Arizona republican., 1905-01-30

| and our national sins have been atoned 1 for with great, great sacrifice Of
 property and blood.
 The church has been established and | perpetuated at a great sacrifice of money, service, love and suffering. But all this sacrifice for the church will be amply rewarded when the headstone
 thereof shall be swung into place. while the people shout, Grace. grace
 unto it."
 Many are the sacrifices of individ-
 uaIs in the home and community which never come to public notice You all remember the sacrifice of Tennyson's i I1nech Arden. The rivalry of Enoch 1 Arden and Philip Ray for the hand and | heart of Annie Lee; how Enoch won | And after seven years of welded bliss 1 with his wife and babes. how. for their sake, despite the pleadings of his be- 1 loved wife he ventured upon a long. 1 journey. Year after year dragged its 1 weary length along. and no tidings | came from Annie's seafaring husband. i Enoch after suffering shipwreck and i Imprisonment on an island in mid i ocean for twelve years, was rescued by l a passing vessel and sent to his home i town. During his absence great | changes had been wrought in him as
 
 . kindness of Philip Ray to his children. i both the dead and the living; of An | nie's hopeful watching and patient | waiting for his return; her repeated refusals to surrender his place in her l heart and home to another; at last. Of 1 her marriage to Philip.
 In his endeavOr to see them without i their knowledge. under cover of night | Enoch crept softly up in the yard or i his old home, near a window with an open shutter. and there around the l hearthstone he saw his wife, and now not his wife, and her child, but not his i child, sitting in the lap of its father. | who now occupied the chair of honor l in the home which once was his home. l There is his son, the image of his long i lost father at sea; his baby daughter. | now grown into the very likeness Of | the long ago Annie Lee, playing with i Philips and Annie's child
 | The scene was too bright for hIs sea- ! blurred eyes; the bliss of that family l group was too profound. too awful. too i soul stirring for Enoch Arden. the i dauntless sailor, to dash in upon | through the breakers of a surgine. ocean of pent-up love. Therefore, then and there EnOch Arden resolved for | Annie's and his children's sake that she and they should never know while he
 lived of his presence and the sacrifice i of a broken heart and shattered hopes 1 which he made for their continued i happiness.
 An! Sacrifice is what tests the true . mettle of men and women.
 LOVE.
 | Courage, service, sacrifice. and last.
 but not least, love, is what makes the perfect man. Love, that love for the
 Lord our God which calls into action
 our whole heart, and mind. and soul. l That love wherewith we ought to love 1 our neighbors as ourselves and which i would prevent us from doing an injury | to them. That love which will con strain us always to help and protect ! our fellow men in their weakness un- l der temptation to evil
 Jesus loved everybody. He loved his mother most. tenderly, and the dis I ciples. He loved the Bethany sister: and their brother. He loved the wom- an who was a sinner as well as the moral young ruler. And Jesus is our example. God so loved the world that
 he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" There never can be a love as great as Gods love. But all true love is like Gods love. Some years ago it was my privilege, in the city of Detroit, to lis
 ten to Stanley lecture upon his sue
 CessfUl hunt for the celebrated Living stone in Darkest Africa. He empha-
 sized the attributes of courage, service.
 sacrifice and love in the life of Living
 stone. Livingstone. exposed to death from saVages and levers, tOiling inces-
 sanity making great sacrifices in the way of comfort and cOngenial com
 paniOns. When the opportunity came for him to escape these dangers and burdens he rejected the opportunity to return to civilization, and for the love of those benighted Africans he chose rather to serve and sacrifice that they "all might come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God, unto perfect men. unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ
 One day, as was his custom. he knelt beside his cot to pray. His two black servants stood a little way off. In a little while his voice ceased. After a half hours silence the watchers came near and touched his cheek. It was cold. Livingstone was dead. Be still! What will those heather black men say or do? And what will they do with his personal effects? They said, His heart belongs to us and Africa" So they took his heart, dug a grave in African soil, and there they buried it, reciting the Christian burial service as JesuS said it: q am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in ma shall never die"
 Then they prepared the body foI transportation 1,5OO miles across the dark continent to the nearest seaport After careful preparation they put tho body in a sack, bound it to poles, and the two courageous, loving, sacrihcIal servants bore their precious burden on their shoulders through trackieSS jungles and plains, across swollen rlv- CTS, through the territory of hostile tribes. After many months of strug gling and suffering, they arrived safely at the port, from which they shipped the remains to their final resting place