Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12

Zechariah urged the telling of truth in
the everyday transactions of the jew
ish people. In the apostolic ear. when
the friends of Jesus Christ were I'M
dertaking to gospelize the whole world
and %iuaugurate the golden age of
universal brotherhood and Goodness.
the same urgency to truth-speaking
rings throughout their ministry.
Is A Challenge
Tell the truth today, is a challenge
to advertisers, to business men, to pro-
fessional men, to scientists, religion
lists. sociologists, propagandists, and
to all within the family circles. and the
communities everywhere.
The fundamental principles of dip
lomacy demand straightforwardness
and truthfulness. Universal peace
must be based on the positive I'M
equivoal, honest word of nation with
nation. Let our statesmen practice
this for one generation as genuinely
as some of our American leaders.
John Hay and Charles Evans Hughes
have. and a long swing toward world
peace will be inevitable. Old Machia-
velianism must pass, with its deceit
and treachery. it's diaboiical doctrine
that the end justify the means.
This telling of the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth. is a
phrase of the oath-taking in our courts
of law, and so fundamental to the
substantial life Of the nation in it's
judiciary practice, that any perfidy and
perjury is not only to be felt as alb
horent. but the sternest rebuke and
severest punishment must be melted
out to whoever be guilty.
Truth In History
I'm strictest accord with facts should
our histories be written, and taught,
whether they be national histories.
racial or ecclesiastical. The serious
problem of Christendom's history writ
ing today resides here. What is the
truth about the world war? What is
the truth about the Lutheran reforma-
ton and the papacy? What is the
truth about the period of the inquisi- |
ton in the middle ages? What is the
true history of Napoleon, as well AS
the Prussian? Tell the truth. We
We want our children to learn the
facts Of life. history, science.
psychology, biology, astronomy, archie
Let the church tell the truth. the
truth as understood by the a~ncients.
the truth as discovered and developed
by the moderns. When the minister's.
prophets, evangelists, teachers
of religion hedge about telling honestly |
revealed truths, either from fear
the results Of truthful utterance or
from the selfish ends Of eccIesisticism
and churchism, then their path will
grow darked to doom, and the obi
Won of rejection both by God and
men. But when the pulpits
and the affairs and the rostrums and
Of the churches tell the people
their truthful and sincere convictions
Of the facts of life as related to theo-
Iogy, the path they tread will grow
brighter to a beautiful contamination
n the good pleasure of God.
Essential to Advancement
The kingdom of Christ on earth
IAN advance only as truth speaking
more and more universal. No
can enter into the spirit and
realities of the kingdom on earth who
falsehood. Into heaven itself
40 liar al enter, because it's felicities
ire necessarily based on truthfulness
its center is the God of all truth.
How Q o earth can become hea-
Tenly. will be in a great degree deter
mined by mans general practice of
.elling the truth, putting away lying,
off the former ann of life
If the old man, which is corrupt &C.
to the deceitful lusts, and be-
ng renewed in the split OF the mind,
on the new man, which after
Tod is created in righteousness and
rue holiness, speaking every man.
ruth with his neighbor; for we are
MEMBERS q of another This is basic
o social and racial and heavenly
unity.
"Falsehood corrupts- Truth up