Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-03
ALL FOR CHRIST"
{. {. LESSON
This Weeks Topic Interpreted
For Students by Samuel
Reed

Topic "Ali For Christ Our Ambi-
tions Phil 3 AL. Written by Samuel
Reed, Vest Christian Endeavor
From early in life until death we are
filed with an ambition to become some
body and mako our mark IN the world. In
our Younger lives, our ambitions lead us To
follow some person that we see or read
about who takes our fancy, rs for IN
stance to scalp Indians or be bare back
rider in a circus. but "a We grow Older our
ambitions become more conservative and
we look forward 70 higher and nobler
ideals
Webster saws an ambition Is consum-
ing desire tn achieve some object or pur-
pose But il matters not what our am
hition is If VIC have not God with us. all
our energy and time will he wasted, for
as Paul saws IN the lesson If he did not
have Christ with him he would count all
| his earthly gam a a spiritual loss II is the
spiritual element that counts largely IN
our success Generally speaking, II IS the
religious people that are the most lnfluen-
, tial men and women IN any community
We feel that II is necessary for our lead
ers to have the noblest and highest con
ccptions Of life and that if tn IT ideals are
low and earthly they are not competent
to lead, and furthermore We feel that they
| are not to be trusted, if the spiritual side
OF their life has not been well developed.
We must remember that IN any sphere
of llfe. il is personality that counts; 1t ls
not only what is done, but the person who
does it and the spirit In which It IS done
that counts Put two men of equally bal
anced faculties and talents, side by side,
in the same set of circumstances and it
will be the spiritual man who will have
most weight and influence. Cultivate the
spiritual because it is highest and best:
because il ennobles your character, and
makes YOU finer and better worker IN
the field of the world Cultivate II be-
| cause it is life real life.
If YOU wish to realize your ambition,
YOU must think we'll of yourself, not III
sense TO make you concerted but to have
faith IN Yourself Self-relance IS the best
capital IN the world for II has overcome
more difficulties and carried through more
enterpr ses than any other human quality
| believe if We had a larger conception of
our possibilities. and a larger faith III our
selves. We would accomplish great deal
| more II We only understood Christ bet
ter We would be possessed of tins larger
/ faith
God made Us to hold up our heads and
(
Il slave, as IA success, not rs failure We
must not bellltle ourselves, for selt-depre-
/ cIatIon - ii crime There Is no lnferioritv
about the man that God made The only
/ lnferIoritv III Us is what We put into our
/ selves We must remember that What God
/ made Is perfect fhe trouble Is that most
/ 81 Us are only limitations OF the man God
made and intended Ii Is the man " ho can
no ran
/ One fault With most Of Us Is that we
start out with too small expectations We
| plan for things Oh small scale, We do not
i ann hIgh enough IL is best 10 aspire 70
I the higher ideals If We never reach the goal
| We were put here for purpose aud We
should bend every effort to accomplish
/ that purpose Develop your talents Il
! little every day and determine that YOU
! will be factor IN human Lfe and we'll
| thought aud spoken of III your community
| 4 good many have ambitions that arr
| hike motors they need - be reeharged
constantly They start ont we'll but soon
slide along tho Inc OF least resistance
After you give them good talking To
that raises their hopcs and hres their
ambitions they run spleHdidlv for v hIle
aud YOU think they are going 10 do some
thing, but nll II once they collapse and
have 10 bo recharged They depend too
much upon others for ,helr motor power
They lack initiative and self reliaueo II Is
better - make mistakes than never 10 act
uu your own judgment America of to-day
i no place Tor youth without backbone
or courage competition IS too fierce. Ii i
the lradcrS not the trallcrs that are III
deHn I'd
( good naux % our ludeavar societies
have discontinued their activities during
the summer months. but We trust their
interest in tins work Will not Waue
, fndeavorers, think up plans Tor Your fall
work
our good friend aud ex-InlstoraI eoan-
ceIlor Dr Thomas L Holloway. Of Second
Baptist Church preached ms last sermon
Sunday, as he leaves Wilmington the first
Of August Ia take up hIs work among the
boys III camp.
Dr Holloway has been appointed by
the War Commission of the Northern
Baptist Convention, as camp pastor at
Rockford, Ill He will be missed hy not
only his congregation hut by his many
friends He has always been right on the
job when the Endcayorers wanted him to
| help IN any way and we surely have a
great deal of love and respect for him tie
will be missed greatly by Us, but We are
glad that he Is gong 10 be IA help aud COM
fort TO our boys aud may God richly bless
HIM IN his worL
second Baptist is certainly dong her
part. as they now have their minister
and about II bows III tho service, many of
the boys being Over There Word has
been received that our good friend
Robert Collins arrived in Paris safely
MANY Of our Endeavorers are IN the
service. and We have an honor list to be
proud Of, and We know that our boys Will
strive to have an Influence for good wher-
ever they are.