Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-24
Gods FrOWn Bodies Ill
to Those Under Cloud
of Wrath, Says Pastor
The Rev. A. C. Bennett, Preaching at First
Methodist Church Warns That Heavens
Displeasure Is IMPENDING Towards All
Unrghteousness.

such, if that soul cleaves unto sin, it
must of necessity place itself along
with sin in enmity toward God, and so
become obnoxious to the divine purity
of heart. As DR.. James Hastings, the
great English scholar. says. a ruler Of
the universe who was incapable of be-
ing moved with an intense moral indig-
nation at sin. and of putting forth.
when occasion required, destroying
energy against it, would be lacking in
an essential element of moral perfec
ton
Solomon and David
"In the life of David the other side
of God was seen after David committed
the sin of adultery and murder Solo
mon. once praised of God, later when
lie became UNANIMOUSLY sensual and re-
ligious libertine as we'll, breaking di
vine Mosaic command by introducing
idolatries in Israel reaped the evil seed
he had sown, and his kingdom was di-
vided and profligacies flourished until
the Jewish kingdoms were overthrown
forever.
This teaching is a valuable moral
teaching for our times, and one abso-
righteousness and the safety of the
greatly different from ancient, in mat
tiers of morality and godliness. The
fundamental needs of humanity are just
what they always have been. The doe
trine of evolution and the discovery of
radium and Einstein's theory of rela-
tivity have not altered the fact that
whatsoever man soweth that shall he
also reap. the JOY of the Lord for
goodness, and the woe Of divine wrath
for sin.
Needs Long Spoon
well has it been said that, in spite
still needs long spoon who sups with
of the decay Of belief in hell. he
the devil. Modern psychology only
makes more emphatic the solemn pro-
nouncement that he that committeth
sin is the slave of sin. Is it not alto
gether too true that We have had an
over emphasis of the love of God until
the people have been lulled to sleep.
and now a whole generation is wgrow
ing upresentful of restraint and the
limitations of the moral law? 1t is.
indeed. the business of the Christian
preacher. and Of the press and platform
of Christian nation. to warn the
people Of the peril Of unbridled license
and to sound in the ears of all such
the awful warnings of Jesus Christ,
Woe unto We
Forty or fifty in Great Falls this
last week have been arrested by our
energetic and faithful sheriff and his
deputies, other county officers coop
Grating. Serious law-breakings are al
legged against those brought to court.
If any, or all. of those arrested are
found guilty Of the offenses charged.
we certainly expect that our judges
will pronounce just penalty, thus ex-
pressing the Indignation of the decent
of Great Falls
Not Whole Of Gods Wrath
But who shall dare declare the
whole truth of Gods indignation toward
all bootleggers. wine -bibbers, drunk
ards. thieves. liars. adulterers. covetous.
murderers and unholy hearts, known
or unknown to men? If the laws of
the land thus flagrantly violated meet
judgment. which is pronounced to warn
other evil-doers and the protect de-
cency, how much more must God be
offended by the actions and the spirit
of evil in all wrong doing, and with
what severity may they expect the
judgment Of holy deity upon the
wickedness and moral rottenness Of
men2'