Arizona republican., 1911-07-31
IMPERIALISM DESTRUCTIVE
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 you remember, at the top of the grand | female figure draped in flowing white folds, headless and armless, her great
 white wings are outstretched and she
 is striding forward as from the brow | of ship on which she is standing.
 the personification of activity and power and Hope. It is called "Vic-
 tory" Here we have the secret of the I true Christians power-new abideth l Hope. Hope deferred" says the pro- verb. "maketh the heart sick" but | Hope present reality and power in our ] lives means victory. Hope is the leaven | of the Christians life that stirs him Iup to activity for Jesus Christ, and | Hope abideth. What you and I are ! needing in our religion today is more
 of joy and intense reality to give us victory over the daily temptations. Tt | is lawful" says some one. to pray God that We be no' led into tempta- tion, but not lawful to skulk from l those that come to us" And it is the 1 hopeless who fall before temptation. I appeal to you this morning not to give way to discoura gements but to
 be more hopeful. Hope is an oxpecta- | tion of good things to come. and what you and l as Christians should hope | for in the sense of a principle of act | ion, is the perfection of our nature after the pattern of Jesus Christ. and | for the fuller manifestation of Him who hath made Himself known to man
 in Jesus Christ. Hope inspires endur- ance and self-control; it imparts to the will firmness and stability. It col
 ors our view of human life by stand Y ing midway between a shallow opti- mism and faithless pessimism. Hope lessness undermines energy by paralyz- | ing the will. Be ye hopeful. Don't | think the world is going to the dogs | because every one don't believe as you ! believe; because their standard of liv- ! ing is not the same as your standard. | Be Optimists. Smile even if things | don't go your way-"for the man worth while is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong" Now abideth Hope.
 But closely allied to Hope is Faith.
 the second of the Christian virtues that We are to cOnsider-"Now Abideth n, the writer of the Episrle to the He
 brews. lis the assurance, the giving substance to things hoped for, the prov ing or testing of things not seen" Faith IS the assurance of things hoped for. In other words, Hope is neces- Sary in a Christian, that Faith may abound. And if We have said Hope is
 the leaven of the Christians life. surely talth is the ballast of the Christians
 life, that gives assurance, gives sub
 stance, gives steadiness to the life.
 Hope says Stevenson, lis he boy. A blind, headlong. pleasant fellow. good
 to chase swallows with salt" Faith is the grave. experienced, yet smiling
 man. Hope looks for unqualified sue cess, but Faith counts certainly on failure and takes honorable defeat to be form of victory" And if our Hope IS to be centered in the asperation to De like Jesus Christ. to reveal His life more and more in our own. to find in fflm the secret of strength and power 1t IS our Faith in God that He will an swer to our knocking and seeking and asking that will give substance and reality to these Hopes. There :s a song mat runs in one of its lines, Our Fear our Hopes, Our Aims Are One" and l am reminded of a story told of a eood old deacon, who in prayer meeting was won't to pray at great length. and one evening he was praying and the sub stance or his prayer was about this:
 O' Lord, Thou knOwest I am aiming to
 be good father, Thou knowest I am aiming to be a good husband. Thou khoWest I am aiming to be a good dea
 con. good member of the church
 Ihou knowest I am aiming to be a good citizen, reputable member of the com
 nuhlty. Thou knowest I am aiming-at| this point a practical wag in the hack oi the room shouted: For goodness sake, deacon, quit aiming and pull the trigger And in life that is about ns close to Christianity as many peonIe come; good many people hone. are aiming to be Christians when the right
 tune comes-before they die, some time that IS not spelt by the present, some
 tune after they have sucked at the sweetness of the world until it sours Tor them. Now they are troubled bv intellectual doubts, which in nine cases out or ten is another way of saving
 II put this matter off; I'll procras- tlnate' And even among some of Us who have named the name of Christ
 the Hoping, the aiming stage is about as lar as we go, and We wonder why christianity is so barren of results in our hVes. We lack Faith that brings substance and reality to religion-even the fruits of the spirit such as love Joy' peace, long suffering, gentleness goodness. faith.
 know there are many who say they cannot believe. was reading not long ago Oscar Wiide's De Profun- us It Is semi-apology for his con- duct which had led to lis arrest and conviction by an aggrieved society for some of his unmentionable sins. And Tn that books he defends his position partly on the ground that Religion dld not help him" "The Faith" he says, that others give to wha. is un- seen, l give to what one eau touch and look at. My gods dwell in tenn ples made with hands, and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect-and like many CT all of those who have placed their heaven m this earth, have found it not merely