Arizona republican., 1917-01-29

lous regard for the dignity of the 1 truth; but if their own interests were directly at stake and falsehood seemed to he the needed stake. they will furn : ish the stake with alacrity and drive it without compunction.
 In some Christian families where prayers are said devoutly and sums of pennies are laid aside for church con tribution and denoted to send mission aries to the heather, little Susie" or l."Harold' is about six years of age when at home, but only about four and Q half or five when on the street car or when riding upon the railway. X little extra money is thus saved on fares and denoted to the Lord for heather missions. No wonder that conductors are adopts in guessing a child's age,-they have to be to find out. They ought to demand certifi- cates of attending physicians, and ex- anime teeth like a horse buyer A prominent judge recently said: One who has to sit day after day in a court room and listen to the false hood that is indiscriminate1y given out under oath. almost loses faith in hu- manity, and wonders if any one will tell the whole truth when under ad- verse pressure"
 The Psalmist David, may have come fresh from some court room. when he exclaimed: '1 said in my haste all men Iare liars. ."-Psalms l16:11.
 People can associate with preVari. cations of various shades of color and dimensions until they lose their powers of discrimination and would not recog- niZe the truth itself unless it stood in liars boots
 Si in lnlA bling with falsehOods and playing hide and seek with veracity is to become so "addled" as not to be able to tell on Sunday whether the preacher is tell ling it straight or doing his part of the popular performance in juggling with the truth.
 "Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was q murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth. because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie. he speaketh of his own; for he is liar, and the father of it."- John S:44.
 It is not to be expected that one cor rupted by a thousand business lies or Surfeited upon dainty social lielets will comprehend great truth, even though standing where their diminutiVe shad- oW is silhouetted hy the full blaze of truths great white light: If ye con- tinue in my word ye shall know the truth. and the truth shall make you free. John S:31.
 It is not to be supposed that those who do not continue in my word"- those who do not live up to the truth - whose acts do not conform to the truth,-whOse life gives creature form to untruth. shall be capable (without repentance) of expressing any right eousness without marring it with a hypocrite's unholy brand.
 The Creuans are always liars, evil beasts. slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may he sound in the faith. - Titus l:12. 13.
 The Cretian stock, as here desig- hated by the Apostle Paul. has not to this day all died out.
 To learn to tell the truth regularly may be regarded as d very simple and easy accomplishment; but possibly this opinion is explainable in that so few try the plan out. Those who do try it, find themselves not overcroWded in that particular department ot ethics, Strait is the gate and narrow the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it."
 To speak the truth without val ia tion. to love ardcntlv. fO noe9s1rc ones life by it's demands is ta inh'1e of greater truth until the charg.'er be- comes the embodiment; of -h.,t most ennobling grace. The pursuit os f"A 2 course will ultimately hwiug 'ho sor| to eternal salvation in the kingdom os God.
 But the fearful, and unhelievine and the abOminable. and the murGer- CTS. and idolatars. and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and birthstone. which is the second death."-Eevela- ton 21:S.
 If people would not indulge in false hood in what are supposed to he small matters, Oittle white ones), there would he no great deceptions (big black ones) in the land. and the Rahy- lon of contradictory religious and man made churches would Ee impossible.
 Truth is the key to salvation.
 Lying is the hairsprin2 tripper at tached to trapdoor hinged over hell on q spiral glide In the old school reader the lesson ran this way: For the want of the nail the shoe was lost. for the want of the shoe the horse was lost for the want of the horse the rid CT was lost, for the want of the rider the battle was lost, for the want of the victory the kingdom was lost and all for the want of a horseshoe nail
 This might he revised to read: "For