Great Falls tribune., 1921-12-05

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said the spiritual #ss#sss
mind and the flesh
ly mind can have
nothing in common,
and lamented the s'as&*4 sa&|s4s
spiritual poverty
with which he said =sauEW
SO m any mortal |ls%HsM
minds today are af- SzSSsSs SzS:
flicted. He spoke
as follows:
'"The fleshly mind is diametrically
opposed to the spiritual mind; allegi-
ance cannot be given to both in the
same personality; we are servants
either of the flesh or Of the spirit.
Jesus gives a true picture OK the
fleshly mind when he says, Out Of it
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries. for
nic8tion, murder, pride, theft, covet-
ings, wickedness, deceivt, lascivious-
ness, an evil eye. railing and foolish
ness The pages of the daily press
bring to our attention the awful toll
of wreckage produced by mankind
which gives sway to the bent of fleshly
desires. Truly did this great apostle
of Christ say, The mind of the fleshly
is death
~ Reveals Spiritual Poverty
"It is very difficult for many to be-
lieve this They know so many people
who are nice and kind and honest. who
are utterly indifferent to religious
matters. Ask them about the attitude
of these people to Christ, and they
will look as il the question were en-
tirely unnecessary. Ask them about
the prayer life of these people, and
they would smile, quite unable to un-
derstand the spiritual poverty thus
revealed. So long as they are having
good time on earthly levels, and
succeeding in business, they have only
the vaguest notion Of the fact that
they are starving in the realm of their
spiritual possibilities. Nor is this so
surprising, since there are so-called
Christian leaders today who smile at
the idea of our needing Christ IN order
to solve the sin problem. "~.
"They are blind leaders of the blind,
whose teaching has led more than one
person to make shipwreck OF lie.
Were the church to look to them for
spiritual quickening,. it would soon be
a dead institution. Many today are re-
belling against the reformatory meas
ures of the day. such as prohibition,
ti-cigarette laws and gambling re-
strictions; beacuse they are more con-
rerned about material advantages and
desires Of the fleshy mind than they
are about the larger spiritual freedom
Of mankind in Christ.
Possessions Have Them
I'VE are inclined to think Of the
rich young ruler, as man who had
great possessions: but not SO; the
great possessions had him. They that
are in the fiSkh cannot please God. 1t
is psychologically unthinkable. 1t
would be well for man, who has re-
yelled in his unregenerate nature, to
enjoy the society of God. IT would be
hell for man who has by unfair means
trodden under foot his fellow creatures
for the sake of gain t ostand in the
holy presence of God 1t is unthink-
able that a man who has trampled un-
deliberately fed upon the husks and
glamour Of goddess society in prefer
ence to the society Of God, should be
permitted to mar all the eternity of
God by his sinful and goddess life. The
automobile sometimes gets the best
of the driver, so our body, sometimes
gets the best Of us.
THE warden of Sing Sing prison of
New York. said to the visitors whom
he was showing through the prison,
We have here first-class college
faculty. There is not a college sub
ject which could not be well taught by
some one of the prisoners" Here was
a wealth of mental ability, yet SO far
from being of value to society, its
possessors were so much of a detri-
ment that they had to be restrained
by iron bars.
Dissipation Ruins Life
Hartley Colderidge, son of Thomas
II H.. 1,hL Il,
Philosopher by Lamb when be was
three years old. At 8 he had written
several tragedies. and at u was an ac-
complished Greek scholar. At 20 he
was appointed fellow at OrieI col
lege, Oxford Surely here was>- q
marvellous achievement! Yet before
he could enter on his fellowship he
gave way to dissipation and the bal
ance of his life was bound in shadows
and in miseries.
For they that are after the flesh
mind the things of the flesh, these
words are not only written in the
the pages of history and voice the ex-
periences of the human race. The
scrapping of the major portions of the
worlds great navies will not end war
So long as the causes of war remain
people will fight If only with clubs
There are more reasons why We should
be attached TO Christ, than can be ac-
counted for by Arabic numerals.
They that are after the spirit
mind the things Of the spirit Th'
spiritual mind is the mind Of the Chris
tian. He we-:.s in the direction of tn,
spiritual. His affections are set o,
things above and not on things on tn,
earth., The bent of his life is Godward
The Christian mind seeks to know thu
perfect mind of Christ.
Parab:e of Samaritan
"a man may be exceedingly religious
exceedingly orthodox in his creed ant
punctiiious in observing the forms O
piety, and still have anything but
spiritual mind. A very concrete illus
tration of this fact is given to us in thu
parable of the Good Samaritan.
II any man have not the spirit o
Christ, he is none Of His; is the tru,
tcM Of Christian. Some OF us laud tn,
Apiyit Of Luther. others the spirit o.