Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-04
Christian Endeavor Hour
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.
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Conducted By Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.
For Sunday, August 8, 1906,
Tonic. Duty Privilege and Excuses" (Consecra-
PLEDGE Luxe IA 1924.
10 And when one of them that sat at
meat with Him heard these things He said
unto him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread
in the kingdom OF God.
10 Then said He unto him: A certain
man made great supper and bade many.
1t And sent his servant at supper time
TO say to them that were hidden: Come, for
all things are now ready.
is And they all with one consent began
20 make excuses. The first said unto him;
i have bought a piece of ground and l
must needs so and see it. pray thee have
me excused.
10 And another said have bought FIVE
yoke OF oxen. and ! go 10 prove them.
pray thee have me excused
-. And another said: l have married a
wife and therefore i cannot come.
q. 80 that servant came and showed his
lord these things. Then the master of the
house being angry, said to his servant:
Go out quickly into the streets and lanes
OF the city and bring in hither the poor and
the MANNED and the halt and the blind
-. And the servant said Lord 1t is done
thou hast commanded, and yet there Is
room.
% And the lord said unto the servant:
Go out into the highways and hedges and
- For say unto you. that none OF those
men which were hidden shall taste of my
supper
The Lesson.
Jesus has spread a feast for us in His
words. the bread OF life" He invites us
10 partake daily. Those who do not do SO
are sighting His Invitation much as the
men OF many excuses in the parable. The
strangest part, too, is that we accepted
the invitation. There in our pledge card
with our names signed beneath is the ac-
ceptance. Il viii read the Bible every
day Those are the words you said when
YOU read His commandment to mediate
therein day and night, that thou mayest
observe to do according 70 all that is writ
ten therein. FOR then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous and then thou shalt have
sure success" Have YOU kept your promise?
DO you come to His table spread for you
with rich premises of help and strength
Do you come daily, as you were invited TO
do and do you come time with your
appetite keen for what will be spread for
you? or have you bought a piece OF
ground and must needs go and see II, and
therefore omit your Bible reading? Or do
you sometimes bring the piece OF ground
or the bit of any other business with you
into the Bible reading with your mind so
full OF IL that You have no appetite for the
Bible thoughts2 That is lust as sure TO
make spiritual indigestion as II is TO make
physical indigestion TO bring business cares
TO the dinner table with you every day.
Your food would not rightly nourish you
if yoa did that Your Bible cannot nourish,
your spiritual system II you allow otheS
things to trouble you when you are read
Ing. Then notice the excuse was not even
something the man could not help. Il have
bought II was a care or pleasure he
had acquired on purpose, something he
wanted to do and choose TO do, knowing
II might keep him away from that dinner.
Have any OF us excuses like that?
The same thing may be said OF daily