Arizona republican., 1917-07-16
LOvE E|ST THEk KEY
 THAT UNLOCKS
 HEAVENLY CATE

were present at the Bible school of the 1 First Christian church yesterday, 103 i of this number being in the Loyal Men and Women's Class The hot days are having their effect on Bible school at | tendance. After communion Rev. w. 5. Buchanan made a few timely remarks regarding the new Christian church building which will be an edifice cost | ing $60,0O0 He said i'll part:
 'As you may know, the contract has been let to w. H. Jones, a member of this congregation. All contractors who put in bids on this building said it was 1 one of the finest buildings they had l figured on. I am sure not only this congregation, but all the citizens of Phoenix will be proud of this church building when it is erected on the cor ner of Central avenue and Mckinley streets. The morning paper made an | error in stating that Prof. John D. Loper is chairman of this building com mittee, as Dr. Louis is chairman oi the board of trustees and has this work in hand We want all to take an inter est in the erection of this church. We ] have before us a great undertaking. I have a small opinion of the man that l never undertakes great things. On next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock we are going to break ground, Brother ! R. O. Greene, one of the older mem l bers of the church, turning the first sod We want everybody there so we may start this building in the proper way and in the spirit of Christ It is a large task, but we are able to do 1t | for the Lord 1 have never seen mani- Tested such harmony in building committee as we have here, and next February, when this building is com pleted. we will rejoice in having a beautiful temple constructed in the 1 name of our God"
 Following up his sermon of last Sunday Rev. Buchanan spoke on "A Lesson in Addition,' and took his ma terial from the first chapter of the sec ond Epistle of Peter
 You will remember that last Sunday We spoke of the Christians life-that how the Apostle Peter said, Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord You will remember that we spoke about what we must do when we become Christians-that we must put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies and all evil-speaking, as newborn babes long for the spiritual milk which is with out guile, that we may grow thereby unto salvation.
 Our Heavenly Father has not left us without the proper armor to battle in this world. He said: I will give you the armor whereby you may fight against the wiles of the devil.'
 ""rhe Apostle Paul says to take the helmet of salvation. And what is the helmet of salvation? The gospel of Christ. It is having our minds clothed with the thoughts of heaven, with the great truths of God He says to have your loins girt about with truth, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. When you have the great truths of God
 upon you, when you have the armor of God, the devil cannot shoot his darts that will take away the Chris
 tian's life; he may cause the physical
 body to die, but never the spiritual
 body And so we would say tighten
 up your Joins with the girt of truth draw it itghter-until you stand in the presence of God.
 Put on the gospel shoes-not the shoes of the world-but have your feet
 shod with the preparation of the gos-
 pei. We want the gospel shoes when
 we come to the rough way that we may
 walk and travel in the name of Christ
 And when you have on this great armor and are standing in the pres ence of temptation, in the presence of
 humanity, in the presence of sin, He
 said this was the thing to do. Here comes the lesson in addition: Add to
 this faith, this faith that has brought
 us into the presence of Jesus Christ
 Add unto this faith that has made you
 d child of God.
 Add to faith virtue or heroism
 And when you add to this faith, virtue
 or heroism, there is no task in all the
 world that you may not undertake ir
 the name of our Christ.
 And then Paul says after you have
 added virtue unto virtue, add knowl-
 edge. As Solomon said, Give unto me
 understanding and wisdom;' so wt want the knowledge of our God, the knowledge of the Word of God. We
 want to have the knowledge of the way
 from earth to heaven of Gods sacri- flee, of Gods mercies, of Gods saving
 power, that we may be able to do al , in the name of Jesus Christ. We spend much time in giving our children Latir and Creek but we spend little time r giving them the knowledge of the grea truths of the knowledge of God 1t i. much more important to give our chil dren the knowledge of Gods truth.
 than the knowledge of the things of thi.
 
 life.
 Some are saying, Isn't it shame t, .. put up such large building? If yol are willing to be taxed to build a $90, , 900 building on Adams street, or 5 sl30,000 building on Van Buren street to build a great high school buildin, in your midst that your boys and girl ] may be taught the things of this life y should you not be more willing to giv
 of your income to erect for Him dying without Christ?
 Add unto your knowledge self -con ' trol. We want to control ourselves a n all times. It is when we have for tn d moment stepped away from Christ tha ], we lose our self-cOntrol.
 Add unto your self-control patience
 In the time of church building ther
 is need for patience It is said tha # whenever man narries a member c g his congregation he has to leave tha = congregation. It is true, for 1 hay r found it out myself. It is also said tha d whenever a minister builds a. churc = he has to leave that congregation. Thi r is because the members and the min = ister do not show patience When ou = building is erected want to yet renal s the minister of this church until Go e cannot use me any longer in you q midst. Let us all manifest the pa Il tience of the brethren of God Let u $ overlook each others imperfections.
 we all try to lead we will find our - selves out in some mesquite bush. Lt n us permit Jesus to lead us and ther | will be no discord.