Arizona republican., 1917-06-04


 Little Belgium, who bravely stepped in the way of the advancing giant and delayed his march long enough to en- able France to awake, bleeding from every pore of her broken heart, call to America. Shall she call in vain? France, our sister republic, who gave her best blood for American independence. France. fighting as no other nation ever fought before. France, gasping for breath, going down to her death in her own blood, France calls to us. Shall she call in vain? England, our mother, who with all her faults has yet been the true friend of liberty and has conquered only to help. England calls to us. Shall she call in vain? Neutral nations, whose rights are all coolly ignored and ruth lessly violated, call to us. Shall they call in vain? Armenia, whose innocent women and children have been butch cred as unfeelingly as if they were sheep, Armenia, whose blood has once and again been used by Turkey to fer tiliZe the soil of that unfortunate land, Armenia calls to us. Shall she call in vain? Jerusalem, where the blessed feet of the Master trod so long ago, and where his broken body was laid to rest, Jerusalem, mother of the blest calls to us Shall she cal in vain? Bleeding, dying humanity. made the tool of autocratic Germany to work out her despotic purposes, humanity calls to us. Shall it call in vain? Not if we are christians. Not if the spirit of the suf- fering, giving, serving Christ is still In us. We have no right as men or as a nation to live to ourselves. We must live and die for humanity. and for God. Speaking coolly and practically, what ha 6x. safe for democracy"
 l. Enroll June ,, if We are men be- tween twenty-one ana thirty.
 ,. Go unhesitatingly to the front if you are called.
 3. Do your bit on the farm, in the mine or wherever duty>calls.
 1. Buy a Liberty Bond.
 D. Practice reasonable economy and quit wasting.
 6. Eliminate unseemly gayety. Don't cheer; the poor devils are dying com manded our naval hero when his sail ors burst into a cheer because of their success Men by the millions are dying across the water, and soon our sons and brothers may be of the number. Decent seriousness should characterize us all in these days.
 :. Try to understand just what is al 3take. If you never read before, read now. If you read only fiction, tread something serious now. If you have never thought, think now. If you have thought only of fashion and self, think of the moaning world now.
 s. Be charitable toward "cOnscienti- ous objectors." There are such. Don call them towards. They are not that. It takes more courage to stand against war now than to stand for it.
 9. If you have conscientious objec- tions to killing, you may CD offer your self for service in ambulance corps and as nurses, t2) enlist under the Red Rross and go to the front for hospitals and camps, (3) offer yourself for serv- ice in prison camps, t4 offer yourself for service in Y. M. C. A. work (5) help support the families of those who go to the front.
 l0 Try to be as christian in thought and act as you can.
 II. Watch history in the making. Remember, God is at the helm. The old ship is not going on the rocks. The devil seems to have tinkered with the compass and to have done his best to smash the engines; but the north star still gieams in the same old place. and God is down below in the engine room and on the dcek above. His eye has not lost it's keenness, or his hand it's strength. Our only worry should be lest we fail of doing our full Christian duty. Quoting from Lowell:
 ''Once to every man and nation comes
 the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood,
 for the good or evil side; Some great cause, Gods new Messiah,
 offering each the bloom or blight. ha tc ha taff ba
 and the sheep upor the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twiXt
 that darkness and that light" Then to side with Truth is noble when We share her Wretched crust Ere her cause bring fame and profit
 and t is prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses, while
 the coward stands aside. Doubling in his abject spirit. til his
 Lord is crucified,
 And the multitude makes virtue of the
 faith they had denied" For Humanity sweeps onward: whero
 today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the
 silver in his hands;
 Far in front the cross stands ready,
 and the cracking fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in
 silent awe return
 To glean up the scattered aches into
 History's golden urn"
 The sermon was closed with an or iginal poem by MT. Varney himself.
 ANOTHER CRISIS Looms upon the far horizon grim and
 stark the cross again, While upon the gOry earth fair Free
 dom Writhes in clutch of men ien of Force and Darkness, giant brood
 that spawned in deepest hell. Hammers fall on piercing spikes and
 evry blow sounds Freedoms Done at last. Then up the cross, Now
 hear the mocking millions yell. Freedoms call for succor sounds across
 the wide and heaving sea, Sounds in hearts ssttuned to hear the
 cry, in souls themselves made
 free.
 Are we spineless, bloodless things, that
 crawl within our darkeneI cave. Crouching. sniv'lling there in craven
 fear, while Teutons dig the grave Freedoms form to hold, and then the
 broken, helpless World enslave? ? Are we traitors to our sires, those men
 who steered across the waves, Dared the bleak New England shore.
 nor blanched when faced by ln-
 dian braves, Smote the tyrants mailed hand, and
 flung Old Glory to the breeze? Impious hands would tear that banner
 down, the Kaiser's will to please; Are we bloodless towards. limp from
 fear of monsters of the seas? Nay. Ye sires from heaven look down
 on sons as brave and true as ye