Arizona republican., 1911-05-15

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 ! We owe it tu ourselves to walk [ worthy of the vocation Nherewith we are called Brethren listen. The world IS putting greater premium 1 than ever before upon character as an essential means of ffes truest ] success The most hopeful fact rela- tive tu present. day social. industrial. 1 political and moral conditions, to my mind is this-that the number of men who believe that they can live clean lives, and honest business lives. and ideal political lives. and com mendable and exalted moral lives. is rapidly on the increase The time seems to be here when men are at least open to conviction as to the question whether character is not the best capital in any relation of life:
 whether there is not more promise of advancement and preferment in this the opening Of the twentieth century. along the line of integrity of charac-
 ter than along any other line I tell you it is true that men who believe that it is better to be right than president" who set their faces like flint against things that are low and mean and impure and selfish. unmanly
 and immoral and unchristian. l say the time is here when such men are
 getting the greatest hearing: yea.
 when they are being applauded to the echo Did you note that the other
 day when Woodrow Wilson gave the
 Bible it's true place in his address be-
 fore thousands of Denver people. that
 when he gave the Bible its true place
 and the religion of Jesus Christ it's
 true place: when he told them that
 to the Bible and the Christian religion
 was due whatever success we had
 achieved as nation. he was most generously applauded? Brother if you
 want to succeed well and finally in
 life walk worthily, if you want to
 succeed in the political world. if you
 want to succeed in professional life,
 walk Worthily. if you want to sue ceed in the business life walk WOrthily
 I tell you il pays to deal justly and
 love mercy and walk humbly with
 God. IL pays right down here and
 now in the life that now is But it
 pays even better in the light of the
 life 10 be God says il pays, and He knows Listen Blessed is the man
 who Walketh not in the counsel of the
 ungodly. nor standeth in the way of sinners. nor sitteth in the seat of the scornfuL But his delight is in the
 law of the Lord And in His law
 doth he mediate day and night. And
 he shall be like d tree planted by the
 river If water. that bringeth forth nos
 fruit in his season. The leaf thereof
 shall not Wither. and whatsoever he
 dpeth shah prosper. The ungodly are
 qot SD. but are like the chaff which
 the wind driveth away Therefore the unsodly shall not stand in the judg- ment uor the sinners in titc congrega-
 ton of the righteous. For the Lord knowerh the way of the righteous. hut the way of the ungodly shall perish"
 That is a sweet legend that clusters about the old church wonder in Eng land and if tells the truth well. The monks had been working hard in its erection They had succeeded now. and then they had seemed to fail There was one monk who labored with them who never told his name or entered with them into their daily experiences. but seemed 70 stand apart
 One day they, after terrible struggle and strain. had been successful in lifting to it's place certain huge beam of no lesser importance than that of the keystone of an arch. It was found to be some inches too short. They were almost overcome with discoura cement What would they do. what could they do? They labored for d time to plan some way Then the night shut down. They re- tired. all of them. but the strange monk He labored on. In the morn ing when again the others assembled they found the strange monk gone. but the stone stretched out to just the right length stood in it's place
 Then they knew who the departed monk was None other but the Savior. the unseen friend.
 Listen. The same unseen friend is here now: He is doing things for His own just as impossible of accomplish ment as anything you can imagine. He is snapping the chains that bind tempted souls. taking the shackles off spiritual slaves. opening the prison doors. encouraging tried ones and rais- ing the spiritually dead to life
 Conclusion: What about your life? Will it stand the test? Will it pass Gods approval? Is your walk a worthy one?
 I was struck with what I saw the other day about Korea. over there they do not spend much time talking about doctrine They make much of life. They do not ask much for what you believe in the way of doctrine. But they will not be content until they know. as they put it. whether you are doing the doctrine" Are you doing the doctrine? Are you? Will your life stand the test? A few years since you were reading with interest what they were doing wonder in the metrop- olis They were building a city reser voir that would surprise the world. | A reservoir that would deliver 5O0.- OOO 900 gallons of pure water day to that city: enough to cover the whole city half an inch in depth It was to cost the city one hundred and fifty millions of dollars From the reservoir to the metropolis is one hundred and thirty miles. The pipes through which it is conveyed are over seventeen feet in diameter: they were in some places laid under rivers and small mountains Enough pressure back Of the water to raise it fourteen | feet above the Flatiron building. What | led to such gigantic enterprise!