The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-06
EASTER At THE CHURCHES.
Rev. Nm. H. Leavell at the First
Presbyterian Church.
SERVICES AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Sermon aud Programme OF Music a
the Church of the Anuun-
citation.

rev. Nrn. ii. Leavel yesterday DEW
erred his FIRST sermon in the main edilice
VI the new First Presbyterian church, TIE
! services previous 10 those Of lasr week
having been held in the chapel He spahe
as follows:
Text-John. xviii, So; Jesus answered;
MY Kingdom is not OF this world
/ Jesus stood before P.iate TO answer fof
his life. He had made himself king.
Plate entered the Judgment Aan and
called Jesus before him, ard SAID unto
Him: art thou the king OF the Jews
! He expected a ready, ,rank answer ia the
negative, but the position was not SO
simp!e--a distinction had TO be observed
| In the political sense wAich a Roman
I naturally gave to the term king OF the
Jews" Jesus could repud'ate the title, hut
| If he would not deny being the Messiah
he mus, accept the tide In the sense gwen
| 10 i; by every Jew. Not having heard the
charge when 1t Was frs, made Jesus
| asked PLATE the source OF it--whetner Il
came from the jews or from the Gentle
governor himself. Tor everything depended
on "Aether the charge proceeded from
I Je"iSn or Gentle lips.
| Plate does not In the least understand
t.'e aist!nciion jesus makes and loses pa
tienoe. VITA supreme contempt for every
" Il u
ana then, dismissins lac Jewish jargon
win which he had allowed the accnsers
TO impose on HIM. he examines Jesus as n
open. straightforward Roman. ana asks:
wv nat crime hast ,rhod conmittea;'' IL is
IN answer TO this question Jesus utters
world. "
Jesus Christ came into this world -
establish Kingdom. Although the king
! eom OF Christ was different from the king
u9ms known 10 men. His kingdom was
ArtvftAeiess as real any. The reality
OF carlsis kingship and Of Iii. Kingdom
rests upon HIS rcsurle elton; ior naa tie
n1i risen rom the dead and appeared To
t..> disciples. the Kingdom Of jesus woulu
never nav" become reality in this world
Jesus declared that HIS was a. nuch a
reH4 kinslom and He a. much a real Airg
a. Was the Roman empire and the ltomau
emperor but That both Kingdom and KING
We're different in character and existed
Toy different purposes. II said once to
II disciples: The kingdom ii heaven Is
within you." His was not an external
Kingdom. but was kingdom Of the heart,
OF the character, and of the life. and its
SUBJECTS We're of every tribe and nation.
lis am was to conquer the whole race
and to perfect ii in the holy virtues OF
;re highest citizenship. making lis every
amt an ncir, child and subject OF the
kns Eternal Its aim Was not ruler
nip, bat redemption. Whoever wouiu he
holy and righteous. whoever WAS kind and
good and pure in heart ara life, was by
necessity of his character subject OF
Sing Jesus.
II diners from all p7Atical kingdoms Of
every sort that have ever existed It
not an external Kingdom, bat an inward
moral. religious Kingdom
The spirit OF His KINGDOM was In mar
mony with the principle by which He pro-
posed TO win il. The spirit OF kingu ms
won by force and arms WAS that OF am
bilious selfishness, which was not 10
the spirit of the kingdom of Jesus. " hen
the disciples were discussing VINO should
be ihn. greatest among them when the
Messiah should set w His earth,y King
dom. our Lord said 10 them; "Wno VIII
he greatest among you let him be Your
servant" He gently put aside the billndnr-
ing appeal o: the mother of James anu
John. telling her that the honors of Ills
kingdom We're not arbitrary bestowments.
hut that they VINO gave the hest and sim
cerest service to Christ were to be heirs
OF the eternal honor. In worldly kingdoms
the great are those in high places, but IN
the Kingdom of God the great are those
VINO serve Him and the greatest is he
who serves Him hest. In Himself jesus
exemp,ified the spirit of His kingdom. tie
who was rich became poor that we tnrough
His poverty might become rich. BEING
equal with God He refused to use ms
power towards the achievement of selfish
end. and IN His service He hcnt 50 low
rs To grid Himself with towel and wash
His disciples feet. His was a life OF service
from HIS birth TO His oruciiiXion, Ine
spirit and method of self-Sacrficc is not
the spirit and method Of this world. II
follows inevitably that the subjects 81
must not he and can no, be of THIS world,
they must adopt the method OF Christ
and possess his spirit In order to be sat
isfactory subjects Of His kingdom
There s a tendency in the world today
to look to Christ as the advocate OF the
masses against the classes, a danger OF
agosue Jesus denounced not the rich rs
rich hut He denounced their solfishness,
as He also denounced the sefishness ana
wickedness of the poor IN tAeir noverty
He did not array one class against an
other He Taught principle which mani
tested a spirit which, If sctluiois!y fol-
lowed, would drive out the .selfishness
from the masses of the rich ana poor alike
and make al men brothers and common
ritizens OF the kingdom that is rot Of this
world Although the Kingdom of Jesus
christ Is not Of this world II Is In 1t, ana
must be In ii until the kingdoms Of this
world become the kingdoms Of our LORD
and of His chrlst-theu the ,orld VIII be
in the Kingdom OF God and God VIII he
the ruler over al and blessed forever mare.
CHURCH or THE ANNrNCIATIoN.
Easter services at the Catholic church
of tho Annunclation were moro than usual
lv Impressive ana were well attended. rs
usual, the chancol and affairs were laNishly
decorated with flowers and the effect OF
he iecora tons was heightened by the
>,antiful painting Of the Transformation
with which the archcd roof over and IN
the rear OF the high altar has recently
been adorned
Al the low mass at 1880 a M the rhnreh
was iilled with "A large conversation, most |
whom received Holy tomnunion. AZ |
high mass at 1880 n. IN. The church was
arain MED 10 ovnnrioWins. many MorSn,n, |
ihe music Vas naenihcenuy |
rendered by the fun choir, the selections !
saing as follows;
Mpss-St. Cecilia ..,,,,.-,,.,...,,...,.Eo uno4 !
onertory- Resna coela ..,......,W iCgand