Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09
The Sunday Sermon

Brethren, I Speak alter the manner OF meni though
il be but mans covenant yet when II hath been con
frmed. maketh it void addeth thereto Gala
tans, BIS.
Paul, writer of the above to the church of Gaatia
also his epitaph he said 81 kept the
faith" This greatest of all Jews gentiles one
of the modest of He sacrificed fame fortune
and family tradition for the Nazarene Everything he
had he gave he asked nothing He preached Christ
not Paul But towards the INDUCED himself in
one simple sentence pride. He had kept the faith
kept with the sword above his head and the lash
his and the upon his hands And writing tc
his beloved Timothy claimed this simple shining
virtue To the greatest of this the greatest
thing
Writing the Galatians he laid particular emphasis
upon the fact that though he only weak and
sinful mortal man. yet once he had made covenant and
it had been confirmed could make it void add
thereto. 1t stood it spoken His his works
his life and his soul stood behind it.
Paul called it covenant. but today call it word
of honor Once given by gentleman it never broken
by gentleman. The who breaks it is gentleman
no longer. He is just common time and weak
ling and traitor to himself and the one with whom he
made and broke his faith
1t is said upon life of today that most
of our court composed of broken violated
agreements between and man. A verbal promise
or declaration is worth pennyweight nowadays.
must be set down in writing And written agree
worthless in market place street court room
unless is drawn alright and ironbound and cemented
and sealed by doctor of the law.
put in paul in1a 4 WA generally SDOken
And the man who did no. keep it shamed forever
These who keep faith, they few and far be
tween. 1t is hard thing do, sometimes, but the man
who keeps it is repaid thousand times for his
struggle and his sacrifice He is repaid by the admra
ton and respect that have for him. He is repaid
by that secret feeling that sustans him when
earthly comfort fails He is repaid by the light mat
kndles in his eye; by the lines it draws around
his mouth; by the pose it gives to his head and the
serenity with which it biesses his brow.
The bird with the broken pnion will fly high
again. the old song. and neither will the with
the broken promise or the unkept covenant.
The trickster and the fourusher and the charlatan
to keep their word-in way They to it that
mo maketh it void,' but the clause, or addeth
thereto" that Paul used make his covenant secure
just as passed from his lips they to make their
covenant a seve and a reed and a rope of sand
The strong simple man who speaks few words and
direct and the point and then makes them good
how admire him and love him for his lamp Of truth
in the twilight of lies.
If there thing than another that all of us
need do in this day of rush and hurry and speed and
gildcd show. TO consider carefully
before make them and then to keep them at any
cost after they made
The man who allows his promise agreement or
word honor become void 90 by default twist
ed and double meaning added thereto not only does
shameful thing but he walks on the edge Of sharp
practice And only short step sharp practice
crime
Cling to your given OF honor the bitter end.
Cling to of money pang of flesh mortifi
cation of spirit Live UP to the letter and the spirit OF
1t is better to be cheated than to cheat
one else Steadfastness and reliability the
foundations upon which all enduring and the
cardinal virtues No boy is too young to learn to
place value his given word. broken word cannot
be mended or patched or welded 1t is like
q blasted crushed flower. The whose
word is trick and promise snare Is as one having
eprosy. For his disease there is But the NAN
who say of his covenant, like Paul that mo one
maketh it void addetn thereto has priceless salts
faction in his heart and unqUenchable light in his
soul. Like the great apostle to the gentes. he may
lack of the worlds goods aud be far from the world S
high places and suffer many pains and carry many
but the gay and the great and the gded
sha all their of hearts and all
will love and honor him.