Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-22
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tinual fellowship with the highest OF
its kind. This is true in literary per
ception. if we would reach the heights
of literary attainment we must keeI
in touch with the master mind in the
world of literature. If we would CLEAN
that which is most profitable in realm
! of music, we must know Beethoven
Bach, Gounod, Handel. Mozart. Wag-
ner, List, Schubert. Gluck, and Grieg.
Likewise, If we would have q fine per-
ception of sanctity. we must drink
freely from the eternal fountain of
Gods truth.
Bible Often Buried
THE word of the Lord has frequent
ly been buried by creed bound dogma
tism. The Bible has been resorted to
as an armory of for religious
controversy: men have gone into this
forest of truth to cut Clubs whereby
they might arouse controversy, rather
than TO feed their soul upon its fruit.
The Bible has too often been buried BY
neglect and ignorance of its contents.
The book itself has at last been IN
chained. Once a copy was worth the
ransom of a king, but the art of print
ing has liberated it, and made if. not
the priests and scholars. but the peo-
pies book. There are in circulation
today more than 5000. 100000 copies
of the word OF God.
When the Fountain is forsaken,
national as we'll as individual chivalry.
also begins to decay. Take the history
of any nation you please. when God
has been forsaken, the sacredness of
humanity has been lost. and adultery
and RIGHTEOUSNESS and greed have gone
mad. But where men have guaffed
deeply and frequently from the life
giving Fountain; men Astounding with
chivalry cry out with the Apostle Paul,
Who is made TO stumble and I burn
not
Hew Broken Cisterns
When men have forsaken the Foun-
tain of Gods truth. they begin to hew
out broken cisterns. that can hold no
water. We cannot turn away our GRAY
ings from the Father, and by the very
turning find these cravings appeased.
The delicate tendrils which have chung
TO the Almighty must seek their sup
port elsewhere. Our spiritual instincts
will demand attention, and they will
need TO be either narcotized or strcnu-
ously and constantly subdued. The
prophet Jeremiah. cries out. See thy
way in the valley, know what thou hast
done: thou art a swift drompdary trav-
ersing her ways: q wild ass used TO
the wilderness. that snuffetb up the
wind at her pleasure All of which
means that this people. having forsaken
the place of their rest. ran about every
where, dipping into everything. in the
attempt to satisfy. the instincts which
had been denied their appointed
springs.
The man who tries to make substi-
tutes for God in This life will have a
very hard time. The Scriptures say.
The way of the transgressor is hard.
Some people seem to think that if
they do not 90 to church and have
nothing to do with the church, that
they are not dealing with the great
question Of religion: but if religion is
something Of Importance to the world.
merely by letting it alone YOU are deal
ing with il. and it is a serious question
alone. What right has any man, when
whether you have a right to let it
great questions are mp. touching the
welfare and future of humanity. to
back merely because he happens |
to be comfortable. and let them alone?i
For. mark you, religion is one of the
permanent elements in human
Lacks Permanency
When men neglect God. they begin
to dig cisterns which hold no water.
They seek to establish national and
world wide peace and to construct soci-
city and a social order which seemeth
good in their own eyes, but in the eyes
of Jehovah it lacks the fundamental
of permanency, because they
are not built on the eternal truth of
God.
"A great ocean liner, not long ago.
had travelled almost across the Allan
tic when it lost its rudder. 1t is a
thing for a ship to make port
without a rudder. The captain was
much worried, but a lady passenger
tried to console him by saying. Never
mind, it won't make any difference. it
it anyhow This may seem like
a bit of childish reasoning. but grown
men reason that way every day, or.
at least. act that way without reason
ing, which amounts 10 about the same
thing. Every day people act AS if they
believed that as long as a thing was
out of sight, it doesn't make any diff
Here Is a man with a habit, say
drug habit or something worse. No
one ever sees him at it and he mag
he is getting away with it, because
he rudder is out Of sight; but his
knows it, his nerves, muscles
and brain cells know it and soon the
nan goes stale and makes a shipwreck
IF life, because his rudder is gone.
4 man is really steered and guided
oy the things which nc one ever sees,
bic fhnrrbfc dactroc anI hoJ;ac =:
God, buried deep down in his mind out
If sight,-but whose effects show up
plain sight every minute. The Bible
IS usual puts the thing in the strong
,st way It has ever been put: AS a
nan thinketh in his heart, so is he.'
"A mans clothes or manners may
DOL 90 per cent Of the people, but
man is actually what he thinks about
md nothing else. He may have a clean
.ollar, a clean shave, and a Turkish
,ath and look clean as a whistle, and
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