El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-21
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Crowded Houses the Order Of the Day.
Presbyterian Song Service.

es the times, people will manage to enjo
q Christmas Eve with special exercise
+. at the churches for the children. Tn
of Mexican Methodists will hold thei
~ exercises at 6:30 O'Clock so that the
3. will be able to get up town in time t
er attend the services in the Englis
Y speaking churches.
=, AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
IS Rev. L. r. Millican preached yes
terday morning in the Baptist church
on sowing and reaping, from the wei
q known text, 'Be not deceived, God i
e not mOcked, as man soweth that shall
IL he also reap" The speaker reat
IS several passages from the old and nev
testaments relative to the topic, ant
o exhibiting various phases of th'
u thought. Our own hearts, he said, arr
g deceitful above all things and desper
. ately wicked. So that it continually
leads US astray. We can not deceive
God, though we may deceive ourselves
We may be out of harmony with most
I OF earthly things, but we must not be
l out of harmony with God. We can not
: practice deception without its comm 9
out it is impossible to deceive God.
The devil deceived Eve, but God was
: not mocked and the guilty pair in Eden
could not cover up what they had done.
Sow wild oats and you will reap wild
oats, sow sin and you will reap it in after
years. A young man does not have to
sow wild oats; it is sin against his
better nature, against his family,
against moral principles, against God.
! Sometimes we sow our wild oats in but
a few hours, and reap the harvest not
only throughout this life, but through
eternity.
This world is becoming worse, and
will continue to grow so until God
| comes. The world is not going to get
better, the theologians to the contrary
| Notwithstanding. True, the world is
putting on a great deal more or show,
but it is growing worse: though at the
same time Christian character is be-
coming stronger. Our skirts are not
clear until we have done all we can to
rescue men from sin. We are going to
reap the kind Of product we SOW. That
is true in all Kingdoms and forms of
life. AS we plant so we dig. We plant
potatoes, we dig potatoes, we plant
certain kinds of grain. we reap the
same kind of grain. We SOW to the
flesh, and of the flesh we reap corrup-
tion. We sow to immortality, and we
reap life eternal. Moreover, the multi
plying of the seed in matters spiritual is |
precisely as the multiplication of the |
seed in matters temporal. The seed of |
sin was sOwed in the garden of Eden, |
and modern harvests of crime can be |
traced back to the ,origipal wrong in |
the garden. Human nature has been |
all out of joint since the fall. When
David sowed the seed of murder and |
adultery he reaped a horrible harvest
in his family. Sow mercy and you will |
reap mercy: SOW love and you will reap
love.
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. H. w. Moore, preached to
large congregation in the morning, and
in the evening the auditorium was
packed with people intent on enjoying
the service of song. The following
program was successfully carried out,
and the evening marked an advance
in church music in Ell Paso:
TIE Deum. .Quartette. F. Kotzchmar
Misses Shelton and Ulman
Messrs. Rose and Shelton.
Prayer
ANGELS serenade"Solo. Miss Shelton
so Sing Unto the Lord". .Quartette
Misses Shelton and Ulmau
Messrs. Rose and Shelton
Reading Scriptures
Hymn No. sc. CONGREGATION
Aria from Mozart" Solo Miss Tlman
'Tarry With Me-. Duet
Miss Shelton and Mr.. Rose
Solo; O o. =. q SELECTED ELI ,h,, Miss BealI
Misses Shelton and Ulman
Hymn No: IT'S. Congregation
Evening .Quartette !
Misses Shelton and Imam
Messrs. Rose and Shelton ,
Bendiction
AT TRINITY CHURCH.
At the evening Epworth League I
meeting, the claim that the world was
growing worse was brought up, and |
combated. Presiding Elder Ellington t
L ade an excellent talk on the matter, f
n which he said that while in 1880 the :
proportion of protesting Christians in d
,he United States was one in ten, the a
present proportion was one in four d
that in 1890 more opera @
houses would be under construction {
han churches. But at the close of the 7
decade, Chaplain McCabe notified In Q
gersol that the Methodist church was y
building churches at the rate of five a u
lay, and what had become of his b
prophecy. The greater increase of II
good, was only apparent, for the growth t
)f the Christian faith was steady and I
to behold. n
AT the night service, Rev. J. T. \
French preached from the text: 'If t
my man will do his will, he shall know $
)f the doctrine, whether it be of God, G
,r whether l speak of myself John n
VII:l7. The speaker preached forci-
ole discourse, in which he said; this is q
| subject dear to every one whether h
saved or not. Christ never resorted a
% any sensationalisms in preachiug; o
le laid broad claims to the world, and :;
orofesscd himself the son of God. Peo- o
de thrOnged around him, and to them h
lie showed that he came to make life T
straight, and to illustrate the beauties e
If an exemplary character that man
nj ght follow after him. He was a II
puzzle to the Jews who could not under G.
tand him, and to solve the difficulty Il
hey sought to kill him. And its e
he truth about the Christian g
doctrine that it is still puzzling o
nen like Ingersol. The bible o.
PRESENTS a system of christianity g
# the isms. The claims of Christ are h
his doctrine, this system which is "a q
evelatiOn from God. No other book n
han the bible has so appealed to the p
learts of man as well as sought to n
egulate his business affairs The bible b
md the church call men to leave the q
world and accept the gospel This 4