Arizona republican., 1917-03-28

rect bearing upon the war situation. !
situation close to the hearts OF all
thinking men and women. The deans
remarks were as follows:
There is a phrase in one of our
prayers that we use here Sunday after
Sunday which no DOUBT at sometime
o. other perhaps always, has caught
ana fixed your attention. Because 1t
is one OF those tricks of language
holding in solution as it We're, COM
Dining and identifying, two ideas which .
on thu surface seem 10 be antagonistic, !
contradictory, and mutually repellant;
so that instantly the mind questions !
How can this thing be? The phrase
that | refer TO occurs in our Collect FOR !
Peace. You remeber it: 20 God, VINO |
art the author of peace and lover of
concord, in knowledge of whom stand
eth our eternal life, whose service IS
perfect freedom" Instantly We stop,
| w hose service is perfect freedom. !
How can this be true? How can there
be freedom in service? How can free
dom and service, law and liberty, walk
hand in hand? Isn't liberty the absence
/ of law, and freedom the absence of
/ bondage and service?
| And that is what | wish to talk about
this morning. For it is an old, old
paradox that has always faced man
kind. Always these two figures, liberty
! and law, have marched side by side:
and wherever the gracious and life
bringing figure of Liberty has come to
bless mankind, as people looked lit
tie more closely they saw standing by
! her side the majestic figure of Law
Born in Rebellion
Every democracy, practically with
aYpGnfiHD has lAGn horn in rel ell
lion, rebellion against au thority, rebel
lion against q certain Kind Of law,
against bondage, and against unjust
usurpation of power. People have said,
| Here, let US be free; let us escape
from this bondage; let us resent this
unjust taxation; let US dump the tea
overheard, and on this new continent
give birth to a new nation, conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the PROPOSE
ton that all men are created free and
equal. Let US be free And so the re-
beilion was begun, and the victory won,
and freedom achieved But even as the
smoke of battle still fingered over the
field of the victory of Freedom, as men
looked to the hills about, where stood
the figure Of Liberty, by her side they
saw also the figure of Law.
The two are inseparable; SO that no
%sooner has freedom been achieved than
! l4lElt ave cldi tSN W WIN " builu liiciA
law: they have made their Constitu-
tons; they have written down certain
bonds binding every free man. These
things you shall do; these things you
shall not do" And so law has grown
We can imagine some man saying,
Hero this is not the liberty l expected
When got freedom, expected license:
when l had won my liberty, l expected
to be free from bondage, from law; and
here find that have come only into
q higher bondage, into higher slave
ry." 1t is always true. And what the
bondage of the future is to be we cam
not begin to imagine. For democracy
has taken up now the problem of social
reform. Every year democracy is writ
ing down new bonds for free men: ev-
cry year democracy is enroaching more
and more upon our personal liberty,
and circumscribing our conduct.
Personal Liberty
We hear a lot today OF the phrase
personal liberty" that certain laws
are an infringement upon personal
liberty" that when law says, You
shall not have strong drink even in
your possession" when law says, You
shall not rent your property for i'm
moral purposes; when the law lays
down more and more conditions bind
ing upon me- she is Infringing upon
my personal liberty" And yet in spite
of our protests the enroachment of Law
on Freedom has gone on; the roar of
the onconing wave of social reform
has always drowned the cry of per
sonal liberty" and there are practically
no limits to which society may not go
in infringing on personal liberty
There are certain. fundamental laws,
certain fundamental conditions neces-
sary for the welfare and advancement
of mankind, and these things will be
| written down more and more. What the
future holds for us in it's enroachment
on personal freedom, in its invasion OF
a field which has always been regarded
as inyiolable and sacred the domain
OF private property, our incomes and
our Neutrality-suspicious. far the future
will go We cannot know. But one thing
is certain: personal liberty whenever
it runs counter to the general welfare
will be rudely brushed aside.
Where then has our freedom gone
America, the great free country; Amer
lea more and more the country of law
Where is our liberty? where our boast
ed freedom.
The only freedom is in service. The
free man must first learn to obey. Ii
berty is found alone in glad obedience
to law. He is free only whose inmost
desire is to obey Here are two soldiers
fighting on opposite sides. To one man
his bondage is bondage indeed, his
hardships are intolerable and his suf-
fering irksome and his fighting half
hearted. Why? Because he is HeSslan
hired to fight, bought and paid for He
is forced to fight from without. The
man on the other side fights with a
different spirit. He is under the same
bondage, but it is no bondage to him;
suffering he gladly bears; death, il
need be, is nothing to him. Why? Be
cause he is a patriot fighting for the
love of his country. He is free IRON
within. His deepest desire is to serve
his Cause, to help his country, to sacri-
flee, to suffer, if need be, to die, free
from within. Law has become Liberty.
So, too, in a democracy, the only
freedom is found in service; in recog-
nizing that certain things must be fol-
the general welfare; in saying to one
self, These things are essential. These
principles | gladly accept as own. My
chief desire is to be the best citizen
the best patriot, l can possibly be;
therefore accept law not as bondage
but as the guide book, telling me how
| can be the best citizen and patriot
as a guide post pointing the way to rea
liberty and service"
Law of Human Life
The same law runs all through hui
man life. We cannot look anywhere
without finding the same condition
We live in the midst of vast physical
laws, laws guiding, and guarding, and
controlling our own health, for in
stance. Certain principles are laio
down, are wrought into the very con-