El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-17
Your Influence Lives After You.

Bishop kepdrick preached a stirrips
discourse in ST. Clements church yes
terday morning to large congrega
tiOu from the text, "Being dead, ye
speaketh:" Hebrews MA. The speaker
said, the subject is the immortality Of
influence. Your influence lives aftel
you, and the good or harm done by
people lives after them. If you move
one body, that body moves another
and another, until sometimes great
many bodies are affected one way or
another. We can not always trace
the effects or results of blow, Scien-
lists have told US that every football is
felt in the earth's orbit. So it is in the
acts of life. Influence in the world
keeps on. We have inherited much to
be thankful for, and much good that
we have inherited has come through
ApglO-SaXon sources, through ances-
which We are enjoying. We have in,
herited the gospel aud faith of Jesus
Christ. Human agencies are used in
the carrying on of this gospel, and to
them we are indebted. We are debt
ed to the constancies of the martyrs
who have left us a great Christian
herita ge; also, to our Christian ances-
tors, and many others whom we do not
know. No one can number the lines of
action contributQry to re suits. They
are like the formation of a coral reef.
So is the work of the Chr stiau
church.
He who educates the boy makes the
man. School masters have great
deal to do in making nation, and so
many educators though dead, speak.
They are stilla living force. So 50
in the case of parents. What many of
Us are today, is due to parental teach
ings. The church has had heroes and
communities benefactors whose names
are cherished as household words. 1t
should be motive to do good that the
good may live after US. We ought to
make ourselves blessing not a curse.
There are those who will be the better
or worse for our having lived in this
world. This world will be more of a
garden or more of desert because of
US. We ought to be able to write our
names somewhere to be remem bered
when we are gone. But if our names
are written only in books, the effects
may be merely superficial, ard our
names ought to be written in indelible
characters on the hearts of others, and
is the better for our having lived in it.
Plant trees for the use of posterity,
without thought of whether we will be
able to enjoy them or not. Do what
will benefit your children, help build
up posterity in proper lines. You
have no right to say that you do not
owe posterity anything; but work for
those who come after you, just as those
who proceeded you worked for your
benefit. 1t is a serious matter, the
committing of children to your care.
They will have cause to bless you or
you. Our character and ex-
ample will have their influence, and it
is thus that teachers can make large
for themselves, Men out
Of the pulpit as well as those in the
pulpit can preach pra ctical sermons in
life, and can be blessing as we'll as
curse to their fellow men and an ad-
vantage or a disadvantage to those
who come after. Those men are a
curse who work for wages merely, rand
without thought of higher things:
The musical part of the service was
excellent, especially the Dykes TIE
Deum in F. Prof. Smith is getting a
deal of good work out of his singers.
The evening service was given up to
addresses from members Of the oonvo-
catipn phat was held In this city last
week.