Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-12


day afternoon religious program broad
casted by The Tribune radio station
that could not be given to those TAX
ing pVrt was telephoned to The Tri-
Dune office by several persons of the
city who had been listening in on home
sets.
In some cases, those who telephon-
ed the office asked that their appre-
citation be conveyed to individuals tax
ing part in the program.
The afternoon sermon was by the
Rev. d. McMasters, pastor of the
First Baptist church. speaking on "A
Sabbath for Men" Miss Opal Marsh
sang How Beautiful Upon the Noun
tains'' and William S. Sanford sang
Out of the Deep" Mrs. G.. F.
Splaine gave a violin solo. Romance
from Violin Converto No. 2" The pro-
gram closed with a duet by Mrs. Mime
Van Teylingen and Miss Opal Marsh.
julius J. Wuerthner was a~ccompanlst.
In the evening Brunswick, Edison
and Victrola concert was given, follow
ed by a bed time story by The Lady
in the Clouds"
The Rev. Mr.. McMasters afternoon
sermon follows:
The Sabbath was made for man.
This statement of the Master must
ALWAYS be kept in the forefront of
our thinking about the Sabbath. 1hls
day of God has a great human purpose.
Gods commandments are never arbi-
trary or unreasonable. God is reason
able. We are never reasonable until
we recognize this truth.
What is the reason for the Sab
bath? 1t is a great spiritual day. Man
seems to be of the earth, mere dirt.
Our blunder has been an over-emphasis
of the dirt in human life. 1t is neces-
sary and the commandment of God
that we should emphasize the earth
part of our lives. And God blessed
them and said unto them, BE We fruit
full and multiply and replenish the earth
and subdue it but he followed his
command with the gift of the Sabbath.
AT first the Sabbath was a gift, an
opportunity of spiritual culture that
the man growing into the image OF his
Creator might himself become a Gre
ator. To the men of intelligence and
today. Few if any of us have this in
telligence and spiritual appreciation.
Our finer senses have atrophied in sin
and we must be directed rather than
inspired. SO to us this gift of God
must come as a command. This is
humiliating. but true, and we cannot
afford to ignore it. The Man Of Cali
lee was not the only chief cornerstone
that has been set ut naught by british
builders. All artists are in the world.
but not Of the world. and many artists
fail to appreciate the supreme work
of art, their own souls.
God would have all life an art and
every life an artist. Man is the mas
terpiece of the Supreme Artist. This
masterpiece is more than dirt. In
spite of all our coarseness and vul-
yarity it is hard for us to teach the
soul to spell man. dirt. There is
something in us that calls to God. In
Paris a traceler watched a great eagle
chained to the earth as day after day
it made supreme effort to break its
chain and escape. 1t never seemed to
dispair of gaining its liberty and the
watcher wondered why. One day the
noble bird made a mighty effort. broke
its chain and rose into the heavens.
The man tried to follow it's flight
with his glass and saw far up in the
blue sky beyond mortal vision another
eagle. The prisoners mate had been
there every day calling to it's captive
mate. We feel that our mate is in the
heavens. We are chained to the dirt
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to believe that the short chain and the
miserable dirt is the all of life. We |
die in captivity while the Alpine heights
of Gods life await us. Our God would
not have it thus. He gives us a day
Tor our souls.
I'VE boast of our faith in immor-
tality, but do we ever stop to think
of what i~mmortalizing this human
world means? Imomrtality with sin is
endless hell. Do we desire immortality
for the dishonesty. treachery. cruelty.
and moral filth of this world? This
would be unspeakable. eternal tragedy.
But if you immortalize the dirt man,
you immortalize his products. The
purpose of religion is to make men fit
for Immortality. Godlikeness is infin-
itely more than conformity to a moral
code. 1t is pre-eminenily spiritual.
Not spiritual in the sense of separa-
ton from the material. The highest
we know is that of incar-
from the purple woods violet to
incarnate Son.
Mature is spiritual. There is no
power, no beauty, NO harmony, but in