The herald., 1893-01-23
NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES,
The Deathless Land and How
to Get There.
Features Of the Sermon Yesterday
by Rev. Daniel Read.
An Orthodox Discourse-The Church
of the New ETA at the Los
Angeles Thenter-OtLer
church Notes.

Rev. Daniel Read of the First Baptist
church spoke before large congrega-
tion yesterday. His text was taken
from several verses of the twentieth
chapter of st. Luke. The theme was
the Deathless Land and How to Get
into 1t.
Physicians know great deal about
sickness, sorrow and death, but pastor
knows much more of these sad facts
than the physicians. The pastor must
not only visit the sick and try to COM
fort them, but he must visit those fami-
lies and friends of the sick, whose
hearts and hands are so heavily bur-
dened. The pastor, like his divine
Lord, must lose the riches and carry the
sorrows of the people, and weep with
those who weep. When Jesus saw
Mary and Martha weeping over the
death of their brother He groaned in
stood by the grave of Lazarus He wept."
life. The ideal life was spoken OF and
brought comprehensively before the
congregation.
Concluding he said: And now the
important question arises, How may we
enter that land, the deathless and glor-
ious home of the Savior?
Only one can answer.
He who shall create that new heaven
and new earth, the King who shall reign
in righteousness, He alone can answer
this important question.
Jesus says: Il am the way, the truth
and the life. He that hath the Son
bath life, but he that hath not the Son
hath not life, but the wrath of God
abideth on him." And again: II am
the resurrection and the life." Through
Paul, the Holy Spirit said: "If the
spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwell in you, He that raised
up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies, by His
spirit that dwelleth in you." If we in
qure where this quickening or resurrec-
ton of our mortal bodies shall take
place, we may find an answer in the
words of the Spirit in First Thes-
ealonians: "For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again,
even go them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him, for the Lord
Himself shall descend from heaven with
shout, with the voice of the archsngel
and the trump of God, and the dead in
Christ shall rise first, and then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them to meet the Lord in
the air."
So we see that at the Lords coming
His faithful watching ones will enter the
deathless state. For them death will
then be swallowed up in victory and
God will wipe away their tears. OF all
those who have part in the first resur-
rection it is said: "Blessed and holy is
b. Over such the second death hath no
power, but they shall be priests of God
and Christ, and they shall reign with
him thousand years." And now, my
brethren, in view of the glory yet
to be revealed in us, let US
be patient, let us be very patient,
let us also be diligent in the Masters
service, let us be prayerful. as Ieaiah
puts it, "Ye that are the Lords remem-
brances give Him no rest, till He estab-
lish and till He make Jerusalem praise
in the earth," and let us rejoice in hope.
Ours is most blessed hope, the hope of
the appearing of our Lord and Savior
and all the glory H will bring to the
earth and to us. His last message of
love to His sorrowing children was,
"Behold, come quickly" Let us pray,
in glad response TO His words of love
and hope, "Come, Lord Jesus, come
| quickly"