Arizona republican., 1898-02-21
The South Side

Tempe, Ariz. Feb. 2O.-(Spec;al Correspondence of The Republican.)- K. M. Drais of the Florence hotel came in this morning and went to Phoenix on this mornings train from Mesa.
 B. A Packard of Cochise county was on the train from Maricopa this morning.
 Baylor Sherman, Silver City, N. M., and H. L. Demiston, Kenton, O.. are registered at the Tempe house.
 Leila Hicks is still improving.
 Jose Spirosa and his nephew of Florence went through here yester- day on their way to Phoenix.
 MT. Buchanan of the Desert wells was in town yesterday to get lumber for a fence which he will put around his house yard which he is fixing up, the planting of a number of trees be- ing among the Improvements. In re- gard to the controversy with Spain he says if Spain blew up the Maine, old as he is, he would crawl on his hands and knees to New York to get on board a man-of-war.
 There will be about twenty cars of cattle and other stock out of here this week.
 Rev. S. L. Guthrie is spading up ground between his church and par sonage for flower bed. He will close in this space between the two build ings to keep the sentimenta1ly in clined young people of his congrega- tion from plucking the blos- soms But to put some of his genial disposition in the ground is not the only reason of these opera tions on his part. He will plant the bed to roses and sit out there in the afternoons to keep cool. He made some remark about sleeping out there in the summer, so it is inferred that he intends to sleep on bed of roses during the warm weather.
 The Hesperians of the normal held a meeting last Friday evening and very interesting programme was well rendered. The subject, Resolved, That Whittier Rather Than Longfe1- low, Expressed Sentiments Emitting Him to Be Called The Poet of Amer ica,'" was debated. Those on the affirmative were Miss Hartsfeld, Miss Hayden and MT. Stelzreide. The nega- tive was defended by Mis- Hafford Miss Webb and MT. Powers. At the business meeting, Harry Archibald re- signed as sergeant -at-arms, and P. H. I Ozanne was elected to fill his place. The superintendent of missions of the M. B. church will be in Tempe on the 1st and 4th of March.
 What Must I Do to Be Saved?" was the text Rev. s. L. Guthrie preached from today. He said that to be saved did not mean merely to get away from he'll but it was deliverance from @ power greater than ourselves which caused us to be sinful. There was only one thing to be saved from and that one thing was spelled by four letters, hiss! That one thing had come on down through the ages singeing and blistering humanity as nothing else has done The Chris tian doctrine offers the greatest lib- erty of mind and most freedom for be- | lief Christ does not blame any one for not believing His assertions, be- cause there are so many false Christs. i What He does blame us for is not be- lieving what He does. As an evi- dence of proof that Christ was on garth the speaker said that every church spire was a guarantee that ! Christ lived. We had no more history showing that Caesar lived than that Christ lived, "yet," asked the speaker Caesars empire! Where is it? Christ's empire. Where is it?' Though they both lived about the same time, the smoldering ruins of the em- pire of one had died away centuries ago, but the glorious grandeur of the