Arizona republican., 1917-10-01

C. ret, but will kick over the traces when trouble comes. Now, no one church and no one man can pull the worlds load, or save the world, or the town by himself. Nor can you always determine which side of the pole you will be on, or what kind of a person will be on the other side. But you ought to be able to pull whenever you are with anybody and everybody who is pulling.
 Archbishop Whately said one time: Either give up your religion or prop agate it." In 1864 when Lees army had entered Pennsylvania, citizen of Phil adelphia telegraphed General Halleck at Washington to know if he could be of any service in that vicinity. This grim reply came back: We have five times as many generals as we want, but we are greatly in need of privates. Anyone volunteering in that capacity will be thankfully received" The church needs it's members to the last man in the ranks of the fighting forces.
 The church must be efficient finan- cially Some people are afraid of the churchs finances during the strain of war. This has not been the history of the church. Your attention may have been called to the fact that the great missionary organizations of Europe grew up in times of national strain. The first American missionaries went out at the beginning of the war of 1872. In our Civil War the church did not al- low her missionary obligation to be smothered. Listen to this: The great churches in the nations that have been at war for three years have with few exceptions not curtailed their mission ary undertakings. The London Mis- sionary Society last year cleared off large indebtedness and carried for ward it's work without diminution. The
 Wesleyan Society received the largest income that it has ever received in it's history. The Methodist church of Can ada had a larger income than it had vever had in any year of peace. Taking all the missionary activities of Great Britain the income of the missionary societies for the year ending March 31. 1916, eceeded considerably the income of the year before the war"
 This is marvellous record. God is certainly moving on the hearts of men and giving them vision and the sense of stewardship. Today we make our pledges for our local church and we give to the cause of God throughout
  every continent They girdle the globe.
 It is a great privilege to belong to a world church that touches all nations. May God give us a vision of our priv ilege today as well as of our respon-
 sibility. Remember the church is on a
 mission of redemption. Gods purpose is the purpose of redemption. Jesus | Christ is the Redeemer of men. Jesus
 reveals to us redeeming God. It was said of Hugh Price Hughes that he recovered for his church it's ancient passion for the souls of men and set ! that passion in living power in the stream of modern life"
 1 We are to be interested in reforms, in
 social betterment, in industrial wei i fare, but we must never forget that the sense of power that must enable us tC | cope successfully with these mighty is-
 sues is the redemptive power of God manifested in Jesus Christ. It takes 8
 nightly motive to keep a church alive l through the ages. Here is the motive the redemption of a race.
 | have read of society formed few years ago to prevent blindness. It wa: | called 'The Society for the Conserva-
 ton of Vision That is what the church | is for. It is to keep the vision of Goo 1 clear
 We want efficiency of organization i We want people alive to industrial re- 1 form, alive to the rescue of children 1 from toik in factory and mill, alive tt
 all the social movements that make for the betterment of world conditions 1 but we need most of all passion fol ] the salvation of men fro msin, for it is | only as the redemptive power of Goo 1 comes into human hearts that we car i hope for any worthy solution to al 1 our problems. Lists of principles re- | lating to our duties are given. Here is
 a good list: Observe the laws of near
 ness, aptitude. urgency and size. Dc | the thing that is near you. Do the thing you can do. Do the thing that is UT gent and do the thing that is import 1 ant.
 An infidel in Zenia, Ohio, came into | a Sunday School class. He was put oI | the membership committee. He mus | get man for next Sunday. He me l MT. Hurley on the street and said 1