Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-01
Christian Endeavor Hour
Conducted by Grace Livingston nill-Lutz.
For Sunday, June 2, 1907.

oI SuHuds June
Topic: How to Realize the Presence of Christ"
tConsecration MeetingJ John xiv 1928.
From the Twentieth Century New Testament.
If you love me you will lay my commands
to heart, and l will ask the Father, and He
will give you another Helper, to be with
you always-I mean the Spirit of Truth.
The world cannot receive this Spirit be-
cause it does not see him or recognize Him,
but you recognize him, because He is al
ways with you and is within you. l will not
leave you bereaved, 1 will come to you. In
a little while the world will see me no
more, but you will still see me. because
am always living and you will be living
also. At that time You will recognize that
l am in union with the Father, and you
with me, and l with you. 1t is those who
have my commands and lay them to heart
that love me; and those who love me will
be loved by my Father, and l, too, will
love them, and will reveal myself to them.
What has happened, Master@ said Ju
das mot Judas IscaroD, that you are 60
Ing to reveal yourself to US and not to the
world?
Whoever loves me- Jesus answered,
will lay my teachings to heart; and my
Father will love him, and we will come to
him and make our home with him.. -
Certain it is that Christ's life can only
be given to those who are willing TO receive
it-certain it Is that only those who seek to
do His work seek to be sustained by His
life. If We are not striving to attain to
those ends which He gave His life to &C
complish. We cannot be surprised if we are
not sensible. of receiving His aid. If we aim
at worldly ends We shall need no other
energy than what the world supplies; but
if throw ourselves heartily into the
Christian order of things and manner of
life shall at once be sensible of our need
of help, and shall know whether We re-
ceive it or not."-Marcus Dods.
Tl,.r 10 -,
them, and their circumstances on the hills
with Sennacherib. To those who have
learned to live trusting in God. their habita-
tons are quiet and safe Put God between
YOU and everything. Weary, storm tossed
heart, put Jesus between you and the crest
of. the wave.
THE envelope is useful to protect the
letter it contains from being soiled or dam
aged. So when man lives inside God he
is protected because enveloped. God is his
environment, his wall OF fire, his river and
stream.
They tell me that the regalia Of a GER
tain city in Europe are kept. not like that
in the tower of London. with iron bars all
around. but on what appears to be an UNI
protected table. Yet l pity the man who
should try to take one jewel from that
crown because stream of electricity is
always being poured around the table, so
strong that If man dared to touch it with
his hand he would draw it back benumbed.,
That is the way to live. God is in you and
around you. Live in constant conscious
ness of the presence of God. IF. B. Meyer
DO not try to stir and arouse faith from
within. How often have tried to do that
and made fool of myself You cannot stir
UP faith from the depths of your heart
Leave your heart. and look into the face of
Christ, and listen to what He tells YOU
about how He will keep you. Look up into
the face of your loving Father, and take
time every day with Him. and begin
new life with the deep emptiness and pow
erty of man who has got nothing and
who wants to get everything from Him;
with the deep restfulness of a man who
rests on the living God. the omnipotent
Jehovah, and try God. and prove Him II He
will not open the windows of heaven and
pour out a blessing that there shall not
be room to receive it."-AnGrew Murray.
How can modern men today make
Christ the absent Christ, their most con-
slant companion still? The answer is that
friendship is a spiritual thing. 1t is indie
pendent of matter or space or time. That
which l love in my friend Is not Shat
which l see. What influences me in my
friend is not his body, but his spirit. If
any one cannot conceive or realize mysti-
cal relation with Christ. perhaps all that
can be done is to help him to step on to 1t
by still palmer analogies from common
life. How do / know Shakespeare or
Dante? BY communing with their words
and thoughts. Many men know Dante
better than their own fathers. He in