Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-16

and win oasoh you. The uttl. fellow
got all ready the third time to Jump. but
he looked on the floor and said. Use
afraid Didn't I tell you would catch
your Yes At last said, Willie. don't
fellows eyes and said. Now, jump; don't
look at the floor and he leaped into my
arms. Then he said to me, Let me jump
again: ! put him back and the moment
that, when he was on the table and was
standing five or six feet away, heard him
cry, Papa, Pse coming and had just time
to rush and catch him. He seemed to put
put too much confidence In God
How many OF us ever considered that
public acknowledgment Of Christ 'fn all
our ways" was condition OF being led
directed? Perhaps therein lies the secret
Of our sometimes failure.
and depart from evil.
8. 1t shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to
thy bones.
Fear the Lord and depart from evil'
covers all those temptations of the body
the appetites, which lie in wait to deceive
us. With the fear of the Lord ever before
us we shall be the more able to depart
from evil and certain 1t Is that there can
be no true success in life hampered by q
body made heavy and weak with many
Weddings to temptation. This applies as
we'll to the little appetites as to the greater;
as well to him who will drink the coffee
that his physician says makes indigestion,
or will eat cake and pie late at night, or
will go out in the wet without rubbers,
as to the man who yields to his desire for
drink; applies as well to the woman who
loses her temper to the woman who
loses her good name, for it all comes from
a mere desire to do as she pleases. Where
the fear Of the Lord is such desires DO
not rule. They may appear and tempt, but
they are not in the ascendency, so that TO
depart from evil' becomes well nigh an
impossibility.
O. Honor the Lord with thy substance and with
the first fruits , Of all thine increase n1 e.. ,
thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
1.-The opinion of no man who does not
render back his soul to the living God and
live in Him is. in religion. worth the
splinter of a straw. FRIENDS, cast your
idol into the furnace; melt your mammon
down, coin him up, make Gods money Of
him and send him coursing.. Make of him
cups to carry the gift of God, the water
Of life. through the world,in lovely JUS
tice to the oppressed, in healthful labor to
them whom no man hath hired, in rest to
the weary who have borne the burden and
heat of the day, in JOY to the heavy heart
them all be glad with reason and merry
without revel. All! what gifts might not
the mammon of unrighteousness, changed
back into the money of God, give to men
our flesh! How would you not spend your
money for the Lord If he needed it at your
hand! He does need 1t; for he that spends
1t upon the least Of his fellows, spends it
upon his Lord. To hold fast upon God
with one hand and open wide to your
neghbor-that is religion; that is the law
and prophets, and the true way to all
better things that are yet to come.
George Macdonald.
A farmer thinking to be liberal to a poor
man who was burned out and had no pro-
visions decided to give him ham. AS he
went to get 1t the tempter whispered:
had a struggle with himself, but finally
took down the largest he had and the devil
whispered, You are fool" IF you don't
keep STILL" replied the farmer. Il will give
him every ham have in the smoke house."
What makes the Dead sea dead? Be-
cause it is all the time receiving, ne-er CIV
ing out anything"
Many Christians have testified to the fact
that after tithing their incomes they have
received unusual material blessings and
that their incomes have been greatly in
creased. 1t is distinct promise from the
Lord that If we give it shall be given to US
running over.
II: My son. despise not the Christening of the
Lord; neither be weary Of His correction
IL. For whom the Lord loyeth He cOrrectetb;
even as father the son in whom he delighteth.
Pain is a friend rather than a foe. 1t
STANDS between extremes Oh lie ana uGdCn,
calling us ever toward life 1t ceases when
its warning has stirred the soul to thought
and remedy and brought back health, or it
ceases when the battle is lost. Like fire
bell, 1t stops when the fire Is put out or
burned out. Let US not resent it. 1t has a
kind heart, though its hands hurt An en-
gneer does not like to see a red flag, and
yet he is only too glad to see 1t. That we
may know the truth, and so be made free
from ignorance and peril, is a part of the
mission of pain. "-Maltbie D. Babcock.
when l was a boy my mother used to
whip me with when 1 had to be punished.
At first l used to stand off from the rod
as far as l could. But l soon found that
the whipping hurt me more that way than
any other; and so / went near to my
mother as l could and found she could not
strike me so hard And so when God chas-
tens us let us kiss the rod and draw as
near to Him as we can.'-Moody.
The Christening Of the Lord is only His
dear way of leading us to that perfectness
which means true success in life and here
after. Without it we should go unwarned.
49, Happy is the man that fndeth wisdom, and
the that getteth understanding.
IA. For the merchandise Of 1t Is better than the
merchandise of silver and the gain thereof than
fine gold.
things thou canst desire are not to be compared
unto her.
her left hand riches and honor
II. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
her paths are peace.
upon her: and happy Is every one that retaineth
her.
Here, then, is the summing up, the rec
for the rules that have gone
before, promise of a beautiful life. And,
after all, it goes back to the first sentence
in the chapter, My son, forget not my
law" Where shall wisdom be found eX-
cept in the law of the Lord. In the first
chapter of Joshua there is given another
rule for success. Then thou shalt make
thy way prosperous and then thou shalt
have sure success" it says, and the rule
is constant study and meditation of the
law of the Lord We Christian Endeav-
orers need to impress the study of the
Bible more upon ourselves. 1t is, after all,
the book which reminds us Of the way Of
success and shows the difference between
real success and false.
How to Help the Leader.
Speak of the clause of our pledge about
daily Bible reading, recall how it is always
regarded as an event in a family when a
child can feed itself. Describe its first eff
forts, propped up at the table, spoon up
side down, but by and by 1t learns to feed
itself, to the delight of mother Suggest
that many Christians sit about helpless