Arizona republican., 1917-10-01
BR0THERLY LOVE SHOULD BE SPIRIT
 IN HEARTS, |s TEXT

The Bible school of the First Chris yesterday morning. This was Promo tion Day in the Bible school and pupils l were promoted in the beginners, primary and junior departments. each department having some part on the program This is certainly a live Bible school and great good IS being done i by it. After communion Rev. Bu- ] chanan read the Scripture lesson from 1 the thirteenth chapter of First Cor | inthians, and taking as his text Heb. I3:1. Let brotherly love continue" he said in part:
 "Brotherly love" someone has said, lis the daughter of godliness and the mother of love. Another has said, The welfare of man rests on two facts: the l fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man.
 Before Jesus came into the world 1 God was called the Great Judge, the Great 1 am, Jehovah, Almighty God, [ but Jesus brought him closer to us and 1 introduced him as Our Father. Ana i when the disciples asked Him to teach them to pray, you remember that Jesus uttered these words: He said, Our 1 Father who art in heaven not my
 Father but our Father. And we are , so glad that he belongs to all of us. Jesus Brought Love
 Before Jesus came the world men were hating each other and they 1elt | that the one that was the stronger was | the one that had the right of way; 1 but when Jesus came he taught that no one should laud it over another-that 1 love is the one great motive power that l le,I,n heart. | friends-but Jesus said go further, | love your enemies. Someone said, But. Lord, I can't love my enemies; | but Jesus said, I will teach you now | to do it and so He taught them how ! to love each other. Beloved, we are here as a band of Christians, as a band of men ana women that are looking to Christ Tor
 guidance. We are here stripped of
 ourselves if we have yielded to Chrls'
 as we should Stripped of selfishness,
 stripped of ambition, if we have looked 1 to the Lord for guidance and strength | So therefore as Christians we should
 all conduct ourselves differently than | others Beloved, one may say: am | a member of the chruch; l was pap | tised back in the easter nstates; 1 go l to church, and I sing the songs ot 1 praises each Lords Day morning; l sit around the communion taDie, an known as a member of that congrega- tion throughout the city'-and yet that
 person might harbor hatred in his
 heart that will shut him from the very beauties and the love of God. If we have malice in our hearts against any
 man. woman or child we are lost, and
 until we are reconciled to our brother and love him as we should, we are out l of tune with God, and our living Is Tn
 vain.
 John said: He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother IS in the darkness even now. He that loV-
 eth his brother abideth in the lght ana | there is no occasion Of stumbling III
 him. But he that hateth his brother
 is in darkness and walketh in dark
 ness, and knoweth not whither ne
 goeth, because darkness hath blinded
 his eyes
 l Should Ask Forgiveness
 "That means that we should not hate the man in the aeroplane that comes
 over our cities to destroy us. You say
 But how can we help it?' By walking
 over in the shadow of Jesus Christ
 said: If ye forgive men not thelr
 sins, neither will your Father who IS I in heaven forgive you It is one thlng
 to say we have forgiven and another thing to IOrSlVe. DOIile pcopic oitSA
 they have buried the hatchet are al
 ways pulling the thing up again. That is not the way to settle our wrongs
 according to Jesus; it is when we for 1 give and get it out of our life. One has said that forgiveness is the very fruit of Christianity; forgiveness IS mans 1 deepest need and his highest achieve
 ment.' We must plead to the Heavenly Father to forgive what we have done 1 amiss. This is the principle Of the Christian life.
 We always see the faults in others,
 because as John says, Darkness blinds l our eyes, Let us see our own faults and then the faults of others will be small and few compared to our own. Paul says: Be ye therefore imitators
 of God, as beloved children and walk always in the light as Jesus was in
 teh light An unforgiving Christian is
 moral monster
 Someone said: Why are you preaching this sermon this morning ?
 Have you anyone in the church that
 is holding hatred in their heart and you want to give them lesson? No.
 I believe my people always need the Gospel of Jesus Christ-and I believe
 that I need it-but we must always
 be ready to watch these things that come into our mind-and as a minister I must give you the Gospel of Jesus l Christ
 "An old Spanish proverb says, TO
 return evil for good is devilish, to re-