Arizona republican., 1901-04-26

mate. It belongs neither to the demo- crats nor to the republicans but to the
 saloon. It has no party. It puts its foot anywhere. everywhere. and rules. l praise the Lord" not only for the
 work of the Woman's Christian Tenn perance union. but for the Independent
 Order of Good Templars, the Anti
 Saloon league and our prohibition
 party. l like Gladstone's denition of political party"-'An instrument for the achievement of great ends" Surely in that We recognize the description of our own prohibition party, in whose platform we see one plank inscribed:
 'The saloon must go." Is 1t possible that any Christian voter can refuse to Identify himself most heartily with this
 party?
 Sisters, how can we still further ad-
 vance the cause of temperance? Surely 1t is our Lords work, and we can be o-laborers together with Him. The thought comes that the first qualiflca- ton needful for successful service is cons acration to our Masters leadership.
 The keynote of our service must be lov ing conservation, and how urgent 1t is
 that we lock to our Father with the
 heart prayer, Give me love like
 Thine" and then changing the prayer
 thought, include, faith" and hope the.a three Christian graces of which
 Major Cole so often beautifully speaks
 in our gospel meetings. A consecra- ton which expresses itself in loving
 service for our neighbors is what honcrs God. We live truly great lives only when We live for others. The life of devotion-of consecration-is a noble life, whether 1t is the devotion of a wife, the devotion of a mother, the de- votion of a friend or the devotion of a patriot.
 To get the true meaning of consecra- tion, to recognize it's broadness and
 fulness, to sound its depths. we must
 gaze long and lovingly and tende:ly
 and reverently upon the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. What consecra-
 ton that was! And what a dignity and
 majesty He places upon human nature when He suggests that 1t Is possible for Il sto have a nsecration that is a counterpart of IFS. And mark you, | too, it Is a cOnsecratioh by the truth that they also may be sanctihed | (consecrated) through the truth" We | might have used some other word there | If We had been writing that sentence. but the Master put in, the truth" !" | Conservation is not a thing of ecstasy simply. It is not emotional rapture. It l Is not impulse. We cannot manufac- ture it ourselves. It is that which comes
 to us through intelligent and loving ap-
 preciation of Gods truth. It is based
 upon our personal Knowledge and un- derstanding of the wonderful truth of
 God. "Sanctify (consecrate) them by | Thy truth, Thy word is truth" We | can never be consecrated to God in any othe" way than through an inter-
 pretation of the word of God by the
 light Of the Holy Spirit thus grasping the revelation of Gods wondrous love
 for us and His will concerning us. This
 is the kind of conservation which we
 need. No cheap and easy and unintelli-
 gent thing, but that something which takes hold of our whole nature, and
 makes us what We desire to have God
 and our fellow man think we are.
 If our live swere dominated wit, a loving conservation akin to this, our
 Fathers hand, and. looking up to Him, we would find ourselves honestly say ing with regards temperance work as
 we'll as any other work to which He may call us. "Tll go, I'll say, I'll do. I'll be just that which is pleasing in Thy | Sioht "