Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-21
CHIEF NEGLECT
IS WITH SOUL,
SAYS MINISTER
Thinks Sunday Is Taken as
Holiday Instead of as
Holy Day.

e."Life's chiefest neglect is the neg
j, lect of maA'sHsoul,' was the statement
of the Rev:sPhilip J. May Of the Grace
Presbyterian church who gave the
!, Sunday morning serman at the First
. Presbyterian church. IF We Neglect"
was the sermon, which was based on
the text from Hebrews H., 8, How
shall we escape if we neglect so great
a salvation?" The sermon follows in
part:
Text. How shall we escape ii
we neglect so great salvation.
Hebrews H.. 3.
Our scientific experts are lnvestlgat-
ing the wastes of society caused by
mans neglect. Foresters affirm that
the northern p~ineries are being wasted
hy careless fires and the reckless axe.
Coal experts tell us that a large per
centage of the heat passes up through
the chimney. In the fields the farmer
overlooks some cars of corn and passes
by many handfuls of wheat. In the
workroom the scissors leave a greai
amount of emnan In the mill the
saw and plane refuse slabs and edges
From the kitchen of the home and hotel
there goes to the garbage can food
enough to feed a goodly part of starv-
ing Russia.
But the secondary wastes involve
still heavier losses. Mans careless
ness in the factory breaks delicate ma
chinery, his ignorance spoils raw ma
~terials. his idleness burns out boilers
his recklessness blows up engines
Passing down the countryside. we see
the pillow rusting in the furrow. mowers
and reapers exposed to the rain and
snow. binders and headers wasting
away under the avoidable onslaught of
the elements. In the fruit countries
we have seen orchard after orchard
sfrewn with decayed fruit. One Of the
great problems before the fruit grower
is. How. with this railroad tieup. am
I going to ship my perishable fruit!
We were amazed when passing up the
Hudson river to see that queen among
orean liners, that floating palace, the
Imperator. keeled to n side in her
dock at Hoboken, disfigured by ugly
blotches of rust on her beautiful sides,
her tunnels and cabins covered with
the marks of decay. wasting away, the
pitiful object of mans neglect.
A journey through life is like a jour
ney along the path Of a fleeing army.
here a valuable ammunition wagon lies
abandoned because a careless smith left
a flaw in a tire. there a brass cannon
is deserted because a tug was i'm
properly stitched. yonder in n thicket
a brave soldier lies dying because ex
cited men forgot the use of an ambu-
lance.
Neglect in Mans Soul
Life's chiefest neglect is in the city
of mans soul. Given a soul stored
with great possibilities and three score
and ten years for happiness and use
f%ulness, how shall one kill the time and
waste the treasurer" The salvation
which the Bible primarily dwells upon
is limited to the human soul. How
shall we escape if we neglect so great
salvation" Here is a question that
ought to ring into the depths of every
human soul. Would that it were
branded upon every heart so that we
would never forget it, and that voices
would repeat II TO our consciousness
by day and bring it into IL dreams at
night. II is a text showing the folly
and guilt of neglecting God. II is one
of the Bibles most searching questions
and the Bible does not attempt to
answer it. 1t is self-evident and its
answer is left to the human soul.
"ho~n -" q number If other questions
in the Bible so self-evident that no
answer is given. Here is one: What
shall it profit a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?"
Another: IF the righteous scarcely
be saved. where shall the sinner and
ungodly appear" That catches the
man who says, "Oh, any old kind of a
life will do Still another question
...s, ,,u.. shan ue the end OF them