Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-14

the great History of European Nor
ais gives his judgment and a fine
summary of the life and influence of
Jesus Christ. when he declared that il
was reserved for Christianity to pre-
sent to the world an ideal character.
which, through all the changes of IS
centuries, has filled the hearts of men
with an impassioned love: has shown
itself capable of acting on all ages, ma
tions. temperaments and conditions;
has been not only the highest pattern
of virtue. but the strongest incentive
to its practice; and has exercised so
deep an influence that it may be said
truly that the simple record of three
short years of active life has lone
more to ~regenerate and to soften man
kind than all the disquisitions of phil
osophers and all the exhortations of
moralists.
Was Very Popular.
There was a time. a few brief
months. when Jesus was very popular.
Then the common people heard Him
mothers brought their babies TO Him
for His blessing: the sick. and the
friends of the sick sought His healing
power. crowding Him. pressing almost
impatiently and inconsiderately upon
Him, until He must resort to boats on
the waters for refuge. and into hills
and mountains for respite. The height
of His popularity was reached when
he expressed compassion upon hungry
pilgrims. who had followed Him all the
hot day to evening. and fed five thou
sand and more to their physical salts
faction. At once they proclaimed Him
a new Moses. deliverer of Gods people.
and sought to take Him by force and
make Him their king.
There followed a time, long. hard,
service-weary and heart burdened, be- |
ginning Immediately after this popular |
acclaim and His refusal to wear a
crown. through which the Master en-
dured an increasing fierce and hateful
unpopularity. The reason for this
turn of men was Jesus teaching of a
harder gospel-the life of sacrificial |
service into which He had already en-
tered and into which all His disciples
must enter and continue if they were
to be truly His own. The multitudes
at once turned from Him. and all but
took the twelve disciples into the cur
rent Of their disapproval and rejection.
Such has been the case with many
apostles and ministers of Christs COS
pei, when they, like their Master, have
emphatica'ly presented His claims to
thNil dIis At Ii 'oSt vi hNhl "
ease and selfish interests.
Nevertheless the great question per-
sists from Peters impromptu response
to our age and to all succeeding times
to whom else shall we COZ
Satisfies Human Needs
The supreme needs of human life
are satisfied in Jesus Christ. and can
be truly and adequately satisfied by
none other: while the world stands.
The need of providential care. the daily
cry for bread, the universal bread and
butter problem, rests not alone on hui
man endeavor. be there ever so much
industry and frugality among us. The
cooperation OF heaven is the final ne
cessity in bread earning. Jesus prom
tses this IN His teaching us to seek
first His kingdom on earth. and all
these matters of temporal need will be
sufficiently cared for. Paul believed
and proved the same when be taught
his converts. My God shall supply all
your needs according to His riches in
glory by Christ Jesus ,
".The need of redemption from the {
burden and power Of sin is another I
of the supreme needs of man, Of man r
who has yielded to temptation, of the r
the Esaus. the Jacobs, the Seuls =
and Davids. the unfaithful Peters and =
the bigoted Pauls of all generations.
those who know themselves for that $
filthy thing that loves the death of its {
soul, and seek the way. and hunt the I
path to death, to hell and shame. who
do with a gloating laugh foul o
leeds without a name. In Jesus Christ a
IL revealed the grace of God to for 8
rive. to restore. to ennoble the ignoble. G
10 save the sinner h%owsoever utter a
most be the degradation of his life and
soul: The chief of sinners, and the L