Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-15

for our acceptance and our life. His very
spirit is in US. Are not these good re-
sources for a genuine solvency? Say not.
Go and come again; l will pay Thee tomor-
row. Thou hast 1t by thee! Say
what some men will, we are never for an
hour here below exempt from elements
around US, but within US. There is no
stage of life when we can dispense with
the power Of the Holy Ghost as our VIC
Of the body And the body Is no sepa-.
rate and, as 1t were, minor personality. II
= the mans body 'machinates' 1t Is the
man who is the sinner. But then. thanks
of the words here. What st. Paul has to
say Is that the man who has the indwelling
spirit has with him. in him. divine and
of his foes. Let him with conscious
purpose and firm recollection of his won
derful position and possession $50 easily
is Indeed not himself, though in himself
Let him do this with habitual recollection
and simplicity. And he shall be more
than conqueror' where he was so miserably
defeated. His path shall be as one who
walks over foes who threatened. but who
fell, and who die at His feet. 1t shall be
less struggle than a march over battle
field indeed. yet field Of victory SO con-
tinuous that it shall be as peace. ~
Applied Truth.
Billy Dawson, the celebrated Wesleyan
preacher, once appealed to drunkard In
this way: Suppose yourself to be servant
and your master were to come in the morn
ing and order you to make a strong chain;
on the following morning he came again
and urged you to go on with it. and thus
day by day, you were ordered by your mas
ter to the same job. Suppose. again. that
while you were working a person came In
and asked II you knew what it was for.
that answered
not care so long as you got your wages
Then the person tells you that he knows
It to be fact that It is your masters
petual bondage; would you add another
link to it?' The man answered. mo; and
all the money in the world would not hire
the habit of drunkenness Is the devils
chain. in which he keeps poor sinners in
perpetual bondage, and that when they
have added the last link he chains them
in hell forever. This SO much troubled
the man and his conscience was SO con-
tinually telling him that he was adding
another link to his own chain that he final
ly gave up drinking and became Tree
man in Christ Jesus.
DR.. Duff once said of some fat Bengalis:
minds" That might be we'll said Of drunk
ards.
The converted war chief Of 1900 canni-
balls came to John G. Paton's son one morn
ing and said: "Missi. will you go with me
to the American traders living on the shore
and help me to plead with them not to sell
to my men the white mans ffrewater. for
when their reason fs dethroned by 1t they
commit shocking crimes and have no
power to control them. It's making havoc
you come to give us the gospel. why do
your countrymen come with the white
mans :f1rewater to destroy our people?"
Two creatures started together to cross
the Delaware river at Philadelphia. One
was Newfoundland dog, and he was sober
and vigilant; the other was drunken man.
and he was as shaky of gait and uncertain
of vision as it is the wont Of drunken men
to be. They came to an open space; the
dog would have Kept on the ice like SEN
creature, dragged them both into the river.
The senseless creature could not save him.
SELF: the. sensible. creature helped to save
them both In It's general outline TIN TIN the r n
time the lower creature in the scale has
proved .nobler than, the higher; it Is. I'M
fortunately. not likely to be the last time
But how ashamed that man must be when
that dog looks at him!'-W. F. Crafts. D. D.
How to Help the Leader.
Make q study of, last weeks daily news
papers and see how many crimes have been
committed which are attributed to drink.
This viii be a, significant answer to the
question OF the TOPIC:
Parallel passages-Galatians. Wis: Ro-
mans WILL viii2; Luke, xxi:34; Co
rinthfans. WHO. II; Galatians, wa; Psalms,
NH FL; J6hn, vih:34, 3.
Hints to the leader--The :: Endeavor
Hymnah s. AZ, 80, 81. 14o, 1853, 200
Draw some, large links in great chain on
the blackboard before the meeting. Gail
from members the different links t that bind bind
a second golden chain. in which you set
down. the links in the chain that bind us to
God and make US His heirs and joint heirs
with Christ Compare the freedom Of the
one with the other.
Ask for bits Of personal experience as to
she supposed freedom of the sinner, whether
one Who has sinned ever feels , really free
Urge members to pray for those they know
who are under the power Of intemperance.
Self s the only prison that ever bind the SOUL
Love Is the only angel who can bid the gates unio
And when ne comes 10 ,ssn thee arise and FOLLOW
fast; a.. ,s o..
"eA' Henry Van Dyke.