El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-27
Sermon to Children.

Sermon to Children.
Rev. 81. w. Moore preached yestel
day morning from the text, wv no wer
about doing good
What is more beautiful than s1mp!
goodness Sir Walter Scott's farewe
to his friend Lockhart was BE goo
man, my dear" Some people spen
their lives in doing evil. We do nc
have to be wealthy or eloquent o
strong or gifted to do good; Even
little candl lie will shed some brightnes
if it is set where it will shine. A dro
of water or rose bud may refresh
fevered lip or cheer q sufferers sa
heart. Do YOU say you carnOt do an.
good? A little girl once bought three
canary birds, taught them to sing ant
every Easter and Christmas she would
take them to some sick room to lie
them sing for some sick boy or girl.
once knew two girls WHO visited poo
blind woman once week and sang tt
her. The old blind lady often said, 81
love these girls and can hardly wal
till they come back again" If we can'1
preach, or keep a big store or run ar
engine we at least can be cheerful an0
polite and kind. Sour people are trav
cling epidemics. Don't let us wash
Our~faces in vinegar or eat crab apples
all the time. Let swapping turtles
snap. but DOM let boys or girls snap.
Let bears growl, let dogs fight, but
don't let boys and girls growl or fight.
l hope boys you don't swear. I'D go q
whole block to get away from boy
swearing. 1t destroys much OF the
fine sentiment in anyone to swear.
Be cheerful. Scatter sunshine Let
your faces be as happy looking as
Easter lilies. Some girl faces are so
happy looking that they are worth
going a whole block to see. Study how
to do good! Two boys once saw
mans shoes in fence corner. The
man was ploughipg Says one boy,
Let US hide the shoes and then hide
ourselves and see the man hunting
them" ''No,' said the other boy,
let us put some money in the shoes
md then see him as he finds the mon
ey" Everybody loves people who
study to do good.
Jesus our Saviour was always doing
coed. He was either taking children
IL his arms Or raising some one from
the dead or feeding five Thousand hun
CRY peop,e-always doing good. A
little girl once told me before she died
TO tell her little boy and girl friends
that she wanted them all to come to
Jesus and to meet her in heaven. We
have this Children's Day in OF der to
awaken interest in sending the gospel
to boys and Cir 8 who do not know of
Jesus as Saviour. We must tell the
boys aud girls in Alaska and 1ndiah
boys and girls in our great west OF the
Saviour. We want 10 build up new
Sabbath schools so that the little girls
Saviour may be their Saviour. God
wants the boys,the happy hearted BOYS
the worst of boys. God wants the hap
py hearted girls, the loving girls, the
best of girls, the worst of girls. He
wants you to fill this world with love.
Purity defend his cause. God wants
the boys! God wants the girls!
Marked Improvement.
Presiding Elder Ellington preached
yesterday morning at Trinity. He was
IN fair health, though with voice not
strong. The speaker cOngra ula,ed the
church on its lmpr owed financial condi-
of the entire district. Last year there
was a deficit in all departmentsi but
this year, there is deficit only in the
department of ministerial support
The speaker would be pleased to see
FL PasO present a clean financial sheet.
The deficit of $500 at Trinity in minis
terial support, he believed, would be
wiped out the coming week. Than in
to requests, the deficit was
reduced by $3.50. Mr.. Ellington said
there had in fact been done better
before. And not only had the gain
been financial, but it had been spiritual
as well.
He then spoke briefly from John V:
10, Il am come that they might live
and that they might have it more
abundantly." Christ shows here our
to the father through
himself Our Savior in fact uses the
strongest terms to EXPIRE IS the possible
tiles of the human soul. Christ sheds
light into the soul, as the sun of
through his own source
of light. The character of this
light is mot necessarily intellectual.
Some of the worst enemies God and
the church ever had were men of intel
lectual light, but devoid of spiritual
light. Because one may not under
staId a thing is no reason that such a
thing does not exist. Because we may
not comprehend certain features OF the
spiritual Life is no sign that there is no
spiritual life. Skeptics claim that life
is the result of fortuitous circum-
stances. This is not true. There is no
such thing as production of life from
fortuitous circumstances or conditions
of matter. Life must come from life.
1t cannot be developed without previ-
GUS existence OF embryonic life. Now,
what matter cannot beget matter, life
can take hold of matter and COMPEL it
to assume varied forms and condi-
tions of existence. We can net define
vegetable, animal or any other forms OF
physical life; and no more can we de-
fine spiritual life. Life and it's theory
are all a mystery. Spiritual life works
US: it enables US to resist.untOward sur
roundirgs and circumstances tending
to rob US of our spirituality. There is
a law OF tte spiritual, and IN the physi-
cal orld it is as of as much force and
power as the law Of gravitaion.
An Heroic Pharisee.
One of the most eloquent and scholar
" addresses ever delivered in the Y.
NJ @. A. rooms was given yesterday
afternoon by Rev. H. w. Moore of the
Presbyterian church. His theme was
Nicodemus, the heroic Pharisee.
Mr.. Moore spoke with unusual force
and power, and every thing he said
was listened TO with marked attention.