Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
|CREEDC0NDUCT
 AND CHARACTER
Those Three Vital Things, Says Mouzon-Last Even ing's Address Magnifi- gently Attended Despite Turn in Weather

l Despite the turn in the weather last 1 night, with clouds lowering and rapid drop in the temperature, the attendance
 at Central church was good and those who braved the elements to listen to l the message of Bishop MouZOn were more than repaid for their temerlty in that he delivered a strong doctrinal sermon, evangelical to the core.
 His subject was Christianity, the Absolute Religion" and in his discus sion he dealt with the fundamentals of belief expressed in pure Christianity, The incarnation: the atOnement: and the resurrection He chose for his text a passage from the EpistIe of Jude "Contend earnestly, therefore for the faith once for all delivered to the saints" and took the reading of the re- vised version of the scripture rather than from the King James version on account of the fuller and more final meaning given to that translation. Students of scripture are aware of the difference in the two renditiOns. The King James version gives the passage "once delivered to the saints, while the revised version translates it ''once for all delivered to the saints" showing finality in the deliverence, not ex
 pressed in the former text.
 Said the bishop. We often hear peo-
 pie saying. It doesn't matter what a
 man believes. if only his life is right.
 this is only half a truth and a half truth is the most dangerous sort of er
 TOT That sort of a statement is not at all true. It makes a great deal of difference what a man believes. Some people think such a statement is being liberal. but a fact they don't know the
 difference between being liberal and being lax. and more often they are lax instead of liberal. There are three car dinal factors in any mans belief, each dependent upon the other. They are creed, character, conduct. These are vitallv and intimately connected one with the other. If you know what a man believes-his creed-you know what he is-his character; and yon
 know what he will do-hs conduct The faith once for all delivered to the saints comprehended three funda- mentals. and upon them Christianity is founded. Those three fundamentals are the Incarnation. the atonement. and the resurrections If q man believes these three, ana with his whole heart
 am not uneasx about him; but should ,, he not so believe I am at once uneasy
 about him andlT have a right to be un- easy ahsut him. Jesus Christ is the central figure of history. It is impos- sible to think of God except in terms of Jesus Christ: his resurrection is an historical fact testified to and proven | beyond any form of successful uoiec- 1 tiOn: his atonement for all men has a relation both to God and man, he is the present and personal Saviour The ef l feet of this is felt by every true Christ | ian when he becomes conscious of the l fact that his sins are taken from him as the load fell from the back of Bun heavenly city The truths of Christ ! ianity, however, are not made to satis- 1 fy intellectual curiosity. They were given to the heart. The only way to know them is to live them. Christian l ity is a religion of personal experience
 and it's truths are the truths of exper- fence. The finality of Christianity lies in what Jesus did. He died for all. He
 died for all that He might bring Us to
 God"