El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-15

LEAVEN THAT WORKETH WONDER!
Presiding Elder Eddington preache
in Trinity church yesterday mornin
to large congregation from the tex
THE kingdom of heaven is like unto
leaven which a woman took and hid i
three measures of meal, till the Who'll
was leaveued," Matthew XIII:33. Th
speaker said in part, Jesus spoke to pee
pie often through parallels for the SAX
of simplifying his language, and not
veil what he mad to say. Jesus was
teacher and preacher then. in fact he
now. and we don't have to dig very ia
down to find the significance of thes
things. Christia1 influence is to tn,
world what the yeast is to the dough
viz, it changes its character. Tn
kingdom of God is not of this world, il
that it is not worldly; but it is in tn
world, and wonderful force.
The yeast is small compared with the
amount of dough into which it is put
50 is the Christian church smalls com
pared with the world at large. And a,
the yeast spreads through the dough,
| so has the church of Christ spread
| throughout the world. There has
been no time that the advancement Of
the gospel stood still, though there
| have been times when it appeared to
| while in the last century, the cause Of
| Christ has made tremendous strides
There are in the world / 800, 900, 900
souls of whom 300, O00,000 are included
| in Christian nations. But four fifthS OF
these 300, 900, 900 are not church MEM
| bers, and many of them never go to
church. So only about one twenty fifth
OF the whole world belong to the
church of God. And many of these are
luke warm, and a large part of what is
left are Catholics whom the elder
There are really ouly 40, QUO, 600 Of
Protestants, and they are the aggres-
sive Christianity of the world.
The fact that we are so small hume
rically is often thrown in our faces
by the enemy who ask, "What can you
do?' But the test is being fulfilled all
the same, and in our day and genera
tion. Thu United States, a Christian
nation, occupies the garden spot of the
world, and is the pathway of the ma
tions. England is a Christian nation,
and see the commanding position she
occupies. Even India now belongs to
an aggressive Professionalism, so does
Australia and other countries. No
human power has done this: only God
almighty.
The preacher referred to the growth
OF the medical feature-of the mission
airy service in foreign lands, There
were now $50 medical missionaries
a broad, 100 of these women ministering
to the needs of their own sex. So pop
ular have the medical missionaries be-
come that 1000 patients are treated at
once in India. With the Indians their
religion is bound up with their medi-
cine men, aud when the heather find
that their medicine men are no good.
they are more apt to throw their reli-
giOn to the winds, and accert salvation
through the Savior's name 1t
was through the medical missionary
that Christianity was got into Corea.
Moreover, the best literary work in the
world is done by Christianity, and a
notable instance of this is that mission
aries, where there was no written lan-
guage, got the sounds together, made
syllable and words from them. and
then completed written language.
One hundred languages have thus been
put onto paper by the missionaries So
Christianity is in position to influence
the world.
Then the wealth of the world is in
the hands of Professionalism. and one
half of the worlds wealth is controlled
by the Auglo-Saxon. The speaker
called attention to the fact that fifty
years ago, homicide as a religious OBJ
servance, which obtained so notab bly, in
India, was now a thing of the past: so
Is torture, and the time is coming when
there will be war no more. Christian
ity is the one religion that has done
everything for the world None of the
heather religions have lifted up their
followers or advanced the cause of
human kind; but the Christian religion
has done all this; and yet here are men
in the community who would tear down
the churches, destroy the bible, and
drive Christianity out of the land.
RELIGIOUS NOTES FOR LAY READERS
Advance sheets of the British Con-
gregatioual year book for 1897 show
that there are now 1857 minister's in
England and Wales, 2,loS of whom are
pastors actively engaged. and the num-
Der of churches and mission-stations is
+ ,607. Scot and has 1877 churches and
POI clergymen; Ireland q churches and
70 clergymen.
According to the New York OBJ
server the Evangelical church of Italy
has now twenty-nine leading congre-
cations, forty seven smaller groups of
b. levers, and 1872 preaching stations.
where evangelistic work is carried on.
In its theological hall at Florence ex-
priests as well as young civilians are
offering themselves for training, and
whole villages are DESTROYS of being
formed into new congregations.
The Monmouth (Ill) Presbytery re-
Gently deposed from the ministry and
mem ership of the United Presbyter-
ian church the Rev. j. G. Stewart He
was "a successful evangelist, but per-
suaded himself into the belief that he
could heal disease through faith aud by
prayer" He has now organized new
church. which he calls the Full Bib'e
Church, and proposes to send out mis-
sioDaries to establish the new sect
throughout the country.
The Boston Herald thinks the Rev
Samuel A. Eliot is entitled TO the prize
for a short prayer. AT the dinner of
the Ohio Society, New York, he simply
said: GAS God was with the fathers, so
may He be with the sons" To this |
he Christian Register adds: But DR..
Cyrus A. Bartol made shorter prayer
'ome years ago at G. meeting OF the Bos- |