Arizona republican., 1912-12-23

of the duty of adding to ones faith. | courage. Here comes in a mu al quality which gives new beauty 1 end meaning to the word. At first 1 thought We may be little sur ! prised, as we were when the great i apostle classed Hope with Faith and 1 Charity, or Love, as the three card l inal Christian virtues But little 1 thought will convince us that Hope ! and Courage both must be notes 1 struck by the disciple if he follows l the example Of his Master, who was a man of infleXible hope and of su- pyeme courage. We must have faith ! if we are to have the strongest and i best kind of courage It is faith in ones country that makes a man i courageous and alcrt 10 do his best 1 for that country. We need to add 1 faith in our country, in its aims, | in it's responsibilities, in it's duties I do not mean a blind and unthink- i ing faith. which like some peoples i religious faith has no foundation be- cause it is not built upon reason and conviction. The man who has this national faith may see the mis- l takes that his country or it's rulers | are making; he may deplore the corruption that crops out now and
 then. as has been Illustrated in some
 disclosures of the past few months
 lie may despise the heartless and selfish manner in which men high in 1 the national counse1s are seeking their own aims and we'll being rath-
 CT than the well-teing of the nation.
  his abiding faith in the destiny and ! the final redemption of his country. ! To work under God his wise pur- ] poses. to turn this prophecy into fact. he himself and those like mind
 ed must be patriots penetrated with the spirit of courage and vigilance, which shall make them strong to speak out and 10 withstand with
 all thc*- might the evils in city and
 in state. and to watch against and
 to condemn all unpatriOtic and dis
 honest attempts to lower the national
 sense of honor and justice and per
 feet integrity.
 But let me now speak, in the sec
 ond place, of the courage that is
 needed to be joined with faith in
 Ono's fellow men if we are to be
 of service to our generation to do Christ's work in the world.
 1 confess that II is not always
 easy to retain this faith in the ord
 ina human nature with which we
 come in contact, and perhaps we : lose faith and courage too. when We
 study our own hearts and measure
 our inclinaticns and desires. our own !, pettiness and meaness, our selfishness
 and egotism
 In the earlier chapters of the bible , we are told that God made man in his own image It is a startling
 truth and we find it hard to believe l il. We can never accept and under stand it unless we acquire something of Christ's spirit of calling out the { i noblest and best in human nature l and idealizing the men and women | with whom we have to deal and
 who thus are touched by our faith
 and sympathy when il is clear and 1 simple and are moved to turn away from the life and conduct that other ] men see and to seek 10 make real, in an imperfect and fragmentary manner, the pure and nobler imagt formed Of their character by the men P of Christ like spirit.
 There is Christian courage as
 much as there Is a Christian faith There is the man of crime and evil life who goes to the scaffold with | bravado and blasphemy upon his lips lie may not finch or tremble O.
 cry out in agony He may be per 2 fcctly stolid in the acceptance oi Q his just punishment. but 1t is not r courage of a high kind that sustains n him There is no moral quality Q He may fear nothing, but he die5 n aa he has lived, like cruel beast. a There may be the highest kind o1 /. courage. on the other hand, found il r the man who knows all the danger; $ that beset him, who fears in hi' : heart, whose refined and spiritua | nature is thoroughly alive to all tha e he must endure in pain and in sor Y TOW and in loneliness, physical, men '. .,!1 and spiritual, and yet does no : shirk his duty but faces it squarely k entirely. What moral courage t Q seen in the man who is willing t. 1t race the disapprova; of his friends Y who knows that he will lose tn . good will of his fellow men, per
 EaDS have to sacrifice fortune dll' l.. all else that he holds dear, in or V der that he may not violate Wha n lis own conscience demands of him n The early ages of Christianity ar
 full of such stories, and Christian ,- courage has not disappeared in ou ,f modern life as we discover Whe d we read the lives of such men an q women as David Livingstone. Fathe .h Damien and Chinese Gordon Florenc d Nightingale and sister Dora. No her il and saint in the folden days. Atan , asius or Francis or Assist or Sair d Elizabeth surpassed them in uplift Df ing and noble moral courage.
 -v But let me speak of the need ( ts courage in the ordinary occupation rs Of life on less conspicuous plan Is not visible, perhaps, to the eyes { an others. but which God demands of | to who are not called, perhaps, ly mighty sacrifices and great deed of like these We must not depreclat or ror underestimate the courage thi
 is displayed by many men and won r. ell in the ordinary routine of Sicl ,ic ness, of suffe ing, If disappointment is oe loneliness. of loss. The couras