Arizona republican., 1899-06-18

that his laws are good, and in their obedience there is happiness, and the sentiment of mankind for obedience is increasing with mans intelligence. Of cruelty there is much that remains
 of mans selfshness there is in the
 world an infinite amount, of evil de-
 sire and propensity there is an abur-
 dance, but steadily the race goes up
 ward into sweeter, holier life, and the
 wrath of man still praises him.
 This is a lad world for those who
 persistently refuse to obey laws
 whether Of nature or of the moral life.
 It is bad world fer the indolent. for
 the man that wastes his youth and his
 manhood; and in the time when the
 mind is plastic, stores 1t not with
 knowledge, and trains it not for serv-
 ice. The world is built on the plan Of industry. Every atom of matter is ae
 wcrks Every living thing is busy. The
 indolent man is, according to natures
 laws, as good as dead, and nature pro-
 ceeds to take to pieces the thing that
 Is dead. Just as soon as tree dies, .
 thousand agencies swarm upon it to
 pull it limb from limb and fiber from
 fiber, and make it over into something
 else. Material of any kind is 50 scarce
 in nature that not on atom can be left
 to be idle a single moment So in hu-
 man life: the world is bad word for
 the indolent, either physically or spir-
 itually considered.
 This is also a bad world for the
 stubborn and wilful. Neither in na- ture nor in human life is the person
 who is obstinately bind and deaf to law treated with consideration. This busy world cannot wait long for a man to make up his mind to surrender his
 will and obey the law The great wheels of God move ever the mulish and obstinate. Neither God. in the moral life, nor Nature, which is an other name for God, in the physical, have much time to waste in persuad- ing us to do right and obey crders. The command of duty comes ringing down the line, and we must step out at once. There is military precision in nature and in the moral world. The government of Gcd cannot wait upon cur caprice and fancy, and if we do not move, gigantic forces will move over us. It seems almost cruel sometimes that because we do not obey the voice of conscience instantly, we suffer for it. But this is a great universe, with OtlS1u5SO On udUu, G11Q IL CdnnOS wait. It is lightning express that cannot be held while you decide whether to pay your fare or not; tha. will net stop to pick up your hat that has blown off while you stood on the platform. II is too bad that you must go hatless, but the express cannot re- gard your accidents. Fer the careless md the thoughtless, and those who want plenty of time to make up their moral decisions, this is rather a bad world.
 It is bad world for the selfish. It vas not made upon the principle Of ndividuaiism, but on the principle of he greatest good for the whole Run across that principle and expect Gods avs to make all exception of ycu, and Tou suffer.
 God has a whole world on his lands, and he cannot turn out of the Tay to feed you and me with a spoon when we are able to take care of our elves. He has no time to coddle us. t's bad world for those who desire | Q be petted and made vain by praise | for the selfish, the enyious, the ava | icious.
 And it ought to be. It would not be | fod's world if it was an accommoda- | ion train to wait for the lazy and the | and idle, the careless and | hiftless, CT if it made the lot of the ain and the selfish easy and happy | he world, as it is, is constructed on usiness principles. And it must re- istlessly move to accomplish it's ends 10 reasonable man would want to ave it otherwise. No world could eX- j. except on the basis Of prompt and elentless obedience to law, both. in he natural and the moral realm.
 But this is a good world for the mor- fly earnest man. It works for and -ith such man. It gives such man ae best possible discip.ine-the disci- line of hardship, the discipline of pa ence, the discipline of endurance. or man bent on finding Gods law d obeying it, there never was a bet sr discipline conceived or imagined. lends itself to such man , make him great and good. It gives i'm a worthy work to do, and it gives i'm work that taxes his powers and -imulates his abilities to the utmost or DeWeys and Kitcheners it's not a ad world.
 An, but, you say these men are the about the millions lat make a failure? To that 1 would lswer. that to a man Of moral earn ;tness there is no such thing as fail re. He may die before the shouts are card, and he may be forgotten, but ) matter how humble man may be,
 he has graPpled with his duty, what Ter that duty may be, with courage Id real earnestness he will be rong man and a successful man, and lis world is gocd. enc to develop $ mind and heart for other regions service. The name.ess boy in the inks, the humble laborer grasping ' ith earnestness the pick and shovel, ads this world good one, though ! e rations are poor and the bed hard. s the man who takes hold with tbby and feeble and cowardly hand ho finds this world bad world. No ( orally earnest man whoIried with ( his ability to learn Gods will and , it ever found this world a bad s 1rld |