Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05

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to understand. At last sai' to him. Sup
pose, In going your rounds among your pa
tents you should meet with one man who
entreated you earnestly to take his case
him. but who should at the same time re-
fuse to tell you all his symptoms or to
take all your prescribed remedies and
should say to you Il am quite willing to
follow your directions to certain things
because they commend themselves to my
mind as good. but In other matters prefer
Judging for myself and following my own
directions What would you do in such
a case? Dor he replied with indignation,
I could do nothing for him unless he
would put his whole case into my hands
and obey my directions implicitly. That
is conservation said 1. God must have the
whole case put into His hands without any
reserves and His directions must be i'm
plicitly followed I see it, he exclaimed,
and will do 1t. God shall have His own
way with me from henceforth.' Hannah
w. Smith.
Faith bears fruit. It cannot help 1t be-
the energy of His life pours into it through
the artery of faith, and, as 1t comes in, so
it must make a way for itself out. Fruit is,
80 to speak, forced from the believing SOUL
Why does the lark sing? 1t cannot help it,
because the spirit of the spring has been
poured into its heart. Why does the
branch bear fruit? 1t cannot help 1t be-
cause the life forces are ever pouring up
AlOlu IFS IOOl why uOSS q CIlliu III "
meet its mother? 1t cannot help it be-
cause its heart has imbbed her nature
So the believer, united to Christ, receives
grace upon grace from His heart and from
speaks" F. B. Meyer, 1.-The Secret Of
Guidance"
II have been told that at Hampton Court,
London, there is vine that sometimes bore
a couple of thousand punches of grapes
and people were astonished at its large
growth and fruitage. Afterward 1t was
discovered what was the cause of it. Not
so very far away runs the river Thames.
and the vine had stretched its roots away
hundreds of yards under the ground until
it had come to the river side, and there in
all the rich slime Of the river bed it had
found rich nouriShment. and obtained mois
ture, and the roots had drawn the sap
all that distance up and up into the vine,
and as a result there was the abundant
and rich harvest. The vine had the work
to do, and the branches had just to de-
pend upon the vine and receive what it
gave" ndrew Murray, Absolute Sur
render
1t is said of Alfred de Vgny that he pro-
posed to write a great poem for which he
had undoubted ability, but that he spent
his life gathering materials for the work
said why don't you begin? You are
getting in life and after a while you
will be too cd to write the poem,' he
would keep saying: tomorrow 1 will be-
GIN One morning the Paris papers pub
lished his death, and his work was all I'M
done because he never began. Some of
US are intending to live a Christ-like life
some day, but we keep on gathering ma
terals and never begin. We buy an at
tractive religious book now and then and
put it away, thinking some day we will
sit down and read it and it will do us good
but we never begin, and the Bible grows
dusty because we are in hot haste after
something else in life. and the time will
never come to begin unless we begin now.
How to Help the Leader.
Begin the new year by taking some new
part in meeting. Lead in prayer, no mat
ter if it is hard, or speak Of your own
personal resolves for the new year and
how you mean to make it a year for God
Parallel Passage s.-Revelation, is; John,
viii:31; John, xv:9; Colossans iv:2; Psalms
kill; John, iv:13; Romans, lie, Z; He
brews, iii:14.
Hints to the Leader.-The Endeavor Hymn
mails, 25, SO, A. 267, 27O.
Ask each member beforehand to write on
a slip of paper, without signing his name
unless he choose-just how he intends to
begin the new year with God. Have these
slips collected and read, or If you can
count upon your members responding ask
each one to respond in turn to this ques-
ton preparing them for it beforehand
Then turn to the scripture, and in open
discussion talk over the different passages
experimenting each thought with some
practical application from the best writers,
or with some apt illustrating story or
quotation.
AS this is a conservation meeting it might
be well to have the first suggestion used
as response to the roll call.
Ask all to stand who will agree to begin
each day with God during the new year,
even If 1t is but by a breath of prayer and
word from the Bible, before they leave
their rooms for the work of the day. Have
much prayer at the close of this pledge.
LAS OF old
He walks with men apart
Keeping the promise foretold
With all the pure in heart.
Thou needst not ask the angels where
His habitations be-
Keep thou thy spirit clean and fair
And He shall dwell with thee
Alice Carey.