El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-20
PRESBYTERIAN Church.


Yesterday morning the pastor, Rev
81. w. Moore, preached his last sermf n
before taking his vacation Being q
communion service the pastor talked
on Communion Thoughts" He said
in part:
We come today to reconsecrate to
Jesus Christ. How our thoughts so
backward this morning to the time
when we first sat at the table of the
Lord. You may have been led there
by the prayers of some father or moth
err, or friends who pleaded for your.
salvation. How we think today of
ones now beyond the flood once sat
with us at the Lord q table. We missed
them as we got ready to come to church
this morning. We missed them by the
way. We miss them as we sit here
this morning. Yes, they are in Heaven
with Jesus this morning at the better
feast of communion. Napoleon once
said, the happiest day of his life was
when he took his first communion. Let
our thoughts be something like these
this morning: 81 was without hope.
helpless, estranged from God. Christ
loved me, stopped to help me, died for
me. This morning the story of His
love and death is repeated before me
in vivid symbols. This Is my body
broken for you. This is my blood shed
for you"
Let us also look forward this morn
ing. There is omething more for
every Christian than Earth. There is
something more than morals in follow
are yet to come. Tired and troubled
and sick here, but not There. Mystery
here, but not There. God has made US
homesick for heaven. Yes, Christian
friends, your3ears shall hear one day
the heavenly music. Your eyes shall
see the king in his beauty, your feet
sh all press the fields of the beautiful
land. Your hands shall clasp once
more the dear ones you long since have
unclssped.
Let us also look inward today. Let
US ask ourselves the question: Am 1
growing in the divine life? Am 1 sue
cessfully resisting worldlinees? Am
laying up treasures in heaven? 1 beg
of you to study the life of Christ. Let
the standard of action be: Would
Jesus do this. You cannot spend five
minutes day studying Christ without
being changed gradually into His i'm
age. You remember the dying girl
when asked the secret of her beautiful
life lifted locket from her neck. When
it was opened her friends read these
words written there ''Whom having
not seen 1 love-" Charles Wesley used
to repeat every evening these words:
Soul. what hast thou cleaned today,
What hast thou rig htIy said or done,
What grace attained, What knowledge wop
In following after God?'
Then let your thoughts go outward
Remember Christ not only died for
in our homes who are not Christians.
Christ saved US that we might save
others. To whom have you spoken of
Jesus? How many of our dear ones
who ought to sit at this table today but
do not. May be your wife, husband,
mother, father, child. Why are thev
not here? Have you spoken to them?
Have you lived In such way as to
make Christianity beautiful and help
full to them? Dear friends, let US rob
this communion of mystery. This
wine and bread will save no one. It
reminds us of Jesus Christ who died for
us. This is a time to reconsecrate
ourselves. But let US remem-
Der if we come today in faith,
come filed with the thought "Sfmply
to thy cross l cling" come feeling
our helplessness aud Christ's power we
shall rise from these seats cOmforted
and strengthened anew for tomorrow
temptations, trials, joys: "This do in
said to his men in certain regiment,
81 want one hundred men to lead q for
lorn hope. Everyone will likely be
killed! Forward! How many men
will die for the emperor" And not
only hundred but thousand spranR
forward and rang their muskets at his
feet. God asks us not to die for him
but to live for him. Jesus Christ calls
us not to forlorn hope but to certain
victory. Thus looking backward, for
ward, inward, outward, let us come to
the table, the most blessed meeting
place between the disciple and his
Lord.
The following united with the Pres
byterian church yesterday by certi6-
cate from other churches:
Mira. Nellye Bell Coles from the First
Montgomery, Alabama;
Mrs. Maud Talbot from the First
Methodist Episcopal church; Mr.. Frank
h. Seamon from the First Presbyte-
riau church of Wheeling. West Vir-