El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11

to us all. w men Jesus CuOSo LIE VI
cipIes he asked but one question, Twill
YOU be willing to die for me?" Moth
ing in history is more pathetic than
the devotion of these twelve men
Ideas alone do not rule b world.
Ideas, unless incarnated In some holy
man or woman are powerless. Sister
Dora, the faithful nurse, kept q bell at
the head of her bed, and whenever 1t
rang at night or day, whether rested
or tired, she said in its ringing she
heard her master say: "Sister Dora,
the master ia come and calling for
thee" Here is the dynamic of chris
tisnity.
My friend, the church must be diff
ferent from the world. Unless it has
in it men and women whose hearts
God hath touched, 1t cannot be q
church of power. When Mrs. Booth,
in Paris, after delivering her first ser
mon to hayward girls, she saw a poor,
sin-stained woman sitting on the back
seat alone. She walked up to her and
said: 81 love you and want to make
you good" This broke the woman's
heart and she said, "Not since mother
kissed me years ago, has anyone g
SO kind" No wonder she was led
pepitently to Christ: Here is a God
touched woman. And when Mrs.
Booth died half of London went to her
ourlai. When frdncls WlllHro was
~favorite hymn." Miss Gordon sang:
"Gently, Lord, Oh Gently Lead" When
she got to the pronoun 81" Miss VIII
lard said, mo. Annie Dear, Chris
tiauity is not 'I' but "we,'; 1t is
sour father" Give US q church of
heaven touched souls then comes
power. A band of men whose heart
God hath touched. Yes, the church
must be different from the world.
Dear friends, eighteen years ago God
planted this church in Ell Paso. Like
our sister churches we have had our
share of adversely and prosperity. At
your bidding, three years ago 1 came
here as your pastor. I cannot tell you
the Joy L have had in preaching to you
the sweet, tender gospel of the son of
God. Never has any pastor had a
kinder people. In this church your
little darlings have been baptized:
you have taken here the VOWS Of dis
cipleship; here lave rung out wedding
bells; here have we sent our hopes, u
of song and 'prayer. We love the old
stone building now beautifully re-
This church has had her
body-Ruard-most of you have been rs
true as steel. Your sympathy and
has ibeen my meat and
drink. ANY man can work If he has
the affection of his people. Faults I
no doubt have as preacher and pastor,
but amid them all your patient love
these three years 1 owe to the amazing
goodness of God and your loyal coopera-
ton. As to the message the pulpit
has brought to you week by week, I
can say but this: That it has been
true to Gods book, true to the cross
and preached in full light Of the judge
ment throne. AS to my work outside
OF the pulpit, l can say I have done all
I could do and live.
1 owe much to my choir. True and
devoted to the church have you been.
I know you have sung hope, strength
and victory into the hearts of sad, des-
pairing, sinful men and women. You
have not heard, perhaps, q I have
heard, how your songs have opened up
the fountains of tears, Quickened con-
sciences, flung back heavens gates. I
from week to week, think of the tired
fathers and mothers-sad sinsicK, brok-
enhearted men and women who come
here for you to sing comfort and peace
and triumph into their poor souls.
A friend wrote me a week or two ago
these words: "May the glory of your
house be greater than the first"
God grant it. May it, like the old
be a refuge for the storm
tossed. May this be a place where the
mother, when the baby dies, will come
church's influence any young man has
been snstched from the lions paw or
any young womsn has been made to
live the true daughterhood In God, we
thank God. Here shall be preached a
poor mans Christ, an overworked
Christ and artisans Christ, an
every mans Christ. And long after
the lips that now address you have
to dust, may the pure, tender
ring out here.
Let US keep Eternity in full view
Let us then go on in our labors here
hand in hand wit Christ. We may be
closer to eternity than we
think. Some of our own, since last we
here have gone into Gods
,alm, sweet eternity. They have gone
ust a little ahead of US even this earth
hall one day pass away as q painted
cloud. My friends I have but one
prayer this morning: That God may
Five me to go with me in the Masters
work here, a band of men and women
whose hearts God hath touched"
The church of God of Anderson, Ind,
|. peculiar religious order in many re-
has adopted q new and rather
lovel method of strengthening their
churches in Indiana at this and other
points. It is a species of colonization.
The church organizations have option
ID sections near their churches, have
them and are insisting on the
members who have no homes of thoir
purchasing these lands aud erect
their own places. The church IT,
stands sponsor for sthem and ar
'anges easy payments. By getting |
owners around their chnrch they
to secure stability which can be
in no other manner. The