Arizona republican., 1911-09-11
BETTER GOVERNMENT
 DEMANDS BETTER MEN
OF MAN IS IN THE
 HEART,
Sermon Delivered by E. N. Phillips,
 Pastor Christian Church.

calls to here, or to there, with no satisfying result, that Israel con- founded, was losing heart, Jesus realizing this, called to his age cease listening to the calls of the nervous, restless and ill-informed world and listen to the call of your
 hearts-for the Kingdom of God isl within you The balmiest paths, out of the heart, are the issues of life. A
 pure fountain makes d pure stream;
 a pure. clean life is fed by a clean,
 pure heart. A clean pure city finds
 the source of its law, method and life in it's citizenship who abide and
 practice obedience to God.
 If there is ever to be perfect gov
 ernment upon earth, there must ap-
 pear first d perfect man. We hear
 of scientific socialism. This is un-
 thinkable without a man made upon
 a scientific plan. You must first
 produce the man-then out of his
 heart sympathy for his fellows, he
 will form the government which Jesus called The Kingdom of God
 These are troublesome times. Rum
 ors of strikes, social upheavals, po- litical unrest come from every where.
 We curse the government and blame
 the church The public officials and leaders of the labor, industrial and
 commercial world are held under the harshest impeachment as if from them
 shall descend a glorious millenium.
 But oh slow of heart and hard to
 believe Christ; the Kingdom of God
 does not come from these sources. It comes from the people. the great mass of the worlds dollar Temper
 was made for the service of man and not for the service of his temper
 Passion was made to be controlled by
 man and not man to be controlled by his passion. But while these principles lie unheeded in the page of scripture, they are but the theory of Gods Kingdom. Iris in the heart lmoved by love and sympathy for others these ideals find source or opening in the visible form of gov ernment and order in the worlds life.
 It is urged by the shortsighted that
 perfect government is necessary for the production of a perfect man. But it is plainly evident upon mere state
 ment that as man makes government
 perfect man must be ere perfect government can appear. So Jesus in
 formed the Jews.
 If they were to find that antici
 pated Kingdom of God they must look deep into their own hearts.
 \ lawyer who now receives $10,000 year in fees was once on the point of leaving his fathers house to hunt gold and farm in the Rockies But the father said Son. there is a greater gold mine within you than you will ever find among the Rocky mountains if you only will dig it l out" Said the son: What do you
 mean, father" T mean this-in you is a natural foundation for a good lawyer I'll back you in your uni versity course if you will finish and
 then I'll help you through a law school and as well equipped lawyer you will dig more money out of your
 life than you can possibly get out of any mine, and besides, within you is safe certain and rich mine" The son has since said many times: My father was right"
 The Kingdom of God is Within You" said Jesus to the Jews. But unlike the obedient son, just cited, they looked out and away from their rich possibilities, and without heed 1 ing the great Masters voice-heard
 the calls to sedition. rebellion and
 national destruction. It is certainly true that millions stand at the en- t., .F If h q look in poverty away from content
 ment and happiness, while but few | turn around and look into them. To the Apostles Jesus said: Tt is given to know the. mysteries-not because God was prejudiced in their favor. but simply because only they of many turned round and looked with Jesus into their own hearts" The mystery was there, they saw it. Tt was the Kingdom of God" These were the men who prayed that it might come
 on earth in visible and helpful form.
 and proceeded to dig the Kingdom l from their hearts. after the likeness of an exhumed city. They built little communities of fellowship where they sought to cultivate and train old and | young III lut illuutH NlilutS bA lildN
 kingdom. The principles of that kingdom are found in the New Testa | ment writings of those apostles Among them are, The profit of the earth is for all" Sunday was made 1 for man and not man for Sunday" l The church was made for man and not man for the church. The shop was made for man and not man for the shop. The machine was made for
 the use of man and not man for the use of the machine. The dollar was
 made for man and not man for the
 dollar.
 Life, the same source of the present | leaders whom we so thOughtlessly
 condemn, who kicks at his environ
 ment seeks to destroy the child of
 his own selfish heart, the handiwork
 of his indifferent labor. The world will never be right simply by scold- | ing. striking and warning against others. The real wrong is internal. The world is wrong outside be-
 cause it is wrong inside. Individual ly we are wrong outside because we are wrong inside It is from within the change must come. The love of
 money and selfish power must be driven from the heart and in it's place left the love for God and man. This done in and for the heart of