El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-27

give nothing to our great heavenly
friend and father, who gave US his on.
ly begotten son that all should not per.
ish, but have everlasting life?
The Past and the Future.
Yesterday morning Rev. n. w.
Moore of the Presbyterian church
preached from Phil. 3:l3, "Forgettipg
those things which are behind aud
reaching forth unto those things which
are before" The speaker said:
My text has q ring as clear as a
bugle blast. 1t says all that 1897 has
brought you which does not stimulate
you, give wings to your life, put rain
bows into your sky-forget! forget!
| The past that distresses and torments
you, bury Il. Some men in reviewing
the pas link long In things they
cannot help until it takes all he TT and
yesterdays graveyards and walk with
ghosts until life beams a crucifxion.
Paul wanted to forget much of his
past. He was sorry for bis sins but
says he, will use my past only as it
stimulates my future to greater conse-
Grafton to God! I will not waste my
strength in tears, I shall use it in
service. 1 look forward to the palm,
the harp, the crown. Here is one who
says: 1 cnce lived in finer house,
had q good income, had many servants,
stood high in society. Thus he feeds
on signs and disappoiutments. But is
that all there is to your manhood or
your womanhood! Is your true work
made up of servants, brown stone
faith, love, hope? Another one says,
oh, if I had had the chance to be
educated a he young people today
have-f l b d only the opportunity of
going to college I might have been a
chemist, lawyer or a scientist. But
We grow morbid over that. If that
memory is TO you a stumbling
others who can never get over being
we'll born. They trace their family
back to some first family of Virginia o.
New York and on back to some tomb
in Westminster abb y where In tears
they show you the family co at of arms.
These people thus die slowly OF respect
ability. But aristocracy of blood
should mean aristocracy of character.
See it illustrate after the war of '6i-
'65 when our southern people went
back to desOlated homes, lost fortunes,
worthless money, burned cities. Yet
out of their indomitable toll wi
hands unaccustomed to hard labor they
have built up from the ashes of war a
splendid new south. O.hers view the
past to bemoan the fact that I have
not so much pleasure and once had,
am growing old, or getting wrinkled,
or l have always had a sick body.
This is all wrong. That does not
help US to.press onward, to grow nobler
forget it, bury it as you would q corpse.
But you say what of this splendid
power of memory. Should L recall
nothing. Yes if it puts sugar and not
vinegar into your life. If it puts nerve
nd in%~ nv,A \
pondency and heart aches. "Forget
not all his benefits" says David. Yes,
you, during '97 have recovered from
severe illness. You have escaped
death in an accident, you have united
with the church of Jesus Christ, you
have had babe born into your home,
you have been married, you have had
health for every duty. Yes you can
raise monument to your God this
morning and write on it this very
Sabbath Ebenezar''-hitherto the
Lord hath led us. Go and visit our
insane asylum and come out thanking
God for an enthroned reason. visit the
asylums for the blind, the homes for
the incurables and then come home
thankful for present mercies.
How shall face 1898 to get the mos
outs of it. This may be my last year
go want to make the best of it, you
say. answer face it with hope. What
ever you lose lose not your courage.
you hope your manhood. Hope is a
child of the skies. May be '97. has been
dark but 1898 will be brighter. Look
up! A discouraged man is only one
half mau! During the civil war q
father was leadicg q division on
charge. In the grass he saw q dead
what was he to do stop and cry? In an
instant he stopped, kissed only once
that dead boys face and then hurried
on in the charge. What else could he |
do. His duty was pressing, God does |
not want to waste our lives in tears. |
Let us know that ''God is in heaven and |
all's we'll with the world"' Again.
cross into the new year with the
head are numbered" God watches
over his own. He knows every step.
not fate, rules the world.
All things work together for good to
them that love God, And I beg you to
face the new.year with the overpower-
ing, comforting thought that you are
q child OF immortality, Death is net
spoken OF the soul. It is the glory of
the gospel of Jesus Christ that mans
longing for a personal Immortality is
satisfied In him. Tennysons' belief in
Q personal immortality was his
strongest belief. His parting from bis
dying brother was in these words
'Goodpight true brother here, good |
morrow there. "What teac- ers we shs IL |
have yonder ''spirits of just men made
perfect" angels that excel in |
strength. Oh what must be the know
ledge and joys of those like Paul and |
Isaiah who have been SO long in |
heavenly society. Heads up! Death is
a glorious release.
The Nativity.
Rev. w. o. Millican pr cached to q
full house last night, from the text,
land when they were come into the
house, saw the young child with
Mary his mother, and fell down and
wOrshipped him: and when thew had