Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-15
Christian Endeavor Hour
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz..

For Sunday, June 16. 1907
Topic: WHO Are Slaves and Who Are Free Menu
"a Temperance Topc.) Romans. wifi 1928.
II. Therefore. brethren, we are debtors,
not to the flesh. to live after the flesh.
10. For If We live after the flesh. we shall
die; but If We, through the Spirit, do NOR
tify the deeds of the body, we shall live.
IA. For as many as are led by the Spirit
of Cod they are the sons Of God.
IS. For We have not received the spirit
Of bondage again to fear; but We have re-
ceived the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit. that we are the children Of God.
II. And If children, then heirs; heirs Of
God, and joint heirs with Christ; II so, be
that we suffer with him, that we may be
also glorified together.
49, For / reckon that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be COM
pared with the glory which shall be re-
vealed-in us.
creature waiteth~ for the manifestation Of
the sons of God. pSE -
20 For the creature was made subject to
vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him
who hath subjected the same in hope,
u. Because the creature itself also shall
be delivered from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the children of
God -
%. For we know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now.
%. And not only they, but ourselves also,
which have the first fruits of the Spirit
even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to w.t. the re-
demption Of our body.
The Lesson.
He has gone out of his business and is
getting rich manufacturing a cure for
drunkenness said man speaking of
mutual acquaintance. They say 1t Is q
good thing and there is such a demand for
fill the orders" And yet men still talk
of the right of liberty in connection with
Intoxicating liquor and declare that in this
free seu th SannH ITS sale
slaves to an appetite is the right of
every free-born citizen. If some man Is
getting rich selling a medicine to cure
drunkards, 1t looks as though there were
good many drunkards who realized that
freedom to indulge themselves was not
the glorious liberty they had supposed
that he is the victim of some dread dis
ease, like cancer or consumption. a terrible
feeling of doom possesses him. He Is a
savs to the nsnd
a possible freedom from this chain that
binds him. The drunkard, when he wakens
to the fact that he is a drunkard, Is SO
filled with horror at his doom that he
straightway makes his doom more sure by
drowning his fears in the oblivion Of his
deeper slavery.
In the indulgence of the appetite for eat
ing and drinking that one may be intern
perate. Every appetite and every taste
that Is given this body for its use NAV be
turned into harm by intemperance The
temper itself, which flies into a thousand
pieces a thousand times a day, Is the mas
ter over all the other appetites, and it is
with this we need to begin. Most Of u.s. If
we have not let some appetite get the bet
ter of US, have at least let go that temper
of ours. SO this lesson zones directly to
every one. whether he be a user of intoxi-
eating liquor not.
Young people often feel that to become
spiritual Christians they must give up SO
much of this world that they are prac-
ticaly selling themselves into slavery to
Christ: and many hold back because they
are anxious to be free" to have a good
time and do as they please for a time.
Young people must have little pleasure"
1t Is the same meaning in different form
as the saying "A young man must sow his
wild oats. But the Bible contradicts that
II says we are not debtors to the flesh.
There is no law which binds us to have
a good time. or to do as we please. Our
debt Is to another. II. C. G. Moule says;
We listen still. always remembering that
this letter from Corinth to Rome is to reach
us too by way of the city. He who moved
his servant to send II to AquIla and He
rodian had us too in mind, and has now
carried out his purpose. 1t is open in our
hands for our faith. love. hope, life today.
ST. Paul begins with holiness viewed as
duty, debt. He has led us through our
vast treasury of privilege and possession.
What are we to do with 1t? Shall we treat
1t as a museum. in which we NAV oc-
casionally observe the mysteries of new
nature and with more less learning dis
course upon them? Shall we treat 1t as the
unwatchful king of old treated his splendid
stores making them his personal boast and
so betraying them to the very power which
one day was to make them all its spoil?
No. we are to live upon our Lords mag
nificent bounty-to His glory and in His
will. We are rich: but ii is for Him. We
have his talents, and those talents In re-
Spect of His grace, as distinct from His
gifts are not one, nor five, nor ten but
ten thousand-for they Jesus Christ
But we have them all for Him.
We are free from the law of sin and
death: but we are in perpetual and de-
Iightful debt to Him who has freed u.s.
And our debt is to walk with Him. .
The eternal neighbor comes to US, with
no frowning look, and shows us HIS holy
demand: to live today life OF truth, OF
purity. OF confession OF His name, of I'M
selfish serviceableness. of glad forgiveness
| of unbroken patience, of practical SYM
pathy. OF thvlove which seeks not her own.
What shall we say2 That II Is a beautiful
ideal, which we should like to realize and
may yet some day seriously attempt? That
| II Is admirable. but impossible? Nay; I'VE
are debtors. And He who claims has first