Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30

than the best of us deserve. Help IFS to
realize how good thing it IS to bear
pain and WEAKNESS for Thee-like a keen
knife sharpened down to the handle.
Teach us to be fair. fair in the distribu-
ton OF what is. after all, not our own.
May our faith get into our hands and
rect. into our tongues and tempers, SO
that the world may see how warm is our
solicitude for Thy good name. May the
man who Is deliberately doing wrong
have our pity and rebuke. ana, if it may
be. our sympathy and help. May we pass
In well-used tools, that we may know
how to use the new set when we get
then-our own. and as we'll fitted to their
use as were: these we lay aside. May
We be stern, stringent, remorseless to-
ward our own sins and wrongdoings.
Show us where the evil in us is, where
the wild beasts Of passion Turk. May
Jerusalem May we have an abundant
entrance on that great Thanksgiving day.
We thank Thee for past mercies and pres
ent blessings and future hopes, so bright,
sure to come true. BY Thy forgiveness
We hope to live lives needing less for
giveness-lives that shall ring with vic
tory May we give ourselves to Thee in a
conservation SO complete that We shall
be fitted for the rest of our lives here
and for the never-ending cons of our
true life there. Bless every one who is
doing eten one self-sacrifcing piece of
work for Thee. Win TO thyself from
our glad and spontaneous hearts new
recognition Of Thy goodness, for Thou
art good.'
Applied Truth.
When the poet Carpani asked his friend
Handel how he came to write his church
music IN SO cheerful a strain Handel re-
Piled: Il canot make 1t otherwise;
write according to the thoughts feel.
When I think upon God. my heart is so
full Of joy that the notes leap and dance,
as It were. from my pen. and since God
has given me a cheerful heart it will be
pardoned me that I serve Him with
cheerful spirit"
1t Is said that the royal gardens of an
English king were once thrown open to
the people. who. as it soon appeared,
were too fond Of the flowers to keep their
hands from them. The gardener COM
planned to his majesty. but the king only
Then plant some more" And thus, in His
generosity, God deals with us. Our princi-
pal enjoyment is in the destruction Of
what is SO welcome and SO be autiful, but
Hae only plants fresh flowers more and
more.
How to Help the Leader.-Speak Of a
wel!-known apparatus for ventilation in
large buildings, composed of two tubes,
thu air being forced down through one
tube and up and out through the other
The forcing of the air out keeps the appa-
ratus going and continues to send fresh air
back again. So Gods .nercies descend
upon US, and We complete the circuit by
sehc1nx back our gratitude to Him. Look
over the list OF Gods merciss to you and
see II you think you have fully COM
pleted the circuit in your own thankful
ness. Tell wherein you think you have
beea remiss in your gratitude TO God.
Parallel Passages.-I Samuel, xv:G: II
Samuel. ix:6-1; Psalms, ciii7; Ephesians
v:2o; Psalms, xxvi:6-7; Psalms, xxxy:1s:
Psalms, xcv:1-2; Psalms, c:4-5; Psalms.
cvii:31; Philippians, iv:G.
Hints to the Leader.-The Endeayor
Hymnai, 2. 5, g. u, 81, 3d.
After ten minutes of thankful songs
open your meeting by asking every one
present TO join In chain of sentence
prayers, each prayer single sentence ex-
pressing thankfulness for some personal
blessing Sing No. 80 in the Endeavor
Hymnai, and then ask each one present
to- repeat some Bible verse of thanks
giving. Then read your Scripture and
make your own remarks briefly, after
which throw open The meeting for gen.
eral discussion. You might suggest that
members tell what they are most, thank
Iul TOT, Or what We as country need
to thank God for. Occasionally pause
and ask some one to lead in PRAYER for
some object that has been spoken of.
Bask Of Sst The 81 loaf a. Is the snow four
And back of the mill is the wheat. and the
shower, ~ "
And the sun, and the Fathers will.