Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-13
PASTOR TELLS
0FFATHER AND
SON RELATIONS
Rev. Totten Places Stress on
Ideals Established by
Custom.

why should I be a Christian was
the subject Of the Rev Leo l., Iotten
of the First PRESBYTERIAN church at the
Sunday, morning service. Rev. Iottena
smoke at length on the relations OF
Father and Son.
The sermon follows:
THE church has a marvellous array
of holidays. ~holydays and speclaitles,
that center in human interest and the
well being of the whole race. Inc
Christ through His church has given
to the world nearly all Of the seasons
of gladness and thoughts that have
made for the happiness and inspiration
of the people of the world, lhere Is
THANKSGIVING. Christmas and New
Year: Advent. Palm Sunday and Easter
each giving life, light, hope and cheer
in this dark and d~eadening world ana
in addition to those days that SHINE
like suns bringing springtime INTO the
hearts of men there are such beautiful
DAYS as Rally Day, Children's Day,
and Dear Mothers Day; and now 70
cap the climax and to add the day that
makes the climax Of all IS ADDED
Fathers Day and Fathers n Son
Week. A day is enough for all OF the
other seasons and days of special
emphasis but for dear old dad and
tbe rollicking boys who are to make
the fathers of the future 1T requires
not simply a day but a week to ceie-
brate and bring out all OF the power
and meaning of hat majestic word
father. =.
.'The words sister. sweetheart, wife
and mother sweep the universe gather
ing in their train all thoughts OF
sweetness, tenderness, poetic beauty
and music but the words father,
brother. and son seek for all express
sious of power, might n majesty.
when dealing in human and divine re-
lations we humans cannot e~xaggerate
or overestimate. So far as we can per
ceive or think, so far as we can feel
or realize there is not IA color or the
heavens. not n note of music, nor a
scrap of poetry or q bit or science
but that it is required to express all
Of the vast reaches, resources and ex-
auisite values of the human soul and
its possibilities. Artists tell us that 1t
requires more colors to paint the
human face than all the landscape be-
sides then surely it was necessary
for the human race to invent a thou
sand languages to express all of its
surging thoughts and emotions.
Devotion
80 if we must rob all gardens,
SdtHeE I'LL jew Els. ItNuiSllloh Ill AtHI'a
ments and tones of music. and exhaust
all the tongues for poetry to express
our love and devotion to the woman
that the Almighty gave to the world
as the finest of the fruits of his
thought. the last and best of His
omnipotent endeavor surely we must
invoke the W of the lightning, the
majesty of the mountains, and the
might of the seas to fathom the
depths of the soul of man and measure
his creative value and place in the
world.
Mothers day was born in the east,
in the city of b%rotherly love. where
a dear daughter sought by flowers and
exquisite perfumes to hold fast the
lingering caress and ~benediction of a
Christian mother. But Fathers day
was born in the golden west in sunny
old Spokane where a woman with the
full heart of the rugged west remem-
bered the mighty and masterfuI
struggles of the man to master the
mighty wilderness as Jacob wrestled
with his wicked self and the blackness
of the powers of darkness that en-
yeloped and ~enthralled him after
seductive sin. Titan like he tanned the
beasts, pulled the timbers from the
forests. the iron from the ribs of the
earth. and the gold from the hills to
make his nest for his young. He
bridged the chasms, cut down the
mountains, and with the magic of his
brain and hand built cities and estab-
lished empires. He has demonstrated
his senship of God and measured his