Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-01

with more hope in their lives, many Of
whom / have taught and loved. The
orthodox Christian will be familiar with
the thought of One who loved you,
dying for you. / would like to say
that now / seem to be familiar with the
feeling that something innocent, some
thing great, something that loved me,
is dying and is dying daily for me-
Il wonder if we are as familiar with
that feeling as the great scholar feels
that we are. We have not been cured
of leprosy. ] wonder If we realize
that God gave His only Son, that we
might be. cured of the leprosy of sin.
That great demon strobe up and down
the earth with never an adversary to
challenge his rulership. And thus he
still moves in triumph upon some fields
Of life. You and / know his awful
power. We see how he tears the heart
from mans breast and tramples it in
the mire. And yet we have no fear
of him, for we know where to lay hold
of a power able to silence his Boosting.
It is not a little thing that, speaking
in His name, We can say to all men.
though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow; though they
be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool
And so. although you have not been
cured Of the leprosy of yesterday. you
have been cured of that of today. Christ
came to a world which vas full of
demons. These demons have all been
banished. To whom is this service rem
dered? The question is quickly an
severed: To everyone. Ten lepers pre-
scented themselves and 10 were cured.
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil
and on the good, and sendeth rain on
the just and on the unjust On this
day, when other men are praising God
and thanking Him for loving kindness,
there may be some who are cursing
God. But God continues to serve them
just the same. They are His children.
From Him they have come, and to
Him they must go.
1T would be a generous estimate to
say that one man in 10 actually ap-
preciates what God does for him. and
renders adequate thanks. The ques-
ton which Jesus asked Of old could
well be repeated today. Were not 10
cleansed, but where are the nine| It
would take a wiser man than [ to
answer this question, but / think / know
where some Of them are.
Wrong Use of Gifts
II pdEL Oh the uIut nave pEtIefTeu
to stay in the land of captivity that
they might be around the flesh pots.
They have accepted the gifts of God,
but they have used them only for
promoting their own material welfare,
They would prefer to make bricks in
the smog complacency of their capt.
witty, rather than to build a nation of
God by marching through the wilder
ness and winning their way into a
promised land. The pillar of smoke
by day and the pillar of fire by night
has been calling them to be up and
away to the throne of the Giver of all
great and perfect gifts. Smoke they
can see and fire they behold, but they
can not look into the face of God, for
a veil stands between. They have
made it and they can Danish it, but
they do not. SO they eat. drink and
are merry. for tomorrow they may die.
And indeed-they may die.
Some of the nine are sitting in
proud contemplation Of the things
which they have done. 1t is difficult
for them to admit that anyone else
has had anything to do with their sue
cess. 1t may be that they are think
ing of themselves as self made men.
If they were questioned as to the
source of some of the things which
form a part Of their life, it would soon
be discovered that while the world has
many self made fools it does not have
any self made men. There is a region
of experience where we are sheer re-
ceivers, dependent upon our neigh