Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-11
Christian Endeavor Hour
For Sunday. April IL, 1908.

Topic: Temperance Meeting: Lessons From the
Life of John b. Cough. II Samuel, xxii:17-27.
John 3. Cough was born in 1917 at
Sandgate, county of Kent. England. His
father was soldier and afterward a day
servant His mother was school teacher.
OF his mother ne mas said: Her very
being seemed twined with mine, and ar
IDENTIFY did l return her love" His mother
was a Methodist and taught him to love
and fear God to pray and read the Bible
John went 10 school until he was nearly
twelve years old and was a bright
scholar. When he was twelve his father
not feeling able to pay for him to learn
a trade. he was put into the care OF a
gentleman who was emigrating to -Ameri-
ca. and who agreed to teach him to be a
servant and 10 care for him until he was
twenty-one years old.
Tho separation was terrible thing to
his mother. who Wept over him. and be-
sought him To remember 10 pray and to
learn certain portions OF Scripture. She
pinned Bible verses through all his gar
ments in his trunk. At the last the part
ing with father and mother and little sis
ter was hard but. bOylke, he was en-
cited over his prospects.
When his master reached this country
he bought farm in Oneida county. New
York near Utica But the boys life was
not happy. and he was not treated as kind
ly as had been promised. He wrote to his
father secretly requesting perm sslon 10
go to New York and learn trace, ana
when his father consented he carried MS
trunk on his shoulder and entered New
York alorfe and friendless. a boy of four
teen years.
Through kind Methodist people the boy
secured work i'm the Methodist Book Con-
Germ where he was to learn the trace or
bookhinding and to receive $22I week.
H. was obliged to pay out >. week Tor
board and then was put to sleep In a
room with a sick freshman who died the
second night he was there Johns for
lorp state sometimes overcame him so
thai he could not keep the tears from
drumming down upon the books. he was
packing. Once Young woman sa" nm
weenine. and asking for his story took
him IN her home and mother. who was
kind to him and helped him rs find a
nnre pleasant boarding place in d real
home.
,ani, Iindinp establishment. where he re-
.ad 81 a week AS his prospects seemed
800 he wrote for his father and mother
20 come His mother apd sister arrived
Soon after but his father had stayed be-
lind TO look after his pension and make it
secure ,, ., ,,
,ha,,t reIisious things and he seldom went
a. th,,,ch any more. but the coming of
his mother brought back his chldhood's
habits to large extent His sister Sc
cured work making straw bonnets, and
so, time everything seemed bright; but
the winter came on and both John and his
.ister lost their positions. They We're
obliged to give up the two rooms they had
taken. and rent Il single attic room d.
,;Stne il with curtains, Wood grew
scarce and high. John often had TO walk
miles into the country to pick some up
They all suffered from cold and hunger
one John walked the streets sobbing I'm
his misery and hclplesSncss. and man
liked him what was the matter. II am
hungry and 80 il my mother. was t"c
raniy lie was given a loaf OF bread. and
II was characteristic" OF his mother That
She first read "A portion OF Scripture and
then kncit To thank her Heavenly Father
before tasting ".
The summer came on and the heat In