Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-02

people think that just a resolution is
going to save them.
One should not confine good resolutions
TO the beginning of the year. but should
he ready 10 make them whenever they
are needed or whenever the old ones
are broken.
Ii is said that Jonathan Edwards. after
writing his thirty-eighth resolution, wrote
in mis- diary: Il find by experience that
let NE make resolutions, and do what
will with never so many inventions, il is
all nothing. and to no purpose at all,
without the motions of the Spirit Of God.
1t is to no purpose to resolve, except we
not for His mere grace one might be a
very good man one day and very
wicked one the next
Mr. Moody tells OF little boy who
cimbed into his fathers lap and looking
into his face asked. Father is your soul
insured?' The father looked into his
boys face startled. What Are you
thinking about. my chid?" he asked.
Why father. | heard Uncle George say
your life insured. but he didn't belle ve
you had thought of your soul. and he was
afraid you would lose it: won't you get
it insured right away
The father was touched with a new
thought. He began to think how he had
broad acres and barns filled with plenty.
and all covered by insurance so that he
could not lose 1t. Yet he had never stop
ped TO get his soul made right with God
for eternity 1t led him to resolve to in
sure for the life to come.
The Bible says: To-day il We will hear
His voice.. and today is all We are sure
Of Choose YOU this day whom We will
serve.
Let us bring out Christianity down
from the upper chambers OF the intellect.
where We have stored il. that il may come
into life afresh. Let Cur belief in Christ
make us Christians. $ A. Smith.
Many good intention died from mat
tention. II, through care!esSness or indo-
lence or seliShness. good intention is
not put into effect. we have lost an on
portuuity, demoralized ourselves and
stolen from the pile OF possible good. To
he born and not fed is To perish To
launch Il ship and neglect it is To lose il
To have talent and bury it is to he
a wicked and siothful servant. For i'll the
end We shall be judged not alone BY what
we have done but by what we could
have done -Maltbie ID. Babc
Some one has suggested that an eIe-
ment Of weakness in much of our resolv-
ing is that we try to grasp too much of
life at one time. We think of il as a
whole instead of taking the DAYS one by
one Life is a mosaic. and each tiny
There is very beautiful custom in Ger
many for the first day of the New ar.
which might be copied by Others with
profit. Whatever mSy have been the quar-
relS between friends or relatives on that
day visits are exchang ard kindly
reetin:s received and given all bitter
ness forgotten and forgiven. We reel o
resolve to wipe the new page of TIE year
c'ean from Ill an@er and malice md
hatred, to forgive a W. hop to be : r
given. And we need TO begin by being
reconciled to God.
1T is thus each year of life comes to us
for each day clean white page and
we are artists whose duty ii is To put
beautiful on the pages one nv
one. we are historians. and must give
10 the page some record Of work duty
or victory TO enShrine and carry away
Parallel assages.-II Kings. iN:11: XVI:
1914: Malachi iii:l0: Jonah ii:o; Psalms
lvi:12: Ecclesiastes VA.
Hints to the Leader.
The t.nGeavor Hymna,-i31. l42 49,
1J1. lGl. 16i.
After your own talk and after throw