Arizona republican., 1920-02-08
Peter in the ViIIaqe

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 persecuted in Jerusalem many of them
 no doubt came down to Lydda and took up their residence and lived and preached Christ, and result good strong church was organized. Tn going i in and out of the homes with the diff ferent members he met Aeneas who had kept his bed for eight years. be- cause of a sickness called palsy Please note this sickness was not a mere headache or a little nervousness, but was a disease that could not be cured The apostles always in healing ca ses took those which seemed impossible that more glory might be given God Peter said to him. Jesus Christ 1 maketh thee whole, arise and make thy bed.' And he arose immediately. When this was done the people gath cred around Peter in large numbers and Peter did not heal others but began to preach unto them Jesus anu many believed This, then was the main object of the healing that he might preach Christ. The one great thought that was ever uppermost Tn the minds of Christ and the one thought that runs throughout the New Testament is that the church is to work for the salvation of the souls of men, and whatever we do for the bod ies should be done in the name of Christ and Christianity
 he Town of Joppa
 Peter left Lydda and went on to Joppa. the sea port of Jerusalem, and While here, one of the most prominent members died. Dorcas. The whole church, as well as the whole commu- nIty, felt their death. Having heard Of Peters work with Aeneas they called upon him to help in this case. He at once put everybody out of the room and knelt down by the side of the body and prayed passionate prayer to God, and as he closed, Dor cas sat up and Peter gave her his hand and led her to her people This miracle was done to strengthen the faith of the, Christians and spread the truths of Christianity throughout the country Applied Christianity
 How God May Be Served: God is not served by men's hands as though he needed anything, said Paul in his speech to the Athenians, seeing he him. self giveth to all, life and breath and all things. During all the ages this great truth has been forgotten or neg lected by great host who have hon. est1y been trying to serve God. Men have shut themselves up in cloisters and thought that in this way they were serving Him. By service we increase the welfare, the well being, of others; shall We think in any way to increase the well being of the all-powerful. all- sufficient AM THAT AM?
 The only way in which we can serve Him has been plainly told us by Jesus in His description of the Last Judg- ment: Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the king dom prepared for you from the founda- ton of the world; for I was hungry and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink; I was stranger and ye took me in nakec, and ye clothed me; was in prison and ye came unto me- To the question of the righteous, When? comes the answer of the king. "Verily I say unto you, in- asmuch as ye did 1t unto one of these, my brethren, even these least ye did 1t unto me" We serve God by serv- ing men. It has been rightly said that ones wealth hereafter is the good he has done here to his feIlowmen, that when he dies men may ask. What property has he left behind him. But the angels will ask, What good has he sent before him. The good sent before her by Dorcas has been force impelling others to emulate her example from that day to this.
 The Worlds True Servants
 Let each seek his neighbours good was Paufs counsel to the Corinthians This Is why we are in the world to help another. 1t was not the Publican that Jesus condemned but the Phari- see who strove to fulfill the law in it's minutest regulations, and scorned his ASiioWiAiCH. IL Wd5 not Ine priest, WHO passed by on the other side, but the Samaritan who stopped to serve, whose example we are told to follow.
 One of the newspapers in France has been in the habit of taking a vote at different times for many years upon the question of what Frenchman has done the most for France. Until re- gently Napoleon has always headed the list. But in the last vote he was only fourth, and Pasteur, the great scientist whose discoveries have done so much for humanity, was first The standard by which the people judged of human achievements has changed.
 Two ragged street urchins stood one day before the window of a picture store in London, and suddenly one Of them cried out exultantly, Look. Jim. 1ook!" What is it?" Jim asked, and the little fellow answered, 'Why, there he is" That's our our earl" It was the photograph of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, in truth the earl of the poor and the oppressed. The motto of his family is Love: Serve" and nobly did he live up to his motto. What Lord Shaftesbury did for the poor of London for the insane Tor pal1per