Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-05

fasting and prayer in the solitude of the
forest, pleading with God for the CONVEX
sion of the Indians. and he would brave
any danger and endure any hardship II
only he might tell men of the love OF God
and of their need Of Christ. Great purity
of life also marked his character.
One sentence in Eliots Indian Grammar
Is: Prayer and pains through faith In
Jesus Christ will do anything"
1t is said of Eliot that 'he was a humble
follower Of Christ, imbued with passion
for soults. untiring in energy and faithful
unto DEATH" He was threatened with tor
ture and death. but he went right ON with
his work, replying: Il am engaged In the
work OF God. and God is with me. l fear
not all the sachems in the country. shall
go on with my work, and do you touch me
if you dare
Can we not rally to our work this winter
with something Of the same spirit?
A Christian woman once told Hannah
Smith. the writer of The Christians Sc
cret of n Happy Life" how Christian work
locked TO her at one time: when | was
first converted" she said Il was so full Of
JOY and love that / was only too glad and
thankful TO be allowed to co anything for
my Lord, and / eagerly entered every open
door, But after while, as my early Joy
faded away. and my love burned less fer
VentIy, began to wish I had not been
quite so eager: for I found myself involved
IN hnes OF service that were gradually be-
coming very distasteful and burdensome to
me Since had begun them l could not
very well give them up without exciting
great remark. and yet longed to do so in
creasingly. | was expected to visit the
sick and pray beside their beds / was ex-
pected 10 attend prayer meetings and speak
at them. l was expected. in snort to be
always ready for every effort in Christian
work. and the sense of these expectations
bowed me down continually. At the last it
became 50 unspeakahly burdensome to me
to i've the sort Of Christian | fe l had en-
tered upon and was expected by all around
me to live, that I felt as it, any kind of
manual labor would have been easier and
| would have infinitely preferred scrubbing
all day on my hands and knees to being
compelled to go through the treadmill of
my daily Christian work. | envied the
servants in the kitchen and the women at
the washtubs."
Hannah Smith adds: This may seem to
some like a strong statement, but does 1t
not present vivid picture of some of your
own experiences, dear Christian? Have YOU
never gone to your work a slave to his
daily task. believing it to be your duty
ana that therefore you must do It, but re-
pounding like an india rubber ball back
into your real interests and pleasures the
moment your work was over? You have
known, of course, that this was a wrong
way to feel, md have been thoroughly
ashamed of 1t, but still you have seen no
way to help 1t. You have not loved your
work, and, could you have done so with
an y conscience, you would have been
glad to give it up altogether. Now
from all these forms of bondage the soul
that enters fully into the blessed life of
faith is entirely delivered. In the first
place. service of any sort becomes delight
full to it, because having surrendered its
will into the keeping of the Lord He works
in it to will and to do of His good pleas
ure, and the soul finds itself really want
ing to do the things God wants it to do. 1t
is always very pleasant to do the things we
want to do, let them be ever so difficult of
accomplishment or involve ever SO much OF
bodily WEAKNESS. If a mans will is really
set on a thing he regards with a sublime
indifference the obstacles that lie in the
way of his reaching it and laughs to him
self at the idea of any opposition or diff
culties hindering him. How many men
would have gone gladly and thankfully to
the ends of the world in search Of worldly
fortunes to fulfill worldly ambitions, and
have scorned the thought OF any cross
connected with it! And yet these same
men would Lave felt and said that they
to be borne had the service of Christ re-
CURED the sam sacrifice of home and
friends and worldly ease. 1t is altogether
the way look at things whether we
think they are crosses or not. And 1 am
ashamed to think that any Christian should
ever put on a long face and shed tears over
doing thing for Christ which worldly
man would be only too glad to do for
money"
Applied Truth.
The men OIL Bryan in Ireland it is said,
when they heard that the battle had gone
against their country, said: I'VE are too
weak to stand up and fight, but you drive
your stakes into the ground and then carry
us out of tn, ..ospital and fasten us to the
stakes, and then we will fight with the
other arm. aud SO they were carried out
as they requested and tied to stakes. and
with the one good arm fought and fought
a
great victories for God and the truth have
not been gained by those who have had
full equipment.
At the battle of Waterloo one company
stationed at an important post and
commanded to hold it. They became hard
pressed and sent message to the Duke Of
Wellington asking to he relieved. The
ansN n that came back was Stand firm"
They sent again for aid, but again and yet
again came back the answer, Stand FIRM"
The third time the messenger drew himself
up and replied: We will. You will find
US ,re!" And when the battle was over
they were all found dead in their place.
How to Help the Leader.
Select something that you think you can
do and make up your mind to do it this
winter for the help of the society. Tell
your co-members about it. You may In
spire another one to do the same Mention
ought to do this winter
Parallel ages.-lsaiah. xxi 90; II
Thessalonians, HEB; John, xv:16; Joshua,
10; Coloss;ans, iii:23, "a; Acts, xx:31, So;
Corinthians. xv:os; l Corinthians, lilo;
John, i'll, 40.
Hints to the Leader.-The Endeavor Hymn
nal, 122, 1872, 1874, 1876, 49, 14O.
Ask your lookout committee to assist you
if possible in writing few notes to men,
bers VINO have been lax about attendance,
a-so to some young people who ought to be
members, and to any new ones, inviting
them as a special personal favor to your
self or to the lookout committee to be pres
ent at this meeting. Perhaps you can get
your helpers to make a few personal visits
Sunday afternoon, asking these people in
friendly way to attend the meeting. In
this way you will have a true rally and
when you get them there try to interest
them in the work Of the winter. Have five
minutes of the most rOusing singing you
ever had, choosing hymns we'll known and
taking. Then have three brief prayers or
make short opening one yourself, asking
for Gods spirit upon the meeting and your
self that you may be able to present the
work in the right way to arouse enthusi-
asm. After Scripture and your own short
talk outline in few words the work of