El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-10
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

Yesterday morning at the Presby
terrain church Rev. 81. w. Moore, the
pastor, preached from the text: "As
the hart panteth after the water-brook
so panteth my soul after thee o God. -
Ps. 42:1. Below is given part OF the
| sermon:
The great heart cry of the world has
ever been for vision of God. Moses
said 'show me the glory" JOB echoed
| the worlds heartache when he said
'oh that 1 knew where / might find
him." Philip in the upper room took
up the same cry when he said to our
Lord "show US the father and 1t suf-
ficeth US" When Sir John Franklin
was making one of his Arctic explora-
lions he met a grey haired Indian who
was continually saying 81 am now an
old man and yet L have never seen
God" How human the cry when
thin faced mother in her home OF
poverty with starving babe
on her bosom cries out "Oh God, dost
thou not care?" Is it not u human cry
after God? When you lay away your
loved ones and sorrow sits with black
robes around your fireside, how natural
to say, 81 want God to comfort me: why
Earliest the wheels of his chariot"
And when you see brave men. clean
meu. Christian men meet with disasters
that stagger the vision and psralyzes
effort, what more natural than to cry
out, "Hath God forgotten to be kind?"
When God children suffer for years
and years of some disease till every
nerve becomes highway over which
misery and agony run too and fro, is it
not natural for. the sufferer to wonder
that the stars still shine outside the
chamber window: that the birds still
sing while he so agOnizes. At such
times men cry out: ''Am l in the grip
Of some great machine which grinds |
without pity? Does God care that 1 |
suffer SOP" Some people in trouble come
out cynics-sour to all the world. Some
let trouble crush them and they like
a lark with both wings broken walk |
over tinty ways and thorny brush wood |
over which they used to soar. Others |
in trouble take the wiser course and |
say; tho he slay me yet will L trust /
him." They calmly wait God g unfold
with heart singing again it's songs and /
God still q shield and a refuge.
''Yes, every true man or woman has
heart cries for God. All irreli giOus
men have their lodgings. David Hume |
the great Historian and who taught
philosophy subversive to christianity
when jOkingly asked why he went to
hear DIR. John Brown of Edinburgh
preach said: ''Oh heXpreaches as tho
Even Huxley wrote these lines for his
own tombstone:"H giveth his beloved
Sleep Matthew Arnold, though not
q christian, went to hear DR.. McClaren
Of Liverpool preach. The last sab
bath before he died he sang with all
his heart to the tune of Ham burg, that
glorious old hymn.
When survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
Ny richest gain / count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride"
On coming out of church ne said, !
That is my favorite hymu."
Now infidelity and skepticism say
hat we cannot know God. And so I'M
belief has made the worlds heart
Troop and wither. The church says
that we can know God.
The silence has been broken, light
has risen in the darkness-Jesus Christ
s the manifestation of the Father.
Jesus is God with us-Immanuel. This
s why the church has chung so ten
.ciously to the divinity of our Lord.
At his feet the world finds rest: at His
ross pardon is freely given. The worlds
lunger and thirst there is satisfied. |
A thousand attempts have been made
20 account for Jesus without admitting
his divinity but all have failed. The
church has changed in some things
Jul nut III Iulo. ne 6udb Bdtn cCGu L
hath seen the Father says Jesus.
nd somehow when everything goes
wrong and men and women sit amid
,he ashes of their hopes it is comfort
ng to the soul to hear him say
what thou knowess not now
.hou shall know hereafter" And
vheE sin enslaves the life
Ind ruins our hopes how sweet His /:
words ''go in peace and sin no more,"I
How many thousands have read with
eyes the matchless story of {
,hc Prodigal Son and with tears run
hing from their faces have said, 81 too
hall arise and go to my Father" And
when Jesus tells US that death is no
wall but gateway, that talent conse-
,rated to God is not buried in the cof-
in. that we take up our work to-
in Heaven if we die today we
somehow say at is not so hard to die
low. Ii is so much sweeter to think
If the hereafter Dear old tear
tsined thumb-marked fourtee nth
,hapter of ST. John, How many
thousands have read it in tears and
rome to work on between their sObs.
But that chapter has set q thousand
oy-bells rinRing.all down the sky, and
aith has looked up and seen the open
rates and the fab of the crowns. Yes,
Iesus is God. Jesus the exhibition of
he Father. He is Gods answer toI
show us the Father Ii
Look about you and see returning to
Tesus Christ thousands who are sick |