Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-21

righteousness and love which will pos
sess our whole hearts. fill all our de-
sires. extinguish our passions, occupy
all our thoughts and make us unflick-
ering lights. Yet all this is possible
and none of it hard to attain. Keep
your eye on Jesus Christ and you
have the model as well as the formula.
I'VE are. therefore, wrong to COM
plain. If the world makes its followers
happy. we then, have reason TO be dis
satisfied at not being so in the service
of God. We might accus him of being
hard and using His servants i'll, of
taking away the happiness which is due
us. But examine all stations: inter
rogate all sinners; consult in rotation
all the participants in all the different
pleasures which the world promises
and the different passions which it in
spires: envy. false ambition. selfish
honor. etc; none is happy: each com
plains; no one is in his place: every
condition has it's inconvenience and
sorrows.
Trials Painted Too Black
The trials that we speak of here
are not as bad as we paint them. If
there is any way to be happy in this
world, that way is in serving Nd. be-
cause His grace Gains our passions,
moderates our desires. consoles our
sufferings and gives us a foretaste of
that perfect happiness which is the
goal OF our service. If virtue does not
protect us from the affections and
disgraces inevitable upon this earth it
at least softens their asperity; ii makes
our hearts submissive to God; it makes
lis pray for those who despitefully use
US; il discovers in the blows with which
the Lord ~afflicts US. either a cure for
our passions or a punishment for our
crimes. But if these trials were as bad
as we paint them they would then be
infinitely less than those of the world.
Every day we hear the worshippers of
the world decry the world they serve;
complain with the utmost dissatisfac-
ton of their lot. But find if you can
the righteous souls that condemn and
complain o rdespise and detest their
pilgrimage to the better day through
this world Of bitterness.
What was about to happen to Jesus
Christ in this instance will happen to
anyone at anytime if they are trying
to live right. The world is full of
these instruments that are only useful
in stoning or ~backbiting. or decrying
Gods cause and Gods people. Among
the great leaders of the world we see
and hear it and we mistake it for elo-
auence. but it is not e~loquence: it is
only faultfinding on a scale so large
that the plaintiff takes on the aspect
of a philosopher and we. like w~eaklings,
give him credit for being the devil that
he is.
Christ Not CompIainer
Christ did not complain or murmur
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the world could afford him. We too.
have that same u In the great
blue dome that overhapgs the earth
there are planets and stars that are
said to have passed through their mil
lionth year of life and by slow decline
to have parted with their last form of
organized existence. They are barren.
so to speak. Our moon is said to be
one of these. But there are in the
depths of space other worlds where the
forms of life are just beginning to APP
pear and where the morning of a great
day is just dawning with its first flow
ers. it's first dews and its first song
birds.
This world in which we live. this life
that we contribute and this faith that
we keep are not constituents Of a
burned-up star whose glory has long
since faded. The human family is not
standing in the evening of a late day.
it is rather in the morning of its intel
lectual and moral destiny. We are liv-
ing in a dynamic world and. therefore
we are changing and advancing, and
this, not only as a mass, but as a unit.
We must help the individual to find
happiness if we would have the world
to find it. We're Marching to Zion
the city of our ideals, the goal of our
c~onQuests. Through several hells we
have come or must 60. but we follow
a Great General
We may always have the pleasure
of making an ascent and Of marking the
growing landscape and the earlier ris-
ing and the later setting of the sun in
a horizon always widening so as to
hold more of the golden glory. Every
thing seems to be on its way toward
an ideal. Many seem to have reached
it. We pity the person who has meme