Arizona republican., 1917-11-12

Jesus Christ that He may be blessed and honored.
 Do you know what our war is costing us today, do you know what it will cost us tomorrow? Last month We spent a bit over billion dollars. Do you know how much money that is? If we could only have that gothered. for the Church of Jesus Christ. Do you know how much a billion dollars is? Since the birth of Jesus Christ down un- til now there has been billion minutes. Think of it-nearly 19 centuries to give us a billion min utes! And we are spending in How much a billion dollars would mean if it were behind the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Someone has said, do you not think it is wrong for us to give this billion dollars to war? No, beloved, I am not arguing that question-but l am saying this 1 that God calls upon us to give our very lives to His Kingdom that re- 1 ligion may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
 Again, God is no respecter of persons, and asks us to be the same. We cannot gather our skirts about us and say we belong to a certain class. In the Kingdom of Jesus Christ we are one. We are on. | it matters not where we are. We belong to Him. God is no respecter of persons; therefore I must go out to save with the gospel of Jesus
 Christ. WhereveEt the Cross is lift ed I must be there and say that l 1 love this man and that man for 1 Jesus sake.
 Therefore, Christ says, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be sons of your Father who is in Hea- ven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and send eth rain on the just and the unjust For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? and if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the Gentiles the same? Ye, there fore, shall be perfect, as your Hea venly Father is perfect"
 | Friends. the Divine call comes to us today. to give as never be- | fore, to some possibly who have not obeyed the Divine commands; but Christ gave his life for the worst ] sinners in all the world as well as 1 for the moral man. Therefore, we must hold back nothing.
 | If we do not give, we will not receive. Timothy Cooper, upon be- ing asked how he could give so much, replied: q shovel out and God shovels in, and He uses big ger shovel than I do.'
 T want this church to understand | is the one who sends rain; He is our harvest; He is our bank, and we must draw from Him our re- sources, our love, our spirit of for | giveness. We must draw these things from our Heavenly Father. | Therefore, we must be ready to trust Him; we must understand that 1 If He gives to us, we must give to Him; we must bless others as he blesses us.
 He that loses his life for my sake shall find it, and he that loses not hisI life for my sake nor the | Gospels shall lose his own life The world does not believe that we be- lieve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Do we be- lieve that Jesus is the Christ? Do we believe that Jesus is coming 1 therefore, l do not want Him to find me with money in the bank that should have been given to the converting of the world to Jesus Christ. When He comes He would say, you did not believe my words or you would have given all that you have.
 "In the Bolegne mission, Africa, one named Joseph, a cripple, was baptized. He could not go to others, but they came to him at his invi- tation, and at the end of he year thirty savages, from seven warning districts, assembled around the ta- ble of the Lord. At the service, one proposed that every member should tithe his income. To this they heart fly agreed. Again this convert, once the child of organism and super stition, arose and proposed that one out of every ten of their number give his entire time to preaching the Gospel and that these be supported by the other nine. This also was joyously accepted After seven years the one station was multi piled to four, and the membership had grown from 31 to 1000.
 70, Christians, may we go out after listening to the Divine Call and may we say: Lord, take us and fill us with the perfume of Heaven that we may sOIInd forth the GosDeJ If