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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Friendly Endeavor (Quakers) 11-1927 Friendly Endeavor, November 1927 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Friendly Endeavor, November 1927" (1927). Friendly Endeavor. 74. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor/74 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friendly Endeavor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Friendly Endeavor Volume 6, No. 10. PORTLAND, OREGON. November, 1927 THANKSGIVING. At night, before sleep quietly carries True thanksgiving by the lips, and you away to calm and rest, consider the thanksgiving in the life, will bring Between the fall and winter. heavens, the moon and stars, and thank results of eternal endurance. In the There comes a period of pause; their Creator for the little knowledge first place, encouragement comes to the To nature, a minor symphony. you have of the work of His fingers. individual who will stop and give thanks To us—Thanksgiving—with cause. Then let us thank Him for the benefits for past blessings. exceeding our knowledge Mdth which He Wle become lost in wonder at all God loadeth us daily, and for "the fear of has done for us, and are encouraged to Thanksgiving! Should we stop to the Lord" which is wisdom higher than press ahead. analyze our concept of this holiday knowledge of "things." When courage shines in the face of custom, would it formulate itself into an Mary Mills, one, it soon spreads to others, then equation something like this: Springbrook, Oregon. from them to others. The growth of one personality cannot be hidden, but Thanksgiving, November 24, 1927. Proof — Proclamation of President will bear fruit in the hves of others. thanksgiving. Paul told the Corinthian Church that Coolidge. The equation and proof are without error, except that Thanksgiving Praise God for wheat, so white and God expected that through their thanks giving, abundant grace might redound to is more than a day, it is an act. sweet. the glory of God. This exhortation Thanksgiving—with "cause." From Of w-hich to make our bread; the first peep of day, to its next Praise God for yellow corn, ivith which leads us to believe that part of Gods recurrence constitutes a whole cycle of His waiting world is fed; plan for spreading the gospel is by the them. Praise God for fish flesh and fowl. expression of thanksgiving and praise He gave to tnen for food! which His children offer. „ Let us put just one twenty-four hour "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. period under the microscope and Praise God for ewery creature which He made, and called it good! May the possession of a call be treasured scrutinize it for "causes." by us more and more. May we rejoice Very early in the morning you are our Heavenly Father by thanking Him awakened—how you would have enjoyed Praise God for winter's store of ice! for it. May we even now help others, sleeping longer—but you remember that Praise God for sunimer's heat! and cause them to look to Jesus by our the morning is the gate of the day, and Praise God for fruit trees, bearing seed; that you want to be there early to meet "To you it is for meat!" rejoicing in His service. H i m w h o v i s i t s m a n e v e r y m o r n i n g , a n d Praise God for all fbe bounty. brings with Him a bundle of new By which the wprld is fed! m e r c i e s f o r e v e r y n e w h o u r . A f r e s h Praise God, ye children, all, to whom breath of ozone accompanied Him from He gives your daily bread! CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR His highest atmosphere, and you begin •—^Anonymous. your work, knowing that it is no TOPICSiFOR NOVEMBER commonplace God who has imparted to A S P E C I a P b l e s s i n g . you His Spirit, working in you that By BELL G. BADLEY. which is we 1 pleasing in His sight. And Thanksgiving ig a holiday in which you are glad you entered into His gates everyone may havr sincere part, but November 13, 1927. vath thanksgiving—now you are prepared this little message is to remind the Topic: The Good and the Bad in t o e n t e r H i s c o u r t s w i t h p r a i s e . young people of Ofegon Yearly Meeting, Newspapers and Magazines. Leaving a comfortable home, which who have a call to Christian work, that Matt. 4:23-25; Jude 10-13. the microscope reveals as another that call is one of the blessings for We are glad to say there m much "cause" of thanksgiving, you step out which thanks shou]d be offered. good in both the newspaper and the into the world, if in the country, of Those of the Yopng Friends, who have magazine, but we are forced to admit ever-changing beauty; if in the city, of thus been honored have a special cause there is bad too. The '"qoS ever-changing humanity. You cherish for thanksgiving. To be chosen of God on the same news stand with the good^- the vigor of the former and the friends for His service jg an honor, which, if How are you going to tell them apart. of the latter. Remembering that every rie-htly viewed, will cause a volume of Here is work for the Literature Com good gift and levery perfect gift is from mmise to ascend t(> Giver. Paul so mittee of the Church. ..^sk them to above, spontaneous thanks rise to the considered it -whef jhe said, "I thank investigate and make a list of the safe Giver who covereth the heavens with rhrlst Jesus our L?rd, who hath enabled and profitable magazines, and a list of clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, me for tliat He counted me faithful, those to avoid. who maketh grass to grow upon the putting- me into the ministry." mountains, who giveth snow like wool, Not alone is Pnr call a cause of Newspapers are papei;s published for and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. tlnnksgiving. but marvelous message the purpose of giving the news of the Commonplace causes?—or rare gifts! which is committed unto us is also a world to the public. We grant that "But", you say, "Surely the microscope o-reat reason for j^raise. Who does not since great misfortunes are ever with us, cannot detect a 'cause' in the midst of vpioice to carry a message which brings it is impossible for them to always print pain and hunger, heart-break and cold, relief from pain and gives gladness. good news. Nevertheless, it is not which holds, by far, the greatest part of The Gospel IS the only message which necessary to dwell too long on details the world in its thrall." T,„,,otelV meets eveiy need of man s concerning divorce cases, murders and "Oh, to be sure, jt is there in the adequately | to be the bearer robhsries. There is hardly an agent corner—don't you see it?" There i.s a ie inch an immoral message! 0, that that can be of greater use to the public clear space all around it and looks like !rh one may ub "counted faithful" than the newspaper unless it is the this—"Who shall separate us from the by God to be gj^en a place of active radio. During the Mississippi disaster, love of Christ? Shall tribulation or we were kept in daily touch with the distress, or persecution, or famine, or ^^Tbf "called one5" of Oregon parly sufferei-s, knew when to give our money nakedness, or peril, or svvord?" "We Meetfng have anotaer cause foiphpks- and about how much to give, when to are troubled on every side, yet not This is for the Church m send clothing, etc. It can be a great distres.sed; we are perplexed, but not in which we have bee" nurtured and. given blessing, but can be just as gi-eat a despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; exercise to help" Jr growth in spiritual curse if it tells only the sensational stuff cast down, but not destroyed, that the life It is cause por much thankspving that is fit for nothing but the garbage life of Jesus might be made manifest in thai our Yearly j^eeting holds aMft the can. There was a time when one could o u r b o d y . „ « . , Sfl gospel meS^ge and .pushes its hardly believe a word that was printed The consciousness ot (jou s presence is mrnemhirs e m b eon i s to .1 ^deep spiritual^ ^life, u r in a daily newspaper. While this may nowhere commonplace, and when our be, in part, true now, it is not as bad as it once was. We believe that the body becomes His Temple, located under first-class newspaper tries to print the the shadow of the Almighty that is truth.