Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-08


find God is not trying to put you down,
Now you understand why you lost
that child and why you lost your
property II was to prepare you Tor
eternal treasures. Aud why sickness
came, II being the precursor of immor-
tai iuvenescence. And now YOU under
stand why they lied about you and
tried to drive you hither and thither.
II was to put you in the glorious com
pany of such man as Ignatius, who,
when he went out to be destroyed by
the lions, said 81 am the wheat, and
the teeth OF the wild beasts must first
grind me before / can become pure
bread for Jesus CHRIS" Or the com
pany OF such men us that ancient
Christian martyr" who. when standing
in the midst Of the amphitheater wait
ing for the lions TO come out of their
cave and destroy him and the people
in the galleries jeertng and shouting.
The lions!" replied, Let them come
ont" and then, STOPPING down toward
the cave, where the wild blasts were
roaring to get out, again cried, Let
them come ont" All. yes, IL is perse-
cution to put you in glorious company,
and while there are many things you
will have 10 postpone to the future
world for explanation / tell you that
II is the whole tendency of your relig
ion to unravel and explain and inter-
pret and illuminated and iradiate. Job
was right. 1t Is glorious traspar-
ency. The crystal cannot equal it.
Harlnong and symmetry.
Beautiful in its symmetry. When
| il presents Gods character. it does not
present him as having love like a great
protuberance on one side of his nature
| but makes that love in harmony with
his justice-a love that will accept all
those who come to him. and a justice
| that will by no means clear the guilty.
Beautiful religion in the sentiment it
| implants! Beautiful religion in the
hope it kindles. Beautiful religion in
the fact that IL proposes to garland
and enthrone and emparadise an i'm
mortal spirit. Solomon says ii is a
| lily. Paul says II is a crown. The
Apocalypse says II is a fountain kissed
by the sun. Ezekiel says IL is a
foliaged cedar. Christ says it is a
bridegroom come to. fetch home a
bride. While Job in the text takes up
whole vase OF precious stones--the
topaz and the sapphire and the ehryso-
prasus-he holds out of this beauti-
ful vase just one crystal and holds II
up until II CLEANS in the warm light
OF the eastern sky, and he exclaims,
The crystal cannot equal it."
oh, it is not stale religion; II Is
not stupid religion; it is not a tooth
less hag. as some seem to have repre-
sented it; IL is not a Meg Merrilies
with shriveled arm come to scare the
world; II is the fairest daughter OF
God, heiress of all his wealth; heI
cheek the morning sky. her voice the
music of the south wind, her step the
dance of the sea. Come and WOO her
The Spirit and the Bride say come
and whosoever will, let Kim come. Dc
you agree with Solomon and say it il
a lily? Then pluck It and wear IL over
your heart. Do you agree with Pau
and say IL is crown? Then let thi!
hour be your coronation. Do you agree
with the Apocalypse and say II is {
springing fountain? Then come ant
slake the thirst of your soul Do yol
believe with Ezekiel and say II is {
foliaged cedar? Then come under IL!
shadow Do YOU believe with Chris
and say il is a bridegroom come tt
fetch home a bride? Then STRIKE
hands with your Lord and King while
| pronounce you everlastingiy one. Ol
IL you think with Job that II is {
Jewel then put It on vour hand like
ring, on your neck like bead. OF
your forehead like star. while look
ing into the mirror OF Gods word yol
acknowledge, The crystal canno
equal IT,"
Superior to Crystal.
Again, religion is supuerior to thu
crystal in its transformations. TIT
diamond is only a crystallization. Car
Donate of lime rises till 1t becomes
calcite or aragonite. Red oxide o
copper crystallizes into cubes AM
octahedrons. Those crystals whicl
adorn our persons and our homes an,
our museums have only been resur
rected from forms that were far iron
lustrous. Scientists for ages hav
been examining these wonderful trans
formations. But | tell you In the gos
pei of the Son of God there is a NOR
! wonderful transformation, over soul
; by reason of sin black as coal an
: hard as iron God. by his comfortin
, grace, stoops and says, They shall
} mine in the day when | make up m
jewels"
What" say you. will God wea
, jewelry?" If he wanted 1t. he coul
make the stars OF the heaven his bel
and have the evening cloud for tn
sandals of his feet, but he does nc
, want that adornment. He will nc
> bave that jewelry. When God want
jewelry. he comes down and digs IT on
of the depths and darkness OF sir
| These souls are all crystallizations
mercy. He puts them on. and h
. wears them in the presence of I'll