Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-24
GODS MESSAGE
TO Man, RADIO
SERMON THEME
KDYS Gives Sunday Afternoon
Religious Program and
Concert.

Gods message and call to men was
| the theme of the Sunday afternoon ser
mon given by the Rev. Alexander g.
Bennett of the First Methodist church
in the Tribune Broadcasting stations
(KDYS) religious program.
Nearer My God to Thee-Varia-
tions,'' a piano solo, was played by
Miss Grace Williams. Following the
| sermon. Miss Williams played "A Per
feet Day"
In the evening program, a bedtime
story was given by THE Mar in the
Clouds" followed by a photograph con-
cert.
God has been speaking to our
world. This fact is the ground of all
religion. All worship is based on some
| revelation of God. Prayer and aspira-
ton Godward are but the echo IN man S
spirit of Gods own voice.
'To the devout scientist and lover of
nature every bird that sings. and every
flower that stars the elastic sod, and
every breath the radiant summer
brings. to the pure spirit is a word of
Cod To the mystic, Gods voice is
; conscience and the inner light. the urge
of the soul to follow the CLEAN.
Though human nature has suffered
many degradations. it has never utterly
lost the capacity for seeing the pres
ence and hearing the voice of the
| Father in heaven. And to that capacity
abused and degraded. but never quite
destroyed-God has been making His
| appeal through all the generations and
| to all the races. tribes and peoples.
"As the Psalmist observed, God has
flashed forth His glory in the pomp of
the sunset. and made the majesty of
| silent stars to speak His greatness.
| God has called forth, from a solitude,
| a holy man into whose spirit He has
| i~nwrought His mind and heart, and has
! set this man from the solitude into the
| vortex of human activity to utter the
! divine thought and manifest the divine
name. But everywhere and at all
times and in all ways 1t has been the
! same God, revealing His life. declaring
| His will. manifesting His glory. calling
to His children. And truly there is
| something in this voice of God which.
universally, to an incorrupt mlno' IN
| prOportion as it is incOrrupt. IS I'M
! ~mistakable. Gods voice is ever the
| same, although ii has not always been
heard with the same distinctness.
.Of olden times to Israel this ma
| iestic voice of the divine will was
heard. The wonderful record Of TINS
depressed will of God is in the Old
Testament Scriptures. To Adam, ac-
cording to these Scriptures. in the ear
Ily and fatefuI day of paradise IN Eden.
was heard the voice of God walking IN
the garden in the cool of the day,
.Adam. where art thou" To Noah,
God said. Make thee an ark and come
thou and all thine house into the ark
of safety To Abram, God said. Get
thee out of thy country 10 a lane that
II will show thee To Moses, God
called out of the burning but uncon-
sumed bush and gave the great eman-
cipating mission of life. So also TO
Joshua. Gideon. Samuel, Isaiah. Ezekiel.
Jeremiah. Daniel and others of the
igreat souls of Israel, God is represented
as speaking in an unmistakable man
ner and scattering His revelation over
many centuries. line upon line, precept
upon precept, here a little and there a
little. He spread the knowledge of
himself over the ages Of n nations his
tory. and made the development of one
people the medium whereby to com
municate truth. Is not this a magnifi-
cent conception-a nation early strug-
giles. bitter failures. ultimate triumph.
the appearance within it of warriors.
poets. saints. used by the divine spir-
it to reveal the invisible and the will
of the invisible God?
Nevertheless. this speaking of God
to Israel in those remote generations
did not fulfill all revelation. and other
speaking became necessary. Our text
declares that God speaks in these latter
days in His Son. Jesus of Nazareth, Je-
sus of Galilee. Jesus of the cross. Je-
sus Christ. The New Testament rec
ord is that God. spoke concerning His
Son at the time of the Sons humble
baptism at the hand of John the Bap-