El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-22

and from the rivers unto the end o
, the earth.
At the Christian Church.
AT the morning service a large
congregation was present. The con
gregation song rang out jOyousiy. Be
fore the sermon a quart-tto was fur
nished by the choir.
The subject of discourse was: "The
G odoess of Cod Text Rom. II a
'Or d. spi sest thou the riches of hi.
go d ess-not knowing that the goot
ness of God lead eth thee to repentance.'
TIL, speaker said in part: A COM
paniOn passage to our text is found in
2 Pet. .. The Lord is not slack con-
corning his promises as soma me1 count
slackness; but is long suffering to u.s.
ward no. willing that any should
perish but that all should come to re-
pentanc-."
These teach US of the goodness of
God. His goodness lea IS US to re-
pentance. If it were not for the good
ness of God we would be struck
down at The very first violation of his
good and just laws. God gives every
man time and opp rtunity to repent.
The primary reference in the text is
to the Israeli ties. God in his goodness
chose A braham to be the faith r of his
chosen people aud through them the
| redeemer of mankind was to come
Some would think that God was not
| good to bis people when he allowed
them to bee 1me bond servants of the
Egyptians. They learned all the wis
dom Of the Egg ptians. They needed
to lea n that great civi;izing. Had
| they remained in the billy country Of
Palestine they never would have been
| induced to till the soil. Egypt was al
| industrial school. They went down a
| band of berdsmen ana came back a
nation of farmers anu mech anics His
tory shows thai nation of herdSmeD
| is na'ion of rowing war
riors. They would have been in the
anne condition as their kinsman, the
children of ISau, the modern Arabs
And Jethro rejoiced because of all
the goodness which the Lord hal done
to Israel whom he had delivered
out of the hand of the Egyptians. "
(EX. XVlII:9.) God taught them by
object lessons. When they huogered
GOO gave them mama from heaven
Beecher says, ''W L en- any mercy falls
TO u proud man, he says yes, but it
ought to be mora. Il is Odly mama as
large as a coriander seed, where it
ought to be liae a bakers loaf" We
are al prone to be proud ard upgra E.
full. God's goodness to the Geptiies is
marked. Paul says: ''Ye", the Gen
llit we re WlllOUU Snfl-t. ID Ing
aliens from the commonwealth of Is
rael, having 10 hope and without God
in the world" This was cause ''they
did not want to retain God in their
thoughts" OF all the GENTLE races
the Anglo-SaXOD is The most bless I'd.
OF all the branches of that race, the
Ame~ioaus is the most blessed. Amer
ca is Gods country by preeminencs. 1t
was discovere1 by pious Christian.
h. IDrrtS for sfaf 70 r
where they could worship God accord
ing to tie dictates of their own con-
science. Gen. Orglet horp founded
Georgia as an YUM for ali that were
persecu'e1 for tne name of Chr ist. The
siguers of the declar a ion of indepa nd
enoe were nearly al Chrjs'ia ian men. |
O says: Il am satisfied with my re-
igious att i1ments. God has sent no
calamity on me " That's no proof. |
"He causeth his sun to rise on the evil !
and on the good ard sendeth rain on !!
the just and on the unjust "(Mat. V: 49,
When we count ali oar blessings what |!
shall we do? Use them for en- Ourage-
meat like Papl did the coming of his
brethren to meet him. Thank God
Gratitude impells toward re ligion. Be
grateful in the true sense and you wilt
be rel gi GUS
A large aud enthus' astic audience
was at the endeavOr meet ng at CID 1t
was a sp scial ThanS sgiving program
and was well prepared and enthusiastic.
Miss Arte Eva" read the principal pa
per of the evening. Special mu ic had
been prepared and was we'll rendered.
Y. NJ. e. A. !
Rev. J. G Hall of the First Metho-
dist church made sensible and
thoughtful adore yesterday afternoon
in the Y. NJ. G. A. before a good audi
ence. Mr.. Hall spoke fro the text.
: Blessed is the man who wake b not
in rhs counsel of the ung"dly, nor
in the wav of sinners, nor
site h in the seat of the scornful.'
Palams IL. Tue speaker sid there
were in this text. three al charac-
tars, aud three moral states. A kind
of double climax The text is also div
ided into the upgodlv, the sinful and
the sc ornful man. These are graded
downward, not upward, from the bad, !
to the worse a to the worst. The uu-
G odly man has 10 ought of God. He
thinks that if he lives a sort of a
forward life it Will be all right
in the end. Such people pride them
selves on their moral charac'e-, and
for the sake Of standing in society do
rot engage in any marked sinfulness
life. 1t is all right as far as
it goes. But it does not reach
the bottom. l. comes short of
the real thug. The merely moral man
is referred to in the first part of the
passage, the man who has MOI atty
but no spiritual ty. The sec nd ma,
claims God demends more than he has
a ri gbr to demand, and refuses tt oh Y.
He says he wi do just as he pleas 5,
be is fond OF his sinfulness. The
third party makes fun OF every religious
thing. Be laughs at the offers OF ssh
va ion. He sneers. Every invitation
is answered in a Hppant way. So
God leaves him alone in despair. We
can not stand still. We are worse to=
day than yesterday unless we are bet
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