Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
THE BICYCLE STORE,
 TEMPE, ARIZONA.
SOUTH SIDE.
TEMPE.

TEMPE.
 The Good Templars Saturday night
 made final arrangements for the next
 Maricopa district lodge. At o'clock
 Saturday afternoon the four lodges of
 the county will meet in joint session.
 A large attendance is expected.
 The Bicycle Store received Saturday
 a large consignment of base ball. lawn
 tennis and bicycle sundries. Anything
 in the way of new parts for wheels can
 be found on their shelves, and the re-
 pair man can make broken parts as
 good as new. Gas lanterns, tires, rims,
 seats, pumps, luggage carriers and
 everything else that go to make a bi-
 cycle store, can be found at the Bicycle
 Store at bedrock prices.
 Rev. W. c. Whitaker preached in
 the Baptist church last night from the text: For we have not followed cum ningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and com ing of our Lord. Jesus Christ the first part of Second Peter, 1:16. MT. Whitaker said that the underlying thought in this statement is that the truth might be challenged, for cum ningly devised Christianity is often taught now in this nineteenth century to be imaginary, to be fable. He gave five evidences to the contrary, evidences that go to prove the truthful ness of revealed religion. They are first: the evidence of personal eXperi- l ence; cunningly devised fables could not awaken experience in the hearts of Christians; personal experience al | ways proves the truth of revealed re- l ligion. Second, the evidence establish | ed by the manifest power of God in | the conversion of men, Third. the | of 11n osaf1J 1s,1 manifested in connection with Chris | tian missions, the power of God is be- | hind them. Fourth, the evidence of the perseverance of the saints, Simon Peter, Paul and the other apostles | were still Christians iii their old age, | after all the fearful trials they had been through and modern Christians, too are better in their old age than in their youth. Fifth, the evidence of the triumphant death of Christians. The utll1ty and strength of a chain is de termined by the way it stands the greatest test The death hour is the greatest test as to whether or not Christians here followed a cunningly devised fable. MT. Whitaker applied the sermon to Christians in this way: if revealed religion is true, let them rest solidly on the unchangeable truth of the old. old story. He applied it to those who are not Christians by the statement that in rejecting revealed religion, they are not turning their backs on cunningly devised fable, but on the truth.
 MESA.
 Harry Thompson met with a painful accident yesterday morning. He was riding up the street at a good pace when the handle bars of his wheel turned and he fell, striking on his right hand. The palm was consider ' ably lacerated and will make it in 1 convenient for him to work for some time. i
 Those registered at the Kimball house are s. c. Wynkoop, Mrs. W. N. Chapman, Phoenix.
 Those registered at the Alhambra are J. J. Murnir, John Dorsey, John Brown, Charles Durine, A. Honenberg, c. Felix, Phoenix; J. D. Thomas, Florence; Ed Morgan, E. P Grover Mesa.
 Rev c. J. Banks preached yesterday morning in the Baptist church at Il Y o'clock, from the text, John 10:3. He f said in part: The expression lifted f up" as it is used here, means crucified. i The shadow of the cross fell across the path of Christ through all his life. We cannot tell in his life how early he knew of his divinity and of his death on the crCss But we do know that at twelve he realized his high calling It was then. when his father and moth CT sought him with agonizing fear and finally found him in the temple. that he told them, T must be about my Fathers business" He often spoke of his coming death during his later years while engaged in his ministry He knew he was under the shadow of the cross.
 And when he hung from the cross, were the nails in his hands and in his feet all that held him suspended there? It would have been easy for him to : wrench himself loose, but his love for ! man held him there and mans redemp- ton could come about only by his dy- ing thus. It was the cOnsJraint of love that kept him from coming down. He understood humanity, too. for he knew that the cross would appeal to men, would draw them to him in ages to come. He was both human and divine He often called himself the Son of Man, and the Son of God. He was hu- man, because he died as a man. and what he did for men proves his divin- ty.
 The joy set before Christ sustained Jim and kept him all his life. There vas joy for him in the thought that 1y his cruciiction he was winning a victory over the enemy of God and of nen, that the seed of the woman was cruising the serpent's head. Joy came st o him, too, through the thought of = he blood-washed throng that would be