Arizona republican., 1915-03-09
BISHOP PLEADS
 CH|LD'S RIGHTS
Christian Home, Religious Instruction and Church Are Among Childhood $ Possessions, Says Noted Preacher.

The rights of children to be well born, to be welcomed when they come, to be given the proper influences in nurturing and rearing them, to be properly taught, to a knowledge of God and a membership in his church, was made the subject of the sermon last night at Central church by Bishop E. D. MouZon, who is here
 holding two weeks meeting with the Southern Methodists of this section The text chosen for the discourse was found in Malachi chapter and verse 6: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers lest I come and smite the earth with curse"
 In laying the analogy for the ser mon the speaker explained that the Prophet Malachi who spoke the words lived in that period in the history of l the people of Israel when Greek in fluence was uppermost and the ideals and traditions of the Jews Were being departed from on every hand Even l the young men and young women
 were taking Greek names. At that 1 time the very foundations of the home
 and the religious life of the people
 were being attacked by these insidious
 influences. At that time Malachi fore | told of the coming of the prophet re
 former who should do the things stat
 ed in the text.
 The idea of turning the h1arts of | fathers to children and children to ] (, Jrfxr he lesson of the rights of the children.
 In the days of King John the men 1 insisted on their rights and placed
 them in a written covenant in Magma ! Charta; in these days much is heard
 of woman's rights. but above all these l in importance to the life and probity | of the race and the stability of the 1 future is the full understanding and
 obedience to the rights of the child | ren.
 These he divided into: The right to 1 be well bort; the right to welcome 1 the right to a Christian home; the right to religious instruction and
 right to the church. And in these di- visions of his discourse he insisted upon the duties and responsibilities | that rest upOu lIlt DftltliA 'A | and the effect in after life of the
 proper influences and training upon
 the children. The training that must be given by the mother and father
 the proper companionship of the par
 ents to the children. and the expecta- i tion and promises that are held out to those parents who in the fear of l God and love for their home bring up
 their children around the family altars
 The necessity of looking after the
 salvation of the children was stressed. ! and demand 1lat the school influ- | ences be proper that the teachers for
 the boys and girls he chosen by those | in authority with an earnest of their quality Especially should this be true | in the high schools of the country Mother. home and heaven he said are
 the greatest words in the language Children make paradise out of home, and homes are made for the children.
 There will be another morning ser vice this morning at 10 o'clock when
 Bishop Mouzon will again preach. The | congregation last night comfortably filled the body of the church. Great interest was felt in the sermon 1 throughout.