Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-02-11

row the means of getting an education
as The young student Of my text Dor
rowed the AK. Il Is right to borrow
means for the forwarding Of CONNER
cial ends.
We borrow time: we will borrow
eternity. and that constant borrowing
implies a return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service. in i'm
provemeut of ourselves and helpful
ness Tor others. For what we borrow
In the shape of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents in their good exam
pie and their hard work wrought for
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood or womanhood for all the ages to
conceive ought to be paying back. The
hallclujahs OF heaven will be returned
for crucifxion agony.
Furthermore. let us admire these
young men of Elisha's theological sem
mary for the fact that they were earn
ing their " way. Those are the kind
of men who know what education is
worth and know how to use 1t. y
Those students in the valley of
paia.s b. the Jordan had a physical
strength and hardihood that would
help them in their mental and spirit
ual achievements. We who are toiling
for the worlds bettcrmcnt need Drawn
ds well as brain, strong bodies as well
as ,llumincd minds and consecrated
souls.
Let all those who toll for their edu-
cation remember they are especially
favored. and If things go against them
and the AK head should fly the hclve
that very Underwent may some time
turn out advantageously. as the acct
dent by the river Jordan. which seem
ed 20 finish the young students capac-
ity to help build the new seminary.
resulted in a splendid demonstration
OF The power of Elisha's God to help
any one who helps himself. No ak that
was ever welded mas wrought so well
as that ak. the handle and head of
which parted.
Notice. also, how God is superior to
every law that he has made. even the
strongest law of nature. the law of
graVitatiOn. What a rebuke to those
who reject miracles on the ground that
they are contrary to nature. as though
the law were stronger Thar the God
who made the law, Again and again
in Bible times was that law revoked.
There Christ stood by his disciples
on the Mount of Olives after his com
ing out Of the sepulcher. No ladders
let down for his ascension, but his feet
lift from the hill. and he goes up until
the curtain of cloud drops. and he is
invisible. Law of gravitation again
embarrassed. Enoch, Methuselah's
father, escaping death, went up bodily
and will have no need of resurrection
So will all the good who shall be still
alive at the end of the world. They
Will not need wings. Every one of the
millions of our planet who loved and
served the Lord, If then alive. win "be
caught up as the Bible ays body as
well as soul. the law OF. gravitation
paralyzed. God mightier than, any law
he ever created. Oh. | like. the mir
acles because they show God ~independ-
ent of everything.
Notice also the divine power in the
backwoods. Wonderful things were
done at the cities of Jericho and Jeru-
salem and Babylon and Nineveh. and
the great cities of our time have seen
the divine power, but this miracle OF
my text was IN the backwoods, far
away from the city, in the lumber dis
%tricts, whore the students had goae to
cut timber for the new theo. ogical
seminary. And II this sermon shall
come, as it will come. like my other
m for the last thirty years. with
out missing a week, let me say to
those far away from the house Of God
and IN the mountain districts hat my
text shows the divine power in the
backwoods. The Lord by every stream
as he certainly was by the Jordan, on
every mountain as surely as he was on
Mount Zion, on every lake as on III
berias. ny every rock as by the one
whose gushing waters slaked the thirst
of the marching lsraelites.
DO not feel lonely because your near
est neighbor may he miles away. be-
| cause the width OF the continent may
separate YOU from the place where
your cradle was rocked aud your faith
er's grave was dug. Take your Bible
out under the trees. II the weather
will permit, and after you have lis
tened 10 the solo of a bird in the tree
tops or the long meter psalm of the
thunder. read those words OF the Bible
which must have been written out OF