Arizona republican., 1913-12-22
ETERNAL LIFE |S SUBJECT IF
 NOTED BISHOP
Eminent Preacher and Edu- cator, Rev. R. c. Water house, Delivers Notable Sermon at Central Church :; Choir Renders Program.

True to the general prediction of the many who had heard him before,
 Bishop R c. Warehouse of Los An
 geles. general superintendent for the
 Methodist Episcopal church south of
 the work in the western conferences,
 preached great sermon yesterday
 morning at Central church to
 crowded house, and followed this with
 an equally notable effort at Bethel
 chapel at night. In the morning his
 subject was Eternal Life" the reai-
 zation of the fullness of things to
 which all nature reaches during its courses on earth.
 feature of the morning service
 was the work of the excellent choir
 under the direction of MT. Nelson Both Mrs R. NJ Tafel and Mrs. Fly man rendered most beautiful and ac-
 ceptabIe solos, while the work of Mrs Robin Gould at the organ was equally notable.
 The usual impressive fore services Of the Methodist church preceded the sermon. The responses were hearty and the singing of the Gloria" i'm pressive Bishop Waterhouse took for his text the passages from the third verse of the seventeenth chapter of St Johns gospel: And this is life eternal that they might know thee. the onIy true God. and Jesus Christ ! VI om thou hast sent The trend of | tho bishops thought was in part; i Just at this time of the year. { which according to our system of reckoning, is nineteen hundred and thirteen years after the birth of Him who brought us the way of eternal i life, it is especially appropriate that we consider this subject. And what. at any time could be more vital? Tn the first place let us consider | lfo. not as an essence but as We live l ir There is a distinction between life | and existence. We have two trees standing side by side. Around the i trunk of one ring of bark has been 1 removed The rest of the bark in | time falls away; the tree ceases to bring forth leaves in season and to be 1 fruitful It decays and vet all the
 time it exists. The other tree is un- ] touched. Its bark clings close about
 it; rich sap runs through it: it brings 1 forth it's leaves in season and is fruit 1 ful. It is living. It might be well 1 for us to consider whether we are l living or existing.
 | And vet the desire to live is well nigh universal. We recognize it in
 all times and states of life. The lit | tie girl playing with her doll is but | giving expression to that desire for d i fuller life in motherhood. The boy, with a feather in his hat and a tin ] sword at his side marching so pom | pously about, is also giving expression ! to that desire for fuller life The l thousands of youths in our schools are l devoting their time in the hope that l they are preparing themselves for q l fuller life. The man seeking wealth
 or position is expressing the desire 1 to live more Even in our sins and | vices We find the same expression. Take the most universal of sins. 1 drinking or drunkenness. It is said that men are led into it by an inherit
 ed cesire or by associat tion. Rather is l IL an attempt to realize q fuller eX- pressiOn of life.
 We meet three phases of life. the vegetable. the animal, the human. each resting on the other and rising in importance in the order named Look at such a picture of them as this:
 IF one hand I have a plant. in an
 other bird and in my arms child. l put the plant in the earth. It's roots and roOtlets go down into the earth and therefrom draw up the things necessary for it's life and