Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-06

"A ASSOCIATED Press dis
a patch last week, under date of
July 80, says: "A flapper's clothes,
said Rev. w. A. Sunday, in his annual
e. home sermon preached Sunday
at Hood River, would be insuffi-
cient for making the tail of a kite.
No man. declared Rev. Sunday,
can look upon such a sight without
a moral blowout"
King Solomon knew men and
women. He was a student OF the
human heart and he discovered a
profound truth when he said, as a
mar thinketh in his heart so is he.
We have noted the exemplification
of this bit of ancient wisdom many
times in public life. The man who
is always suspicious and ready to
assign the meanest motives to
others to account for their conduct
does so because he judges others
by himself. He would do the
things he attributes to others if he
stood in their shoes and had their
chance, therefore he is sure that
they are guilty. The public officer
is a CRATER to this man if he had
the opportunity to graft. If a ma
grows rich he gets his money by
theft or by taking unfair advantage
of others. As 4 man thinketh in
his heart 50 is he.
No man can look at a young girl
clothed as the fashion Of the time
dictates without "a moral blowout"
thinks Rev. Sunday. Thank God.
not all men have so filthy a mind
as this preacher. They can look
on the flappers in their short skirts
and neat stockings without any
moral blowout" The tires that
bound their moral nature are not
made of such rotten stuff. The
Rev. Sunday should get converted
and have his heart washed clean.
It needs a very stiff scrub brush
and much Dutch Cleanser to do the
job. Perhaps then he can look at
the young girls about him without
danger of "a moral blowout" He
should be ashamed of himself and
60 away back and sit down out of
sight, until he gets his filthy mind
clean again.
MI. Sunday might also profitably
study the words Of the Apostle
Peter who quotes from the words
Of the Apostle Paul, warning the
early Christians against "they that
are unlearned and unstable who,
he says, "wrest the Scriptures to
their own destruction" The des-
patch we quoted from goes on to
say: He told the story of Abra-
ham and Sarah, when they visited
In the foreign land and the kings
eyes fell On Sarah, who was comely.
Abraham, Mr.. Sunday said. knew
the customs Of the country, and he
knew that he would lose his wife to
the kings harem if he told the
truth, so he announced that Sarah
was his sister. I'D lie to save
Mrs. Sunday from such an old he'll
lion,' said Mr.. Sunday. and make
it right with God afterwards"
It would appear that Rev. Sunday
would lie for a lesser cause than to
save his wife from an Egyptian
monarch's harem, for he has totally
misrepresented the story that
Moses told about the conduct of
that old r%eprobate, Abraham, while
he was in Egypt. In fact, Pharaoh
appears as the innocent victim in
that tale and Abraham is the viii
lain Of the story. Here is how
Moses told the story in Genesis,
chapter IL:
And there was a famine In the
land, and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there, for the
famine was grievous in the land.
And it came to pass when he was
come a to enter into Egypt that
he said unto Sarai, his wife, behold
I know that thou art a fair woman
to look upon, therefore it shall
come to pass when the Egyptians
shall see thee, and they shall say
this is his wife, they will kill me
but they will save thee alive. Say,
I pray thee, thou art my sister, that
it may be we'll with me for thy
sake, and my soul shall live because
of thee. And it came to pass that
when Abram was come into Egypt
the Egyptians beheld the woman
and she was very fair. The princes
also of Pharaoh saw her and COM
.nended her before Pharaoh, and
the woman was taken into Phar-
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