Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-22

in our lives. Thus by neglect of
spiritual application TO small things OF
conscience we slip through and take
for granted that all orr ways are right
in our own eyes" he said.
Mr.. johnson continued as follows:
THE fact is. that on one hand man
is led Alright in doing some things by
way of conscience and on the other
hand he wilfully blinds himself to do
what is wrong and then lays it to con
science. We have a very strange
power of binding ourselves when we
want to do something that is wrong.
This n certainty is to be remembered,
however. that no matter what we may
think of ourselves. God weigheth the
spirits That is. tho spirit of right
doing and wrongdoing. What we think
Of ourselves is no precedent for what
God thinks Of us. And according 10
His way of weighing matters there are
a great many little things that we are
skipping over in our lives that we will
have TO answer in the final reckon
ing. II has been said that there are
places in Europe where the peasants
have become so accustomed to minute
and constantly repeated doses of ar
senic that il is actually q minister Of
health 10 them. and what would poison
YOU is food for them. Habit has dulled
their susceptibility to poison. And so
habit dulls the conscience. What we
are accustomed to doing we seldom if
ever recognize to be wrong. We finally
get to the place where all that con-
science says is that it is right TO do
what is right, il is wrong to do what
is wrong. But for the explanation of
what is right and what is wrong you
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your conscience.
Are Disregarding God
This is the hard condition Of the
world today. Men are going on doing
the things of an unmastered conscience
and disregarding God in every way.
"Our one best illustration is the
parable of the wedding feast and tie
sighted invitation in which jesus
says: The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a certain king. who made
Il marriage feast for his son and sent
forth his servants to call them that
were hidden to the marriage feast;
and they would not come. Again he
sent forth other servants saying. tell
them that are hidden. behold. | have
made ready my dinner; my oxen and
my fatlings are killed, and all things
are ready; come to the marriage feast.
But they made light of it and went
their way. ono to his own farm. an
other TO his merchandise and the rest
laid hold on his servants and treated
them shamefully and killed them. The
king was wroth. He sent his armies
and destroyed these murdercrs.
Then saith he 10 his servants, the
wedding is ready but they that were
hidden were not worthy. Go W there
fore into the partings of the highways
and as many as ye shall find. bid 10
the marriage feast And those serv-
ants went out into the highways and
gathered together all as many as they
found both bad and good and the
wedding feast was filled with guests.
But when the king came in TO behold
the guests. he SAW there n man who
had not on a wedding garment. And
he saith to him. Friend, how earnest
thou here without the wedding gar
Then the king said to the
servants. bind him hand and foot and
cast him into outer darkness
NegIects Small Duties
''The lesson is this: Here was a
mar who had been slipping through the
small duties Of his day but now comes
the chance of a lifetime. that of going !
TO the kings palace for a wedding
feast. 1t was the custom in that day
for the kings and the rich people to