Arizona republican., 1917-06-25

taught you not to do that? lou would not say that. but you stood and let him curse? Did you ever hear a man deny Jesus Christ and the church? Did you say anything to him about it? No. Then you were like Peter
 Then another maiden came along and said to Peter: You belong to that man that is being tried tefore Caiaphas now. And Peter said q know not the man" And after a little while. those who stood by. came and said to Peter, You are one Of His disciples. for your speech betrays you
 You can tell one who comes from New York. Connecticut, or Maine They don't speak like the people way down in the central part of the United States CT in Arizona. but we all have freedom of speech and we speak as we please.
 And Peter began to curse, saying, know nothing of this man. l am not one of his followers. And then abou, that time there was little cock perched vo in the tree and he began to crow. It was early in the morning. And Peter vent out and wept like a child because he remembered he had denied Jesus, and he had said just a moment before that We would not deny Christ. This man had more power fin him than he manifested around the fire.
 It is said that sometimes in factories they take large piece of steel weigh ing 500 pounds and 8 feet long and suspend it with chain that will hold up that amount of weight. and they balance this bar of steel perfectly. Then a cork is suspended by single threac just common bottle cork; the cork is pulled back and it hits the steel bar lii (, I..,. ;.rl1& one will look at it and laugh and say that it is impossible for that cork to move that steel bar. Wait a bit and the steel bar begins to move just slightly. The cork continues to beat back and forth until 30 minutes. The great iron bar that weighs 800 pounds begins to move and swing bit; the cork still continues and in a little while that great steel bar is swinging like the pendulum of a clock Why? Because the little cork asserted it's possibilities on the steel bar and set it swinging like the pendulum of clock
 Again we see Peter. We leave the fire We change the scene. It has been some- thing like month and a half and VIC come again into this city of Jerusalem in So1omOn's temple. We see one man there are thousands gathered-and we hear this man speaking. Somebody pushes his way through the crowd and says, Who is the man that is moving this crowd with his great personality O. And someone said, That is the man that sat by the fire when his Lord was being tried, that is the man that sat by the fire and said he knew nothing of Jesus of Nazareth
 You tell me he is telling these men that they murdered the Christ?''
 We are telling you that he is the man that denied Jesus. that sat by the fire and said that he knew nothing or him.
 The difference in the two men is: As Peter sat by the fire, he sat there as a man with untold possibilities, but he sa. there as a man not asserting his possibilities. On the platform we see an- other man. We see Peter a man Of wonderful possibilities asserting those possibilities and driving home the truth of God into the hearts of men.
 We find people that have possibilities but they are not asserting them for Jesus Christ. God never asks the inn possible of any man or woman, any congregation. any church. He never asks lamb of a man who is only able to give a dove; and he never asks q dove of a man who is able to give 6 lamb He never asks ten cents of a man who is able to give d thousand dollars, and the man that is able 60 give a thou sand dollars and gives only ten cents Is not asserting his possibilities. When God said to twelve men, GO into the world and preach the Gospel he knew that they could do it if they asserted their possibilities.
 Beloved. we can't keep a church nov ing, can't keep a Bible school moving, unless we assert our possibilities. We are wiling to get up at three. four, or five o'clock in the morning for self, self. But are we willing 10 assert ouv possibilities for Almighty God who has given us Jesus Christ to save us? That's members of the congregation who roll out early in the morning to do work: it is the person that sits around with his arms folded all day and says it's too hot that cannot be depended on-
 Jerubabel rebuilt the walls of Jeru- salem. The people called to him to come down in the valley, but he said that his work was too great. When the woric calls you to come down from Christ's task, do not step down in the world, bu. stand at the side of Jesus and do the work of the Master.
 Let us understand this: That God has called this church to do a wonderful work No one man or family must re- ceive the glory, but it must be all work ing together. Our own safety and the vxorld'c pood dapapd upop tba accertior