Arizona republican., 1913-02-10

ment to bear tribute to the noble and brave citizenship, to the men and wo- nlen who came here from all parts of this vast country to toll and endure. Some of them passed away in priva tlon and suffering who, with dauntless courage were never permitted to even look over from their Mount Pisgah into | the promised land. To them the sac red dead, as well as to the living. the | pioneer builders of the commonwealth, ! We bear the tribute of honor and of i deep appreciation on this anniversary days"
 Having concluded the historical DOT ton of his sermon, Bishop Atwood then i took occasion to make some extensive 1 l observations. Among other things he said: If 1t is duty sometimes to die for ones country, we should not forget that it is no less a sacred responsibility, 70 live for ones country. I think we sometimes forget that living may some times demand more courage and self sacrifice than dying. It is compara- lively easy and simple to face death, | when it is shown to be inevitable and
 
 the sacrifice But amid the divisions l of counsels, the contradictions of pur- poses, the risk of unpopularitv and contempt, the appeal of money and | power, of sense and pleasure, it is no easy thing to live straight, clean and | honest lives
 Tt was said not long ago by a dis | tinguished member of the United | States senate, not upon the floor of | that house, where it might well have | been said, that what congress most | needs is courage and conscience We 1 might take these words for our text and say,-not alone what the represen- 1 tatives of the people need,-though God knows they need them sadly enough, but what We all need, my brothers, are 1 courage and conscience, not alone to | say the right thing, but to do it.
 The only tragedy in human life is human sin. The only thing that cX-
 alteth nation which is made up of in- dividual men, is what exalteth the in
 dividual himself, is what we call right.
 eousness. Opinions shift and change
 with the changing centuries, but the
 eternal truth never changes It is "the
 '
 Right and wrong are primal facts in l the universe. They are sharply defined
 and opposed, like darkness and light
 to each other. There are plenty of
 things as to which good men and wo-
 men may differ. We may differ, for 1 example. as to the methods by which
 intemperance shall be put down. We
 may believe in a law of strict prohibit
 tiOn or of high license, in total abstin-
 ence, or in temperance in the literal
 meaning of the word, but we have no
 right to doubt that drunkenness itself is wrong. Stealing is stealing; mur-
 der is murder. lying is lying; impurity is impurity; and nothing can change . | these facts, try as hard as we can to call them by softer words and to con ceal their real meaning.
 We believe in the principle of hon. esty, of not getting something for
 nothing. and yet some of us may defy the law of the land and the law of honor by gambling in one form or an other. The principle is the same thing, whether it is done in a so-called f Gambling He'll" or amid the refined and pagan surroundings of a fashion able drawing room.
 ?, Tn the terrible disclosures that have , been made in recent years in the in
 dustral world we have seen the great I danger that faces this country, be $ cause so many of our trusted men have
 failed to recognize the boundary line sharp and decisive, between honesty
 and dishonesty.
 7 The integrity of the nation and the
 state is threatened when it becomes
 possible, not only for legislation to be controlled, but even the course of jus
 tice to be tempered with. through the
 use of money in the hands of dishonest
 men. But this is no reason why we
 should lose our heads and our faith ? even before these tremendous evils that ] we have seen and ar facing now. r If the state is not christian in its
 sup, ort and setting forth of a high l standard and noble and ever -increas { ing IT Ipose in it's life, then the faul' ! is ours. After all it comes back as } persona! responsibility. As the glory
 and honor of the nation, and the state
 and the city, are ours, so are theiI
 shame, their dishonor. If this nation
 and state stand not for fairness, for
 honesty. for justice, for purity, fol
 truth, for a Christian and civilizing force in the world, who is to blame but < you and me?
 f Let us face the responsibility. then
 like men and see what our own duty I is. as we strive to help this great coun- r try of ours to do it's part in the world | work and to realize the great mission o which God has given it to do. If il n fails 10 do this, then it surely will be < called before the judgment seat of Goc l ! and destroyed from the face of the Q earth. It's fate will be the fate of enl- : pires and states once as important ant n ! dominating as itSelf,--of Babylon anC a 1 its fa:thl2sS king, upon whose palace Q | walls was traced the coming judgment i 1 Thou are weighed in the balance am n | found wanting; of Rome losing its a austere simplicity of living. it's earlier 1 faith, it's democratic ideal. becomine }. luxurious, tyrannical and goddess, ant n thus losing its place forever among tho - nations of the earth; of Spain in these n modern days reaping the fruits of pas tNvrn hi ioAt T ,-~