Arizona republican., 1917-09-03

ide of selfishness" Dr. Harker said: The wholesale deportation of men in he manner done in some cities of our tate is a manifestation of seifishness. You cannot master an evil by commit ing lawless act yourself. It is no so- ution of serious porblem to simply 'hift it from one city to another, of rom one state to another.
 Here is the text of the sermon
 Matt. 1925: "Whosoever will save ls life, shall lose it.
 What the central motive of life is, is astly important. Where does life cen- CT? Is it in self, or in God and other people?
 Our subject today is: "The Suicide oi Seifishness''
 The Commences of Self shness
 You remember the story of the mother and her two boys. The mother had two apples of different sizes. She said to her older boy: You give your little brother his choice of the apples" Not long after she noticed the smaller boy eating the little apple She said 10 her older son: T told you to give your brother his choice of the apples The boy responded: T did, I told him he could have that or nothing" Self ishness is thus seen in childhood.
 It appears among men. You hear a man say: T am self-made man" That has the quintessence of selfish ness in it. When you talk like that you are wide of the mark. You are teacher-made, school made, church. made, country made, God made.
 The question we so often hear: What is there in it for me-" smacks so strongly of selfishness. When it is used as one assumes a duty he owes his country, it becomes damning spirit. That spirit should meet the frown of earnest men everywhere.
 The essence of sin is selfishness. The root of sin is selfishness. Selfishness is the program of hell.
 There are different types of sinners and different forms of sin, but selfish ness is at the center of all of them. One man wants position and power. He is ready to sell his honor for place and distinction. There is the plutocrat; he is ready to join house to house and field to field and "sell the poor for pair of shoes,'' and oppress the hireling in his wages. There is the white slav- CT, who hesitates not to blast the life of maiden. There is the man who walks in the counsel of the ungodley and stands in the way of sinners, and sits in the seat of the scornful.'' but in
 
 selfishness.
 Selfishness closes the heart against another's need and so leads to sin against man. Selfishness closes the heart against Christ and the God he revealed. It would dethrone God. The sin that blasted Eden was the sin of selfishness. The sin that hurled the angels from their celestial abode was pride and that is really selfishness ie,a lyi ird nf -ir in the world. It may be called the wor- ship of self. Men erect an altar to their own right arm Is not this great | Babylon that I have builded." My own right arm hath done this They press on, they crowd toward their goal. They are great on personal aims. Success is supreme. They trample others down. | They care nothing for anything or any | body on the right or left. They care l little off the One above. They do not worship, except it be at the shrine of | self They tolerate no God who has a | right to reign and control. The es- l sence of their sin is selfishness
 | The devil of greed is a mighty big 1 devil in our world but greed is a form | of selfishness. It is the greed of na- tions that has brought on the present | War.a monstrous crime against hu manity Nations get drunk with lust l for territory and power and are ready to crimson a continent with blood.
 Selfishness is the prime cause of this awful conflict. How colossal is 1 that greed when it will perpetuate a war that fairly staggers a world, i See how greed selfishness, has touched our land in its wars. Bishop | Ed Hughes calls attention to this in his book on The Bible in Life" In l the French and Indian war it was the question as to whether the English or the French should gather the furs in the region of the Upper Ohio and get the profits in the worlds markets.
 The war for independence was brought on by taxes. a long series Of i taxes covering many years. If the Eng fish were right, the colonists were greedy It was greed somewhere, that was the trouble. The War of 1912 was | caused by the seizure of American yes sells on the French coast and related tc the freedom of commerce. Our Mex ican war was caused by lust for terri torq. and because of debts owed tC
 people of the United States by citizen: of Mexico.
 Our Civil War was caused by slav- cry, and slavery was an attempt tt turn the labor of slaves into money. IT our Snanish American war our ain
 was unselfish, I believe, but it was tht
 heavy taxes assessed against Cuba by
 Spain that led to revolution and war And in the present world-conflict, it 1. national greed and pride, and ambition
 all selfish brood, that trenches tn,
 world in blood.
 This devil of greed or selfishness ap
 pears in many places. Tax -dodging i'
 a common sin. MT. Haskin in his worl
 On the American government says tha
 in a recent year the people of tho
 United States informed the tax asses
 sor that they were worth thirty-fiv
 billion dollars But when the enumer
 ator came around, with expanding
 chest and swelling pride, they informed
 him that they were worth over 100 bll
 lion dollars.
 Selfishness expressing itself in greco
 will lead men to crush and grind thei
 fellows The ancient Egyptian kint
 built mighty monuments to pereptuat' his name, but what myriads of livel
 were crushed to do it. In the quarrie.
 and in the sand thousands of mel
 toiled while scourged to the last ounc
 of their strength. There was the crue
 contempt for human beings. But no
 alone in far-off Egypt's day does thi same selfish spirit manifest itself There is human savagery now tha would rob childhood of it's opportunit, for play and send it to shop and fac tory. We all know how strikes meal silent looms and fireless forges.' ant they are sometimes caused by tn greed of the employer, and sometime by the selfishness of the employee. An, l here let me say, that the employer O employee, who will take advantage O l war conditions for self f-enrichment