Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-04
Mind OF JESUS
GREATEST EVER,
SAYS MINISTER
L0per Points Out That Master
Was Constructive in
Mental Ability.

The invitation of Paul to share the
mind of Jesus was the text of the Rev.
We're V. Loper's 15-minute sermon for
The Tribune's radio broadcasting sta
tion Sunday afternoon program. In
this talk he emphasized the funda-
mental elements which made up the
mind of Jesus and gives an insight into
the foundation of the present univer-
sally accepted Christian religion. The
Rev. Lopez is the pastor of the First
Congregational church.
He spoke as follows:
I'VE have here an invitation to share
the mentality of the finest mind which
the world has ever known. We are so
accustomed to looking at Jesus from
other angles that it behooves us to
stop for a time to view Him from
this angle of His mental creatures.
What sort of a mind was it that Paul
was inviting us to share?
I'VE can say without hesitation of
Him what we should perhaps like to
say of o%urself. he was constructive in
His mental ability. He had all of the
elements which enabled Him TO bring
from that greater source of power con-
tributions which the world had never
dreamed to be possible. Even as a
boy Jesus was noted for His grasp of
the intricate problems of His country.
Each year His parents took Him up to
Jerusalem to the Feast of the Pass
over. 1t was on one of these visits
that the boy. Jesus. disappeared. Later
he was found in the temple discussing
fundamental problems with those who
were the best minds of His generation.
They were amazed at the mental agility
of the boy. Soon after this we are told
that Jesus increased His wisdom His
mind became. with passing years, even
more firmly seated On fundamental
truth. Spiritual power without mental
power may mean only insanity. Unless
the mind of Jesus had been as capable
as His spirit. he would have failed.
This is true of all teachers of religion
today. and of men and women in every
walk of life. In one of the old Yale
courses of lectures on preaching given
By DIR. Burton of Harvard. a man long
dead. he speaks of the preachers who
do not worry at all about the content
Of their messages. They say that all
they have 10 do is open their mouth,
and tie Lord fills it with their mes
sage. DR.. Burton remarks of such
mon. Yes. the Lord does fill their
mouth, but He fills it with hot air
Spiritual aspirations. ambitions and
ability are useless without a mind be-
hlnd them.
That which His mind wrought was
broad, comprehensive and original. He
could see things in the large. He was !
master of details but His grasp of de-
tails was the stepping stone which en-
abled Him to see visions of great
schemes and enterprises. The main
product Of this ability was that He
worked out what has proven to be a
permanent and universal religion. 9th
ers have attempted this stupendous
task but have failed. Many. unsat-
lstIed with His Gospel. attempted to
work out a religion which they hoped
would gain universal acceptance.
Fail TO Unite Beliefs
Within a hundred years after the
death of Jesus there was a group of
Greek scholars known as Gnostics,
They attempted to axe the religion of
Jesus and the wisdom of the Greeks
and weld them together into a system
which they were confident would be
accepted by the whole world. But al
though they were able to win thous-
ands of adherents in their own day.
their system soon died out. There
been many such attempts. Few
of them have come as near supplant-
Ing Christianity as this one, but all of
them have had as great ambitions.
to choose what is good out
of all religions, and combine this to-
into some kind of a hash which
Is called universal religion. Many of
he greatest minds of the world have