Arizona republican., 1917-09-03
SUICIDE OF SE[F|SHNESS
 SERMON RAPS DEPORTATION

present exigency lies equally upon ev- i cry member of our citizenship. Shall | we not bury such differences as moles, | our present industrial progress, upol | which so vitally depends the success Of the conflict"
 Some very strange exhibitions of | selfishness have been witnessed in Ari- | zona the last six months Few, if any 1 of us here today, believe in the teach | ings and practices of the 1. w. W's l We believe their ideas are pernicious, but the wholesale deportation of men in | the manner done in some cities of our state is a manifestation of selfishness and will never solve our problem It only vexes the problem. You cannot master an evil by committing lawless act yourself. Your wrong will return upon you
 Still more, 1t is no solution of ser ious problem, to simplify shift it from oen city to another, or from one state to another To deport l. w. W.'s from Arizona to New Mexico is not solving the problem. That is simply saying that we want our brother in New Mex ico to grapple with a trouble we are not willing to gIapple with ourselves. That is selfish My point is, that we do not get far in teh solution of any of our problems when we act selfishly and unbrotherly.
 The Folly of Sefishness
 We lose the best things in life by trying to selfishly hold on to them "Whosoever will save his life shall lose 1t. Save your love and you lose it; give it away in service and it grows
 A selfish fat man got on board train at the Union depot, Boston After walking through several cars to find a hn 1Ixr seat. He sat down and placed his bag on the cushion beside him. Just as the train was starting, another man asked: "is this eat taken?" The selfish man said: This esat is engaged, sir; a man just stepped out, he left his baggage here as a claim to his seat" Said the new man: I'm pretty tired, and if you don't object, I'll just sit down here and hold his bag for him until he returns" The fat man was bound for Lynn He now became very much interested as to where the man beside him was to get off, for he was caught in his own trap. He tried to read his neighbours ticket, but could not. Station after station was passed and his companion made no move to get off. The fat man sweat in his agony. By and by he wanted to get off himself, and had the humiliat- ing experience of confessing himself liar. SelfIShneSS is foolish.
 Them an who lives to himself, loses his soul. Play the miser with your life. your love, your love, and all the |? graces of your life will wither and decline and dry up. You can blight your life, you can damn your soul by the program of selfishness
 My attention was recently called to the fact that the Greek word from which our word idiot" comes, signi- fies a private person. That is to say the idiot is man detached and self centerec. Self isolation is the root of | idiocy." Selfishness cuts you off from the relations that are necessary for a l growing soul. When you hoard, you pauperize your soul. The penalty of closing the channels of sympathy and helpfulness for others is soul starva- tion, it is soul suicide. What tragedy of life can be more tragic than this, Selfishness runs itself out The ego tist soon grows old. Napoleon at 29 said; Glory itself is insipid. I have exhausted everything" But let man link his life to the high and holp pur- poses of service and helpfulness and he finds that there is no limit
 Art stores sometimes exhibit what seems to be a beautiful. but vain girl sitting before mirror in self-admira . . ton. But al a certain distance the pie ture resolves into a horrible skull with hollow sockets for eyes, protruding cheek bones and ravenous teeth. That | IS the artists way of showing us the folloy and tragedy of selfishness.
 Selfishness allies us with the beast Selflshness reminds us of the groWl of
 the dog when another dog comes near as he eats his meal. Selfishness is vo- racious. it is unsuitable Selfishness is ! forever -han
 what shall we drink; wherewithal
 shah we,5e clothed" With selfishness
 the emphasis is always upon self. II
 cares not if this be rebellion against
 God, for selfishness would dethrone
 God. The final issue is self or God
 Ruslin tells of man whose name was
 Lord and he always spelled the name oi deity With a small ''r' to avoid con-
 fusion with his own name.
 For me to live is what? Is if for
 self-interest, self-indulgence self
 pleasure? Think of a soul saving: T lived for myself. I thought for my.
 self,
 For myself and none beside
 Just as if Jesus had never lived.
 As if he had never died"
 The selfish soul lives apart in z
 feilowless Armament" The selfish If, ! Is decaying, whitening life The self
 ish life is a defeated life it become.
 stripped of every kingly scepter anc
 regal possession.
 The opposite of selfishness is love l one says. We are not sponges bu } channels, not prisons of possession bu
 agents of transmission.' Love con.
 verts the whirlpool into fountain" , Love is considerate of the rights O. others. Love does not consume tn, , tune of another when an appointment
 is made. When Philip Sidney wa.
 wounded and was burning with thirs , on the battlefield, love led him to pas. the vessel of water offered him to dying soldier saying. His need i , greater than mine
 Not long ago a rich young man lief } ms nome Of luxury on Madison avenue New York city. and went to live in settlement in the slums. When asked why he did so. he replied: My objec
 is to quit being selfish"
 Love took up the harp of life ant smote on all the chords with migh Smote the chord of self that trembling passd in music out of signt" , Have you thought of the beauty an, } the glory and the power Of love. Johl } Wesley gave his rich full powers fo l the blessing of mankind, and Carlyl } says that he yielded more influence than any of his three great contempor aries. William Pitt, the Duke of We'll lngton, or Napoleon Bonaparte. . Mary Reed was a school teacher il ohio. Answering the call of God, sh went to bring hope and cheer to th : women of Indian. Being taken sick she went to a health resort in the Him alayas. Three miles from here was