Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-06
SATURDAY SALAD.
4 WEEK DAY SERMON.

anomalous, if not monstrous, the sig
MITIGATION of the latter term being literally
nothing more than that which DIVORCES in
marked manner from the common type.
The great mass of mankind, including the
most enlightened, still feels that the high
est kind of worship is that in which offer
| ing is made to the Deity, rather than that
in which favor is solicited and many
religious people have become the targets
of the Justly merited sarcasm Of the non
religious, who have convicted them from
their own conduct and confessions of only
serving God that they may escape justice
at His hands and procure reward. Many
Christians openly teach and proclaim
such a theory, making themselves the
center Of the public services as nominally
directed to a higher power, but really
meant for their personal advantage.
We often hear persons say they are
going to hear such and such preacher
or that they get no comfort from some
ones sermonizing, and hence that the
obligation OF worship is annnlled until
they can have some one to pray and
preach for them after their own ideas of
how these Offices are to be performed.
The story of the newspaper reporter who,
in speaking Of some distinguished minis
ter, declared that "His was one of the
most eloquent prayers that was ever adj
dressed to Boston audience" is arevela-
ton to us of the impression conveyed to
many minds by those services that have
their avowed raison d'etre in contributing
to the pleasure, or at any rate, in supply
ing the needs of the worshipers.
When you talk to such people
about offering sacrifice as
the principal reason for worship, they
assert that the sacitice of Christ on Cal
vary ended that form of service, and
when they speak of sacrifice as part of
their worship, only include under that
term prayers that are often entirely
selfish, the few hymns they sing, and
some acts of self denial or, perhaps, OF
generosity. Nine-tenths Of all the Chris
tians in the world, being members either
of the Roman, Greek or Anglican
churches, and avowed Catholics, have an
entirely different idea Of worship. They
assert that the object of service is to offer
sacrifice, and, consequently, seek an offer
ing meet to be presented before the pure
and holy God, which is to be pure and
spotless, that it may be such as can be
offered to such being. BY process Of
exclusion this eliminates from the
category of possible sacrifices every
thing into which the human element is
injected, except SO far as they are cleansed
by association with the pure offering, and
by the mercy of the recipient. The only
perfect sacrifice, according to the theory
Of the Catholic (not necessarily Roman, is
that which the Lord himself ordered, his
body and blood, offered on Christian al
tars, from which the apostle states it was
not lawful for any except Christians to
eat. Well instructed persons OF the COM
munions before mentioned, therefore,
worship publicly by offering this sacrifice
as they believe, and all service is subordi-
nate to and intended to fit the
worshiper for devout and in
telligent participation in the only service
ordered specifically by the founder of
Christianity. To those thus regarding
public worship it is duty, and to neglect
It on the score that the method of its
offering does not meet 1dividual ap-
proval, or because the faithful discharge
of the duty involves inconvenience OF
even runs counter to the inclination, is, in
the highest degree, illogical. Of course
if public worshipis, as many suppose, the
meeting of religious persons with view
simply to their benefit, and not for the
purpose of making an offering which in
directly benefits the worshiper, however
then the individual may logically be the
Judge in the matter.
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SMALL TALK.
Col. and Mrs. Henry Douglass are on a
visit to friends in Ell Paso.
Mr.. F. w. Clancy leaves to-nig ht on &
business trip to Albuquerque.
Gov. /. Bradford Prince is expected tc
arrive IN Santa Fe during the coming
week.
Mrs. J. L. Gregg and daughter Carrie
have returned to Kansas City from visit
to st. Louis.
Miss Mary Maltby, sister Of Mrs. w. T
Thornton, has been quite indisposed fol
several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. l.. Ellis are preparing
for two months visit to their old home
in England.
Hon. B. Seligman and wife are OK
pected to arrive from Philadelphia on thu
morning train.
Hon. w. w. Griffin, before returning t
Santa Fe, will visit his aged parents il
West Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Derwent H. Smith left OF
yesterday for short sojourn at the ranch
OF the Rio Arriba Land & Cattle com
pany.
Hon. Pedro Perea, vice-president OF thu
First National bank here, and promi
nent and respected citizen of Bernalillt
county, is in the city on a short visit.
Mrs. ]. H. Collins and daughter, Mrs
Lewis G. Burnes, of St. Joseph, who have
been in the city on visit to Mrs. r. E
Twitchell, left on Thursday last for thei
home.
Miss Perkins, OF Cincinnati, niece o
Hon. E. A. Fiske, is still on visit il
Santa Fe. At the informal hop at For
Marcy last Thursday, Miss Perkins Wal
declared to be q most graceful dancer.
Lieut.. Seyburn is in Detroit on visi
to his family. Lieut.. Plummer filling thu
position OF pest adjutant in his absence
Lieut.. Seyburn will return about the 18th
inst, and his family will follow during
the summer.
Col. E. l.. Bartlett has left Washington
and has gone to New York on visit tt
his mother. Mrs. Bartlett is still in Kan