Arizona republican., 1917-09-03

thirteen stops out, am dwelling on the mountain where the golden sun i light gleams'" In her life we see love at it's best.
 Love is the principle at the heart of the good. Selfishness is the principle | at the heart of the bad. Love unites, | selfishness separates. Love binds us together, selfishness disrupts. Love 1 unites us to God, selfishness sewers us from God. Selfishness brings on indus trial wars, defeats universal peace, and leads to the maintenance of vast fleets and armies. Selfishness deluges the world in blood.
 See the contrast between love and selfishness in Paul and Nero. Nero s life was self-centered. All the streams of benevolence and kindness dried up. All the flowers of beauty and blessing shriveled under the hot blast of selfish ness. All noble impulses were stifled by the eager longing for self-enthrone ment What a besOtted wreck he be- comes, He wields an iron scepter, but it is slipping from his grasp He lives in palace of gold, but it is crumbling. He wears golden crown, but it will soon corrode into dust He rules the world without, but terror reigns in his own heart Tear off the mask and you see d SulllN soul that S1uuutIS to late the future and trembles on the brink of hell. Here is the ripe fruit of a self l ish life.
 In contrast with this. I present Paul who stood as a chained prisoner before this monster All the strength of his body. all the energy of his brilliant mind, all the force of his undaunted ! spirit were laid as a willing offering on the altar of humanity. He wielded no | hut h palm of victory He lived in no palace of gold but God made him heir to an eternal mansion. He wore no golden crown, but God gave him fadeless di- l adem. When the lions roared to which | men were ready to hurl him. he was calm and tranquil When about to be I led forth to martyrdom, he wrote: T am now ready to be offered. The time | of my departure is at hand. l have fought a good fight, 1 have finished my course. have kept the faith. Hence
 forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. Love is the divine ideal It is the highest good. It is the high
 est duty. It is the sum total of the l moral law. It is the highest motive to action and so then ighest virtue. Self ishness is against God and so is the greatest disloyalty and the greatest evil. H. P. Hughes defined entire sane tlflcat1On as an intense deSlre not 10 | have your own way,
 Men said of Mozart that he brought angles down, and of Beethoven that he lifted mortals up. Love, strong. palp itating. divine love brings angels down, and lifts mortals up. Love is the end | of the comma ndment. Love is the full filling of the law
 The hope of the owrld is in a gospel of love instead of a program of selfish ness. The gospel of love brings us in contact with every problem of the age. 1 It touches the saloon, the brothel, the gambling den, child labor, sweatshopS, unjust wages, the greed that grinds all industrial evils all pans for social ser 1 vice are bound together in an eternal Wedlock. They must never be divorced. When they are separated, we have only a fractional gospel Jesus preached the redemption of the individual and through him the redemption of society. When the devil of sin and selfishness is cast out of the individual life. then that man must seek to cast the devil of sin and selfishness out of the life of the community. It has been well said that the soul of all improvement is the improvement of the soul, but the i'm proved soul must begin to improve So- cial conditions Our gospel of love must be not only professed, but also applied and applied not only to the life of the individual but also through him to the social salvation of the commun- ity. Christ's conception of the brother
 hood of men when enthroned in the heatr. begets a social conscience that must seek the banishment of every evil among men, This olve of men born in the heart of the Christian man by the Spirit of God lays the axe at the root of every evil tree. The reeking sores of our civilization must be healed The purliens of shame must be cleansed
 The cancers of infamy must be burned out. We hear the cry: "The world must be made safe for democracy" Yes. but we need to remember that other cry that democracy must be made safe for the world" and this can only be as the demon of selfishness is cast out and r. love comes to reign.