El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-01
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The Changes of Life and. Their Com
forts in God.

Rev. h. w. Moore of the Presby-
terrain church preached yesterday
morning from the words: ''Oh, that /
had the wings of a dovel for then
would I fly away and be at rest" Ps.
$50. His theme was 1.-THE hanges of
life and their comforts in God" Be-
low is given an abstract of the dis
course:
No one lives long in this life without
having somes such cry as That. Many
q time have men AMI women. sOrely
tried, sat down ''amid the maddening
maze of things ana cried out: ''Oh
that could fly away and be at rest. y
To evero one who olives even a short
life, at sometime life passes before
him in panorama-ight and
shadows, laughter and tears, comedy
and tragedy, baby cries and sick
groans, and then-death. The world IS
heart crys ten thousand times has been,
when tossed by storm and flood,
''Oh, that L could fly through the hsm-
ing gates of the sunset and be at rest
in heaven. Oh, that l might peaceful
ly and quietly pass on to where doubt,
defeat, pain and death are un-
KNOWN
This is how David came to cry these
words: His heart ached and bled. The
changes in his life were so sudden and
severe that his human nature sank.
Absalom, his truant son, was driving
him from the throne. His trusted
counsellor, Ahitophel, had proved
traitor. David had TO fee for his life
and then he cried out: ''Oh that L
could fly away and be at rest"
Alb, how full of changes is life!
What an hour it would be if every one
here would tell out this morning his
bitter life experiences. One of the first
changes n life is when we leave home
for the first time. Going away to
school or going away to work. This
thing Of .esving the old homestead is
heart breaking experience. You re-
member how you tried to keep the
tears out Of your eyes and show q
smiling face for the sake of those whom
q bend in the road how you did cry.
Marriage is another change in life.
1t is very mysterious how two souls on
short acquaintance will cling thus to
one another, that even home and moth
err and father cannot separate. Take
it all in all, 1t is the greatest event in
ones life. This changing ones home
is no light trial. This leaving COM
munity where you have lived for years,
leaving dear lifelong friends, the old
church, social and intellectual advant-
ages, to go elsewhere to make new
friends is no light trial. Row many in
this audience this morning have done
that. How often have you tho't of the
dear home faces. the old home customs,
You would give much to sit by the
window in the old armchair, or sleep
one more night in the dear old bedroom
full of forget-me .nots. Another change
is when death enters the home for the
first time. Only those who have pas
sed through this know what it means.
The sky, the trees, the street all look
different. This waiting for the pratt
ting voice, now stilled, this longing to
hold to your breast the golden head.
Then failure--pusiness, loss of health
that makes you travel across twenty
states to prolong life. No light trial!
No light trial!
Job felt the sting of all this when he
cried out: "Oh, that thou wouldst
be past" David passed the heart-cry |
on s'Oh, that 1 had the wings of above, |
then would 1 fly away and be at rest"
Paul felt il when he had "desire to |
depart and be with Christ which is far |
BETTER"
Yet, what would life be without |
changes! How insipid would it be. |
How proud and independent men get.
Say-you have never had your way nor |
I mine. We do not travel far till we
find out that. We plan, God unplans;
we propose. God disposes: Here we
have to trust or despair. You are run
into stone wall. We begin to know
what God means by saying, "Lean not
to thine own Understandings and we
begin to cry out: "Teach me thy
ways, Oh Lord, and show me thy
paths"
People sometimes say to me after a
Wedding, ''That was frivolous.