Las Vegas daily gazette., 1884-03-18
GOSPEL TALK.
The Sermons Preached at the
Baptist, Presbyterian and
NJ. L. Churches.
The Texts Taken by the Guardi-
ans of Three Leading FlOcks
Last Sunday.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

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sermon delivered ut the Sunday morn
ing service by Rev. 5. German:
John iy:23, "a: But the hour
cometh, and now is when the true
worshippers shall worship the father in
spirit and IN truth, for the father seek
eth such TO worship him. God is a
spirit; and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and In truth"
In tue earlier ages men seem to have
needed more of the gross and external
TO convey ideas to their minds III mat
tiers OF religion, and indeed in other
things. Hence the use of sacriticial
Victims that bled at the altar, telling i'm
symbolic language of The sacrifice on
Calvary to take away tho SIN of the
world. Paul calls these rites and cere-
monies shadows of good things to
come. Heb. XII.
The spiritually minded OF the Jews
learned important lessons concerning
the savior and his Kingdom from those
old customs that Shadowed better
things TO come.
But these sacrlficial customs were
not peculiar To the Jews, nor to the
religion of Jehovah, the living and true
God. The heather also sacrificed
TO their gods, and in degrees much
more terrible, for they often sacrificed
human beings, many times their own
children, and subjected themselves to
terrible torture to appease the wrath OF
their gods and TO propitlate them,
But when the world was ready for 1t,
I'm the fulness OF time," Jesus came,
and us the people said. "Now thou
speakest plainly, and not in parallels. -
The truths of the New Testament sys-
tenn are communicated in very simple,
plain language, and spiritual mode of
worship Is established.
Tho worship taughht by Jesus is
spiritual, because it is performed First,
BY those who are made alive from
the dead by the Holy Ghost.
kom. vl:l3, Neither yield ye
your members as instruments of
unrlghteonsness unto SIN; but yield
yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members
instruments of righteousness unto
| Cod" Without this renewal by the
Holy Spirit, no one can worship God in
spirit and in truth. "For the natural
man receivoth not tho things of the
spirit Of God, for they are foolishness
unto him, neither can he know them.
because they are spiritually discerned. ="
Hence there must of necessity be a
great amount of the ''form of godliness
without the power,h when christian
worship is attempted by unrenewed
people.
Second. Christian worship is spirit
ual when performed by those who have
the love of God shed abroad in the
heart by the Holy Spirit. .-Rom., 5:5.
This loYe is TO be sought, cultivated
and exercised i'll true worship. Grow
IN grace and in the knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.--2 let.
3:1S.
Third. This worship is performed by
those who arc diylnoly illuminated.
Eph. LIS: "Ihe eyes of your under
standing being enlightened, thatye may
know what Is the hope OF his calling,
and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints"
People thus illuminated are moved to
holy devotion, with holy vehemence,
and they worship with profound rev.
erence and godly fear.
Fourth. Christian labor, when done
Alright, IS done as n debt of love TO
Christ that is deeply spiritual. Jo.,
3:l6: Hereby perceive we the love of
| God, because he laid down his life for
us, and we ought to lay down our lives
for the BRETHREN
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
ID. M. Brown, the pastor, preached
Sunday morning from the words Thy
will be DONE" He spoke as fol-
lows:
These words are part of prayer
which Jesus taught us to offer. The
being taught to offer this prayer is
man in the flesh on the earth. The
beng to whom this prayer IS to be
offered is God, "Our Fathers di-
vine spirit hoverIng over the children of
men.
We have reason to believe this prayer
will be answered. When answered, if
there be any beauty in God, such will
appear In the unfolding of his will in
man.
Mankind has been too apt to de
cipher a negative and dark side of God,
revealing him as either Indifferent to
the interests and destiny of man, or
having his foot rs a brake upon the
wheel OF human progress. e
We believe the true manifestations OF
Gods will lead to different conclu-
sion. God is wonderfully progressive.
He folds not his hands in idleness or in
inactive rest, crying out "thou shalt
rot" but moves IN our advance, saying
thou shalt Where can be found
fountain of unconquering life more
buoyant than, Thou shalt love the
lord thy God with all thy heart, and
thy neighbor as thyself. !"
The order of the Greeks and tho alters
of worship in all lands lead us to think
that humanity seeks to know the will of
the gods. To the Greeks, responses
come in lndistinct and ambiquous
tones To the worshipers of the true
God come certain manifestations of his
will.
To what shall we look today for these
manifestations ?
To nature we turn. Here we find
God, great in wisdom, power and love,
ceaseless in activity aud wonderful in |
progress.
He moves through what we call ma
ture in the execution of each and all his |
varied laws. Can't you see HIM?
To Revelations we turn. Look at that |
Jesus, Gods son! His unfolding COM
passion! His wonderful lovel Hlspure,
unselfsh nature moving off into hu-
manity.
DO you see him unveiling the future,
through destiny, TO awaken and direct
man and leaving to the world precept
and example which will ever be in ad-
vance of the highest degree of material
or spiritual progress of the world
Truly IN him We behold the will of
God.
To the Holy Spirit we turn, Here we
find the breathing of his will Whatso-
ever their voice says we should do. But
lest we should be deceived, entertain
nc any impulse as the voice of the
spirit unless it filters through your rea-
son. Many fanatic has thrown away
his reason and caught up an impulse,
and when too late found himself fool.
Ii the Holy Spirit moves not through
my reasoning facnlties. what recentarI.