September 1928
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T houghts on the T opic The outstanding goal toward which Dr. Francis Clark, founder of Christian En deavor, strove, was the deepening o f the spiritual life of the young people o f our churches. With this goal uppermost in a society, other goals will be set arising out o f this goal. Usually at this time o f the year, the International Society of Chris tian Endeavor issue charts containing sev eral goals for which to work in the com ing year. Get in touch with your district officers regarding such charts. Usually the goals set are Workable in any society and tend to increase' interest in the society as well as stimulate individual work on the part o f all the members. All should be done .in the spirit o f the text chosen for this lesson. The singular fruit, as compared with the plural works in the preceding verses, suggests that the Spirit’s work is one harmonious whole. Love could be termed the one outstand ing fruit o f the Spirit, out from which flow all o f the other graces named. Love—Towards God and our fellow men. Joy—In the Spirit; in our work; in the blessed hope o f eternal life. Peace—O f God in our hearts (Phil. 4: 7; Col. 3:15). Longsuffering—To suffer and forbear wrong done to us. Gentleness—Courteous at all times. Goodness—Communicating good things to others. Meekness—Same in effect with long- suffering. The difference is that meek ness is more general and longsuffering the highest degree of meekness. Temperance—Moderation of lust and appetite. — o — C hoice N uggets On a very slippery day in the winter, a young negro was making his way home with a large basket on his arm, full to the brim. Treading unwarily on a bit of ice, he came down suddenly with a crash that emptied his basket into the street. Sur rounded by garden products he lay at full length, his head supported on his hand, looking calmly about him. Seeing him still prostrate, a gentleman hurried to him, anxiously asking, “Are you hurt?’« “ No,” was the answer. “Then, why don’t you get up?” “’Tain’t worth while.” Like this young negro, a good many of us spill out our little basket o f plans into the street and, like him, too often conclude that it isn’t worth while to get up, gather up the plans and persevere in our jour ney and our struggle. It may be amusing when only a basket o f garden products is spilled and a negro gives up. It is not amusing, but dangerously serious, when we spill our plans and give up to indo lence. Thomas Carlyle, toward the end of life, said: “The older I grow—and now I stand upon the brink o f eternity—the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its mean ing becomes: ‘What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.” ’ There are all sorts o f ambitions in the world; there is no better sort than this. No ambition brings such measure of reward for the years of time and for eternity. “ Be heroic. Make what men call small est greatest by the motive, ‘For His sake.’
Do not daintily pick and choose. Do not say, ‘Somebody else can do the inconspic uous and distasteful service.’ Seize you it, rather, and for His sake turn drudgery into delight.”— Waylahd Hoyt. _A_missionary in Jamaica was once ques tioning thei little black boys on the mean ing, o f flatt.., 5 :5, and asked, “Who are the meek?” A boy answered, “Those who give soft answers to rough questions.”
to his preaching, and correspondence to two missionaries, a commentator, a Chris tian statesman and a pastor, yet her grave and her name are unknown .—Eadie in "Paul the Preacher.’’ Who could doubt that this mother was a worker together with God? All born- again children o f God are called to be workers together with God. What a call ing! Workers together with the One who made u s! What a privilege! We do not have to work alone. His ever assuring promise is given, “ Lo, I am with you always.” “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened! me.” A young, man who had heard the Gos pel accepted Christ. A little while after this he was asked: “What have you done for Christ since you believed?” He re plied, “ Oh, I am a learner!” “Well,” said the questioner, “when you light a candle, do you light it to make the candle more comfortable, or that it may give light?” He replied, “To give light.” He was asked, “ Do you expect it to give light after it is half burned, or when you first light it?” He replied, “As soon as I light it.” “ Very well,” was the reply, “go thou and do likewise. Begin at once.” A soldier in the Civil War had lost his place in his company, and rather timidly said to General Sherman as he came up behind the line, “Where shall I step in?”' “ Step in?” said the general, “ Step in? Step in anywhere. There is fighting all along this line.” And that is precisely true of the great battlefield to which you and I belong. “Recently an inventor examined a loco motive and found history exhibited more than one hundred and fifty improvements during the last-century. Each wheel, each lever, each device was named and told the story o f its inventor. One man said, ‘Here’s my steam chest’ ; another said, ‘Here is my piston rod’ ; another, ‘Here is my eccentric’ ; another, ‘Here is my converter’ ; but every one o:f these devices is now found in the completed locomotive .—o— C hoice N uggets
October 7, 1928 Workers Together W ith God 1 Cor, .3:1-9 D aily S cripture R eadings
M. An invitation to work. Jer. 1 :4-10. T. Work at soul-winning. Mark 16:19, 20 . W. Work at church-building.' Zech. 4: 8 - 10 . T. A ,man who struck work. Jonah 1: 1-17. F. Working in church. 1 Pet. 5 :l-5. S. Working as missionaries. Matt. 28: 19, 20. T houghts on the T opic There once lived in the eighteenth cen tury, in England, an obscure woman with only one son. When he was but seven years old, she died, but her image and her prayers haunted him by land and sea, in parts of Britain, on the beach of Africa, when shipping manacled negroes, or ca rousing on shore with a seaman’s zest. His heart was touched; he became a min ister renowned for his impressive conver sation and correspondence, His words reached Claudius Buchanan, and sent him to India. The recital o f his labors so attracted Judson that it drew him. fo Burma.. The same " gift to a mother's prayers threw light on the"soul of Scott, the commentator. It also strengthened Cowper, and gave birth to thef^ Olney Hymns. Wilberforce was greatly indebt ed to the same source, and his “ Practical Views” brought the truth home to the mind of Leigh Richmond. Thus John' Newton’s mother’s prayers gave birth
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