Arizona republican., 1899-01-09

truSalem. When the work w S about t.
 begin it was found that the chosen sise
 was much too small and it became nee
 essary to l5vel off the hillside to fur
 nish room for the foundation, but ev5n
 after this was done the site was very
 irregular and the walls in many pla-es
 had to rise from depression. How
 ever, the walls were finally built from
 the foundation up, being deepest where there was the greatest depression, un Il they reached a common level. So
 where sin is deepest and the dsmand
 for Gods gra1e is greatest, there it
 abOunds most abundantly, supplying
 that demand.
 Sin abOunding mars and hurts man;
 sin present is shameful and treacher-
 ous. God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, surrounded them With every luxury and he walked and talked
 with them in that paradisa, but sin en- tered in, drove them from their sp,el- did condition and caused God s visits to
 cease. Sin follows us even more per-
 sistently than shadow, fer the black est night cannot make it disappear.
 and by it's constant aIJOunding presence
 it is a loss. But God sends a cOmpen-
 Sation that far outranks that loss. Had
 it not been' for che sin that drove our
 first parents from Eden we should
 never have heard of Jesus. Had there
 been TO sin there would have bean no Savior; no fall. no redemption, no loss, no compensation. Had there been no fall in Eden we should have no Christ mas and no angel song. While we look at the loss, the shame and the wrong which sin brought, we must remember that through it came the glory of Savior. Grace, because of sin, can make n Iifa mora hp9IJtifIIl and mora Spr- viceable.
 This last thought was beautifully il- lustrated by a poem which tells of little bird that had bsen caught in a snare and crippled in the wing. When the little creature recovered from the injury it found that it could no longer soar aloft as it had formerly done. but it went to warn it's friends in bird language of the snare, and by it's less many others were saved. The sermon was concluded with the singing of the little song by Miss Sargent.
 The regular service was held at ' o'clock and the music was furnisEed by the chorus choir, assisted Icy the quar- tette, which rendered the anthem, 70, | Sing Unto the Lord" During the offer ing MT. Irving Andrews sang the solo, | "One Sweetly, Solemn Thought" The sermon was by the pastor upon the theme, ''Why?"
 CHRISTIAN CHURCH. - At the Christian church yesterday the pastor read aMtt xvi: 1928, ard an- n0unced as his theme, Self Posses sion" On this he said in part: i've i do not mean to use this word in is cocial sense, but in it's legal. So we do i not refer to one who is cCol and col lected in danger, or who keers his wits about him when in the presence Of others, but to that man who has a deed for himself, signed, eXeeuted and dellV- cred by the proper authority. Here m this passage the Master taught the possibility of one losing the title to he may exchange it for something else, barter it away. FF'Or, says he. what shall a man be profite1 if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? Here, then, enc may exchange himself for other things; may throw himself into the marts of trade and become thing of commerce But tke Teacher raises the question cf valua here, and this question is equivalent to asserting that the world is no comPen 5ation to one in exchange for his soul. So then if I should gain deed to the whole world in exchange fer my soul should lose beyond the possibility of But the Master raises an other inquiry: Supposing one to have 1ardered away his soul and becoming sensible of his loss. what would he give in exchange for his s0ul?' The levil, who for ages has b2en buying up tiles in human life, knows the value a nan of sense places on this priceless possession, and when he was in dis ute with Jehovah about the character :, If JCb, said: Skin fer skin, yea, all hat a man hath, will he give for his ife.' And Satan here had inference to obs physical life. But no mater, a nan would do just what the devil said. nd 1 have no doubt that Fred Douglas vas rejoiced beyond expression when iS friends presented him with money nough to buy of his master his own esh But this for the mOrtal-that art which perishes. What, then, would a man give in exchange for his oul? And millions of human beings tand before God today having bartered way this priceless possession. But n his passage I read from Heb. x:34 we ( re assured that Christians are again ut into possession of this title to hat though th5y had suffered the polling of their goods, their earthly eff acts, that they had themselves for a etter possession leave you then z -ith the question, Are you Christian? . lave you, through Christ, a title for our own soul?"
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