Arizona republican., 1917-09-10
CAIN THROUGH LOSS !
 |S PASTORS THEME

The contrast of if-seeking versus service for others formed the theme for a sermon with a strong patriotic appeal at the First Presbyterian church yes terday morning, when Dr. John Logan Marquis spoke on the subject of "The Loss of Gain and the Gain of Loss. The pastor took as his principal illus tration the grain of wheat, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth by itself, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit
 Dr. Marquis sermon was filled throughout with reference to the sac rifice being made by the men called to the colors for the new national ar my, and the great cause in which they are to fight. He pictured them and all the men and women of the nation as
 engaged in the great world struggle and on the side of service for others Arrayed on one side, he declared, were the forces of selfishness the selfish
 ness of a power that was determined to have what it desired by any means whatever, by trampling under foot the innocent small nations, by the ravish- i ing of Belgium, and Armenia, and by
 countless forms If ruthless cruelty. On 1 the other hand, the speaker declared were arrayed the forces of democracy, i tie nations that were fighting not for | themselves alone, but for all the small
 nations, and for the right of all peoples | everywhere to a chance for develop
 ment along their own lines.
 In the individual life, Dr. Marquis declared, self seeking so stunted and | dwarfed the soul ti,at often man who had devoted his life to amassips
 wealth, to carrying out his own desires. found when he had time for higher
 things, for culture, for service to oth-
 CTS, he was so shrunken in soul that
 he could not enter into that which he T had for so many years neglected. Life,
 the speaker decalred, was something
 more than existence, it was existence
 plus the capacity for usefulness, for
 service, for enjoyment. To gain 2. capa city for enjoyment. he said. the life of man must be devoted not to
 self but to the service of others other wise that which appeared to be gained was in reality loss, leaving the self , ish person stunted in development, lacking capacity for any real enjoy
 ment
 As in many Of yesterdays discourse9
 from the pulpit, the sermon was re-
 pletc with references to the recent de- parture of the first five per cent of the . drafted men, and to their part in the ], great cause of democracy. Out of their ] comradeship in the ranks, the million - aire and the man from the tenements marching and fighting shoulder tc e shoulder, pr. Marquis said there could certai inly be expected a greater respect and better understanding of the rights = of others, and a greater desire to serve = others. Already out of the war, wa: = coming. he declared, a better under r standing between capital and labol = throughout the nation. The pastol d pointed to the splendid patriotic reso- O lutions of the American Alliance fol q Labor and Democracy at the recen S gathering in Minneapolis as an illus = tration of the Gain of Loss In sharl q contrast he held up the recent actioi a of the government against the Urea ason able l. w. W. which through it's selfis' il attempt to usurp power for it's owl = | ends, exemplified the Loss of Gain.