El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-23

(open door that ushers it into the pres
| eoce Of the king of kings and his holy
{ angels. 1 beg of you, if conscious tt
, yourselves of having been direlict ir
the past, stop play ing with religion
: and from this day give your mind
, heart, soul and BODY 20 Goa.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The Christian chapel was we'll at.
tended on Sunday morning to hear
Rev. G. s. Morrison preach on back
elders. He read FIR the morning
lesson, Cor. X, ia, which was also his
text He Said: Some of you will
wonder why L have taken the subject
of backsloing, when there are none
present to profit by nv discourse. TIL IT
is the reason why choo this occa-
| sion. The time to bu Ii leve-s along
the M ssisslppl river, Is not when tue
| crevasse occurs, AID the water is flow
ing over The land. Work Is then in
effective. Ths prop r time 10 prevent
Hoods Is when the rive is low and the
| st a-on is favorable. The proper tine
| TO prevent backsliding is to build up
the character in times of cal;nness anu
| then there is a ST. eng,h for the days of
trial. Let him tina. thluketn he
stanoe' h take heed lest he falI.' Paul
says, When L am weak, then l am
str"ng.' l. Causes: Sometimes 9th rs
were brought To Jesus and the apostles
efused tie parents access 20 the Savior,
Christ rebI q tn sm, aud he sa if
any one offend one Of 'hese nth ones,
a I'd "a ise tuem to stumb g, 1t We're
bett I fIr him tn It N one were
hanged about h ; neck and he Were
cas-, into the depths OF
tn, sea. Have any of us caused any
of our week bret ZEN 10 sCumb BILE?
n
preac ming y other han the 10 p Il,
OF Christ, Fiji osOphy aud strong uoc-
trl' e, will not ms yer; hey only my sti-
~ aud ORA y away fr,m e >imp e = os-
pei. May Churches allow people %
remain Oh their rolls, VINO are dis
gra All such should be turned out
1t is usual to say, ought 10 b. easy
with The Ii: he tendency wlil be tn AZ
We m y NJ t5npCed to do like them
2. ,ymptoms of backs lding. One O! the
-trO gesU symptoms Is Inu muring
Like Lne children Of Israel, We are
10, ging for the h-shpots of E2yp.
W. long for the pleasures OF The worlu.
We say We don't Ike % g. to church,
the servic are too p ala; tn re is not
e Ough lie an d.su alb VI II, After
while we perhaps comp ain Ihas the
services are too showy, or the, is MT
e ough spirit Iality n our chu ches or
the re to many hypocriC, an back
slIGers 10 the courcn, anu We Can MT
ASSOC. at with them. That Is muruIu-
lug. When we can't come to the Lord g |
table and We The brethren, there s |
something wrong with Us. 3, Progr, S.
of b1cKsl ding. VIII n We keep up our |
complain ng, it viii finally caus. Us To |
hate the .:hur,- h of j es Is Cur st. There |
was no ROMA emp :: or hat hat the |
church like Ihe apps at, Julian. He |
spent ten N ion 90 lars
trying to build the TEN PIE
at Jerusalem, ard kept large |
stand ng army there, try ,ng to spro e
the prophecy IF Chris. Apo,tacy is |
at oil. We wan to be con rual V Oh
our guard. h, cure. just wilt it |
other ii Use. Just cha ge your mind
Tnat Is what dempti IN mans. Just |
turn the heart back from the way you
ar gulug mo the Otber Way. AT err
drifting away with the beg! arly things
of The NO Id, just turn ar,un repent
and pray God Or forg Ve"ess. Though |
you may we sinned d G ne astray,
it y.'u repent, God will receive You.
GUd is merc1ul 10 receive us every
time we Fin, IL We turn 10 hlm.
THE BIBLE INDESTRUCTIHLE.
The iEuestructl ollity of the bible was
the theme of the discourse of III, Rev.
Madison G. Peters al the Bloom ngdale |
! eformed church ia New York Sunday
He based his sermon upon the twenty
sixth chapLer ADD the hlrGy sixth versr
of Jeremiah, relating the action of |
King Joachim, who, dlsplea,ed at the
doctrine the prophet Was reading to
him from a. scroll, seized the scroll, cut
it - pieces with q knife and threw the
pieces into the fire; whereuppn,
jeremiah, procuring another scroll,
to redictate the same doc
trine.
lone book out of LOCO lives fiv-
year," said DR.. Peter. ''One book
out of 10000 l.v-s twenty years; YET
the b. bic, book from 1900 to 900
years Old, possesses today more strength
and rebound than ever before, though
from time immem"rlal, almost, aLtem pts
have been made to destroy 1t.
"Suppo-ing to lay w; had a Joachim
who would ds,roy every biz e il the
world. W,utd tie boDk d e? No; for
it would We 10 he it-rtture of the
world. Toe sub ime5t books ever
wr en- IRE .nsep.raole from biblical
tea .hings
Sup o,ing he destroy ID eve,y ibra-
nv il tle worl1 The b OK wolid Ii
1--we il the paintings Ut tn. grea IN s
trrs, TO- II pha.', Ange o, Tit an,
Turner, Ruhe sail he Ten wed
, ain..rs ras 81 heir urno t II picture,
up ~ biblical -nbje' t..
.'S"pp"7ing he ,uou estroy / the
old p.,"t ug tie won d e :,uf. Mt ID
ny Dle - ii ,ns mu-Ic-tIe bill Il .
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Mend | $ nm, b ..ovsn n, fer to +
pra Ue conpo5 on a. OF n reiigi ,ns
n It r. An, - it, al tn % de, rJy.d
he Anuld h " t ! woe au o. is ence
+rery ID at on l in tut IL the
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