Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12
Sanctify Sabbath Day,
Do Not Legalize It, Is
ThemeOf Radio Sermon
Audience Listening in Several States Hear the
Rev. MIR. McMasters Say That Worship Is
Destroyed by Coercion.

I the spiritual. We rarely discover this
because we are so dirty. BY the cour-
tesy Of Mr.. Steege / saw John Drink
waters Abraham Lincoln. The drama
brought dear old Abe to all of US and
the outstanding feature was his amaz-
ing superiority to all members of his
cabinet. He lowered. His superiority
was spiritual. OF all the group he was
worth immortalizing. He incarnated the
great spiritual truths of the world in
one glorious, loving, purposeful human
soul. Once in a very great while God
gives us such a man who can interpret
the worlds Of force. beauty and har-
mony and thus make all creation voice
full TO us common clods. This is God
likeness.
"a diamond in the rough is just a
stone; polished, it is a thing Of glory,
1t is worthless until it has come into
fellowship with the intelligence of man
and that fellowship has brought out
its glory. We in the rough are just
dirt, but when we come into fellow
ship with the infinite spirit Of life we
slough off II dirt and take to our
selves the beauty and glory of the
eternal. The Sabbath is Gods dia-
mond cutting day, when he brings the
tiVis VI Spiiituhl out vi tut CCiifLlOu
clay. The man who for any reason
never into fellowship with this
infinite spirit Of life is most unfortu-
nate. He must always remain dirt
and impart his mud to all he touches.
This is another tragedy. We often
hear men say they go to the woods
on the Sabbath to worship God in ma
ture. Very few of them find God in
the woods. We have to learn natures
language to discover her truths. We
never get anything that is not latent
in our own souls. The artist cannot
paint for the blind, nor the musician
sing for the deaf. Prepare to meet
thy God is a great Bible text, and it
means more than preparation to meet
him as some future judgment seat.
The whole wide world is his dwelling
place. and unless prepared to meet him
We will overlook him daily. The Sab
bath is Gods school day for prepar-
ing his children to meet him in the
walks of life and in forest ~aisles.'
The Sabbath is a day to be sancti-
fled rather than legalized. Mans Sab
bath laws are dissertation. All human
religious legislation is dissertation.
Worship is voluntary. Anything CO.
ercive in worship destroys it. Jesus
said, The true ~worshipers shall wor-
ship the Father in spirit and in truth;
for the Father seeketh such to wor-
ship him God made us free to say
and No to him. and this free
dom gives the Yes its value. Coer-
cion is the assassin of worship. God
gave us his on--to cruelty, if we
would. He also gave us his day-to
desecrate. if we would. IF we receive
his son. he will open the very gates
of heaven to us. If we receive his
day, it will open the gates of a beauti-
full spiritual culture to us. God will
never violate our souls by compelling
to receive his son or his day. He
will never compel us to be men. We
be dirt. If we choose. We may be
very nice dirt-but dirt.
dust thou are and unto dust thou
shalt return must be spoken of the
soul who neglects spiritual culture.
and From God thou art and unto God
shalt thou return shall be spoken of
the spiritually cultured soul"