El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-24
The Life of Victory.

Rev. q. w. Moore, of the Presbyter-
ian church, preached last nj ht from
the t. xt, This is the victory that over
comes the world, even your faith" 1
John VA.
To many people faith means nothing
it is the strongest power in the
world. TIE way to overcome evil is by
faith; the way to enter heaven is by
faith. Some OLe has SD id the only ship
that sails from here to heaven ia faith.
H. is the cement of good soc. al
order. The lack OF faith is the cause
OF all our financial panics. Colum bus
discovered Am rica by faith; the Pill
grim Fathers sailed hither by faith;
Calico, Kepler, Tarrady, did their
the reformers Luther, Wicliffe, Knox.
The coz sscrated blood of yesteI days
men of faith i. seen in the civilization
of today. The first threads of every
flag of Liberty were woven by men of
fai b. "Without faith it is impossible
TO please GOd.' Jesus begged men to
nave faith in God. This is the vicio-
ry that overcomes tbs world even your
faith"
Faith, what is it? 1t is very simple
Always and everywhere IL is confidence
in the invisible. SIT Isl" as Matthew
Arnold says, ''holding on to the un-
sen" l nave faith in your honesty
and love, but l cannot zee honesty or
love. 1 cannot measure it with a yard
stick or weigh it in scales; what have
faith IN is invisible. Let business men
lose faith in the government. or hus-
bands and wives lose faith in each
other, and what disastrous results.
Cultivate the friendship of some lovely
CHARACTER here on earth and you will
lind a new life mounting within you
overcoming the old life. Now trans
fer that faith and confideace to God, to
Jesus the Saviour and see q might!er
transforms ton. Shift tn, centre of
your life from the seen to tue unseen
aud you become a believer. Why do
men fall and lie prOstrate under sin?
Because they live not at an high alti
tude. They do not "eudure as seeing
him who is invieible.' They build too
close to the ground. No one VINO does
rot i've in the invisible realm, who DOES
not lay hold on the uGseen can over
come his lower nature.
call you to yours elves.tonight. L
hold cut to you the life of victory. In
i reforms it has been OmnipOtent. In
service to others fai h has ste red the
way. In the sickene sses of life when
boz es ache, breathing is painful, mouth
is feverparch h. d, faith sings it's song of
| hope and courage. "Good-by" said q
sick man to me once. II said 1 VIII be
away only a week. eyes, said he
| ''but | sb all be in heaven when you re-
| turn and there | shall Sc my dear
ones.' When | returned he had gone to
| the heavenly homeste. d among the
b avenly t~eetops. This is the victory
that overcomes the world, even your
faith. In lifes, SORROWS, faith gives
victory. When the re is silence in the
hallway silence at the piano, no more
warm gOodmorning kiss it sits and
sings in undertone, SIT is better fur
tber on.' Oh the cries of widowhocd
and orpbanage! Here again faith
opens the old book and reads the
promises, and angel voices sing all
down the sky-''not dead but alive
forevermore." Faith simple faith in
Jesus as Saviour has saved millions
and Ope ned to them new life Of vic DRY
here and brought heaven at last, This
is the vict ry that overcomes, amazes,
dumfounos the world even your faith. -
L call you to this life of faith. By it
there is no sin you canno, overcome,
no evil habit you cannot break. Let
any soul get homesick for God and God
is homesick for that sOnl. Come, come
IL may cost struggle but it will give
you victory over sin here aud heaven
at last.