El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-06
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
..seeing Things Out of Proportion

kew, IL. w. MCOre, ptsIOT VI INC
Presbyterian church, preached Sunday
morning from the text: ''And he look
ed up and said, sec men as trees walk
ing."-Mark 8: "a. The subject was,
''seeing things out of proportion"
Part of the sermon is given here.
A hobby-rider is always narrow. pet
ty and oue-sided. Hobby-riding
in b pulpit or in liter
ature or in medicine or anywhere
Is inexcusable. The sweetest sound
that falls upon the ear OF any one bored
by a hoboy-rider is when the door
shuts on him. Many people have a
~tendencyito exaggerate one thing to the
utter exclusion of everything else.
Some people IA hold but one idea at u
time aud they often push that one vio-
lently to the front aud thereby disgust
a we'll balanced mind. The h~obby-rid-
err is an insufferable bore. Some
doctors, lawyers, business men, preach
ers get so narrow as to think there Is
nothing worth attending to outside OF
their w profession. Some men are
like a pen knife with ten blades. Ihey
use but one blade, one part OF tnelr
nature, and all the other blades grow
rusty and useless. HOW many uismtss
entirely from their minds God, the
church, death, eternity, the white
throne. Distorted visions! Seeln g
things out OF proportion!
Many people have this distorted
mental vision. They have no sense of
harmony. One idea is as big as a tree
and all other things are as nothing.
Ill balanced minds. Seeing things
out of proportion. Just here lies the
trouble with Christian scientists, leo
called,0 faith c~urists, divine healers,
etc. Their cult is as big as mountains:
trees, and other Things equally I'm
portant are &c them rs nothing. or
course this Is a sign OF n defective in
t~ellect. Hareld Frederic, the author
aud newspaper correspondent, when
almost mentally deranged dismissed
the doctors and submitted TO the treat
ment of a Christian scientist. or
course he died The woman, a Mrs.
Mills, was arrested for manslaughter.
Before the coroner's jury she testified
that she did not make b human body
a study, knew nothing OF medicine or
disease, and did not want to know any
thing about them. b denied toe
reality OF matter, and the use OF med
icine. What do you think OF that for
a religion or q philosophy or common
sense in this nineteenth century? See
this mental perversion. According to
this cult-away with medicine, doc
tors, nurses, all laboratories, the blow
pipe, the microscope, stithescope, tel
escope, shovels, picksxes. Aristotle,
Bacon. Pasteur, Koch, Jenuer have
done the world no good say they, Do
you see the mental unbalsnce? OF
course mind Influences matter. Let US
confess the good OF faith-in our Heav-
emily Father, the resting 10 his arms.
But dear, ,oh dear, don't let US call
everything else q fraud and a delusion.
Faith curel OF course pray but pray
with the poultice on, with the doctor
at the bedside, and the nurse in the
room. Such as these so mentally
Unbalanced see things out OF proper
ton. Men as trees walking!
See again this seeing thisgs out OF
proportion. A man says hat going to
church is all of Christianity. Christ
says, Christianity includes repentance,
baptism, sitting at the Lords table,
living u holy life, helping to support
the church. All this Is included In
Christianity. How many give nothing
to church support; neglect to have
their children baptised. They exalt
one duty and think all duty is done.
Here Is a woman who hits from ball
room to reception room, receptions to
theatres and from theatres to suppers.
She exslts one side of life. No church.
no Sunday, no prayer, no helping God
in saving the world in her life. She
sees meu as trees walking. Pleasure
to her ais a. big rs a tree. The other
great duties of life are pin heads. A
young woman living such q life
was on her death bed. She
asked her mother to bring into
dresses and diamonds. These.
mother, have ruined my soul and now
1 am dying 1 have lived but for one
thing" What awful words to sound
live the one-sided life-for money, for
gain. No God In their life. no church,
no Christ. Oh what poor mental and
spiritual sights such have. The mag
Nifty the one side OF life at the expense
OF all expense-evsn the soul. A
man once walked down the street
wildly j~esticulating until he struck a
man on the nose. The mau knocked
him into the gutter. ."Well," said the
fellow, ''why did you strike me? Is
lot this the land OF liberty?' "Yes,"
said the other man, but your liberty
ends where the end OF my nose begins"
So 1 say a mans liberty ends where his
neighbor's good begins. You liberty
to stay away from Gods house, to dis
respect the Sabbath; your liberty to
exalt a thing at the expense of your
children, your community, your God.
So in our criefs and the p~rovidences
OF life We are tempted to say, "Oh,
no Que has ever had as hard a life as L
have had" The very next hour some
n says, II do not wish my worst enc
my to have to go through what L have
gone through" We exalt our own
troubles over much. That man sitting
next to you, or that woman has had
trouble too. All true lives have
had to pass through tolls and
tears. This is the way God works.
Scientific thought, all literary success,
have had to travel along pathways of
blood. Good government has sprung
from battle fields black with blood.
of the suffering behind
our federal constitution! The