El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-15
PEACE.
A Notable Sermon by Rev. N. Cab
ell Martin.

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At the morning service yesterday q
| the Episcopal church Rev. M. Cabel
Martin preached a striking sermon or
Things Belonging Unto Peace
! Although the sermon was listened II
by large audience it was in many
particulars we'll worthy of much large
circulation than could be given to it il
| the church itself. AS printed below il
is condensed somewhat, but the sub
stance of it is retained without verba
change.
The text was as follows:
| And when he was come near, he beheld til,
| city and wept over it, saying: If thou hads
| known, even thou, ut least in this thy day
the things which belong unto thy peace bu
now they are hid from thine eyes.-st. Luke
XIX. ~.
Mr.. Martin said:
On-one other occasion and on one
other only, is it recorded of the Blessed
Savior that he wept. His tears fell at
the grave of Lazarus. This was the
silent weeping of the friend: but here
there is lamentation, loud and deep,
the expression of an undyiug love not
for one friend only, but for many, yea
for all the people of his race and lin
cage. This was the expression of in
tense love for native land, which we
know as patriotism. 1t is Jesus the
patriot that weeps on that rocky ledge
overlooking Jerusalem. Before him
appeared the beloved city in all its
beauty, glory and security, but his eye
glapcing into the future witnessed the
same city In vision, dimly rising on the
sky, with the camp of the enemy round
about it on every side. huggiug it clos
err and closer in deadly embrace. and
the very ''stockade" which the Roman
leRions raised around it: then another
scene in the shifting panorama, and
the city laid with the ground, and the
CORY bodies of her children among her
ruins: and yet another scene: the
silence and desolsteness of death by the
baud of God-''not one stone left upon
another"
WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE?
1t is over his nations ignorance then
that we see the Savior exhibit grief,
over an ignorance which will soon
prove fatal. This ignorance is in re-
gard TO those things which belong to
peace, or as the expression Is elsewhere
anslated-''the conditions of peace"
Very important it is that the utmost
care be taken in all that sppertains to
The negotiating or establishing of
peace. Better the continuance of war
han an insecure peace wherein ma
lion dwelling in fancied security might
De taken by surprise or suddenly over
thrown or suffer damage when least ex
oecting. Peace, to be peace at all
worthy OF the name, must rest on q sure
conditions of peace
must be known by all cOncerned; there
must be no ambiguity of language.
Now what were the conditions of
peace which Israel had failed to con-
slider, which Israel had failed to accept
and which as her day began to draw to
! close, her greatest patriot declared
with deepest sorrow, were at last hid
lin from her eyes: They were repent
snce, reformation, Righteousness.
These three were and are the condi-
lions of an abiding peace.
Nations as we'll as individuals have
heir day. God himself imposes GER
Jain conditions of peace. These condi-
ions are we'll known, so far as the
mere letter is concerned. They are
known to every man. From the LIST to
10th requirement. | suppose til at the
vast majority of earth's Inhabitants
know every word of the Sinaitic code
Of laws, and yet strange to say, with
macy men and many nations, too,
{ is as with the Jews of old-they are
n reality hid from their eyes. They
know not the things which belong unto
heir peace.