Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-24

the fire, cooling but still seething and
boiling, Israel, after 40 years of
guidance and care by God. still mur-
INJURED and grumbled and no small
,, number of them would have been hap
py back in Egypt living under con-
ditions practically as trying as those
they were undergoing; the only diff
ference being that the present condi-
tion was the better and all the woes
and ills of the day they brought on
themselves while the condition in Egypt
, was forced upon them.
Moses evidently knew that memory
like all other faculties, could either help
or hinder the situation, so he plans to
present to them retrospect of the
past 40 years. Dealing with ignorance
is no small task. The land was before
them, Gods promise was theirs but
for their belief: but the murmurers
continued to knock Gods leader and
leadership. They had no apparent cause
for knocking and they cared not for
any lesson in cooperation. 1t was
theirs to block Gods purpose if pos
sible and to that end they worked
There is way of going wrong in
our retrospects and in our prospects.
For instance. we sometimes prefer to
think with pleasure about things that
ought never to have been done Our
tastes are often so vitiated and cor
rupted that they JOY in living sin over
again. There are others of us who
abuse memory by picking out all the
black bits that have gone on before.
the disappointments. losses. sorrows
and pains. Again we look back in such
a fashion as to feed sentimental
melancholy. Such was the condition to
be met by Moses retrospection. He
begins by recounting the victories
wrought and the guidance furnished by
God. the plan of justice that every
man might receive fair Judgment in
the spies and the commandment of the
Lord to go up and posses the land.
their excuses because of the evil re-
port of few other spies like them
selves. the promise Of God to go be-
fore them and fight for them. Yet in
this thing ye did not believe the Lord
your God Many We're the references
made by Moses in his speech, but the
point of his conclusion and the point
that he drove home was: Thou shalt
remember all the way by which the
Lord thy God hath led thee Deut.
VIII. =. Let memory work back under
the distinct recognition of divine guild
ancc in every part of the past
-aSnh .uosNc Nites tAe DltSul Sttlt tt
them when he said For the Lord
thy God hath blessed thee in all the
works of thy land: He knoweth thy
walking through this great wilderness:
These 40 years the Lord thy God hath
been with thee: thou hast lacked moth
ing. Deut. ii. 7.
There wouEI DC no inspiration in
past history il we looked upon Mark
Antonys funeral Grafton over Caesars
dead body for impetus. for that Grafton
was uttered with the purpose of ineit-
ing the mob against those traitors of
friendship and today the world sadly
looks upon that scene and sees Brutus.
Caesars friend, plunging his blade into
Caesars side. Antony's speech did not
stop such crimes. for century later
We see Christ standing in the Garden
of Gethsemane while soldiers led by
one supposed to be his friend sought
Him for foul result When He is
found we see Judas kiss Him on the
cheek and again friendship is given a
dark aspeck Still recounting dark
events we might see Napoleon at
Waterloo and feel the disappointment
that must have been his in that dread
hour of defeat. We might see our
fore parents in $50 years of unre-
warded servitude laying the feunda
ton of this nation and helping to rock
the cradle of civilization. Theirs was
the overseer's leash and the auction
block. Our inheritance of their lot is,
to see labor imported and given The
preference of employment while the