Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-03-02
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoR.


Prayer Meeting Topic For the Week
Beginning March 6, 1910.
Topic.-Christ our guide.-Luke l. 1913;
John xvi. 10; Rev. vii, ls. II. tConsecra-
tion meeting.) Comment by Rev. Sher-
man H Doyle, D. d.
There are two general senses in
which the word guide is used First
It is used to designate one who goes
before and leads others in certain
ways and courses. There are noun
tain guides who direct the footsteps
Of tourists up the dangerous sides Of
famous mountains. In our large cities
there are guides who direct visitors
through the principal parts Of the city
and point out the places Of especial In
terest- Until the compass was invent
ed and other nautical instruments
sailors used stars, and especially the
north star, to guide them in their
course across the sea. In the second
place, a guide Is one who directs the
conduct Of another, moral or spir-
itual guide. 1t is in this sense that
Jesus Christ is our guide. 1t is His
province as a guide to direct US along
the moral pathway Of life and to lead
us into the deeper spiritual truths that
are SO necessary that we may avoid
the various dangers that beset us in
the moral and spiritual life.
The need of a moral and spiritual
guide is of tremendous Importance. II
is only exceptionally that we need one
to conduct US along any way or road
of life, because we are usually famil-
Tar with the why's we travel or may be
our own guides and can readily find
our way But in the moral and spir-
itual life it is almost the opposite.
Here there is often gross darkness and
doubtful ways, and an infallible guide
Is a great necessity. Christ is an In
fallible guide. Wreckers often place
false lights and lead vessels into dan
ger, but Christ is never false guide.
The pathway He points out Is always
the correct one, and If by faith we fol
low His guidance, obey His COM
mandments, we shall never go astray.
He has guided His people in all gen
erations and is still the same I'M
changeable leader and able and will
ing to direct US along moral and spir-
itual lines.
The topical references present Christ
as our guide in three phases In the
first place, He is represented as
guide to the way of peace or to peace
itself duke /, 1910. Zacharias here
presents Him as the day spring from
on high, who giveth light to them
that sit in darkness and guides
"our feet into the way Of peace" Who
does not desire peace? And yet how
few find it, Why? Because they seek
it in wrong ways. Some seek 1t In
themselves, others In worldly wealth
or fame or pleasure. But Christ alone
can light us along the path Of peace
peace with ourselves, peace with our
fellow men and peace with God
again Christ through the holy Spirit
= Od7 guide to truth (John an 40.
aHowbeit, when He, the Spirit Of
Truth, is come, He will guide you into
an TRUTH. All truth-perfect truth
who does not desire It? The word Of
God, inspired by the Holy Ghost and
applied by Him alone, can give it. In
the third place, Christ Is our eternal
and heavenly guide Rev. vii, 16, ID.
BIBLE READINGS.
Gen. xix, 1-3. 1922; Elk. xiii, 20-22;
Ps, xxi. 8; Xviii, IA; lisa. lviii, IL;
John K, oil, q; xvi, rs; Cor. XIV, IS;
Jude "A, 25.