The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-11-01

inerS doing the very saEIe things Yes
J, You are running after the same fo9f
} ish things IN the same thorny way
giving the same lying excuses ysl
gave ten years ago, crying ~hypoeTites
in the church. morality good
enough. @fraid / can't I've it. and a
hundred rskey things you know won't
stand before God on the night you
IcIoze your eyes IN death and go out to
inject Him
II man IS right with God he viii
be right with bis feIlowmen
when God forglves a fallen woman
she stands in His sight as # she never
had sinned. That's so or forgiveness
is farce.
Bob IngersolI said this woman who
raised q commotion at midnight
among her friends because she had
found half dollar was a fool and
that Christ told silly story. Poor
old Bob. How ignorant be was Of
historical settings Of the bible. This
necklace of ten pieces of silver was
betrothaI present from her lover. each
piece representing q grace Of woman
hood and the Jews had tradition that
should she lose one OF these pieces the
lover would not remain true to her at
the point Of character represented by
the lost coin This woman lost the
drachma 50 the Greek says and it rep
purity and so when she call
ed her friends to rejoice over finding
this coin vas not because she had
found fifty cents, but because she had
recovered the dearest thing in life to
woman--the purity Of the man who
was to walk the welded life with her.
You don't have TO be drunkard or
harlist in order to be prodigal
The moment this boy conceived the
idea that be didn't care TO live under
bis fathers roof tree. he was a prodi-
gal You turn your back on God and
you are prodigal.
get 20 tired of hearing you sin
ners talking about square deal. You
are lying. honey Your deal is not
square for you are cheat and rob
Der toward the God who made You.
Christ told the moral men and the
nice church folks without any real
love to God and men in their hearts
that publicans and sinners should en-
ter the kingdom OF God before they
would. Whyg Because harlots and
sinners are lost and they know it and |
moral men are lost and don't know IT, |
never preached to so satisfactory 1
an audience as in some penitentisries. /
I've talked in them because there's
not fellow there pleading his square
deal and his upright life They simply /
admit that they are sinners.
No hell in vinita tonight 50 hot as
the broken home preparing 70 come I
into the divorce court,
The church Of God Is dying with
the dry rot Of respectability Talk
about your culture. The Son Of God I
was the most cultured man that ever
walked this earth. You are not hurt 4
with brains. Sin is what Is killing
you folks.
Socialists who fight the church are /
guilty Of kicking their own mother
why? Because the church is the poor
mans institution. Jerusalem the
church which is above is the mother I
Of us all. says the book.
You let Satan into your life and he'll
send you into mis- field to feed hogs.
4 sinner Is a man without country
IN Gods great economy.
The devils toboggan slide is steep
and slick and it viii land the fellow
who gets onto It in hell.
There is a certain so-called liberty I
that Is nothing but a license to sin
Good resolutions unkept are like
garbage box on a hot day They breed I
disease and no malady so dangerous
ls moral paralysis.