Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-01

persists in pushing on ahead even
though he stands alone. The progress
which he has already made possible is
not ended. Christ will ever remain
the same. but we have not vet COM
pretended the full meaning of that
life. This living Christ is a great
ocean whose depths have never been
sounded. The world knows more than
it did Is years ago. This growth OF
wisdom does not diminish the import
ance of the Carpenter. 1t makes
luminous some of the dark corners of
His life and ministry which we were
world will know infinitely more about
Christ a hundred years hence, than it
does now.
Hereto Forces Thought
1.-THE hereto is one factor which
will make this possible. The other two
forces are prayer and experience. The
hereto will accomplish his result by
forcing men to think. This is q gen.
Grafton of men who are making more
independent use of their mental pow
ers. The time worn phrases of the
the questions and doubts of those who
have come into full possession of their
rational powers. We may regret this
tendency Of our age, but our regrets
will not change the facts as they are.
Men have outgrown the idea that it is
a crime to think. They are not 60
ing to continue to throw about their
common sense when they step into
the door of a church. Or open the
pages of the Bible. They do not need
to do so. God does not ask it of them
and they know it. They are aware that
God has given them the power to think
just as much as he has given them the
power to see. or TO hear. or TO feel.
They are convinced that God never
gave them anything which he did not
mean them to use for His honor and
glory. And men are using their
rational powers TO get a more adequate
knowledge of his universe. And as our
amiable friend Chesterton says. it is
more important for n landlady to
know the view which the prospective
tenan has of the universe than it is
to know whether he has a bank &C.
count.
Hereto a Devil or a Saint
1T may be said that the hereto is
dangerous. He may as we'll prove TO
be a devil or a saint. If Christ WAS a
hereto. so also was Nero. If John
Wesley was a hereto. SO also were
the Dutch school Of scholars who tried
TO max a myth of the whole New
Testament. This must be admitted,
but it can be added that the hereto
is a menace only TO weak and ignorant
men. And everything is a menace to
a weak a If 20 the pure all things
are pure it is doubly true that to
them that are defiled and unbeleving
nothing is pure. but both their mind
andt heir conscience is defiled.' For
tunately in Gods good providence. He
has given 10 the great mass of the
ignorant. a religious life where they
are safely guarded and ministered to
as was the church of Corinth by Paul,
1 fed you with milk. not with meat.
for We are not yet able to bear it
ITO those who are neither weak nor
ignorant, the future holds great things.
But the greatest is the living Christ
who with the passage of each age will
more majestic and more Cody.
He will stand Upon new mountains of
TRANSPORTATION where men will see
Him coming out of the clouds which
have always partially obscured him.
Many things will go together to bring
to pass. One of them is the work
of the hereto of today who will prove
to be not a devil but a saint. He will
not fear TO break in pieces the brazen
of Moses. And the b~enediction
of the heavenly Father will rest upon
him is it did upon Hezekiah."