The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-14

preaching the word, establishing
churches and appointing bishops,
priests and deacons. Joseph, of All.
mathea, he who buried the body OF our
savior, is also said 10 have carried Il g
gospel to Great Britain, but both reports
are erroneous. 1t was st. Paul who
went 10 Britain and overthrow Druid
ism, planting the Christian religion
among the people OF Britain. On down
through the ages 10 tho preeent tins
the true religion of Christ, the son of
Inc One aud the tue God coo. the
father; God, the Son, aud tod t.a HOLY
Ghost, has been preserved and kent
intact, There are many paganisms and
heathenisms and false doctrines on the
face of the earth, but everywhere in
obedience to the mandate OF The Savior.
his word has been carried and preached
unto the people.
or the leading systems OF faith in the
world there are now Buddhists,
including the Chinese, who are also
Goafucians and Tsoists, az well as
buddhists, 50O,000,000, who are found in
lnala, Ctylon, Burmah, Siam, Thibet,
Chlna and Japan. The Mohammedans,
l65,OOO,00O, found in Arabia, Turkey,
Egypt, India, China and Persia. Ths
Christians, 3Z700Oel0, found in every
and and nation of the world. The Hill
zoos, 100000 coo, found only in India.
The Jews, 100000; Shentoists, Psrsees,
etc, S'OO,OoO; Fetchists or devil mor-
Shippers, 100000 00-these include
American Indians, African races snd
Pscltc Islanders. OF the Christians
there are l52,0o0,000 Roman Catholic. To-
VoVUO Greek church and l09,0O00O OF
othsr denominations, viz: Episcopali-
als, BsPtists, Msthodists, etc, etc, etc.
| me christians all preach Christ and
| ann cruciied; all preach the uecsssity
! OF repentance, OF faith and OF baptism,
nut there is great diff
ference in the various Christian
| denominations in church discipline, in
IorNs and in ceremonies. Christ Him
sell said "ln MY Fathers house there
are many mansions" aud | am liberal
enough TO believe there is a mansion In
That house, hat temple not builded with
hands, for the true, the jealous, tho
earnest, the humble professor of religion
! IN every church acknowledging, preach
ing anu worshippng Christ, and for the
earnest and faithful heather, too, for he
scriptures say the heather have a law
unto themselves. Men and women are
50 constituted, mentally and physically,
mat they cannot all see, feel and think
eiSctly alike, therefore can we moi
reason THAT the various forms Of Chris
!
10 the natures of men? The one prin
! ana absolutely necessary factor in the
| true religion is Christ. Whom a man be-
lieYes in Christ, believes with all his
heart, all his soul, and all his
mind, that Christ is the Son OF
God, that He died for the remission t
SINS, then he repeEts him Of his Sins.
lie can't help feeling repentance. Then
comes the faith that Christ will remit
his transgressions, and thGn il he be-
baptized, he has been born again. Then
hV watching and by praying he can
kefp Inc commandments molly, he can
Lad life that will be good in the sight
or Jehovah, and will win an inheritance
in somo one of the mansions in the
Fathers house. Ii this ba true, and
does not the word of God teach il? does
u "a tar much to which ono Of the
Christian churches, so his judgment ap.
proves and his conscience acquiesces, :
man belongs?
lived TO a ripe old age the secono
'imo | was on earth / saw the religion
Christ spread throughout the then
SHOWN world, IA lump OF leayer
, avens a whole loaf of bread. NV
old dog Gaia was with me then. and
was just az devoted and "a faithful 4
companion as he is now. Gata loves me
and l believe that if should die before
Gaia, he would lay him down across my
) pauper's grave and die too. To have
= llVed y rec times On eartl; to have bean
familiar with the world and its doing,
during three different sras Of its history
I 10 have witnessed the pomp and pride
and glory of weak men, of sosiety, and
10 have sounded all the depths and
, shoals of tho nothingness, to have
, proven its utter emptiness is sufficient
TO make me content with the very hum
blesL station In life. / would not turn
my hand over for all the wealth OF this
world, for all the circumstance and
Vnn-glory of place. The Savior hath
said in his blessed word, "Suilicient
unto the day is the evil thereof, and lie
has also said, take no thought tor your
lie what yo shall eat, or what We shall
drink; nor yet for your body what We
shall put on. Is not the life more than
meat, and tho body than raiment? BE.
mold the fowls of the air, for they SOW
not, mol her do they reap, nor gather
INTO barns; yet your Heavenly Father
fsedeth them. Arc ye not much better
than theyY"
The old tramp excused hinsolf from
further conversation, promising at q
iuture day to tell more of himself and
his dog during their throa sojuurns on
earth, and with taraway look In his
eyes, gentle smile wreathing his liDs
no and his dog slowly wendell their
way toward the river bottom, but thew
had an ample lunch with them for sup.
per aud for breakfast this morning. The
Ola man doesn't seem to have strong
lease on this world