Arizona republican., 1917-07-23
LIVING FUR THINGS
 IF THIS LIFE WILL BE LOSS, SAYS PASTOR

Two hundred and twenty seven at i tended Bible school at the First Christian church. While this oes not by any means show this school up to it's goodly umoer, the members who have remained here for the summer are loyal and willing work CTS during this hot weather. Following Bible school song ser vice, and communion, Rev. Buchanan, taking his text from the first chap ter of Paurs epistle to the Philip plans. For Me to Live Is Christ, talked upon the subject, Forgetting Self
 After Paul had given his life to Christ, had spent himself for the cause of Christ, he was ready to stand out and write to the Christians of PhiIippi For me to live is Christ" His object was to get people to see Christ, to know Christ. His busi- ness was teaching Jesus Christ, and then he said For me to die is gain
 If we live for the things of this l life then when we die it will not be gain, but it will be loss. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain; but for me to live a life of pleasure and to die is death. It is only when we say, For me to live is Christ can we add and to die l is gain Because, beloved, if we thing is gain. Everything is joy if we die in Christ Jesus. The Chris | tian's life is life of sacrifice 1 "A woman in sending her son off to school said, Remember that you are third And when he went to col i lege and selected his room he put upon the wall the motto, I am Third and his room mates asked him what ! it meant He said, Tt means: God first others second, and myself third That is the meaning of Christian [ life Christ-his kingdom-first. others second. and ourselves third. i As we go out to live the Christian lite let us understand that God is first
 And so the Apostle Paul said, For me to live is Christ; my mission in life is to let others know that |, Jesus died for them. O, Christians, do you know that there are men and women here that know not Christ that are not saying, For me to live is Christ but that are saying For me to live is to get the glory out of this life"
 Our mission as Christians is not to live for self and to hold ourselves up; but it is to hold the Christ be- fore the citizens of Phoenix"
 Someone said would you take away the joy and pleasure of the young people in their vitality? Be- loved, the greatest pleasure in the world, the greatest joy in the world that can come into the life of a boy or girl is serving Christ. That is true happiness. The world offers happiness that will fade with the setting of the sun; Christ offers joy that will last throughout eternity
 Did you notice the picture The Madonna of the Streets in the Ladies Home Journal? Did you see the little child holding the baby--and did you notice the ragged dress? Without the proper nourishment of food she sits here all day long. She needs the spirit of Christ; she needs some one to lift her from the curb, out in the very presence of God where she will know what real life is All over our country we need to help these little street Madonnas May God help us to go forth and save others. The true life is saving others, and let us have that spirit Jesus within us.
 "Some years go we sent men to l Pnnama district to build the Panama 1 canal, and when the last bit had been done and we had announced to the world that we had finished this great task, do you know how many lives had been sacrificed? It took the lives of two hundred thou [ sand men for that canal to be built. We shall never forget the men that gave up their lives that this canal could be constructed. If the true spirit of Christ is within us, we will forget ourselves and think only of others"
 Willie Rugh, little crippled newsboy of Chicago, went to Garv
 Indiana, to live; and it came to Will
 lies attention one day a little girl about 14 years of age whom he did
 not know had received some had scars because of being burned The
 doctors called for someone to give
 up his skin to graft into the little
 girls skin that she would not die
 Willie asked if he could not give his
 skin that this girl might be saved
 They took this cripple and grafted his skin upon this girl that she might
 have life; and because of the taking of so much skin from Willie's body it irritated the disease in Willie's
 lame leg. They had to amputate the
 leg and finally the doctors told Will
 lie he would have to die He said
 Whats the cause of my death?' And
 they told him it was because toe
 much skin was taken from his body
 to graft in the skin of the girl and the newsboy said, Let me die for I have been of some use to some body On the day Willie Rugh's burial every store fin Gary, Indiana
 was closed and the men of the state
 followed that little cripple's body tt
 the grave"
 Tt was the spirit of Christ thai
 caused Willie Rugh to give his life \ for another We as Christians should r live that the world may be brought out of sin and to the very Chris l who has given his life for us May \ we so act that we will show that we have been with Jesus Christ" ARIZONA LODGE NO. 2, F.& A. M.