El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-20

No picture on the walls but poverty;
The bed was ragged. scanty hard and drear;
A rough made. empty crib was standing near;
The widow" d never felt the suns warm
! [stare, ]
Or brea,hed a breath OF good old-fashioned
(air)'
And next, where the poor man who
| had raised the poor wife child SPEAKS
| at the funeral and says:
| YES, it's solid. Mr.. Preacher, every word
that you have said
God loves children while they're ivinI. and
adopts them when they're dead;
But 1 cannot help contriving. do the very
best can.
| That it wasn't Gods mercy took her, but
the selfishness of man!
WHY! she lay here. faint and gasping.
Moaning for bit Of air.
| Checked and strangled by the foul breath
OF the chimueyS over there.
1t climbed through every window, and crept
under every door,
An l tried TO bar against it, and she only
choked the more.
She would lie there, with the old look
| that Door children sometime have. She
| had learned to use her patience, and
she did not cry or fret, but would lift
her little face up, so piteous and so
fair, and would whisper, II am dying
for a little breath of air." God pity
the child of his, whose home is thus
destitute of the spiritual graces: of the
warm stare of the sun OF Righteousness
of the pictures of heaven, and the
breath of God. But some time his
90 voluntarily into such environment.
This is criminally wrong in the sight
| of God and outs one off from the pos
! sibilities of growth. God has given
many places where his grace overflows
like u great ocs an. Throw yourselves
into these places even if your home be
not one of them, and grow in the grace
that God offers abundantly to all man
kind. Open your windows toward
Jerusalem. Go where God is. Breathe
The air of heaven, 'GrOw in grace"
Third. Solid food is absolutely nee
essary to full growth. Paul calls the
word food, and tells us that when We
are .babes We must ''deslre the milk of
the word that we may grow thereby
But Paul tells u7 that we should come
sometime to that growth that will en-
able us to eat meat" Grow In
knowledge" says one text. There are
Christian d warfs who never get beyond
the milk period. Like baby they
have continually to be petted and fed
On soft food. About the only kind Of
service they enjoy, Is practical meet
ing service, when the excitement runs
nigh; or tnat kin q OF regular service,
where the minister fills his sermon
with we'll chosen pathetic stories that
citable part of our being. Why l have
seen Christians who would
get wonderfully wrought up
in sucn seasons, and then
within month or Two go TO
sleep under u good meat sermon, and
then crlticise the pastor because ne
does not always preach AS gooo ser
mons" as tne revlvallst does, ana as
the pastor does IN revival seasons.
Doesn't that remind you of u oaoy That
COOS when the mother chews Its food
before giving II 10 him and then lights
her when she gives out little Tor MIN
to cnew? Oh, what we need, Is
church membership who Will not only
feast on Inc sentiment and emotion Of
the gospel, as il is neatly arranged
by some goodly minister, but
who will study the deep
facts of the gospel for themselves; who
will call on their pastor for heavier
food; who will lake the word, search
out, not simply its central doctrine, but
it's doctrines: who will mediate on It's
law day and night, and who will walk
in statutes day by day, that they may
grow thereby.
Fourth. 1t must not be forgotten
that exercise is necessary to full
peptics in the church, people who are
constantly seeking OUT the hidden mys-
teries of the woro aud complaining be-
cause they cannot understand all OF
Gou's ways, but never exercising them
selves enough in prayer and service to
rightly appropriate that they have
learned IN the word. Such, the
Hebrew writer calls ''unskillful in
the world of righteousness" adding
this. Strong meat belongeth to them
that are of full age, even those who by
re .sonof use have their senses:exerclsed
to discern both good and evil" No
athlete can grow to full measurment by
simply learning thestactics of the gym
naslum and principles of developments;
he must put them into practice. So
the bible student must exercise himself
in grace and knowledge of the scrip
ture, if ne would attain the best results.
Be a worker. Do something for God.
Fifth. Behind all successful human
growth there must be will. Even in
human affairs, what is there that We
cam OF accomplish if there is deter
mined will behind it? impossible,
said Napoleon, sis a WORD found only
in the vocabulary of FOOLS And some
one has said of him, HE would have