Arizona republican., 1909-05-10
EMPLOYMENT ENDOWED
 OF GOD-G|VEN GIFTS A ESPONSIBILITY CONFERRED
 WITH THEM. The Sermon of Rev. Henry Martyr
 Campbell Yesterday.

Rev. Henry Martyr Campbell of the
 First Presbyterian church yesterday
 morning preached from the text, Ne
 glect not the gift that is in thee,
 which is the first clause of the four
 teenth verse of the fourth chapter of
 L Timothy. The following extracts
 from the sermon give an outline of the
 discourse.
 ''I believe that we do no violence to
 the text when we take it in the larger
 sense and consider that it applies to
 each of us, as well as to Timothy. to
 whom Paul was writing this letter.
 Here is an eXhOrtation direct from God
 not to neglect any gift; that we shall
 use all of the time, talents, oppor-
 tunities, and privileges that we have
 for the glory of his name and the ad-
 vancement of his kingdom. Christ
 taught this same truth in his parable
 of the pounds The doom pronounced
 on the servant who returned his lords
 pound without having used it reveals
 the awful responsibility that comes
 with the gifts that God has given us and the results of neglecting to use them.
 First let us make a few observa-
 tions about out text. Neglect is negative word. It means not to choose.
 There is no word in all the language
 that covers more of the failures of
 man than this simple word neglect.
 The mother neglects her child and the result is disastrous; the doctor neg lects his practice and soon he has no
 practice: the farmer neslects to blow and SOW and he has no crops. When the religious man begins to neglect the
 things of God he soon finds that the world has him by the throat and he
 is no longer able to attend to the
 things of God. Why do we neglect
 the gifts that are in us? Because it is so easy to neglect them on the prin- ciple that it is easier not to do than
 to do. that it is easier not to be active
 than to be active. Many neglect the gifts that are in them because of the lack of the right kind of ambition. There is a world of meaning ip the expression they do because they think they can. By ambition I mean the confidence of a man in his ability to do the thing that is required of him in the accomplishment of his task. Lack of this ambition is then one of the causes of neglecting the gifts that are in us. Ignorance is another obstacle to our using our gifts. Electrical pow CT has existed in all ages of the world. but it was not used until recently be- cause people were ignorant of it Be very careful not to neglect the gift that is in you because you have not yet discovered what that gift is.
 Neglect not the gift of the body. When I preach that I am preaching the gospel It is in the Bible that we shall not neglect this gift that has been be- slowed upon us. Our Master thought enough of this body to take one unto himself for thirty-three years and a half. and when that body lay in the grave, he thought enough of it to call it forth from the power of death and thus he became the first fruits of them that slept Listen to the word of God, I beseech you. brethren, by the mer cies of God. that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice; Know ye not that the body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? and If any man defile the temple of God. him will God de- stroy. for the temple of God is holy. which temple ye are. Surely. in the light of Gods eternal truth we should not neglect the gift of the body. It would be easy to neglect the body. for it is such a delicate instrument with its hundreds of thousands of minute parts. all to be cared for and kept from harm. Some years ago in one Of our eastern colleges the members of cer- tain class returned to their alma mater to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their graduation and out of a class of hut ten were left. the re forty-seven having gone to their graves as a result of neEleCtinE their bodies. It pays to care for the body in the light of the extent to which we can succeed in our lives if we have strong bodies. Don't allow anything to enter into TOUT life that ps the strength of your body; be true to it.
 Then another gift that We are not to neglect is the mind. Without the mind we can not accomplish the thing that God has given us to accomplish. We can not know his word unless we have minds to study it We have all heard of the wonderful things that can be accomplished by the properly trained mind It pays to train the mind. It is estimated that the man who trains his mind has two hundred and fifty chances of accomplishing worth while in the world to one that man who has not trained his mind has. Neglect not the gift of the mind.
 "The most important of all is the spirit. Neglect not the gift of the spirit. Train the heart and the spirit | Better live a sickly life all your days | neglecting the body. than to neglect | the spirit. Better neglect the mind and | be an igIoramOus than to neglect the ! soul. There are too many Esaus in 1 this world who are selling their souls | for the material things of this earthly | existence. If we are caring for the | body. the material things that are l 'leeting. and forgetting the more inn | lortant things of the soul. we are mak- nf i,, hn