El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-29
Presbyterian Church.

Yesterday morning Rev. FL. w.
Moore, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, preached from the text: ~
came not to destroy, but to fulfill I'M
FULL" Matt. 5:l7.
Part of the sermon is given below:
Christ spent much of his time correct
ing false ideas. Among them Is the
idea that a Christian must wear
straight-jacket and have no liberty.
So many people are so solemnly good
that they look as though they had
been to one funeral and are just going
to another. This Is not Christianity.
God wants people to be happy. Christ
came, not to take the laughter out OF
the breast of any little child or the
carol from the throat of any little bird.
He came not to destroy, but to I'LL
fuller of peace, nope, Joy, home LIE,
social life, intellectual life. spiritual
life. He came not to do away with the
ten commandments, but to show you
the glory and comfort OF the worship
of one God who made the mountains,
reared like smoking affairs to his
praise: the stars that look out OF
heaven like angels-God, who left the
tracery of his love on flower, leaf, and
everywhere. He came to show you the
richer, widersmeaning OF love. That
is the cause of all human progress, and
by-and-by, will make the state and
church beautiful. Not to destroy, but
fill full. Jesus wassno inconoclast He
destroyed nothing but sin. Yes. Christ
came to set all the Joy bells of earth
ringing round the world up to the gate
of glory.
He would make home life full of Joy.
He would keep the wedding bells
ringing ell through the years. LOOK"
said an angry wife to her husband,
''see Carlo and Kitty asleep on the
rug. wish all wives and husbands
would live as peacefully" Eyes"
was the reply. "but just tie them to-
gether and see how they behave" Oh,
the unhappy marriages of earth. Oh,
the unhappy homes! Jesus came to
throw a perpetual charm over ster-
hood, brotherhood. He came to show
the beauty of mothers love that
overarches the cradle, and the glory of
fatherhood. that sees in his own home
a temple OF liberty. Home with soft
restful beds, its open fire place, the
clock that licked at wedding
frolics, welcomed in the new
babe, kept company with
the nurse at the beside, licked its SO
lemn sound when the baby died. Home
fill it, every Joy bell-the music of
the piano, songs, sweet hymns, the
ballad and the glee; chess, checkers,
reading clubs; gymnastics, true polite
ness. Christ came not to destroy but
fill full.
In social life, he came not to take
away one iota Of real healthful pleas
ure. IL God has planted anything in
US, he has planted the desire for social
life. Let every young man and woman
go into clean, righteous social life. 1t
is a school, q university. Try to get !
into the society OF your superiors. |
Lamb, DIR. johnson had their
groups of friends, and they dined and
and by their intercourse
they fertilized one another's soul.
Jesus had his company of disciples.
Solomon says, ''He that walketh with
The wise, shall be wise" But oh, the
wrong conception of social life-any-
hing that Injuries health, makes one
,hink less of his home life, that makes
one live beyond his means, that sends
'ne to his task the next day with isded
energies, blood-shot eyes, nauseated
stomach, lame backs-this is sinful.
Look, " said n mother at the break
asst table, ''look what l won last night
It the euchre party" And look at
What | won last night, mother, at the
rambling table" said the son. holding
Up fifteen dollars; mother Pambles, son
rambles. oh, the graves in the grass I
iuo " COHSunpsloui puSuiuOult, SUM- | !
cred nerves brought on by carousals. {
;hrist came to exalt, purify social life q
Especially did he come to fill to the l
ull our intellectual life. Emerson
avs, "Give me a book, health, and a
une day, and l will make the pomp of q
,ings ridiculous. Blessed are those c
tho guide by the stars. God, Christ, q
onscience. reason, sin, salvation, duty, 5
haracter. Pity those whose hearts
ever warm TO a book. Pity those
'hose thoughts never rise above their t
eels. | thank God for every reading I
ircle, every club for Intellectual cul- r
lre formed. Such give a good charac- C
er TO community. oh, that our c
Dung people would take heed. A book e
ill spread before you the most gor- g
eous of panoramas-the pyramids OF e
gypt; Greece, with her tempted glory;
stained with blood; the arc
cs the trODic5 maintains and hills Al