El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-11
The Salt of the Earth.

ISGV. LIT. lIdIl U0tli pISdChSd W
large congregation in Trinity church
yesterday morning from the text, ''Ye
are the sal. of the earth: but II the salt
hath lost its SAVIOR. wherewith Is 1t &c
be sailed? 1t is fit only to be cast out
and trodden under the foot of men;
Matt. V:13. The speaker said the mis-
sion of Christ among men was to set
up the kingdom of God in their hearts.
And the mission of the followers of
Jesus Christ is to reproduce the king
dom of God in the lives and hearts OF
o.her men. So we have Christ's mis-
sion and the mission of the TO, lowers of
Christ. Under his guidance we are to
90 forth in the spirit Ct his teachings,
and without any other business in this
void.
The sermon from which this text is
taken. was preached on mountain,
To the westward lay the Mediterra-
mean. the great sea. sy m Dol OF lie,
movement ard power. In this sea the
ALT was DO sessed of its full SAVIOR; the
live brine was here. The speaker
then compe red the Mediterran can with
the Dead sea, the latter being in a
depression deep below the level of the
sea, without any outlet. The dead
brine was here-the salt that had lost
its SAVIOR, symbolical of the deterlorat-
ing rot that eats into a civilization.
Jesus was GuS SIGdlSSb Curit
builder that ever lived, the greatest
the world has ever seen; moving stead
lily alorg the right line, Character is
immortal, it never dies. Christ uses
several methods. In the first place he
aims towards the in corporation of
Gods's thought in life of men. 1t is the
incorporat ton of God thoughts in the
the Old Testament that accounts more
than anything else for the perpetuity
of Jewish life. An element most neces-
sary to longevity is the acceptance of
Gods word, his thoughts, which be-
come then part of us. The grand
scenic displays in nature are descrip-
tive of Gods thought. The writer who
had caught the grandeur of the divine
mind to a remarkable extent was the
prophet Isaiah whose prophetic vision
is cO!Ored with such wonderous beauty.
DR.. Lambeth was struck by re-
markable feature of the Mexican
evangelical awork brought out in the
reports of the last few days by the pre-
siding elders OF the Mexican districts at
the conference just c'osing in this
city. That feature was the hundreds
of chapters in the bible and the tnOu-
sands of verses memoriZed by the Mex
lean Sunday school children. Thus
was the silent voice of the word of God
sown in the hearts of these children
which will lift them to a hight from
which they will be able to excite Il
most salutary and powerful influence
along the border of the Rio Grande.
If you wish to lift your children to
higher, nobler, more spiritual planes,
incorporate into their moral and spiri
tual ii bre the word OF God. Another
phase of character building is the in
bre eding of the Masters spirit. He
not only laid down the laws of the
kingdom of God, but at the same time
breathed his spirit into it. Christ
breathed upon the disciples his holy
spirit. One reason why the Old Tesla
ment be came dead letter was because
of the absence of the spirit, and it was
necessary that Christ should come, and
breath the spirit of life into it.
The moral teachings of CONTIGUOUS
are without life, because there is no
personality behind his moral code. Its
disciples have lived in shell, and
Chinese civilization has been at a
stand still for centuries, because there
was no personal presence in that shell.
The Christian code is marked, given
life, by the presence of the life, teach
ipgs and death of Christ. Oh that
the world-that we might have the
sympathies that characterized the life
of Christ. Many a man has not known
what it is to feel sympathy for his fe,-
low man until some great personal loss
happened to him. The solution of the
relations between employer and en-
ployee, between capital and labor is not
money but sympathy. 1t is truly more
blessed to give than to receive. We
need the cleansing power of the holy
spirit which will clear the channel:
and if we lived so that the spirit could
come into and take posse 5sion of US the
result for good would be of remarkable
extent. The reason we lack SO much
10 spiritual life is because we have
kept that life 80 much to ourselves. In
the spiritual kingdom the more we
give away the more we will have
| There comes also power of expansive
| thought that brings one closer and
closer to the divine life. The full
grown Christian is able to impart the
| full sweetness Of the spirit in him.
| Take the salt out of mans life, and
| he becomes decadent, loses his power
his influence. One OF the creates
drawbacks to the missionary in 6
| heather land-especially the lady mis-
| siOuary-is the character OF the Ian
guage she Is forced to listen to on the
streets The language is the reflection
of the local spiritual condition, for tina
condition is heather. The Euglist
language is cleaner, because it is made
so by Christianity but 9 century o.