Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-04
Christian Endeavor Hour
For Sunday. July 3, 1908.

For Sunday. July 5. 1908.
Topic 'Songs Of the Heart. VII. IIongings and
Satisfactions." tConsecration MeetingD Psalm
xiii.
/. o God, thou art my God; early Will
I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee,
my flesh longeth for thee in dry and
thirsty land. where no water is.
2. To see thy power and thy glory, SO
as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
3. Because thy loving kindness is better
than life, my lips shall praise thee.
4. Thus will 1 bless thee while 1 live:
I will lift up my hands in thy name.
5. My soul shall be satisfied as with
marrow and fairness; and my mouth shall
praise thee with joyful lips:
g. When I remember thee upon my
bed and mediate on thee in the night
watches.
therefore in the shadow of thy wings will
I rejoice.
8. My soul followeth hard after thee
thy right hand upholdeth me.
g. But those that seek my soul. to de-
stroy it. shall go into the lower parts Of
the earth.
10. They shall fall by the sword: they
shall be a portion for the foxes.
H. But the king shall rejoice in God:
every one that sweareth by him snail
glory. Out the NOUN OIL tIltlI tHdt SpSoh
lies shall be stopped.
Alexander Maclaren says: This mans
soul was all on the stretch to grasp and
hold God. His very physical frame was
affected by his intense longing.
Strong desire has joy in its very ach-
ing; feeble desire only makes men rest
less and uncomfortable. Nothing can
be more preposterous than tepid aspira-
tons after the greatest and the only good
To hold as creed that Gods loving kind
ness is better than life, and to wish
little to possess it is surely irrational if
ANYTHING is So When God is pos
sessed the soul is satisfied. So entire IS
the correspondence between wants and
gift that every cOncavity in us finds as II
WERE convexity to match 1t in Him.
The influx Of the great ocean Of God fills
every curve of the shore to the brim. and
the flashing glory of the sunlit sea covers
the sands and brings life where stag
nation reigned and rotted. So the salts
fed soul lives to praise. as the psalm
goes on to vow. Lips that drink such
draughts of loving kindness will not be
slow to tell its sweetness. If we have
nothing to say about Gods goodness the
proba BILE cause is our want of experience
of it,
One remarked of a man in passing:
THAT man has nothing in the world but
one million dollars!' There are many
people who have no desires for more than
that! Nothing higher an ambition has
ever entered their minds. To such there
can be no satisfaction. for when the
money Is amassed it does not fill the
empty craving that every soul must have
until 1t finds its fullness in God. Nothing
can satisfy the soul but God. however
much we may seek to make other things
take His place. 1t is universally known
that the rich and the great who know not
Jesus Christ are unhappy. especially as
they draw toward the end of their lives
and see death coming to claim them in
the near future and snatch them from all
that they have hitherto held dear. King
doms and crowns. dollars and rich robes.
jewels and costly equipageS, these cannot
satisfy but for day. Discomfort sits on
of the world for they soon grow weary
of them. and the end of this life. which is
meant to be to all but the beginning of the
higher one, is to them the leaving of all
that they have desired and reached out
after.
Applied Truth.
when we We're poor remarked the
prosperous man. according to the Chicago
Post. I'VE looked forward to the time
when we could have summer home.
Well, when we got rich enough to have
one we didn't like going to the same place
every summer because it was monOtonouS,
and we looked forward to the time when
we could have another for variety. We
got another and then we began to long
for a winter place. so that we wouldn't
have to be so much in the big house in
the city. Well, We have them all now"
And are you happy?'' asked the friend.
IT suppose so. At least l suppose my
wife is. She keeps them all shut up and
spends most of her time in Europe. but
she knows she has them"
blind Marjorie Robb found only room
for gratitude.
Ma ma, we're no to think that I've
been ill-treated by my God, for If He
dinna give me ae thing He gave me mony
things instead. And mind ye. It's no as