The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-07-19
Good Neighbors
BY S. T. McCants

at the First A. M. e. Church Sun
day evening on the occasion of
their Joint Annual Sermon, de-
livered by Rev. A. L. Hayes, Pas
tor of the Church. Your Good
scribe felt that something
was coming off at the services
Sunday evening that would be diff
ferent from all previous occasions
of this kind and 10, and behold,
we were not disappointed.
Rev. Hayes preached a sermon
that 1 have failed to hear in Seat
tie for the past 81 years. Hope,
Faith, Love, the greatest of these
Is Love. 1 am sure that this SER
mon by Rev. Hayes brought home
to many of the Masonic Craft the
short comings so prevalent in both
church and Fraternal Organiza-
lions, not in Seattle alone, but
throughout the world, and we pray
that those words, without love we
are nothing, so forcibly spoken by
Rev. Hayes will ever rest on the
hearts of all who were present,
and will be the means of many
souls seeking that true love to
God, and all mankind.
1t is the absence of this great
love in the hearts of so many peo-
pie of the earth, that is causing
the present day stru C t i o n
throughout the earth. We are gull
ty also and unless we seek and
obtain this wonderful love in our
hearts, we too, will go the way
of death, and destruction. Love and
more love was what the beautiful
assemblage at the First A. M. e.
Church Sunday evening needed,
because as Rev. Hayes several
times repeated those heavy words
Without Love we are nothing.
AS I sat and gazed upon that
lovely assemblage, 1 thanked God
that those words had no terror for
me, and 1 wondered how many of
those good looking people present,
whose hearts We're absent of this
great love that we must have, in
order to be what our creator would
have us be. Oh, that everyone pre-
sent Sunday evening would search
their hearts and assure themselves
that Gods love is ruler of their
lives, and pray as I did while lis
tening to those heavy words, with
out Love we are nothing.
Reconsecrate your most solemn
vows to love God with all your
hearts, and all mankind as your
self. This vow from the hearts of
the people of the earth is the only
thing that will bring Gods peace
to us, his faithful children. So
900 airplanes a year for the Sc
curity of the peace of the Americas
will be of no avail. Millions and
billions of finance spent to build
battleships, and deadly gases, and
other destructive weapons of war,
will all fail. Earthly finance has
never bought peace for this old
world, and never will. The love of
God in the individual hearts of
each of us, is the only thing that
will win this, or any other war.
Christ informed the Ruch Ruler
who came to him by night to find
out the secrets of his great power
over the multitudes, that he must
be born again. The Rich Ruler ex-
planned he had kept the Laws of
Moses, and also paid tithes of all
his possessions. Then Christ got
him told, just what was wrong. All
of those riches that he had accu-
was the earnings of some
poor laborers who had been taken
of and then Christ said
to him, sell all that thou possess
and give it back to the poor from
whom he had robbed. This was his
cup and he went away sorrowful-
ly.
God is telling the world today
if you want peace, love me with
all your hearts, and your neigh
Dor as yourself. Well, this is the
worlds cup, and rather than pay
the Negroes of this wonderful
America, made so by 800 years of
slavery labor, they simply refuse
to think of doing such thing. God
demands that this debt be paid, and
pay they must, or be swept FROM
the face of the earth. am so glad
that in Gods sight there are no big
rs and little U's; you just got to
have the love of God in your hearts
or in Gods sight you are nothing.
This goes for every human being
on this earth, take it or leave it.
You can't escape, we must pay for