El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-22

the sun of righteousness shall rise with
healing in his beams, men will bow to
him, and he will give to the righteous
the ends of the earth for an inheri-
! lance.
Have we hope of success? No doubt
of it. Success is coming. The essen
| tial condition of success is the HOLY
| Spirit. and we learn this from the his,
tory of the apostolic success. We can
not do anything in this world without
the presence of the Holy Spirit. Con-
slider what the great mi sionaries have
accomplished; it is only because of the
power of the Holy Spirit. Don't de-
is but weak reed. Nothing but the
divine power can change mans
heart. Moral suasiOn and human per-
suasion of themselves will never turn
men. There must be a new life which
human ingenuity cannot give. A new
heart is new power a new principle
which only the Holy Spirit can give.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The morning sermon was preached
on Samson's riddle, 'Out of the eater
came forth the meat, and out of the
strong came forth the sweetness.
Jud ges XIV:14. The speaker said in
part, what we suppose to be evil. brings
us good, and out of what we call the
devourer comes honey. In our earthly
life we are meeting with riddles, and
in our judgments we are so short
sighted. Fire ievours the mansion, the
warehouse, the sailing ship, yet it
warns US in winter, it operates 1000
factories. The wind in hurricanes and
torpadoes are destructive, but the hon
ev of Samson's riddle is there, for it
sails our vessels, brings in rain, and
hundred blessings. The coal we burn,
the oil that comes from belching wells,
the gas in one thousand furnaces come
from the commissions of nature. The
diamond on the lady's finger, the iron
ore that has made our age so majestic,
the marble, granite, gold and silver
are due to internal fires, chemical
action. Out of seemingly chaotic laws
has come the honey of Samson S riddle.
So is this true of electricity that
fairy angel of the clouds"
Then there comes another riddle of
human life. Why is it everything of
worth we get is through struggle?
they are spoiled. But obstacles are Of
ten the worlds best friends. The
mind, the body, needs them for develop
ment. The human race would be I'M
developed without this struggle. The
Jelly fish is the lowest order of animal
life. All great think rs have had
their doubts and brain aches before
they have given to the world a great
system of thought. Great orators and
ere1, been Kissed aud jerred at be-
fore they succeeded. So have all COM |
mercial giants struggled to success. I
A kite rises against the wind, so does |
genius. No one makes his way far in a |
dead calm. Men learn more from |
their failures than from their success |
es.
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suffering Why all this sickness and |
death? Why did God take my wife?
My child? My friend? If we had our
way we would have no fire because of |
couhagratiOns, no wind because of |
hurricanes. no water because of ship |
wrecks. We would have no obstacle in |
the way of our desires, No death, and |
so the world would fill up with crimi-
nails, cut-thrOatS. invalIds, paralvtics. |
Our homes would be hospitals. We
had better leave all this with God. |
Though much of human suffering we
can't understand, we can trust. A |
father on earth does not explain all |
things he does to his child. Jesus said |
to his disciples, 81 have many things |
to say unto you, but ye can not hear
them now" Human suffering has drawn
nations together, inspired the greatest
poetry, music. deeds, the most heroic
deeds in history-honey out of the de-
vourer. As in individual life, so in
home life. Human suffering strength
ems it, makes it tender. God often
sends it to bring men to his everlasting
arms Life is a school. God is the
teacher. We are the pupils. Bye and
bye we shall graduate into heaven
Human suffering makes US know God
better, makes us know one another
better.
"If none were sick and none were sad,
What service could we render?