Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

ron us incline to practical atheism. The
sense of God is most vaguely apprehended
and too frequently obscured altogether. A
creed may be pronounced and the posture
of worship may be assumed, and yet the
daily conduct be all the while declaring,
there is no God" The Lord charged
Israel of old with drawing near to Him
with their lips, while their hearts were
far from Him. Let us beware lest we,
too fall under a similar condemnation.
There are multitudes who professedly bear
the divine name who are dominated by the
spirit of worldliness and are conformed
in habit by its ideals and maxims. What
to eat, what to drink, what to wear and
how to be amused are the ever-recurring
and perpleXing questions.
The simple life may be dreamed about,
but it is not lived. We are so secularized
that heaven is very far away from our
thoughts and aims. The soul is forgotten
when we are thus occupied with the ami
NAL existence. Our labor for the meat
that perisheth makes oblivious Of that
which endureth Misunderstanding life. SO
busy in laying up treasure on earth that
we have no time to lay up treasure in
heaven. 1t is related of little boy who
was dying that he turned to his father
and said: Papa, when 1 see Jesus shall
I ask Him to excuse you from serving
Him because you are too busy?" A man
too busy to serve God in whose hand his
breath is and whose are all his ways.
What a commentary on human career
which should have for its prime inspira-
ton and motive the divine glory. Seek
first the kingdom of God and His right
eousness,' is the Masters injunction.
They who obey it are sure to find rest in
the Lord and to wait patiently for Him.
People are tired, and countless hearts
are crying for the wings of dove that
they might fly away and be at rest. To
all such sorely pressed lives the message
is, rest in the Lord. And though relief
from irksome labor may not seemingly
be possible, yet rest in the midst of it can
life as it is cast with all it's worry and
WEAKNESS on the mighty God who bears
the earth's huge pillars up" Fellowship
with God is sure to bring delverance from
distracting influences and to reinvigorate
all those who feel the task too great to
bear the road too rough for their feet.
They that wait on the Lord shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles; they shall run and not
be weary; they shall walk and not faint
Because Of our superfuous solicitude and
frequent fretfulness we deprive ourselves
of that mental quiet and soul repose with
which our religion is designed to bless us.
If we would commit ourselves more I'M
reservealy to God we should find that
strength was made equal to the day and
that in the most heavily freighted hour
grace sufficient was assured. Only make
God your resting place, and infinite re-
freshment and solace shall be your abiding
portion.
We are told, He that believeth shall
not be in haste" BY faith he shall know
how to rest in the Lord and wait pa
tiently for Him" He shall also cheer
fully submit to the gracious, though ap-
parently slow, unfoldings of a process
which means both for character and serv-
ice first the blade, then the ear and then
the full corn in the ear
We say Heaven will bring sweetest rest.
That after the care, the harassments and
distresses of the present; after the bur-
den, the storm and strain; after the dis
appointments, the griefs and the pains of
this life, there is a world above where
those favored to be forever with the Lord
shall realize the fullness of perfect peace
and sorrow and signing, sin and death
be a great comfort If we could have a bit
of heaven on earth 1t was said of one
he had heaven to go to heaven in"
This is possible if we rest In the Lord
and wait patiently for Him." Only get
into this chamber of peace and you dwell
already the next door to heaven" And
to it I invite every tired, hard-worked,
toil-pressed, care-burdened and anxious
man and woman. Here weary one, you
are welcome, and with your window open
ed toward the sun-rising there tarry It'll
the day breaks and the shadows flee
away"