Arizona republican., 1912-12-23

''IIpldIH. He uoeS not grow bitter | and hard, but he bravely faces his | trial and works on, and hopes on | with faith and courage in his heart l Here is d person in the fulness of | youth and strength struck down by 1 pain and sickness which must last
 during all the long and weary years i that stretch out in the unknown flu ture. The demon of despair and of 1 unbelief is knocking at the door of | that mans heart to enter in. but he 1 will not listen He finds himself | no longer able to take his place by the side of the workers of the earth 1 He has learned that hard lesson. | taught nobly by Milton in his great 1 sonnet They also serve who only ! stand and wait" but he does learn 1 it. and God adds to his faith. cou-- age
 Here is another man who faces the l disappointments of life in many d varied line. His friends fail him. His ambitions and hopes are broken into fragments. He attains no success in life: perhaps the opportunity for ed ucation, which he craVed early in life, was denied him. perhaps he has to live practically an exile in an un- congonial atmosphere among low and sOrdid conditions of life, with nothing beautiful or inspiring in his daily life. It would be easy to curse God and to die. as the patriarch of old was tempted to do in the gray dawn of human history when he grapplcd with the mystery of pain ! and sorrow. but. like Job, ne can learn the truth of courageous faith and still trust in God ever
 though He slay him.
 To such high faith and courage 1 the revelation of Gods eternal love ! will surely come, and the everlasting arms will bear him up.
 1 To the mother. bereft of her child Ten, with loneliness In her heart and the mother hunger unsatisfied: to
 the disappointed hopes in the lives
 of her children, who, more tragic
 still, turn into ignoble paths and be-
 tray and cruelty the parental love; ! to all the common and natural trag- 1 cdies of human life there comes the ! divine command to gather up the
 fragments that remain, that nothing
 be lost. No life is 90 poor and emp
 " and broken that some fragments
 do not still remain to be gathered up. It is easy to scatter them; ! to think it not worth while to gath 1 CT them into baskets. It is easy. God knows how easy, for the poor. 1 t..uised and wounded soul to grow bitter. and hard. and cold, and narrow
 and unloveiy and hateful. It is easy
 enough to reject Gods fatherhood and no longer to believe in man. love and service, but easleI sl..f if we only will not forget that we are | Gods children living in Gods world { will it be to preserve hope and
 faith and love. in spite of the shad- | CWs and the encircling waters of
 darkness on which the Divine feet
 are still walking and oevr which
 the Divine voice is still sounding. Tt is L Be not afraid"
 We have come once more to the
 end of the Advent season. Once
 more the voice of the greatest of
 Hebrew prophets has sounded in our
 ears: Behold the Kingdom Of Hea-
 ven is at hand," With wavering
 faith and cruel doubt, We turn to
 gaze upon the world into which
 Christ came nineteen centuries ago.
 Under the starlight sky of Palestine i've hear again the angels sing.
 Peace on eaIth, good will to men,
 but htc year closes with an armed
 peace as the ambassadors and en- voys of Europe gather together in
 the historic palace of Saint James
 in the City of London. with divided
 counsels and anxious hearts, to set tie, if they can, one of the blOodiest and most cruel wars in all history.
 Al home and abroad is wagng the ; fierce combat Of industrial war; a
 contest no less cruel and destructive The hand of man is turned agoins; l his tr other. Labor and Capital, in ; stead of living in unity and peace $ are at each others throat; bitterness | 6istrust and hatred are on every side. That brotherhood and unity : which Christ declared long ago wheI ; he walked this earth seems a fal | away dream. Hate and greed anl :, lust walk hand in hand, as men seel 3 in passion and cruelty to attair D their own ends, the g. qualification (, ], the moment, that will endure for on Q " q brief season. Defend us, ( i, Christ of the tender and pityins t 1 heart if we seem to lose cOurag and faith as we make ready once | more to welcome the coming of ou !. 1 Master and King!
 e For a moment longer would de n tain you, as I remind you of tn r | passing from life into life of on n who was accustomed in years gon d by to worship in this place. Tw' IT days ago his body rested for q brie Q space within the walls of Westmin O ister Abbey, while the multitude gathered. representative of royalty It of statesmanship of literature O = trade, of every class and condition
 to bear their tribute of honor and e 't praise mingled with sorrow and loss IS at the passing of the ambassado Q, of a great nation. who had we 'f his country unselfishiy. Loyalty an IS with perfect integrity. As all tha -o remains mortal of Whitelaw Ref IS is passing in it's swift course aCros Ie the Atlantic, as we recall his Grac II ious and winning personality as fo T. two winters he fingered in this fa l7 land identifying himself with Ii II, people and it's interests in the spir se of a true Amo ican, finding hel