Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
Among CburrbeS of @reat falls
Tesus Christ Busiest Man
Who Ever Lived, Declares
Pastor, Urging More Work
Artists Have Painted Him as Long Haired and
Dreamy at Expense Of More Virile Qualities,
Says the Rev. We're Y. Lopez.

| lawmen. His door was shut to no
body either day or night.
Made No Complaint
People have never expected as
| much nor received as much from any
man as they did from the Master of
men. Yet He never seems to have
complained that He was overworked.
If He ever said that He was too busy
to do anything that is not recorded in
the gospels. Cecil said in explaining
the success OF Walter Raleigh. that
he was man who could toll terribly.
! This is a partial explanation of the
success of Jesus. He could and did
toll terribly
same thing. If you will take the time
you will find the ever recurring theme
Of the need of the expenditure Of en-
ergy. The man with the one talent
is condemned not because of anything
evil that he had done. He.was in sim
pie language. lazy The friend who
hammered and hammered at midnight
managed to get the bread which he
wanted. Even the unrighteous steward
was condemned. because. when'he was
about to lose his position, he got busy
and collected some of his masters
debts. 4 man is not to put his candle
under bushel but on a stand in or
der that he may give light to others.
In other words, it is to work. and this,
says Jesus, is what man is to do. He
did not say anything to us about tax
ing harps in our hands, but He III
yited us to put yokes on our sholders-
And He promised that when we did
put our shoulders to the yoke. He
would be on the other side helping us
to carry the burden.
at might be well for us to pause
and ask ourselves if we have meas
ured up Dean Brown of Yale in
speaking Of the commandment, Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy; six days shall thou labor and
do all thy work but the seventh day
is a Sabbath unto Jehovah thy God
said that there are more who keep
the seventh day holy than those who
work the other six days. / wonder If
this is not true?
Both Ends of Scale
I'VE have an increasing number of
men who do not want to do a days
work. and we find these individuals at
both ends of the social scale Some
of them ride in limousnes. and others
swing a dinner pail. but the common
bond between the two is their repug-
nance Mt the idea of work. Personally
/ can see very little difference be-
tween them even though society may
give them a different rating. They
both look like parasites to me. God
never made man or woman without
making something for them to do.
$50 home and ask yourself this
morning, What did God have in mind
when He put me into the world?
What is there for me to do?' and then
when you have answered that, ask |
yourself again, Am / doing it, A
short time ago a group of noted sci |
entists went into the depths Of Vel |
lowstone park and found there a num- |
Der of remarkable waterfalls. Ii |
there had been a representative OF a /
power company in the party. he would |
have bemoaned the Tact that so much |
power was going to waste. He would
have made careful inquiry to see If .
there was any way OF utilizing those
falls to generate power. That is the
way everyone who has human advance
ment at heart feels, when he looks
over the people of any community. He
sees lives of beauty and power all
around him. He admires these people
as he does the. waterfall, but he
wishes that their God given talents
might be used to make the world
better place.
Need Aggressive Christians
'1The need Of our day is for ag-
gressive Christians. When David
went to meet Goliath, we are told that
he went on the run. When Phillip
was in the desert and saw the Eth
opian sitting in his chariot, reading the
Scripture, he did not stop to debate
whether he should approach this man.
He ran to the Ethiopian. The living
Christ is calling out in our day for
men Of this type. A football team
never wins a game that plays a purely
defensive game. Christians never play
4 winning game against the Goliaths
of today except when they run to meet
The foe. They never bring others to
The faith, which has been the greatest
factor of their own life unless they
aggressively assert the cause of their
Master.
''Babson says that religion is the
greatest undeveloped resource of
America. God gave us those who
will work heartily, as unto the Lord.
md not unto men, and then we will
develop this resource SO that roses
will spring up in the deserts of mod
,rn life"
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