Arizona republican., 1921-10-04

session of us who dwell in this fair and raliant land. declare the infi- nite power and being of God and carry us away from the petty, sordid thought of earthly things to the ever lasting glories and mysteries of Gods mighty truths.
 We may not perhaps be privileged to look upon the great masterpieces of the worlds famous pictures, but
 how vividly they are brought before our imagination through the photo
 graphic art. How much here, as everywhere else, we have to thank God for the development of Science in this, our age of discovery and revelation.
 But from the blessings of sight and | sound, turn to the companionship of books. How fortunate we count 1 those who have come into contact with high and noble minds. who have led them to the knowledge and
 realization of the best things in life, and yet, it is possible for the most insignificant and obscure of us all 1 to have this privilege
 Today books are to be found every where through the public libraries, through the cheap reprints of the
 worlds greatest classics. There are few too poor to find them within l their grasp. The literary, the moral l and spiritual uplift of the two great | books of the Bible and Common 1 Prayer. are always open to us. We
 can walk, if we will. by the side of 1 our Master as He traverses the high roads of Gallilee and Jerusalem, as He walks the streets of Jerusalem l and Capernaum. On mountain 1 heights. in lonely desert and by the water tide we can commune with the
 great soul of Him who spoke and | lived as never a man spoke and lived
 before.
 1 The great poets become our rich possession and the mind and soul of l Shakespeare and Dante of Tennyson,
 and our own Longfellow and Whit T teir are revealed to us in the ! thoughts, all the high and noble IsideaIs, all the treasures of knowledge I and of wisdom are open to us and
 we are only bidden to enter in and l possess them. With all the fame and s wealth and gifts and social position that belonged to Lord Macauley. we are told that he received ms greates1 I happiness from books. His bio-
 grapher has said, How they guided
 him to truth, how they filled his
 mind with noble and graceful images,
 how they stood by him in all vicis-
 situdes. comforters in sorrow, nurses
 in sickness, companions in solitude, I the old friends who are never seen
 with new faces, who are the same in
 wealth and in poverty, in glory and Tn
 obscurity.''
 But my friends. in our looking at 1.-the unhappiness and incompleteness
 of our life, in our envyings and de- i sire for the unattainable, how we
 overlook and fail to appreciate what Il rich stores of Gods beauty we can
 here enjoy. We long to travel to see
 the beauties of the natural world
 and of the great historic places to
 be found on this earth, but ever these can be brought to our sight
 and knowldge through the pictures and explorations of others; in fasci- hating works of travel we discover what perhaps we would not see ever l, 1 in the presence of the places them selves.
 h the great biographies of the world, we come to axnow the minc and character and heart, and to en-
 1 joy social intercourse with the fam 5 ous, the noble and the most illus. -Sl trous leaders of mankind as perhaps many of their closest friends nevel knew them.
 s There comes next the great gift O l l friendship. and to that succeeds fam ) fly affection, and then comes tn g joy of a firm religious faith. onc' : remember hearing man who pos sesses more of the good things o :. this world than any man whom i. know, more of the blessings whicl in every way gives the deepest hap r piness and enjoyment in living-sa. e lthat the great happiness in his Tiff : was found in his friends, and anothe ,, with a world wide fame distin [, guished above most of his fellowmer o loved and honored in the old worl' e and the new, confessed that 1t wa 7 not the honors of his career. but hi 3, friendship which brought to hiEl tn y supreme happiness of his life. an s friendship is a rich and aboundin Y blessing which we can all possess n we only will. We cannot have friend q if we narrow our lives and mak e other things, and especially self, tn n supreme object in living, but if W d draw out of ourselves, if we opel d our minds and hearts in sympath q for others, if we seek to give rathe 1T than to receive, if we are willing t : sacrifice our own ease and inclina Il tiuns, and to give our time to others . then We shall find that in the givin d of the best gifts that ate found i l. our own mind and heart, we receiv