Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-21

Bible questions; first, they have
to do with the ultimate issues and out /
come of life; secondly, that there is q
very practical philosophy underlying
them. There are two directions in life
from which man chooses one, the right
way and the wrong, the good and the
bad. The mar walking east will hardly
reach the same place as the man going
west. Jesus and Judas, Lincoln and
Booth are not more unlike than right
eousness and unrighteousness. How
can cause and effect be discovered?
Don't you see the common sense phil
osophy of it? If a mar gathers grapes
we are sure that he did not get them
by planting thorns. We have seen
men SOW a wind and reap a whirlwind.
Not long since, we saw a nation dc
that. We are living not in a d~uo-verse
one God. one law. And that law is.
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap
Cannot Afford Neglect
You cannot afford to neglect your
education and grow up in ignorance.
You can't afford to neglect your health
and go to a premature grave. You
can't afford to neglect your business
and become a bankrupt. You can't
afford to spend all that you earn and
niless. You can't afford to neglect
YOUR fire insurance lest your house
be consumed by flames and you be left
without a home. You can't neglect
having fire escapes on buildings and life
preservers on boats. Neither can you
afford to neglect that soul which is
the only part of your being that will
go on TO its Maker to give an account
of the deeds done while in the body.
Unheard warnings! Why are we so
needless? Only a few years & a
gigantic vessel was near the ice fields.
The wireless gave her warning. The
air and ocean grow colder. But who
cares? Its very name was Titanic!
Don't slacken speed or double watches.
Hark. There's a crash. What was
that? "Oh, we only grazed the side
of an iceberg The life boats are
filled and launched-but they'll come
back again. Go on with the gambling
and drinking. We are on an uncon-
querable steamer, the glory Of human
brains and skill. THE last word in
marine architecture" The Titanic is
unsuitable.
Nineteen hundred years ago Pompeii
and Herculaneum nestle beside Eesu-
vius as it towers toward the clear Ital-
ian sky. Tremors and warnings are
neglected. The population go i%ostling
and crowding to see the gladiators in
the arena. When the sky is black and
lit with lurid flames they turn and
flee. Too late,
Twenty-one years ago last May there
were queer signs on the little island of
Martinique in the French West Indies.
Men glanced toward Mont Pelee. Ma
ture was waving her danger signals.
The clocks in st. Pierre Restored 7:5S
on that May day but it was never 8
o'clock to any inhabitant of the town.
for in such an hour as they thought not
the eruption came. Too late.
Says Holy Day Neglected
America today is sadly neglecting the
Sabbath DAY. With many people Sun
day is no longer a holy day. but a holt
day. AS ] see the crowds passing into
the commercialized movie show on Sun
day. and as | see streams Of auto
mobiles leaving by the main highway
early Sabbath morning to be gone all
day / feel like crying out with the
prophet: rs it nothing to you. all wye
that pass by?" / believe that if Jesus
were on earth now He would make use
of An automobile, and l believe, too,
that He would have something very
serious to say about it's proper use.
There is no harm in running a car on
the Sabbath if it is done with discre-
ton. but when it takes people away
from divine worship it is being abused
like all other things which are good in
themselves. but become harmful inso-
far as we humans make them so. All
people delight in having a good
time. but when the things that have
to do with our more serious selves
are subordinated to our pleasures we
are face to face with q fault npa
donable by right thinking men or a
just God.
Says Hypocrites Everywhere
How can we escape if we neglect
so great a salvation:' NV friend.
what are you doing for your souls
salvation? What are you doing to
spread the truth to Others? Are Won
supporting the church with all the tai
ent YOU possess? Don't say 1T is full
of hypocrites and II have nothing to
do with it." All human organizations
have their Judases. That lodge that
you and ] think So much of has its
quota. Schools, businesses, labor
unions. professions. states. nations.
and ali other organized effort, from
ING SAlhiiest UNITS 10 the largest. nave
within their pale those who betray it's
most sacred principles. The Gospel of
Jesus Christ stands untarnished wheth-
er humans live up to it or not. When
you refuse it YOU reject not men but
God. The man who thinks he can
dismiss the Almighty with a polite bow.
studied Indifference. or brutal refusal,
is like Ajax defying the lightning. How
shall we escape if we neglect so great
s~alvation?' We can't answer for there
is no escape.
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