El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-13
Ell PAso DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899.

sees that life is not all this side of the
stars. Maybe his mother had die or
his sfather, or by come transaction
he grew sick of the worlds offers. Any
how he was possessed with q great idea
that thrilled him to his very being. Oh
these soul awakeaings in the young.
The young man aimed high. He had
reached the conclusion that true life
does not consist in position, wealth, or
outward morality. Here is a young
man who aimed at nothing less than
eternal life. Cob bless those who are
not content with being nobodies. Here
is one who not only wants to appear
good but be good. Young men,, have
high ideals. If you are a clerk, be the
best in the world. Ii you
are q lawyer, take no mans dust. Ex-
Gel! Excel! Read the best books. Do
not talk with common authors. Live
with the immortals. Cultiva e the
friendship of refined cultivated people,
Here was a young man who had seen
SO many gray heads, dying beds, mat
tOcks, shrouds, that he knew he must
be carried to the tomb. So he wanted
eternal life.
The scripture tells us Jesus loved
him. All, there is something grand
and thrillingly attractive about young
men and women, with all their hopes
aud ambitions. This young man was
so earnest. so thoughtful on such q
high subject. Oh, the possibilities of
life! Blessed are the young men enter
ing on life today. That very babe in
your home might one day be president
of the United States-Pierce was a
cobbler and Lincoln a wood chopper.
taking my hat off to every boy [ meet
on the streets: for we know not what
possibilities are buttoned up under
their coats" No wonder Jesus loved
him. He knew the heights to which a
human life a climb, and the depths
into which it can fall.
Young men, hear this word: every
thing hat is worth anything costs.
Even eternal life cannot be gotten
without you give up something. No
one can go to Heaven In a palace car
and sleep on a bed of eiderdown. The
Christian life is q struggle. To win
the crown you must make a fight.
charge" lis false! No one leaps
into success, be crawls. To win eternal
life you may have to stop that
gambling, that worship Of gold, you
must throw away your selfrlg
ness. You must trust in Christ. You
may be moral, but that is not enough.
This young man was moral, q ruler in
the synagogue, but he lacked, alb, lack,
ed the OHe INSTRUMENTATION OF self
-complete loyalty to Jesus. Christ
calls for your supreme affection.
Young men, for more han two years
l have talked to you face to face from
this pulpit. 1 have preached the love
of God, the power of God, the tender
ness of Christ. 1 have preached to
your affections, your manllness, your
Intellect. have talked as an embas-
sador Of Christ, in the name
of your parents dead or
living. Very respectful have you been
to every appeal. Many OF you have
heard me preach more than a hundred
sermons. It has occurred to me to ask
you tonight, what does it mean? Why
do you o yield to Christ? pray God
you are not growing gospel hardened.
Many of you hevc told me: YES,
I should become q Christian.
know it is my duty" Yet, you lack
moral courage-you lack manhood to
confess Christ before men. If you can
not do this do not come into the
church. If you will confess Christ and
make him first in your plans n affec-
tions o begin a glorious life.
Then 1 ask you: Is it not time to say,
Lord 1 am thine. Young
men. I feel deeply tonight on this
question and 1 beg you to think on
what 1 have said. A dying school
teacher in q delirium thinking he was
In his class room teaching his pupils
rose up in his bed ard said: "Have
you solved the last problem, boys, have
you solved the last problem, boys?'
Young man, young woman have your
the problem of Eternal Life?