Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-26

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righteous living.
THE greatest work man can do is
to win souls for Christ" said the Rev
Mr.. Totten. The essential element
in that work is individual work and in
dividuals. Man is not won to Christ
in wholesale, but in retail. Unfor-
tunately. this is an age of mass and
class. We think in terms of nations
and continents. which is disastrous in
the actual working of human progress
MANY Of our best people and ma
tional leaders are thinking in terms of
society as whole. They think of the
rich and poor, of the capitalist and the
laborer. Of the foreigner and the Amer
lean, but few take time to think ac-
curately of one rich man or one poor
man. or of one employed or one la
borer.
"But this is the key to the whole
success of Christ and the church.
Women's clubs and social workers and
many people of talent dissipate their
efforts working for class legislation,
class welfare, and so forth. They have
lost entirely the personal contact.
They Forget individuals.
ITO them saving individuals is a pal
try and puttering work. They do not
think of saving boy that is drowning
but proceed to form an organization
or drainage association to drain off
the waters, and save the mass and the
class, but forget the individual. The
vast program Of Christ is to establish
a worldwide and never ending king
dom, to help and save the whole world
He rarely if ever speaks of class or
mass or even Of nations, but always
of individuals. Even God himself in
his great universal plan of progress and
dominion has desire for the indi-
vidual and not for the crowd. When
he would build a nation he called on
an Abraham of few pilgrims to sail
across the oceans to America. When
he desired to give law to the world he
did not call convention Of lawyers.
but he called a Moses. When he sought
to redeem the earth he did not go
forth with multitudes of angels or vast
armies of heavenly beings, but he sent
forth the one of all the universe who
should be God and man. and he alone
should redeem the world.
Method of Saviour.
$50 our Saviour followed the same
method. He speaks rarely to the null
titudes. but continually and persist
emily to the Individual. He called An
drew and Andrew called Peter. He said
to Philip. Follow me-. and Philip called
Nathaniel. He dealt with the woman
at the we'll, Nicodemus in the night.
and Lazarus in the tomb. His greatest
and mightiest works were for the in
dividual So he calls on us to do like
wise. We must forget the crowd. the
mass. the class, and see only the SUI
preme opportunity of the individual
Jesus saw the vast possibilities Of the
crude fisherman and sought to make
him mighty leader.
Man is like a lost city. buried
magnificence. In the Orient. cities
that have been buried for centuiIes
have been found. vast wonders of mar
BILE and beautiful paintings. For cen
turtles men have crossed the deserts
and great caravans have carried their
rich spices, and gold and never dreamed
of the vast riches under foot.
Open the Hearts.
yet the archeologist has opened the
tomb and lifted the story Of the past
ages. So Jesus has opened up the
vast possibilities of the heart of
Simon Peter and made him the found
er Of the church of Christ, the vastest
and mightiest organization OF modern
times. He has brought forth out of
the hearts of q John the revelation of
q heaven. He has called out Of the soul
Of q blind Milton and swarthy Ital-
ian, Dante, the vast imagery and mag
nitcence Of paradise. lost and re-
gained. So a. Christians We each
should wiz T., - boy, a GIRL q man or