Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-01

Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.
For Sunday. December q 1905.

For Sunday, December 2. 1906.
Topic Courage or Cowardice-whichT (Conse-
Grafton Meeting.) Luke xii a, s; Galatians,
9-12; Jeremiah 6-1O. II. -"
Luke, xii "a And say unto my friends,
be not afraid of them that kill the body
and after that have no more that they can
do.
5. But 1 will forewarn you whom We
shalf fear; fear Him, which after He hath
killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, ]
say unto you, fear Him.
Galatians, i:9: AS we said before, so say
1 now again, If any man preach any other
gospel unto you than that We have received,
let him be accursed.
10. For do I now persuade men or God
Or do seek to please men? For If yet
pleased men, should not be the servant OF
Christ.
IL. But 1 certify you, brethren, that the
Gospel which was preached Of me is not
after man.
r. For 1 neither received it Of man,
neither was / taught it, but by the revela-
ton of Jesus Christ
jeremiah, i:6: Then said /, All, Lord God!
behold cannot speak; for 1 am a child.
T. But the Lord said unto me, Say not
I am child, for thou shalt go to all that
/ shall send thee, and whatsoever l COM
mand thee thou shalt speak.
8. Be not afraid Of their faces for am
with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
8. Then the Lord put forth His hand and
touched my mouth. And the Lord said
unto me. Behold, 1 have put My words in
thy mouth.
TO- See, l have this day set thee over the
nations and over the Kingdoms, to N Ut out
and to pull down, and to destroy. and to
thrown down, to build and to plant
IL Thou therefore grid up thy loins and
arise and speak unto them all that COM
mand thee; be not dismayed at their faces,
lest 1 confound thee before them.
The Lesson.
The word courage" comes from the Latin
word COR meaning heart.
There is a great and lofty virtue that
we call courage, taking our name from the
heart. 1t Is the greatness of a great heart
the repose and confidence Of a man whose
soul Is rested in principle. "-(Bushnell,
Work and Play.'O
Many men who have courage are de-
pendent upon ignorance and low state OF
moral feeling for that courage, and q
further progress towards development OF
a higher nature would, for a time at least
entirely overthrow 1t. Nor could such loss
Of courage be rightly designated by the
name Of cowardice.
The direst foe Of courage Is the fear
itself, not the object Of it; and the man
who can overthrow ms own terror - q mai
and more. -
There are victories far worse than de-
feats; and to overcome an angel too gentle
to put out all his strength, and ride away
In triumph on the back of devil Is one
Of the poorest."-(George Macdonaid.)
The things we fear are some OF them sc
really harmless. Count them over: Public
opinion, a SMILE a sheer, we fear to wear
| a sleeve that is big at the bottom when
| 1t ought to be big at the top; to speak OF
religious things to those who are more
interested in other things. We fear the
| rich and the powerful. we fear hunger and
| cold and yet the worst that any Of these
| can do is to kill the body: they cannot take
away the purity of the soul nor unfit 1t tC
dwell with God. Some of them can only
/ hurt our pride. Why Is 1t we are such
| towards?
J Many a man is afraid to give up a bust
| ness that his conscience tells him Is wrong
! lest he and his family will suffer from lacl
| think of the hereafter and realize tina,
| there is more real danger in doing wronf
| than in anything that could possibly come
upon him by giving 1t up?
There are a great many Jeremiahs in oul
Christian Endeavor societies. They thinl
| they are but a child and cannot speal
| or do the work that Is asked OF them
They hold of from joining because they ar,
afraid to lead a meeting. and afraid the,
/ will be called upon to pray, and then aftel
they have Joined they shirk out Of every
| thing possible. They need Gods hand
/ upon their mouths, and His words givei
/ them. 1t Is only when we come near Il
God and harken to His command. and le
| Him do with US as He win that He doe
| put His words into our mouths and Civ,
| us the commission to root out and pull
down and destroy and throw down ant
build and plant"
After all. the only true courage come