Evening star., 1907-10-26
Christian Endeavor Hour

Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz
For Sunday, October q, 1907.
Topic: Foreign Missions: The Kingdom of Christ
in Europe Acts, xvi :G-15.
q. Now when they had gone throughout
Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and
were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to
preach the WORD in Asia.
g. After they were come to Mysia thew
assayed to go into Bithynia; but the
Spirit suffered them not.
s. And they passing by Mysia came
down to Troas
0. And a vision appeared to Paul in the
night: there stood a man of Macedonia
and prayed to him. saying, Come over
into Macedonia and help us.
10 And after he had seen the vision
immediately we endeavored to 60 into
Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the
Lord had called US for to preach the gos-
pei unto them.
II. Therefore. loosing from Troas. we
came with a straight course to Samothra-
ella. and the next day to Neapolis:
12. And from thence to Philipni which
is the chief city of that part of Macedo-
ma. and a colony: and we were in that
city abiding certain days.
ID And on the Sabbath day we went
out of the city by river side. where
prayer was wont to be made. and we SAT-
down. and sDake unto the women which
resorted thither
IA And certain woman named Lydia
seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira
which worshiped God, heard US: whose
heart the Lord opened that she attended
nnso the things which were spoken of
Paul.
10. And when she was baptized. and
her household. she besought US. saving
II ye have judged me to be faithful to the
Lord come into my house, and abide
there. And she constrained us.
The Lesson.
In the latter part of January. 1907 the
pope wrote a letter to the Society of
ST. jerome not only permitting but rec
1fiInending that the Gospels and the Acts
of the Apostles be freely printed and dis
tributed among the people. The pope
says: We wish to add that, considering
the present times, certainly il is not the
least advantage of such publications to be
able to say that, in virtue of their diffu-
sion, and of their consequent reading the
echo of the voice of God goes and makes
itself heard even among those unfortu-
nate persons who, through despair or ha-
tred or prejudice, fee from any contact
with the priest. This is a thing which, to
our eyes, is of precious and very desir-
able usefulness, in so far as it gives US a
way 10 obtain the salvation of souls; if
not with the voice, at least with the books
and with the teachings emanating from
the life of Christ We heal the evils of So
clety and of the individual. Since we have
proposed to restore everything in Jesus
Christ there is nothing We could better
desire than TO introduce among the faith
ful the custom of the frequent, or rather
the daily reading of the Holy GOSPELS he
cause this reading precisely demonstrates
and makes us clearly see by what we can
and must reach to that desired restora-
ton"
Last Christian EndeavOr day was cele-
brated in Berlin, Germany by the Berlin
Endeavorers in the great hall of War
Academy. Every seat was filed. The Ger
man EndeaVorerS are becoming more and
more interested in mission work in the
southern sea. Last year they sent out
three missionaries to the Caroline and
Marshall islands, and hope that five will
soon follow. II is said that the zeal of
the German EndeavoTers is wonderful.
Some societies whose members are Sery-
ants give as much as S125. One little girl
OF SIX collected 10 marks in her little
mountain village for the missionary and
wrote to him that she was praying for
him and his work every day Another
young man sold his sofa and writing table
and sent the amount poor switch
marks (Sl25), while her majesty the en-
press sent $50 toward a missionary ship.
The city of Glasgow. Scotland, has 1s7
Christian Endeavor societies.
1t is curious fact that in Turkey the
Christians are frequently ordered or COM
manded officially TO pray for some special
object, like the SoVere!gn's health or for
rain during 4 season of drought. The
MOslemS can understand prayer to the
one and only God, and it seems to please
them that the Christians pray. 1t has.
however, been hard for Christian En-
deaVor societies to be formed in Turkey
because just soon as young people
| gather together and organize with a
president and officers they are suspected
/ of organizing secretly under cover of the
| church for revolutionary purposes. AS q
! csult of this the Christian Endeavor So
| Cieties in Turkey have decreased from
| twenty-five of several years ago to eight
| cen. This, however. does not mean that
| Christian work is going back in Turkey
| for it is not. The Christian Church is as
/ strong as ever, and work among the
young people is going on earnestly and
growing wider in Its influence.
In 1893 there were Christian En-
| deavor societies in France, now there are
| II. Spain had in 1893 and now IS 50
! Norway has grown from / to o. and
| these We're the only countries of Europe
! that had any societies in 1893. Now
! Switzerland has %, Italy Is, Crete 4, Rus
STA 10. Austria 0, Hungary p, Portugal
| I, Gibraltar 3. Bulgaria 10. Holland I,
Denmark 2, Finland %, Germany 35,
| and Sweden 374.
| The first organizers of Christian En-
| deavor in France were officers of the Nc
| All mission in Paris. 1t began with DR.
Clark's visit to Paris in 1888 Now the
| membership of these societies is abou,
2J.UOO. of whom 800 are in WESLEYAN
churches. The work being done is large
and enthusiastic.
There is an obligation Ito foreign mis-
sionS) that comes from what foreign mis-