El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-04

cOrQ2nCe with It's spirit. Dut WD1cu
they are tom pied to do. Say or think,
of character that will tend greatly to
prepare hem to obey the here, every
one of which 10 important. Add here
fee, con-trained TO introdu ce stat >.
ment OF chri u ian truths, held In COM
mon by all evange ical deoOmina ions.
While no mere man since the fall OF
Adam, has been able to ke p the com-
mandments of God. yet Christ, ,he Son
of God, mediator between God and
man, did keep them perfectly, and al
80 offered up b mself . sacrifice upon
the cross for sin, thus suffering the
penalty due to ths violated law, and
occurring forgiveness and perfec
righteou sness for every repeutant sin-
ner who ccspts him as Savior. Aud
With this forgiveness comes also the
principle of . new life. Ia pirinx the
,esire and ever incr' asing effort to
attain to pu ity ard righteousness
within them-e Yes, God working tkem
o will and to do.
"He that hath this hope in him pur!-
6eth himself even q. God 10 pure" Toe
members of any church who do not
iud In themselves an habitual desire
fo- an ever growing purity 10 heart
aud life, may W oil dis,rust the fOunds-
ions of their hopes. But to return to
the subject, the privileges OF the
Lords day, folly improved st home
aud ~ the house of ~Orehip, will pro-
iuce . positive effect. "As q man
tninketh, so is he As has been well
.aid. people can not rise apove their
.DirinR ~ those presented by the bible
q sshing light from its many pages.
and taught by faithful ministers In The
various churches. Oh, II men wOu d
spend less tims on the Saba b 10
-eadipg the d-ily papers, and other
natter. inappropriate to the d.y, and
i've more attention to thong 1ts o.
their moral responsibility, treir at l.
sude towards God and ct .rnlty, how
blessed would be its resu It's, and how
.oon it would tell upon Individual char
acter, and 90 upon the community.
Add then In the mercantile business,
how sad to learn that men wi i risk, In
the mad rush for weslth, the awful
hing of di obeyiug God, rather than
risk the loes of few dollar. Oh, what
= paltry thing IL q ea tn Compared With
obedience to God. Oh, for more Of
hat noble moral courage which 10.
so red Joshua, the grant leader If the
I-raelites In the wars " it'll the Can .an-
ties, regarded still by great military
men ~ one OF the greatest generals
Shst was the f. undstion OF hi- moral
strength and great nobility of char
acter?, Only his earnest desire and
tirm decision to do in all things tn
will Of God, and in every right way to
p omote the welfare of bis people. he
-eal'zed deeply, how entirely their
property depended upon their obe-
diencs to the Commandments If Gid
In an earns ct address to them to cling
o the true God, aud not Worship idols,
(Which even In this day may be
personified in many things, IS money.
ambition, or vic Gus pleasures,) he
losed with the following notable
words, "ChOose ye this day whom Vt
will serve; a. me and my house, we
will serve the Lord" Grand, noble
meni No fesr of popular disfavor, no
selfish cons Iteration could make him
swerve from the path of fAitnfulness
to God, and thus he shed q hsllowed
influences upon his household and his
country.
AID of modern times, in our own
country, We may men ion the names of
WashinQto Abraham Lincoln, r. e.
Lee, and S'OnewSll Jackson.
FL Paso, Texas, 8. B. n.