Arizona republican., 1915-03-15
DIVINE ORIGIN l 0F THE CHURCH
Great Sermon by Bishop MOlzOn on Church s Mis- sion in the WOrld-Two Other Meetings Largely Attended

to d large COUSTeSdllOIl Dy DlSHOp Edwin D. Mouzon, from the pas sages of scripture in the writings ot Matthews 16:17-1S Blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee And I say also unto thee, thou 2rt Peter and upon this rock will ] build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
 In the course of an eloquent ser mon upon the subject set out in the preceding paragraph. Bishop Mouzon said that the church of Jesus Christ is not to be classed with any other institution whatso- ever. The church of Jesus Christ is more than human in its origin, it IS divine in it's origin, and it has very definately divine beginning as well as a very Gefinately divine mission. Entirely too many people nowadays are overlooking the fact that the church differs from every other in stitution in this world, from every other agency for good, from every other kind of organization. Il vel come any human organization that multipies agencies for human good in the world, but the man who takes human agency in place of the church is laboring under delusior hat will cost him dear before he comes to the end of his journey and when he comes to give an account of the deeds done in the flesh. Even among the members of the church there are a great many who do not appreciate the divine origin of the church. There are also many people who think that there is more in the subsidiary organizations of the church than in the church itself. The Sun day school and the missionary so- cieties and the EpwOrth leagues are merely aids to the church and not the church itself.
 The Church of God is the stand ing army of the Kingdom of God and reign of God in the hearts of men and the institutions of society The true foundation of the church of God does not lie in apostolic sue cession nor in mere form, in the | Scripture itself it is set forth, God is a spirit and they that worship | him must worship him in spirit and 1 in truth.
 The church is a divinely appointed institution and it is the duty and | nigh privilege of every man to be- come fellow citizen of the house. hold of God. There is and could be no aggressive Christianity in the world without the church, and there is no such thing in the new testa- ment as man being a Christian and not belonging to the church of God.
 ''The reason some of you don't join i the church is because of cowardice. arrant cowardice. A Christian isn't a coward. but a man who knows he ought to join the church and the man who does not is a coward. He would run from a girl. The church is the invincible agency in this world. Elm pires have come and gone, kingdoms have risen and fallen, but through persecution, through trouble, through poverty. through every evil handed
 
 bear against it the Church of God has come with an invincible power, proving it's mission is to take the world for Christ. It is not a creed or a cult, or a teaching. It is a loyalty to Jesus Christ. the son of Mary and the son of God
 The Meeting for Men
 Pointing out the danger periods in a mans life and the way to safety,
 Bishop Mouzon addressed an audi ence of men that more than half filled the Columbia theater yester day afternoon The meeting was the
 second of the March Sunday after neon series under the auspices of
 the Y. M. C. A.
 Bishop MouZOn took for his text
 the verse from Isaiah But they that
 wait upon the Lord shall renew
 their strength; they shall mount ur
 with wings as agles; they shall run
 and not be weary; and they shall
 walk and not faint" and outlined the
 three crisis in mans life. These he said were the transition periods from bOyhOOd to manhood, the
 change to middle life and the tran
 sition from that state to old age
 Although he did not discount the
 importance of the adolescent period Bishop Mouzon confined himself all most entirely to the last two changes in the physical and psychological life of man. and to their bearing on the years that follow.
 1 Upon the way man had met these three crisis he said, depended his entire success in life. While many in the heyday of youth could mount upon wings and fly as eagles the ability to run and not be wear, in the later year, and especially tt walk and not faint, constituted tn, true test of successful living, and i was only by observing the rules O clean living, and correct habits tha man could hope to pass thes danger periods safely. Power to vii over the temptations and danger that come to him depended ol whether he would ally himself witt the power which was always read, to help him in the fight.
 A large chorus choir, under the di rection of Rev. J. Allen Ray of tn
 Bethel church, led the singing. Mex
 Sunday afternoon Dr. Edgar J Banks, an archaeOlogist of interna
 tional note. who has had charge O the Babylonian excavations for tn
 University of Chicago. will delive his illustrated lecture on "The Bibl | and the Shade"