El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-24
A CHRISTMAS SERMON
Delivered At the First Presbyterian Church
Yesterday Morning By the Rev.
Henry w. Moore.

the deSpotiSm of kings and queens,
God uncovered America and just at the
proper time. Had America been dis
covered before despotism might have
reared a government here, but being
discovered just when Holland. France,
England, and Scotland were fighting
for free government, just then the Pur-
itans sailed h..Ler and began the build
ing of free institutions.
And SO Christ came into the world
just at the right time. In the fullness
of time God sent forth his Son" When
he came a profound night had settled
down over the world. Infidelity and
skepticism were seated on the throne,
vice and immortality in awful form
held such sway that virtue was scarce
ly widely known. The world was go
ing down, down. Men had lost faith in
if there is god let him show himself,
let his come out of the clouds" Just
then Christ came. God let men first
see that the other religions were pow
erless to stay the downward march.
Men at last saw that the beautiful phil
osophy of Anistoutle and Plato did not
satisfy mems souls. Just then Jesus
came and answered the souls question.
Then just at that time the whole
world lay in a profound peace. The
most awful wars of history had just
been finished. Christ came preaching
peace and good will. The Greek Ian
guage, then the language of the world,
had been scattered by Alexander's con-
quests so that everything was ripe for
teaching the subject all over the then
known world. Just then Christ was
born. The whole Jewish world too was
then expecting a Messiah. Jesus came
and taught the world the answer to
these problems of the soul. What can
take away sin? What comes after
death? What is God? How can live
holy life? Christ settled questions the
giant intellects could not solve and
the world from the first Christmas
morning has been looking up, up to
God! Men said everywhere, here is a
GLORY to God in the highest, peace
on earth and good will to men," Oh,
| the heritage you and 1 enjoy. We live
not in the twilight of the worlds his
tory but in the blushing morning OIL the
Goth century.
I'VE are living. we are dwelling in
grand and awful time.
In an age on ages telling. to be living
is sublime
In all our Christmas festivities let
us not miss the real significance of
Christmas. Let us not forget that after
all our gifts and joys we own the
Christmas joys to Christ who was born
saviour of the world. In all our love
and affections there is no love like
the love of God in Christ, in the sweet
sense of pardon that comes to the soul
Thanks be unto God for his unspeak-
able gift" There is a story that comes
down from the civil war. A boy ran
away from home and enlisted in the
army. He was a hayward boy who
had broke his mothers heart and made
her pillow a restless one. She heard
one day he had been wounded at Will
iamsburgh. She at once set out to see
him, If possible before he died. She
tried to pass the lines but could not
She went to the president at Washing
ton and finally got a permit She
reached the hospital but they said: You
cannot see your boy. he is SO sick that
the excitement would kill him." She
begged to sit outside the room and
just see him once, for she said: HE is
myboy-wayward as he has been" The
mother then said. Just let me go in and
sit by his side and hold his hand, 1
won't speak a word, not word, 1 Just
want to hold his hand. Finally she was
permitted. But the minute she took
hold of his hand the boy looked up and
said: THAT feels SO much like my
mothers hand Mother is it you?"There
is no touch like like a mothers touch.
and no earthly love like hers, but af-
ter all Gods love is even greater than
mothers love. a mother may forsake
but Christ never will. This is the real
"a Saviour has been born" Thanks
be unto God for His unspeakable gifti"
"a Saviour has been born" have read
that in sounding the ocean depths
there are some places where they can
not reach the bottom They will let
down the line 1000 fathom and still the
lead will swing clear. and they will
let the line out 1000 fathom and 5000