Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-07-02

Christian cnurcn started pioInpu! d,
9:45 o'clock am, and was well at
tended for this time of year, there
being SO in the Loyal Men and Won
ems class. This Bible school is very J.
active and great interest is being
| taken in all departments.
After song service and coIn1nrn-
ion. Rev W. S. Buchanan read from i
the 18th to the SD verses of the gos- !
| pel bv ST. clark, and, taking as his
text by their fruits We shall know |
Them preached on The Barren Fig ,
Tree and the Defiled Temple Rev. ,
Mr.. Buchanan said as follows:
I'VE know trees by the fruit they !
hear If we go out to a peach tree :
we do not expect to gather figs; If we
| go out to plum tree, we do not eX-
pect to gather grapes. We know frult
| trees by the manner of fruit they
bear. We know people by the man !
ner of fruit they bear. | was In the
midst of men the other day and noted
the kind of fruit they were bearing. /
If was not the fruit of righteousness,
| but they were bearing the fruit OF
| the woodland so we Will bear that !
! fruit if we are of the world; but II
we minister unto the SICK ana WISH
| those IN prison, We are bearing soou
fruit. 1t was brought to my atten-
ton by a certain man that the prlsr
!
of them were overcome by heat last
night. Whatever the guilt of these
rlen may be- We have no rlght 10
mt these men in q dungeon ana
smother them to death. We have no
right to do it. Jesus was mercuul
and so must we be mercifuL Some
thing must be done in our county
prison to relieve our prisoners OF the
distress that comes to them through
the awful heat
| Christ was coming out of the town
of Bethany and going to Jerusalem
He was hungry and thought He would
get lust a little fruit He walked to
the fig tree and found big leaves ana
no fruit That's like good many
people: They want to be seen ana not
known by their good works And so
of this fig tree Jesusu said, If it has
leaves upon it, it will have fruit.
| How many of US bring to the LORD
| fruit today? How many of us come
empty handed? Have we been work
ing for the Lord or for satan the last
week? Have we been known as
Jesus disciples, or as the happy-So-
lucky people of the world?
And when Jesus found that the fig
tree had nothing but leaves on it, He
said that no man should eat fruit
N II henceforward. When Jesus
said that never again should the tree
bear figs, He was thinking also OF
the Scribes and Pharisees VINO never
would be known by their good run.
The Gentle world today Is ike the
Pharisacal world in the day that-
Jesus spoke to the fruit tree. IL
win go down, and Jesus is ready to
come and curse the tree that STANDS
in the midst of humanity today as He
cursed this fig tree.
Here are the questions OF the llg
tree
What have l done that | should
be mathematical? Am | not stions
and green and pleasant? Have | m
mred anyone? Have | done harm IN
any way?' The answer is: IT Is not
what YOU have done, but what you
have not done. You have received
Gods gifts of sunshine and showers
and returned nothing but leaves Ine
world of hungry people expected frult
from you. They found none
Friends, what has the world eXo
pected of you in me past Weeh
What did it get? O man or woman,
have you been holding out your lie
before God? What have you given to
God? Many of us will be shut from
heaven, not on account of the Things
that we have done, but because OF
the things we have not done
belief expressed in praise or prayer
That yields no fruit from year 10 yeai
Though Gods fair season Ger IL roll
Is a dead fig tree of the soul,
Rut like gold flowers amid earth
weeds,
Is faith that blossoms forth in deeds
"a man said to me not long ago
NV wife is not much to speak III
nubiic but she does care for the SICK,
and she does help her nelghoors walk
closer to Jesus. That is better thah
sermon -,
There have been, and sun are
many differefit religions III the %oiiu
hut the proof of the value of each one
Is the condition of the nations thal
have professed it. We know religions
nv the fruit they bear We know the
religions of Buddhism and Mohaih-
medanism-what do these relie loii1
develop? Men of passion, men o.
sin. men of idleness. What does tiie
religion of Jesus Christ produce :
Low love, peace, long suffering KIND
ness, goodness, falthfuihess'
ness and self control.
"The irritation which we so OFTEN
fool the evaporation which lacerates
and rends the heart, the bitterness oi
which we are ashamed, all these WEI
absent from Jesus anger. hls wralii
was the hottest ever known upO -
earth. but the heart IN Whlch -
| burned was SllllSoo. O"i
frequently a manifestation OF our SCI
fishness. We become indignant over
trifles The street car does not STOP
or somebody carelessly knocks OH our
hat or a servant disappoints us, anu
wa are all aflame. Our comfort mas
-, ,noiested, our rights have peeh
entrenched upon, our dignity ht.e
been affronted; and we are cow
right mad Rawlings and shavlhss
can set us blazing; but IN the pi
ence of gigantic outrages perpe'i 0'eI
ON helpless and the weak, some VI
us are as calm as a summer morn
ing. orgr,
unless thew interfere with our owl
personal affairs. If they Wio e.,
others we will make excuses loi
them, but if they wrong u.s. they MUS
suffer. .ho temnle
land He entered into the tempe
,nd began to cast out them that soi'
and them that bought in the teiipie
and overthreW the tables OF moiie,
changers. and the seats OF them tlia
sold doves. and He would not SURE
that anv man should carry VesSe
through the temple. And he taus.'
and said unto them, is 1t not wiz
fen: NV house shall be called nous s
of nrayer for all nations? Dut We h''
made it a den of robbers
.It is not enough for me TO So
think swearing is wrong INN