Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-15

! the Apostle Paul to the carly
Christians in Galacia, a section of
Asia Minor. It's very name has
disappeared from the modern maps,
and if there were any Christians
left in that section they have also
in all probability disappeared be-
fore the march of the conquering
Turks in the last few months. The
settlement in ancient times took
its name from a colony of Gauls
which were forcibly settled there.
The text seems a suitable one for
consideration this Sunday morning
because in a few days an effort
will be made to raise by public
subscription an adequate fund to
finance the work of the Salvation
Army in Great Falls for another
year.
The Apostle Paul knew human
psychology pretty we'll. Men grow
weary in we'll doing, as they grow
weary in everything in life. Long
continued effort along any line is
bound to breed reaction. The
strain of living up to high ideals
inevitably produces its reaction to-
ward an indifference toward such
ideals. 1t was illustrated in the
history of every country that par
ticipated in the late world war.
For four years they made every
sacrifice to patriotism. Then there
followed a season of cynicism, and
indifference to ideals for which
they had suffered so much. All
human progress is marked by the
same natural phenomena. 1t rises
like the tides and GIBBS like the
tides with this important difference
the ebb is never quite as strong
as the rise, so that new regions of
attainment are always gained.
Therefore the world slowly pro-
ceeds to higher moral ground and
better ideals.
1t is harder just now TO raise
money for altruistic purposes thar
it was a few years ago, when we
were keyed up to self sacrifice as
a result of war experience. That
is a fact apart from the economic
situation which makes giving harder
because profits are less. The whole
world has turned to the United
States and demanded gifts IN the
name of humanity. At this very
moment the natives of the coun-
tries in Asia Minor where Paul es-
tablished his missionary churches,
and perhaps the lineal descendants
of those Galatians whom he urged
to be not weary in well doing, are
reaching out their hands for aid,
and the president has issued a
proclamation asking all American
citizens to subscribe to their re-
lief, while he has rushed a part OF
our navy to the coasts of Asia
Minor to help them. The unfor-
tunate and suffering in almost every
part of the world, Belgium, France,
Germany, Austria, Poland, Servia,
Armenia, Russia, China, and other
far off lands have appealed to us
in the name of humanity and have
not gone away empty handed. Our
own poor and needy we have always
with us. Doubtless their poverty
is largely their own fault. That
MAJ be said of four-fifths of the
poverty in all the world, foreign or
domestic, however. 1t is little use
to inquire how the need came
about. The fact that it exists
should be enough to prompt oui
generosity. The Salvation Army
acts on that principal as we under
stand their work. The worthy
poor" is a phrase we do not like
very we'll. The unworthy poor neec
help and succor also and they mum
Der a hundred to one against thu
other class. Heredity, environ
ment, inefficiency, weakness O
mind or body or both, vice, crim'
all these have their effect in pro
ducing poverty. Whatever thu
cause the Salvation Army is read,
to lend a helping hand, and to Civ
wisely toward relief of distress
Be not weary in well doing citi
zens of Great Falls. Times ar
not any too good. Closing bank
have locked up money for man.
who would give in recent days
But we notice that a prize figh
with tickets costing from S1.50 t
$500 did not fail to get a full
house the other day. There il
plenty of surplus cash in the peck
4ets Of the people 10 finance tn