Arizona republican., 1915-09-13

time was head of that. The time came by and by for member to be returned to parliament. The working men came to their university friends and said: Whom shall we put in?" They told them, and they did it.
 There are the unfortunate, and they need the ministry and help of the pros
 porous. We are recognizing this re-
 sponsibility more and more. Homes of refuge for the straying. .asylums for the weak, hospitals for the sick tell us that the human heart has been touched. The strong are to bear the infirmities of the weak. The weak need the protection and shield of the strong John Rus kin from whom I have quoted, illus trates as well as any man of the 18th century the right attitude of the strong toward the weak. He was rich in money and rich in genius The voice of duty called and nobly did he answer. He did not close his eyes to the vision of Wretchedness about him. He did not close his ears to the bitter walls that went up from the aching heart of humanity. He did not close his heart to the crying needs of his age. With open vision, with open ears, and with open heart he walked straight into the midst of the worlds weltering woe. He went into the shops and factories and breathed some of the foul air in which men and women and boys and girls had to work, and henceforth his voice rang out in whitening condemnation of the condition that would enfeeble bodies. wreck brains and hurry to pre- mature age and death the children of men. He saw people who were hungry for bread. He saw people who shivered in their scanty clothing. He saw the bony fingers, the sunken cheeks, the hollow eyes, the blue lips. and the faces with tragedies in every line. He saw people groveling in ignorance, wander ing in the ways of folly, lost in the wilderness of sin, staggering on their downward way. reeling to their doom. With sickening heart he turned his face toward God and seemed to say: God help me to do my duty to suffering, sorroWing, shining, crushed humanityi''
 God delights to bless our labors for others. History tells us that when the emperor of Rome was in the field with his army no one was allowed to ap- proach his tent at night. The penalty for disregarding this law was death One night a soldier approached the em- Dcror's tent with a papar in his hand. He was at once arrested and sentenced to die. The emperor heard the trouble outside his tent and asked the cause. He was told what had happened. His decision was that if the petition which the soldier brought was for himself he must die, but if it was for another he might live. It was found that the pe- titiOn was not for himself but for three fellow soldiers who had slept at their posts. He was not only spared, but his petition was granted This hints to us how God especially delights to bless the eforts We put forth for others.
 But we do not always practice what we know. SoIomon's knowledge was much better than his life You read many of his proverbs. They flash with beauty. They are like diamond points in the realm of moral teaching, but how sodden the life in comparison with the wisdom of his words. His words are worthy of a place among the loft jest precepts of the world, but his life was such that his final condition is a puzzle to all students of his life.
 We are to practice what we know.