Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-10

grounded in Christ and the Word of God,
the branches of such a denomin ational
tree can but be strong and vigorous and
bring forth much fruit The giving to
the poor and the supporting of the
weak that are done by denomination
its fruit. BY their fruits We shall
know them. THE fruit Of the Spirit
is love''-love to God and love to one
another.
The way by which many denomina-
tons have worked up TO what they now
are has been hazardous and steep and
beset with many difficulties. In the early
beginnings. doubtless. the first workers
were deeply discouraged. Some Of the
first missionaries sent out by early socie
ties were killed by savages before they
had fairly landed in the new country.
and the people at home could not under
stand why it happened. but later years
the very best thing after all that could
have happened for the sake of the work
at large, because they drew the eyes and
sympathy Of the whole world to the work
that was being done, and opened the way
for a greater work. A little girl who had
for long time coaxed to go up a high
hill where her brother delighted to climb
was appalled, and drew back when she at
last started and came In sight OF the
steep path upward. Why, she said,
there isn't any smooth path up. It's
AL bumpy and stony. "Of course, said
her more experienced brother: how
stones and hummocks are what wa climb
on.
DR. Jowett SAYS: "rt is when YOU get
home from your work at night and there's
the promise of slppered ease and in
wiling music Is at hand or an alluring
book at your elbow. and you feel the fas-
clnati0n of 1t all-and then YOU hear the
cry of human need. like a moaning wind
down. a dreary street. and you rise. tired
though you are with honest work, and
again and
out into the cheerless night. and to a
still more cherries slum, to take Christ
and cheer to the victim of nght-it is
then you begin to live and TO raise others
from the dead
There is story told of a boy who
came to his pastor to tell him of religious
doubts that had arisen in his mind The
pastor listened sympathetically and then
said: at is a serious time for you my
boy. but will you do me a favor?' The
boy willingly assented. Then go for
visit this afternoon to an old blind
friend of mine and read to him several
chapters from Gods Word" The young
fellow hesitated. wondering how he could
do it and what to read, but his pastor
told him what to read. and asked him
! to return in the evening and report about
| the visit. and the boy went off on his
errand, it must be confessed. very re-
| luctantly. But at Z he was back with
| a wonderful look his face. and as
| soon as his pastor met him he said
Don say any more about my giving
| up the church or having doubts and
I fears. Why. when ! read to that old
| blind man he became so happy that
he shouted for joy. and I think I shouted.
| too. and oh. pastor l have learned my
lesson Henceforth l Will be busy for
my Lord"
Some one speaks of an engine room
and the impossibility of looking into the
great boiler and seeing how full 1t is
but there is small glass tube running
! beside the engine which O
gauge. AS the water stands i'm the little
tube, so il stands in the boiler When
the tube is half full the boiler is half
/ full: when the tube is empty the boiler
1 is empty. Some one has likened the
boiler to our love for God. and If we
| would know what is our love for God
we should look AT the gauge. Your love
] for your brother is the measure of your