El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-14
AMONG THE CHURCHES,
GOOD CROWDS AND POINTED SER.
MONS.
The Presbyterian was Crowded to Over
flowing at Both Services. A SynOp-
is of the Sermon.

!. is of the Sermon.
{ Presiding Elder Ellington preache
| in Trinity both morning and evenin
!. yesterday, owing to tde pastors atten
! ton having been occupied during tn
. week with sick ess at home. Th
: morning discourse WIS from the text
''FOr what the law could not do, in tha
it was weak through the flesh, Coz
sending his own son in the likeness @
.. sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sil
in the flesh" Romans VIII:2. Th
. speaker said in part: Paul set out t,
: show how impossible it was of ourselve
for US to live up to the demands of th'
law, and gave illustrations in previous
: letters of the force and effect of tht
. law. This law brings under condem
. nation, because we all have sinned, bu
Christ relieves us from this cOndemna
tion. Secondly, he gives US power no,
to sin further, enabling US to get tie
mastery over our temptations. The
offices of the law are to protect the
obedient and the condemn sin. It is tC
protect the righteous and spare the
Just But the law cannot protect the
righteous and the sinner too because
the law demands punishment for sin.
We cannot depend on the law for sal
vatiOn from sin, because after SHINING
the law is our enemy and will accuse US
at the judgment seat of God. At that
tribunal Justice will be meted out;
money will not prevail there. AS long
as we live in accordance with the will
of God we will be free from the law:
only it becomes our enemy when we
dsobey God. No matter how much
good man does, where we sin we
throw all the good we may have down
done away. A striking illustration of
this truth is the end of the career of
Ferdinand de Lesseps who after a life
of honorable work in the scientific
world. became involved in a scandal in
connection with the Panama canal that
blotted and blurred over all the good
he had done.
for naught against the evil we may be
guilty of in this life; you can not put
the one off against the other in the
Judgment day Our sins unfit US for
heavenly associations, according to the |
law: but Christ satisfied the law for |
US where we accept Christ whose blood |
has atoned for our sin the moment we |
accept salvation through his name. |
There is 10 other name given under
heaven among men whereby we must |
be saved. No man can stand on bis !
own merits: it is the merit of the
Savior on which we must stand, and if
we get to heaven it will be because of |
what Christ has done for US. and not
on account of what we ourselves may
have done.
At the close OF the services, the
of the Lords supper was
to a large number of COM
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. 81. w. Moore preached again
yesterday to packed houses; and in the
evening, not only was the lower part of
The house filed. but the gallery also.
In the morning Mr.. Moore preached to
children: in the evening he preached
on Christian Endeavor,. the sermon
being descriptive of the wonderful
growth of the Y. P. S. c. E, in the
United States and the world. The
preacher spoke with d force and a
power that held his hearers clear
through and left good seed sown in
good ground. An encouraging sight
was the mum Der of young folks present,
and the interest they showed in what
was said. The preacher said in part:
Y Youne men have always ruled the
world, they always viii, and they al
ways ought to. The young man has his
reputation to make: the old man has
mis- already made. .Charlemagne was
in his twenties when he had Germany
under his sway. Charles MI was only
twenty-five when he was the
greatest man of his time. Raphael
was but II when he started on his
great career as an artist, and died at
81 with his reputation made. Napoleon
at the age of twenty seven was one of
the greatest tacticians of his age.
Byron and Burns both made their re-
before they were forty
Gladstone was in parliament at the age
Of twenty two. Peel was in parliament
at twenty one. Henry Clay was in the
United States senate at twenty nine.
Hamilton at twenty-five was
0ne of the greatest lights OF the scien-
tifc age. At twenty, Bacon was a noted
man Yes, young men have always
ruled the world, and they always will.
The same is true of young women;
and the speaker cited the cases of such
we'll known and talented women as
Miss Alcott, Florence Nightingale,
Rosa Bonheur who painted a picture of
4 borse that scld for $4,000, and the
first Mrs. Judson who had won i'm
mortal rem own at the age of twenty
)ne. The greatest discoveries of this
end of the century are the discoveries
Of the young man and the young
And the most noted work
that the young man and the young
have have accomplished, has
been in the line of Christian Endeavor
There never was such an organization
n this world as the Oung feOpleS so
,iety of Christian Endeavor: and the
work it is doing can not be overestimat-
ed in Importance. Mr.. Moore then
gave an extended description of his eX
perieuces at the Cleveland convention of
the Y. z. S. G.. K. of two years years
ago. He told how Major Mckinley who
one tent full of thirteen thou
sand delegates, declared with emphasis
that Eothing but the cause of Jesus
Christ and the cause of man could have
brought such a multitude together. 1t
had been thought that because of
the Debs' strike the delegation would |
not be large. Bot there were present
from the states outside of Ohio 19, 600 |
delegates, ard q, 600 present from the
Buckeye state, with two millions at
home who could not attend. There
were thousands in this tent, thousands
in that tent. and thousands gathered |
somewhere else: until the entire city |
was taken for Christ. There were de-
legates from Alaska, from Japan, yes
from Jerusalem even. And with all |
this vast tnrong of strangers, the |
police testified that they had never be- |