Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-10

C PEOPLES SO(
gle committee In the whole society whose
work is not sacred. because it is done
for Him. 1t can be done half-hearted-
ly. or it can be done we'll. and in such
a way as to commend your religion rather
than to hinder it.
If you are a chairman. or a prominent
member, are you always cordial, never
condescending toward the lesser quieter
members? Do you make them feel your
need of them in other ways than just
for the hard. unlauded work like wash
ing the dishes and cleaning up after
ward?
Those committee meetings need to be
held regularly. If you are not chairman.
there is to be meeting till he will just
have to call one. Suggest that it be
opened by prayer all around. Be ready
to join in this earnestly. Put the same
interest in your committee work that you
do in your business, or your new clothes.
or the getting up Of party. Whatever
you do, do it well, and do it for the
Lord. not for yourself. Then you will
not be disappointed if it is not appre-
ciated by ALL or If you hear some one
say she could have done it better. If
that is true, maybe God will use her next
time, and give you something better to
do in which you will excel; but the main
thing is to do the work as given over
wholly to God, doing His service, and
not your own.
Applied Truth.
Christmas Evans tells how there once
arose fierce contention in the human
body; every member sought another place
than the one it found itself in, and was
fitted for. After much controversy 1t was
agreed to refer the whole matter to one
whose name was Solomon W1se-1n-h1s-
own-conceit. He was to arrange and adj
just the whole business. and to place
every bone in its proper position. He re-
ceived the appointment gladly and was
filled with joy and confidence. He COM
menced with finding himself place. His
proper post was in the heel, but he pre-
ferred to be in the head. The natural
consequences followed The coarse heel
bone was not Of the right quality or of
suitable dimensions to contain the brains.
nor could the vessel intended for that
purpose form a useful or comely part of
the foot. Disorder followed in foot. head,
face, legs and arms. By the time Solo,
mon e-in-his-own-cOnceit had recon-
structed the body it could neither walk,
nor speak, nor hear. nor smell, nor see
The body was, moreover. filled with in
tolerable agony and could find no rest
every bone crying out for restoration to
it's own place-that is to say, every one
but the heel bone: that was nightly
pleased to be in the head and to have
the custody of the brains.
1t is so in the body of Christ's church
when it's members seek to take higher
positions than those assigned to them in
the natural order of work. God will not
see one talent wasted or put to a wrong
There is always a danger of over
estimating the importance OF our indi-
vidual work. We need to see it in
perspective of relation to the works of
others to grasp it's real value. 1t is said
that Mr.. Brock, the renowned sculptor.
has curious habit peculiar to himself.
of looking at his large statues through an
inverted opera glass. The reduction of
apparent size helping him to discover its
effect as a whole. and the value of its
separate detail."-D. L. Moody
A little pale girl entered the minister's
study one day, where sat two of his
deacons with him.
You are quite too young to join the
church," said one of the deacons; you
had better run home and let us talk to
your father and mother"
But the courteous minister gave her a
chair. asked her name, where she lived
and who was her Sunday school teacher.
She told him quietly and said she wanted
to join his church. "She can't be more
than six years DID," said one of the
deacons disapprovingly, but the little girl
asked her If she knew what joining the
church meant. and she reminded him that
he had said last Sunday that the lambs
should be in the fold. After that they
could not we'll keep her out. She was
sent home and the minister inquired
among her friends. and found that she
seemed to understand. and she was finally
baptized and taken into the church. For
year he continued to hear from her
Sunday school teacher that she was doing
we'll, and then one day he was summoned
to her funeral
On the doorstep he found little Grip
pied boy crying bitterly. When asked if
he knew Annie Graham. he replied: ''Oh,
sir. Niver a week passed but she came
twice OF thrice with picture or book or
clargy at all that I'll ever follow her
blessed footsteps to heaven. Shed read
me from her own Bible, an now she's
gone there'n be none at all to help me-
In the narrow passageway a woman
stood ST. weep'ng sked te A minstar re'a1ye
sir. but she was at our house constantly
and when Bob was sick she nursed him
and sang him hymns. It's just the same
with all the neighborS. What she's been
to us no one but the Lord will ever
know About the coffin stood other
neighbors weeping. and all telling what
she had done for them. The next day a
strong man come into the doctors study.
saying: II am Annie's uncle. She made
me promise to join the church. and I've
resting after his visitor had left he
marveled over the wonderful work his
little parishioner had done in her own
short year of service-a work that
whole society might be proud of. And
what might we not all do if we would
but work in this way with all our
hearts!