Arizona republican., 1911-07-24
Theme Of SpauIdIng's First
Sermon IN Phoenix
A GRADUATE OF OXFORD
Large Audience Hears an
Able Sermon by Rhodes
Scholar-All Arizona In
terested in His Ambition
and His Success.

Clarence Spaulding. a theological
student who has followed his studies
At oxford University as a Rhodes
Scholar from Arizona. preached his
maiden sermon in this city yesterday
morning.
Filling DR. Henry Martin CampbelIs
pulpit by the request of the Session.
of the Presbyterian church. Mr..
Spaulding faced an audience made up
largely of people who knew or had
known him personally. The close at
tention accorded his remarks was a
tribute to the scholarly development
of his theme. and mark of the ad-
miration of his friends for his great
ambition to enter the ministry with an
education fitted to the task of teach
ing others the meaning and value OF
the Scriptures.
While still in England Mr.. Spsuid-
ing received a request from the ses-
sion of the Presbyterian church of this
city to take DR.. Campbell's place dur
ing his absence on the coast, and the
sermon yesterday morning is the first
of series which will be delivered
during the remaining weeks of the
summer.
Using as his text the words. In
YOUR patience We shall win your souls,
from Luke, 21: 10, Mr. Spaulding said.
"One of the strange and remarkable
features of the Gospel Story, as well as
Of the O. T narrative is the album
dance of seeming parodoXes, state
ments which on the face Of them
seem to be contrary to reason and
common sense Conclusions are drawn,
statements are made, results are ar
rived at. that on first glance seem
palpably impossible and absurd. One
OF these / have Just read in your
hearing-'In your patience ye shall
win your souls 1t is preceded by
most glowing and terrible descrip-
tion of troubles and trials and per-
secutions that were to befall the
disciples .Ye shall be delivered up
even by parents and brethren and
kinsfolk and friends; and some Of
YOU shall they cause to be put to
death. And ye shall be hated Of all
men for my names sake. And not
hair of your head shall perish. In
your patience ye shall win your Souls.
And 1t is on the world Of mean
ing wrapped up in the word patience
that / want to lay emphasis this
morning. What man of you having
an 100 sheep saith the master and
having lost one OF them, doeth not
leave the ninety and nine in the
wilderness and go after that which IS
lost. until he find him. What wo-
man he continues farther having 10
pieces Of silver duke XIV BID; If
she lose one piece. doeth not light a
lamp and sweep the house and seek
diligently until she hath found it?'
Patience of a very trying kind is re-
quired in a search after the material
losses Of life-and few of us lack IT.
But patience of still more trying
kind is required in the search for the
spiritual losses Of life-for lost virtue,
tenderness. love. faith, hope, purity
and few of us have it.
Yet that is the message the text
has for us this morning In your pa
tience ye shall win your souls 1t is
directed to us as a challenge to mas
ter ourselves, it is as though it said
to us There is more to life than mere
living and existing Some of you
shall they cause to be put to death
some of you to whom / am talking
and later we know that Peter and
James and Andrew and many others
OF those probably present on this oc-
casion met a martyrs death. But not
hair of your head shall perish. e.
although You may perish in the body
although your material life may be
cut short your souls will be abso-
lutely safe Your eternal welfare
shall in nowise suffer. In your pa
tiepce We shall win your souls.
What then does it mean to win
your soul and what has patience tc
do with it?' II means | think the
opposite of gaining the world. There
was once a certain rich man and hi.
land was very fruitful and productiv,
and the crops so abundant that h,
tore down his barns and buildet
greater ones and said there will
bestow all my corn and my goods
And | will say TO my SOUL soul thOI
hast much goods laid up for man.
years. take thine ease-eat, drink ant
be merry. But God said unto him
Thou fool. this night is thy soul re
quired Of thee and these things whicl
thou hast prepared whose shall tie
be?' Ne, the man who has spent
long time winning the world has no
had much time to give thought O
patience to winning his soul He ha
usually made the world his soul, bu
he has rot even really gained he
Alexander the Great founded a worl
49, h. no,,l1 not conuuer him