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Show Christian Endeavor Topic Idleness and Usefulness. Monday, Jan. SO, The Idle talent; Matt. 25: 24-30. Tuesday, Jan. 31, Idle words; Matt 12: 83-37. Wednesday, Feb. 1, Sowing, morning and evening; Eccl. 11: 1-6. Thursday, Feb. J, TJntlring activity; 2 Cor. 11: 23-28. Friday, Feb. 8, The night cometh; John 9: 1-7. Saturday, Feb. 4, Laborers are few; Matt. 9: 36-88. 36-88. Sunday, Feb. 5, Topic: Idle In the market-place; Matt 20: 1-18. Many a man thinks he la doing good things Just because he Is not doing bad things. It Is not tolling In the vineyard vine-yard merely to refrain from robbing It Some men get in the midst of bustle and think they are busy. Standing forever in the market-place will not make a marketman of you. There is work In the vineyard for all degrees of skill. If you cannot prune vines, you can carry away the clippings. clip-pings. Are you waiting for some one to hire you 7 Go and hire yourself to somebody! some-body! There Is always some Sunday-school Sunday-school class to teach, some sick to visit, some sad to cheer. Do not wait till you become a skilled agriculturist before you will enter Christ's vineyard. Working Is the only school for higher work. What though the eleventh-hour men received the same pay as the first-hour men? They remained eleventh-hour men, didn't they? Do you covet that title? To know whether you are really at work In Christ's vineyard, do not ask yourself where the results are; ask yourself whether you are getting nearer near-er to Christ. Illustration Among the "Logla," 'he newly discovered sayings attributed attribut-ed to Christ, Is this beautiful and suggestive sug-gestive one: "Raise the stone, and fhou shalt find me; cleave the wood, jind there I am." Among the Interpretations Interpre-tations of this mysterious utterance that find the most favor Is this, that jsnly the earnest laborer, the hewer of stone and the cleaver of wood, will find Phrlst, the Carpenter. As Dr. Henry Van Dyke says In his beautiful poem on this subject: "This Is the gospel of labor! Ring It, ye bells of the kirk: The Lord of love came down from above to live with the men who work." |
