Arizona republican., 1917-06-04
ONE FUR ALL
 ONE FOR ALL
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sermon by Rev George R. Farney of the First Baptist church yesterday. Romas 14:7-"None of us liveth for himself"
 God bless me and my wife,
 My son John and his wife,
 Us four and no more"
 This olu jingle is an unpalatably raw diShing out of the praying and practice ing of some men and of some nations. l. sum up their whole philosophy of life. They live, move and have their being in self. You will notice that the
 me comes before the my wife, and
 me and my wife before John ana his wife" Tie pious old hypocrite prays that his wife may be blessed. but it is only because ln some way she is nec- essary to his selfish comfort. Funda- mentally the me" comprises his whole world, and the us four and no more Is added because the me needs the jther three as satellites.
 God bless me and only me;
 Make the rest of men serve me,
 JustSme and only me-
 that Is really the prayer when you get at the heart of it.
 Consciously or unconsciouSly in the main has that been the prayer of the United States, as i. is still he power
  roe Doctrine has quite generally been interpreted to mean: Y ou keep your hands off of us, and we will keep our hands off of you. You let us alone, and We will let you alone. America for Americans has been the cry. Favored by Providence with broad and fertile acres, which guaranteed the filling of our stomaChs with sufficient food; with minerals and oils beneath the soil and forests above, which meant gold and silver for money, iron and steel for rail roads and machines. and fuel and warmth and manufa acturies,--in word, favored by the Creator with all ae needed for our comfort and devel- opment, We have too forgotten the rest of the world and withdrawn ourselves selfshly from it.
 Two considerations will make it plain how unjustifiable this self-isolation is, whether in the individual or the nation. The first consideration is the law of inter dependence. In the world of things nothing exists by and for itself alone. Each thing is somehow intricate with other things. The rocks on the seashore support the tangled seaweed, and the seaWeed protects the rocks from the buffeting of the pillows. On the west coast of Africa it has been estimated that more than 62,000 tons of rich sub soil are brought to the sur face each year on each spare mile by the angle-worm. The angle worms de pend on the soil for their life, but the soil depends on the angle-woi ms for blowing and fertility. From a chunk of dirt taken by Darwin from the foot of bird more than fourscore seeds germ mated. The seeds supported the life of the bird, but were spread far and wide by the bird.
 In the world of persons this inter dependence is quite as strong and in- tricate. No man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. Paul says. One spring d man piowed his land in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains and planted a field of potatoes. Indigen- ous to that section is wild plant called the Solanum, very much like the potato plant. That wild plant was the home and thriving place of the bug now known as the potatobug. From the Solanum these bugs passed to the po- tato plans. and spread there faster than on their native plants. Then from the shadow of the Rockies those potato bugs began their march across the con- tinent. using the potato plant as a bridge. Neither legislation nor labor could stop their onward march. That one mans unfortunate selection for a potato field has involved the nation and cost us millions and millions of dollars. Everywhere men are ineNtrlc- ably interwoven with other men. From these relations spring duties. Because you have helped me. must and should help you. Because I have helped you, you must and should help me. On the low plain of seifishness we are all bound to help one another.
 In the world of nations this inter- dependence is equally binding. Amer iea has no right, simply because she is comparatively independent of other na- tions. to withdraw herself from active participation in the affairs of .ther ma tions. A Spaniard discovered the coun- try. Englishmen settled it, Frenchman helped to liberate 1t, and all the nations of the earth have poured their rich blood into our veins. If we have some of the vices of all the nations, we also have some of their virtues. Herbert Spencer showed that the mixed races are the strongest, and contended that on American soil would be developed the strongest race the world has known, developed here just because of this admixtuTe of blood. Wisely or boastfu:- ly we ourselves claim that we have al ready became what Spencer held we
 
 have done for US binds rus to do what we can for them
 Just now we are concerned with a christians duty in the world war; but it is not out of place to notice right here that self-interest can not hesitate. The rights of small nations have been trampled under foot, Treaties have been broken. International; jaw has been outraged A great nation has come to believe that it's culture is the highest and best the world has ever known. and that it is it's duty to impose this civili- Zation on the rest of mankind. With her might is right. Through the years she has been building up the mightiest fighting machine the world has ever known. Slowly but surely that fighting machine will beat back and down the nations that stand in it's way, and then will step across the mighty ocean and .jeat us back and down and make us pay the cost of the most costly war of all history. Our fathers died to give us liberty. Shall We sit idly by while that iberty is ground beneath the iron heel of Germany? To do so means that we give the lie to Spencer's claim for us means that we are weak, not strong means that we have failed miserably to rise to the obligation which this prin ciple of interdependence imposes. upon us.
 The other consideration of which ] would speak Is loftier. It is the spirit of Jesus the Christ. the spirit of service. Christ never counted the cost to him self. He never placed self first. He came to minister and to give his life for the 1 world. His chosen life work involved physical discomfort, mental suffering, l loneliness, sacrifice, heartache and