The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-01-12
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 RIGHT?
By Rev. Stephen Paulson

TEXT-Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just. what soever things are pure, whatsoever things | are lovely whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think these things-- Philippians, W, 6.
 There are today more people than ever before asking the question, What is right?" They have been led to ask this question by an arousal Of con science from lethargy that at one time seemed to be as binding as prison chains. In this reawakening the church has played most important part, but its appeals have been sec onded by moralists and even by states men. Today. the question, What is right?" is asked not only in personal morals, but in the larger affairs of life, and to the extent that there is greater effort. for higher standards of morality and of religious prac- tices.
 The question is an old one It has been asked by man since first he knew there was right. which might be dis tinguished from wrong It has been discussed in all it's phases, and St. Paul in his letter to the Philippians exhorts them in the words of our text. He tells them that right is what Is true. what is honest, what Is just, what is pure and lovely and of good re- port" His exhortation is as pert1- nent today as then, and his definition as complete. Let us first consider men, not things.
 | A great many men are true so far as their standards permit them to be. There are others who seek constant el- ovation of standards so that they may be nearer the ideal true man. To be true man means to be truthful in thought, in speech, in act, to be devoid of dissimilation, to be right and to be just what you seem to be; to be loyal to all that is good and devoted to the furtherance of good. Such man in- variably answers the question What Is right?" correctly, and his answer has the respect of his fellow men.
 A great many men. are honest so far as the demands of Relationship with other men may go. and few go beyond this point and are honest with themselves as well as with their fel- 1 lows. In their transactions they have no doubts, no regrets, no sufferings | of conscience. They make every transaction a closed transaction in every sense of the word They are right Such men are the examples of honesty that should be emulated. f Men are just in the measure that they mete to their fellow men; and fo that they heap the measure to over flowing. They neither weigh to the ounce, nor exact their pound of flesh as old Shylock did. If anything. they aFe just to the point of generosity and have the satisfaction of knowing that they have given full value or full credit to all with whom they come in contact.
 Most men are pure to the extent that they have no faults or vices that stamp them as immoral. There are others whose thoughts even are pure and to whom impurity is absolutely ob noxious They think good, and as the thought is the father of the act, they act well. These are the men at whom the finger of suspicion never points
 but are always held as models after
 which we should pattern.
 Men who are truly honest, just and
 pure, men whose thoughts are always
 upward, are men of good report. They
 have unassailable regulations support
 ed by unimpeachable characters. They
 ask the question, What is right? 2
 from the innermost recesses of theil
 souls, and answer it with all the en
 lightenment of conscience and spirit
 ual guidance that God can give them
 They are always men of good repor
 and always will be so long as the!
 possess the virtues that the apostle
 has enumerated.
 , I know that the apostle tells th' , brethren to think of things that ar'
 true, honest. pure, lovely and of goot , report" It is by thinking of thes' . things that men become honest. tru' and just. The apostle asks them no , only to think but to reason, for h. says that "if there is any virtue il
 these things, if there be any praise
 thinking of them will bring them int,
 their lives and cause them to be grate :, full for the good they receive. Mel .. who think honestly, men who try to b.