. He knows
I've Just hung UP my soul and all my hopes
upon His ain precious promises. and il they
should be broken the whole universe Wad
gang to ruin, for God wad be har!
devout Arab woman was asked In her
last illness how she endured her terrible
suffering. She replied: They who look
upon Gods face do not feel His hand.
ship was battling with storm at sea
and the captains little son was playing un-
concerned upon the deck Some one asked
him If he was not afraid, and he replied:
mo. sir, because my fathers at the wheel"
Mr.. Moody tells of chaplain during the
war of the rebellion passing among the
cots of the wounded in the hospital. He
found one who was a Christian and asked
him Of what persuasion he was. He re-
piled: OF pauls per ss But ut, are
to 't the 81 church," mo, said the
man, "I am persuaded that He is able to
keep that which ! have committed unto
Him against that day." That was what
gave the dying soldier rest and peace In
his last earthly hour.
An infdel was crossing the Great Sa-
hara desert in company with an Arab
guide who every day, he noticed with
sneer. fell upon his knees in the sand and
called upon God. Day after day passed
any obstacle or hindrance. At last the in
fdel asked his guide. with contemptuous
smile: How do you know there is a
God?" How do I know there is a God?"
IL 1t
How do I know that a man and not
camel passed my hut last night in the
darkness? Was it not by the print Of his
feet in the sand? Even so''-and he point
ed to the sun. whose last rays were fash
ing over the lonely desert-"that footprint
Is not that of man."
How to Help the Leader.
Tell of some time when your faith has
helped you Over a hard place, given you
confidence or strength. Or If you have no
experience of your own, tell of that of
some one you know
Parallel assages-Romans, iv:5; Gala
James, h14-17; l Corinthians, xvi:l3; He
brews, x:23; John, vi:40; John, i:12.
Hints to the Leader-The Endeavor
Hymnal 36, AZ, 173, 1872, 225.
Call the roll of the witnesses In that
great cloud that are about and
mentioned in our Scripture. Ask members
to be ready to tell what faith did for Abra-
ham, or for Moses, or for Noah, and to
compare it with his own. 1t might be a
good rule to all to take Bibles and read and
discuss the chapter verse by verse, asking
each member in turn to take verse and
give his own thoughts upon 1t and upon
the kind of faith spoken Of therein. Ask
all to speak a word In the summing up as
to our duty in view of what the faith of
our forefathers did for them. Be sure to
sing Faith Is the Victory and MY Faith
Looks Up to Thee" Let the latter be sung
at the close of the sentence prayers Whine
the heads are still bowed, and sung softly
without accompaniment, if possible
81 have never-failing bank,
Ny than golden store;
No earthly bank is half so rich,
How, then. can be poorf
80 IT'S when my stock is spent and gone,
And not worth groat;
I'm glad TO hasten TO my bank
And beg little note.
Why don't You oftener Gomez
And when you draw little note,
Why not larger sum?
Why live niggardly and poor2
My bank contains plenty.
Why and take pound note,
When you can have twentyf
"Nay, twenty thousand ten times told
Is but triflng sum
To what my Father has laid up
For me in God the Son.
''SInce, then my banker is so rich
| have no need to borrow,
But live upon my notes today
md draw