Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-14
Christian Endeavor Hour

For Sunday, March Is, 1858.
Topic: 1.-THE Wise Use Of Money" Timothy
vi:17-19.
Most Of us are SO busy trying to make
money that we have little time to think
how to spend it wisely, and many of US
have it spent in our minds before 1t is
earned Perhaps the secret of our trouble
was known by Paul when he wrote that
seventeenth verse of Timothy, charge
them that are rich in this world that
they be not high minded" Now we are
not all rich in this world by any means.
but we most of us want to be, and 1t Is
to be feared we are trusting in uncer-
tain riches to a greater or less degree,
every one of us. more or less forgetful
Of the living Cod" who can give us
richly all things to enjoy. If we were not
minded to get up SO high in the world,
to live in as fine q house as our friends,
to ride behind the latest make of auto
mobile and to wear finer clothes next
year than we have this, we should not be
In this mad rush for money. God Is able
to give us all things richly to enjoy-to
enjoy, notice. not, to hoard. Mr.. Meyer,
in speaking Of this recently, said: What
God forbids Is the amassing Of money,
not for the use we may make Of 1t, nor
for the securing of our loved ones from
anxiety, but for its own sake, to such an
extent as that the endeavor to hoard en-
crosses affections which ought to be
fixed on nobler and diviner things, and
leads to the concentration OF the whole
being upon the growing balance IN the
bank or the increase of real estate
The ideal method OF life Is to use what
you have to help others, to regard your
possession Of money as stewardship for
the welfare Of the world and to consider
yourself a trustee for all who need. In
stead Of letting your dresses hang in the
wardrobe give them to the respectable
poor, whose own are threadbare, that
they may be able to occupy suitably the
positions on which their livelihood de-
ponds. This is the best way Of keeping
them free from moth. Whatever you
have in the way of books. recreation.
spare rooms, elegantly furnished homes,
look upon them all as so many oppor-
tunities Of helping and blessing others.
If you are in business, at the end Of the
year put aside what Is needed for the
maintenance Of your family in the posi-
ton to which God has called them: next
put aside what may be required for the
development of your business; third, be
sure that by system of life insurance
you are providing for the failure of old
age; but, when all this is done, look upon
the remainder as Gods, to be used for
Him. Never give God less than a tenth,
but give Him as much as possible Let
every Christian adopt the principle Of
giving certain proportion of his income
to the cause of Christ, and whenever the
fascination of money begins to assert
itself instantly make handsome dona-
ton to some needy cause. Every time
from a selfish standpoint meet 1t by look
ing up to God and saying, thank Thee
that Thou hast given me these things
richly to enjoy. and crave wisdom and
grace to use them for Thee and Thine "
Applied Truth. =,
A wealthy man in New York gave
$4,000 to a mission church to put up
church building. few years later the
man lost all his money. and friend said
to him, Nov, If you only had that money
you gave to that church you would be
able to start in business again, and win
back your fortune" Sir" said the man,
that is the only money have saved; If
it had not been there 1t would have gone
with the other. AS it is, have it yield
ing me an interest which will only cease
to accumulate when the knell of time is
sounded, and during the ages of eternity
will be poured into my bosom. in the
blessed consolation that hundreds have
bowed at that altar erected with that
money, and acknowledge their Savior
Early in his life Jay Cooke read Gold
and the Gospel and resolved to take
Jacobs pledge. "Of all that Thou shalt
give me I will surely give the tenth unto
Thee" He told his clerk to open an ac-
count with o. P. ]. (Old Patriarch jacob
and credit to it one-tenth Of all the COM
missions that came into the Office. The
success of that firm was wonder
throughout the land. and some of the
largest financial transactions were trust
ed to it. The o. p. ]. account grew until
it took five figures TO express 1t. Some
one asked him how he could afford to give
such large contributions. and he said: 1T
don't cost me anything. It's the Lords
money I give"
How to Help the Leader.
Watch the daily papers and see what
the financiers of the world say Is the
cause of the financial panic. Perhaps you
can quote some good authority for the
statement that the trouble is because peo-
pie are wanting to live too high, to have
too many automobiles and dress finer than
their neighbors. Quote some good Bible
verse of your own finding to show that a
Christian has no right to enter into any
such race of the rich.
If you can get some good financier "a
of course) to speak for five min
utes on the proportionate division of an
income, you will have good, practical
ha SiS tn opan vollr ynoofipO upon