Arizona republican., 1920-10-31
rexL Matthew 7:15-27.

Text. Matthew 7:15-27. Beware of false prophets. who come Co you in shcep's clothing. but iuwardly arc raNcning wolves. By their fruits ye shah know them Do men gather grapes of thorns. or figs of thistles? Even SO every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but the corrupt tree brinEeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring foth good fuit Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast tnto the fire. Therefore by their fruits re shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say unto me In that day. Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in thy name. and by thy name cast out demons. and by thy name 6o many mighty works? And then will ! profess unto them. l never knew youi depart from me ye that work iniquity.
 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine. and doeth them shall bc likened unto a wise man. who built his house upon the rock: and the rain decended. and the floods came, and thc winds blew. and beat upon the house: and it fell not. for it was founded upon the rock. And every one that heareth these words of mine, and Gocth them not. shall be lilSened unto s foolish man who built his house upon tho sand. and the rain decended, and the floods came. and the winds blew, and snote upon the house: and it fell, and great was the fall thereof"
 We break into the regular course of study in the gospel of St. Matthew to study the quarterly worlds temperance lesson. It happens that it was se lected from the regular course of study and fits quite we'll This might well he called a lesson of sham and hipocarcy and insincerity. Christ seemed to have such bighting scorn for the hypocrit that he treats them as lost and rejected from the beginning.
 There is SO much of the make believe in human society today that 1t is quite tr order to try and get the attention of a few on this point.
 Here we have he false prophet" the wolf In sheep's clothing" the tree that brought forth no fruit though pretending to be a fruit tree. the house that was builded upon a false founda- ion.
 It all centers about pretending to be what we are not. hypocracy. cant. var nish. putty. paint, padding. vii Q the uisn mirage. gamble. promises that S~e false. veneer and the unreal in life
 The point in the lesson or the lesson in the lesson for us to discover is. who is the foolish man and who is the wise man7 Christ said that the man who comes in shcep's clothes, or is unuseful CT builds his house upon the sand is Q foolish man. No man running for of nee today on the national, state or county ticket wlll get very far by pre- tending to be what he is not. False promises win be a boomerang. Calling attention to virtues and qualities that are not there win react The public is in no mood to be trifled with any longer by false prophets and shan men
 In the religious and spiritual world there is a hunger for realities. Nc sect. creed. church or ism can deceive as was once possible. IT any organiza. ton fails to bear fruit or has ceased 70 he of use it will be cast into the fire
 Carlyle spent his life and his grea brain was burned out in trying to ex pose the sham of the world.
 This chapter may be divided as fol lows. Ns- l-s. quick Judgment; vs. proper reserve. vs. 7-12 religious pow erty. vs. 1s-14, slothfulness; vs. 15-23 pretense. vs. 24-27, instability
 since this is the temperance lessor it is in order to say a word more oi this very vital subject.
 In all ages as revealed in all litera ture. the man addicted to drink is tn slave and not the free man that he pre- tends he was. The present state w find ourselves in is a good commentar on this point It Is simply amazing a well as pathetic to see how many me who thought they were free. genuin men find that they resent being de prived of liquor because they are slave 10 the habit and cannot quit any tim as they had been pretending. Thes men went the broad way and scorne Co turn in the narrow way of self con trol. They now find themselves in very narrow way controlled by a viciou habit. They even become crimina and lawbreakers because they al slaves to the bad habit.
 This same law will apply to the use Of tobacco. If nothing else win appea possibly the waste fin money will W are spending S2.400. 100000 each yea for tobacco. A lot of people are ridin In automobiles today. but we al spending far more on tobacco than O automobiles. We are spending more O tobacco than on any other thing ir ciuding the normal expenses of ol great nation. It does not seem pos sihle that any race of people in an