Evening star., 1908-01-25
Christian Endeavor Hour
For Sunday. January &c. zoos.
Tonic: The Home Mission Work of Our De
Survey =, ISaiah lyiii Ii 4

Topic: The Home Mission work or Our Denom1
nation: A Survey" Isaiah. lviif : LII.
/. Cry aloud. spare not. lift up thy voice
like trumpet, and shew thy people their
transgression, and the House of Jacob
their sins.
.. Yet they seek me daily. and delight
to know my ways. IS a nation that did
righteousness. and forsook not the ordi-
nance of their God: they ask of me the
ordinances of justice: they take delight
| in approaching to God.
3. Wherefore have we tasted, say they.
and thou seest not? Wherefore have we
afflicted our soul. and thou takest no
knowledge Behold. in the day of your
fast We find pleasure, and exact all your
labors.
4. Behold. ye fast for strife and debate,
and to smite with the fist of wickedness:
ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to
make your voice TO be heard on high.
). Is 1t such "A fast that ] have chosen
d day for u man to aff1ict his soul? is it
to bow down his head as a bulrush and
to spread sackcloth and ashes under him
wilt thou call this a fast, and an accepta-
BILE day to the Lord?
q. Is not this the fast that 1 have
chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let
the oppressed go free. and that ye break
every yoke?
I. Is it not to deal thy bread to the
hungry and that thou bring the poor
that are cast out to thy house? when
thou seest the naked that thou cover
him: and that thou hide not thyself from
thine own flesh?
8. Then shall thy light break forth as
the morning. and thine health shall spring
forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall go before thee: the glory of the
Lord shall be thy reward
.. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord
hal fhOu shalt cry. and he Sha II
say, Here / am. If thou take away from
the midst of thee the yoke. the putting
forth of the finger. and speaking vanity:
TO- And If thou draw out thy soul to
the hungry. and satisfy the afflicted soul
then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
thy darkness be as the MONDAY:
II, And the Lord shall guide thee con-
tinualy. and satisfy thy soul in drought.
and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt
be like a watered garden. and like a
spring of water, whose waters fail not.
II. And they that shall be of thee shall
build the old waste places: thou shalt
raise up the foundations OF many genera
tions: and thou shalt be called The re-
pairer of the ureach, The restorer of
paths to dwell in.
IL. If thou turn away thy foot from the
Sabbath. from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day. and call the Sabbath delight.
the holy of the Lord. honorable: and
shalt honor him. not doing thine own
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words:
IA. Then shalt thou delight thyself in
the Lord; and l will cause thee to ride
upon the high places of the earth. and
feed ,hee with the heritage of Jacob thy
father: for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.
Far out among the Rocky mountains
there lies a valley. 1t is long and wide
and fertile. Amid the solemn silence of
its rock distances 1000 people dwell, with
out a minister to conduct religious serv-
ices, or doctor to minister to their needs.
The nearest town is Salmon, too far away
from most of them to be of any use. Sal
mon is eighty miles from railroad. but
it has |, 100 inhabitants. two stores a sta
tion three churches. a Methodist, Epis-
copaI and Presbyterian. 1t has three doc
tors but they are not Christians. and will
not go out of the town. and are all in
other business besides doctoring. Some