El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-21
Self sacrifice.

Bishop Kendrick preached yesterday
moruiug to large congregation in St.
Clements church from the the text,
"He' ssva others. himself be can not
save" The speaker said: The Savior
was slowly dying on the cross, and
great crowds were gathered in front OF
it, tC illness the event of the cruct6x-
ion. The chief priests and the elders
knocking our Lord, said, "He saved
illustration of the former clause of the
quotation, the bishop recited the won
derful miracles of the Savior. 1t was
true he had saved others. Yes, and be
could have saved himself, for did he
not tell the people who had come to
seize him in the garden that all he had
to do was to. ask, and pre-
sently his fathet w6uldi Send
him twelve slegions Of angels?
But Christ could rot have saved others
had he saved himself. If he would
save others he must not save himself.
The law was that some must die that
othe rs might live. Do we not feel be-
ter when we make a sacrifice? Are
there not some for whom we would
sacrifice our elves? Beneath many q
fashionable dress there is q self-sacri-
6cing spirit. Would we not rather be-
Jesus Christ than Tiberius Caesar?
Self sacrifice gives nobility to our
lives: it makes this world better t"
live io. Our Lord was revealing this
law in dying as he did; he was MT max
ing it. What is Christianity what. is
Chr stan life? There is danger that
we may miss the perspective. Does
Christian life consist in service. sacra-
merts, prayers? Yes, when these are
a means of grace; when they are a
me- ns,'not AMEND: AS for creeds they
are all right when founded on truth:
and the outcry against them is all
idio-ic. A man will Datrually do what
he believes right, but man should
know what is right and what is true.
There is nothing more important than
a creed that tells the truth: and an I'M
creed will not make q good
Christ did not die merely to arouse
sentiment or a sense of the beautiful.
n was no spiritual demagOgue to ex-
lite mere tran sient feeling. The cross
was no ornament, it was dirty and
blood s, aimed. with dying man upon
1t. Then pointing t. the gold plated
cross on the altar, the speaker said it
wasn't anything fine like that. or the
emblems SO many wear on thar necks.
is all right when it is in Its
place. Trere is nothing religious
about emotion and admiration OF the
beautiful. Our hold on heaven depends
upon what we are going to do about it,
aud does what we do tend tt right
eousnesS. Christ anity is matter OF
conduct and this conduct ought at least
% be of as high character
in the church as it is in the world.
Mere re probability won't do. Salvation
g not ticket of adm ssion to heaven:
it shows us the way. Chr stianity con-
sists in following Christ. That we
may be able to do this. sacraments,
church services and preaching exists.
Then assuming more serious vein,
he speaker said, be careful not to go
where you would not have your Savior
90 with you; and ask yourselves, would
Christ go to places in this town where
we, Christians. go? II we would do as
Christ did our lives must be self-sacri-
icing as his was, for the lasting good
Of others. Shall we live life OF self
sacrifice, or life of selishness, Of