Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-14
fin Local Churches.

help. We would expect them to stand back
| IT. horror. or with excuses. IL We asked
| them to help roll the stone away from
| our spiritually dead. Yet Jesus said: Roll
| ye away the stonei''
| He says 1t yet If you have dead ones
| in your family. among your friends, who
| seem to you SO spiritually dead that there
| is no use IN praying for their salvation any
longer, and you dare not speak to them. It
| is your business to get that stone rolled
away from before their graves. What Is
the stone? Is it their hard feeling toward
some one? Then try to bring about q recon-
citation. Is 1t their persistent staying
away from church services where they
might hear the word of God? Then do not
cease to beseech them to go. In the wisest
ana sweetest language you can find. until
they will have TO go from very shame. There
are many stones we might roll away. You
have a neighbor who lives unhappily with
her husband. Rumor says they both drink.
though they seem to be people OF wealth
and some measure of refinement. --R0- one
dares go near them to roll the stone away
from their door. They are buried in cave
OF indifference and social isolation and re-
sentiment. Have you ever tried to obey
Gods command and roll that stone away?
No matter if you have not been introduced,
or you do not move in the same social cir
Gle or they do not go to your church. Co
and put loving arms about that woman's
neck. Make her love you, and then draw
her with cords of love to the feet of Jesus
DoH SdJ you CdTnOl. Don say II IL Vi
no use to try. that she Is too far gone In
her sins. That will be just Hike the de-
tention that Martha put In the way. Lord.
by this time he stinketh. for he hath been
dead four days." What If Christ had taken
her at her word, The wonder (; that after
that miracle any Christian dare think 1t
is too late for any to be brought 10
life from their sins If we would but trust
Him fully We should see many, many walk
ing forth from their graves of iniquity even
bound as they are hand and foot with the
grave clothes of their sins, obeying the
Lords command to live again in Him.
The second Scripture selection is the
story of the raising OF the only son of the
standing in the city in which she lived
She had many friends with her in the
funeral train Gods glory and the power
OF christ to raise from the dead had wide
spreading that day.
Notice how there was no fuss. no cere-
mony. just the simple command. Young
man, arise"
The dead in sin need not to spend long
Gays IN weeping over their condition. They
nave only to obey and arise. Mr. Meyer
says: There is no reason in the nature of
the case. why the children of God should
not become consecrated from the very mo-
ment of conversion. 1t should be the
normal state of Christians And with many
II Is so. Redeemed from eternal DEATH
Delverer, as those alive from the dead
But with most this is not the case And
so 1t IS necessary, at some future period
OF their lives when the claims of Christ
suddenly break on them. that they should
come to the definite point of self-sur-
render"
The third Scripture is the story of the
raising of Jairus daughter The noticeable
point in this miracle was the faith of
Jalrus. He would not be put off from the
Master by any one. and he needed not the
Master to come even, for he had faith
enough in just His word. If we had more
faith like that we might not need to weep
so over our loved ones for whom we pray.
Applied Truth
"A poor ragpcker takes a stick in his
hand and goes into the dirty cutters of
the streets of the city. and picks up little
bits of rags and of paper. These he puts into
his dirty bag. But these are washed and
made over. and come out the pure white
sheet of paper. beautiful enough to have
queen write on 1t! Who can doubt that
God can take these poor bodies and out
OF them raise up new and better body?
Out of the very darkness and the bones of
the grave He can make something that will
be brighter than the sun forever John
Todd.
Nothing is impossible with God and
sometimes He very small and simple
| agencies to overcome seemingly super
human barriers.
Some years ago the Countess of Hanover
died She did not believe in the Bible or
| the resurrection. Before she died she gave
orders that her grave should be covered
with a granite slab. fastened by irons to
other stones; and she wanted this inscrip-
ton to be cut in the granite: This burial
place purchased TO all eternity must never
be opened"
Everything in human power was done to
keep the grave from being opened, but a
little seed fell into the crevice of the
stone and began to grow. The little root
let made its way into the slab, and as 1t
| grew 1t lifted the heavy stones and pulled
the grave stone apart, so the grave
laid open as by miracle, and there a
| large tree is growing today.
How to Help the Leader
Speak of your own desire for new life
from Christ on this Easter day, and your
willingness to pray for some soul dead in
sin.
Parallel Passages.-Hosea. iii:14; John.
VS. 70; John vi:4o; Romans, Wis, Corin-
! thians, via: L ThessaIonans, iv:16;
Corinthians. Ky 1851. 42-44, 81; Philippians,
! iii:1o.
| Hints to the Leader.-The Endeavor
| HymnaI-lS2, 26l 262. 264 2Ss.
Divide the subject into two parts, con-
| sdering Christs power TO raise the body
| and Christs power to raise the soul from
! sin
| Have three members prepared to give
I briefly the points in the three miracles to
| be considered
If ysu have unconverted people present
! try 10 make some appeal to them to come
| to Christ and let Him give them new life.
Ask such to bow their heads in prayer with
| the meeting. and, If willing, TO join in the
sentence prayers, which should be for new
! life and conservation this Easter day.
| These gshes too this little DUST
| our Fathers shall keep
| TIL the last angel rise and break
| The long and dreary sleep