Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-04-04

In the Christian life there is little promised that Is easy Men are con tinually being put to the test. Often men are placed in hard places, where the burden is found to be heavy. Moses was now carrying heavy bur den. He had led the children of Israel from bondage to freedom. Now 1t looked as though they would be taken back to bondage again. The thought of this was weighing heavily on Moses, and he cried unto God. The answer was: Speak thou unto the children of Israel that they go for ward" Because of the passing years the words have not lost their mean ing. But in larger sense they are being applied today.
 The message of God to men is For ward" It would be shame for the present generation to be in the same degree of enlightenment as the gener- ation that has just passed. We today have the accumulated thought which has led to the degree of enlighten- ment As we have found so much the responsibility is laid upon us to move forward so that we by our lives will not retard the march of civiliza- tion. The Christian should ever have his or her face forward ready to march at any and all times.
 We are placed into such beautiful world one would think it would be hard for the children of men not to think of God. But we are forced to believe that there are many people who think very little of him who has given so much for us to enjoy. The great, broad fields bearing their preci- ous fruits, the precious stones found in the bowels of the earth, the great forests furnishing the timbers for our great buildings and ships, the great mountain peaks.
 All these things should remind us of God and his goodness and cause us to think much of him. The beauty of the sunrise and the glory of the set ting thereof, the beauty of the stars, the songs of the birds, the lightning fash. all reveal to us the greatness of God How strange that men can pass on with so little thought of God, who has been so kind and good.
 The question we hear often is, How much will you give?" By that Ques- ton we mean how much will I get. We are very anxious about how much we will get. Ought 1t not be how much can I give? In this way see how much we can help the world on ward. Suppose that the Apostle Paul had asked how much he was to have received for each journey he under took. Would we have the privilege of reading of the church at Phillippi, Corinth and many other places? If Martin Luther had asked how much he was to receive for the work he was doing would we be honoring him today? The fact is this, that the men and women who accomplished most for the world have been most unsel- fish. They have put themselves into the great work and their influence has lived.
 Too many people are not familiar with the Bible. This will apply to both those who belong to our churches and those who have not yet identified themselves with the church. There is a great lack in our knowl edge of the Bible. If the Bible is our guide through this life, surely we ought to become familiar with that which we depend upon. MT. Moody used to say, Took out in nature and see the hand of Good. Look into the Bible and see God face to face" Some time ought to be given each day to reading the Bible, not that we ought to see how much we can cover at a glance. but how much we can under stand of its contents.
 We are reminded every day how inn portant 1t is to live pure. If the pure life was the ideal, how much wrong doing would be corrected. If the cou- pie standing at the marriage altar would have the pure life as their ideal would it not lessen the number of di- vorces? Would We not have better homes? Would there not be fewer children to care for in. the homes of charity? If the pure life was the ideal would we not have better so- ciety? How our churches would be filled with devoted men and women who are anxious to worship God men and women who would be anx- ous to take a class. in the Sunday | school and faithfully each Sunday stand before their classes teaching the things of purity and God! Realiz- ing that the greatest of all things are the things which can be given for the i sake of those who are here by our side, the opportunity for labor Is great and the field is wide.