El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-14

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glorious singing at the convention ha
r. deeply impressed Mr.. Moore, it wa
such a vast volumne of gloriOu
melody with extended Instrumental az
com pan iment.
The Y. P. S. c. E. is being pushe
a and organized more than ever. It
r being inaugurated among the Ne,
, York police force, it is being plante
a in fact all over the state. 1t is beini
q pushed in China, and all over tn
world. The society is taking ham
+ in the publication of American polite
! that the disgraces that have blurred
# the fair name of our country in th
q past may be wiped away. With tha
a end in view Christian citizenship i
y being organized that promises the bes
s results. In Indiana it is fighting tht
o horse racing interests that arc violat-
; ing the laws of the state. Elsewhere
q it is fighting the saloon interests tha
are working against law and order
+ In fact much also is being accomplished
looking towards the purity of the bal
. lot, and electing Christian men to
, Office. This society of Christian en-
> deavor is not conducted by children.
, On the contrary the most noted men
are at the belm. One of the speakers
at the Cleveland convention was
Chauncey M. Depew who declared that
religion had taken a hold on the world
that could not be shaken off. With
the Epworth Leagues, Baptist Young
Peoples Unions, Brotherhoods of ST.
Andrew, and such organizations, the
entire Christian force of young people
at work for the cause of Christ amount
ed to nearly four millions. God is
training today his guns on the ram
parts of evil and iniquity, and right
eousness is driving evil against the
wall; and the reason that we hear so
! &c h.
cause the powers OF darkness are being
driven into a tight corner and are
being made to squeal Mr.. Moore
closed with an eloquent descriptive of
the marching of the countless thousands
of young people under the banner of
the cross to certain victory, as they
shout Hallelujah. Hallelujah. for the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let
the ages tell for God.
The singing was excellent as usual.
George Parker is now with the choir
as tenor.
Y. NJ. C. A.
J. B. Walker delivered the following
address last evening before the Y. M
@. A. His topic was Gods Building.
Mr.. Walker spoke from Eph. u:19-22:
Now therefore ye are no more strapg |
ers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
with the saints, and of the household of |
God. And we built upon the
foundations of the apostles and proph-
cts, Jesus Christ himself being the |
chief corner stone. In whom |
all the buildings, ftly framed together,
groweth unto holy temple in the |
Lord. \ In whom ye are also
builded together for q habitation of
God, through the spirit
To understand more fully what was |
in the mind of the Apostle Paul, we
must not omit the comparison of what
we were by nature Qatter part of 3rd
verse;, And were by nature the chill
dren of wrath, even as Others" with
what we are by grace tverses 7-9l, |
That in the ages to come he might |
show the exceeding riches of his grave,
in his kindness toward US through Christ
Jesus. For by grace are ye
saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God.
Not of works lest any man should
bOast.'
If we then are encouraged to aspire
to eternal life, being accepted by grace,
faith, we are no longer strang-
ers, but fellow citizens with the saints.
Not only with the saints now on earth,
but all who have gone before, and with
all who shall come after US, for in spir-
itual life thousand years are as
yesterday, and we must regard the
natural span of human existence on
the vast ocean of eternity.
Did you ever experience the loneli-
ness OF being stranger in one of our
large American cities, or the still more
desolate feeling of being foreigner in
a strange country, unable to speak the
language of the hundreds, it may be,
who pass you on the highway?
If so, you will more rapidly appre-
ciate the friendly sentiment of ST. Paul
hn |
are no more strangers and foreigners" ;"
The idea of building and especially
the familiar idea of building a house,
is frequently used in scripture to illus
trate objectively some important spir-
itual truth, as in III Cor. vi, For we
know that if our earthly house of this
were dissolved we have a
building of God, a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens"
Paul's idea of building a habitation
of God, through the spirit, has at least
two points in common with habitatious
built by man, namely, the foundation
and the corner stone. We all remem-
Der the parable land the consequences
of the two men who built the one upon
the sand and the other upon a rock.
1t is not always that natural rock
is in the location selected for
building, therefore the builder initiates
nature, by first building a rock founda
tlon deep and wide in proportion to the
weight and Importance of the proposed
So Paul, in describing the
spiritual building, gives primary at
tention to the foundation. which he
declares to be the apostles and the
prophets. The prophets looking for
ward and the apostles looking back
ward to Jesus Christ as the chief corner
stone of the foundation 'for a habita
tion of God, through the spirit"
1t has long been a custom in import
ant buildings to deposit in the corner
stone, Legendary documents setting
forth the time and purpose of the
building and other contemporary in
formation, as Witnesses to future
generations of the motives of the
builders. So in Christ as the chief
corner stone have we the legendary
documents as recorded in the four
gospels, and other contemporary in
formation, as witnesses to this and |
succeeding generations of the motives
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