Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12
Christian Endeavor Hour
For Sunday. January 10, 1907.

Genesis i:2G And God said, Let make
man in our image, after our likeness. and
let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth
Christ. seek these things which are above,
where Christ stitch on the right hand of
God.
. Set your affection on things above, not
on things on the earth.
8. For We are dead, and your life Is
his, with Christ in God.
& When Christ. who is our life, shall ap
pear, then shall ye also appear with him
in glory.
D. Mortify therefore your members,
which are upon the earth; fornication, I'M
cleanness, inordinate affection, evil con-
cupiscence, and covetousness, which is
idolatry:
g. For which things sake the wrath of
God cometh on the children of disobedience.
l. In the which We also walked some
time when We lived in them.
s. But now ye also put off all these;
anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth
g. Lie not one to another, seeing that
ye have put off the old man with his
deeds;
10. And have put on the new man, which
is renewed in knowledge after the image
of him that created him.
The Lesson.
1t is said that a group of scientific men
in Paris are making experiments upon pigs
with a view to ascertaining the precise
ton of alcohol upon the processes of diges-
ton, respiration and secretion. The pig
has been chosen for these experiments, it
is said, because his digestive apparatus
closely resembles in all essential particu-
lars that of man. and also because he is
almost the only animal besides man that
will consent to be dosed with alcohol.
Dr. Holland once said. There is good
deal of human nature in the pig, else
there is a good deal of pig in human
ture.'
The pig stands for the animal part of our
nature. the image of God for the spiritual.
This has long been recognized. The prodi-
gal son deliberately chose between the ami
NAL and spiritual part of his nature when
he gathered all that he had and went to
live in far country among the pigs. To be
sure. he did not recognize his companions
as pigs at that time. 1t was only when his
money spent and there was nothing
attractive left about him that they showed
their pig nature and turned away from
him. and he left to the company Of
the unmistakable pigs and their husks
There is story about a terrible drunkard
whose wife one night. at last in desperation
took her drunken husband and flung him
over into the pig-sty among the pigs to
sleep out his drunken sleep, and when he
awoke and saw where he was he was sud-
denly brought to his senses and knew how
the image of the man had been blotted
out in his nature and how the beast image
had been growing day by day. He could
but recognize his likeness to the pigs
The Hindus teach that in the future life
drunkards will become frogs. You recog-
hiZe II yourself when you meet a drunken
man.the animal nature in him. You
would would never be brought to think of the
image OF GOD when looking at a Keeling,
bloated man with blasphemy upon his lips
and no control over himself From such we
run and hide in fear and shrink back in
horror. But the image of God-the Dure
ana hoiy God-has been his. Where is 1t?
Sroken! Gone! Nothing left to recognize
save now and then when he is sober and
some OF the old gentleness and kindness
ana cIeverness appears in few weak
promises and a shadow of his former self
LOOKS cut sadly from his bleared eyes
Made IN Gods image and yet so changedi
Inc pody is grand servant hut a
PAD master, says Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts
~ ~ ~, and again, I'm many human lives
the animal is more prominent than the
inward man, and the appetites crowd the
rehglous nature into the background Thay
oVereat their prayers. The whisky glass
mas power opposite to that of Ithmuriel's
spear That touched toad-and 10. a
fallen angel! This touches a human form
and 10, brute! Two drunken women
IN New York city paused to view a dead
them
said. In a voice that was almost a wall
God help the three of u.s.
Man can be saved from the descent into
an1mailsm only by recovering the domin-
ion which God gave him at the first over
the whole realm of animal life in himself
as well as about him. 1t was through an
animal that Satan made his first success
full attack upon man, and 1t Is on the
animal side of mans nature that his SUBJ
sequent attacks have been most frequently
made. 1t Is through prayer that our ami
NAL nature is subdued and our spiritual ma
ture enthroned as its master-master be-
cause 1t has become a 'partaker' of the
Divine nature; because the human spirit
in its losing battle with the flesh, has
been reinforced by the Holy Spirit. 1t
was not His divine nature that saved
Him. but the permeation of His humal ma
ture with the Holy Spirit He conquered
as or example, by the aid of only such
allies as wait our call"
THE church must come back after its
wasted years of throwing aims at beg
gars, to the wisdom of its very first chart
ty, when Peter said to the cripple at the
beautiful gate, Silver and gold have l
none; such as / have give thee. In the
name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and
walk and then lent hand and put him
on his feet and lifted him out of his beg
gary by the importation of new life.
That transformation of the poor can still
be wrought as surely, If not as suddenly,
as in the ancient miracles, by the giving
His name"
Applied Truths.
The aged Emperor William Of Germany
a few years ago was visiting the public
schools and holding up a stone asked the
children to what kingdom 1t belonged
They replied ITO the mineral kingdom"
He held up flower, asking the same ques-
tion and the prompt reply was, THE vege-
table kingdom" Then, wishing to Illus
trate the animal kingdom, the emperor
asked, And to what kingdom do I be-
long?' The children did not reply. They
did not like to class their Christian en-
peror with animals. Suddenly one little
girl raised her hand and said, ITO Gods
kingdom, sire"
From Henry Drnmmond's Changed
Life"
Under the right conditions 1t is as natural
for character to become beautiful as for
flower. The first imperfect method is to
rely on resolution. In will power, in mere
spasms of earnestness there is no salvation
In md-Atlantic the other day, the Etruria
in which 1 was sailing, suddenly stopped.
Something had gone wrong with the en-