The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-08
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It's fine to be in this old world and
! never sing that old song Il Want to
Be an Angel and With the Angels
Sing" No, sir. want to be a man
right here in oklahoma It's all right
TO be in this world but don't let the
world get in you. No man so IN
cleansed as the man mastered BY
worldly things.
IL doesn't take a boy or girl very
long to spend all he or she has il all
they have is on the outside Of them.
The original Greek if that express.
ion When he came TO himself in the
parable of the prodigal son should be
rendered When he was no longer s
lunatic." You sinners in Vinita would
get mad If I'd say you were crazy, but
that's what Christ says of you. sin
is a species Of insanity
It's a bad rotten life that makes
infideIs.
We have been calling this parable
the story Of the prodigaI son. but
there we're two of those boys and they
were both prodigals. OF course one OF
them stayed at home. but he vas j
prodigal who lied about his father
and his brother
The only religion in the world that
has remedy for the fallen woman is
christianity.
II Christ had said you sinners in
yinita were lost like a dog or a hog
or even a honey bee I wouldn't worry
about you for any of them can find
their way home; but Christ said you
we're lost like a sheep the most help
lessIy and hopelessly lost thing in the
world, wandering round and round in
the same thorny orbit whining and
hIeating only to attract the will
beasts, thus making his destruction all
the more certain. and aren't you sin
ners doing the very same thing? Yes.
You are running after the same io9l-
ish things in the same thorny wac.
giving the same lying excuses you
gave ten years ago, crying -hypocrites
II the church. morality good /
enough. ~fraid can't live il, and a
hundred other things sou know won't
stand before God on the night you +
close your eyes in death aud go ont to /
meet Him.
II man is right with God be viii I
be right with his fellowmen.
When God forgives a fallen woman
she stands in His sight as it she never
lad sinned That's 50 or forgiveness
S a farce.
Bob IngersOll said this woman who /,
aised commotioa at midnight 4
among her friends because she had !,
ound half dollar was a fool and
hat Christ told a silly story. Poor
Id Bob, How ignorant he was of
historical settings OF the bible. This
OF ten pieces OF silver was a
letrothal present from her lover, each
ieee representing a grace Of woman
Iood and the Jews had tradition that !
hould she lose one OF these pieces the
over would not remain true to her at Il
be point Of character represented by |,
he lost coin This woman lost the ,
rachma SO the Greek says and it rep
esented purity and so when she call !,
d her friends to rejoice over finding
bis coin was not because she had
ound fifty cents, but because she had +
ecoyered the dearest thing in life to a !
purity of the man who n
as to walk the welded life with her. n
You don't have TO be drunkard or 4
harlist in order to be a prodigal b
he moment this boy conceived the n
lea that he didn't care to live under :
IS fathers roof tree. he was a prodi- =
al. You turn your back on God and Il
ou are prodigal h
get so tired Of hearing you sin. h
Frs talking about square deal. You :,
re lying. honey. Your deal is not !
luaTe for you are a cheat and q rob- =
sr toward the God who made you. .,
Christ told the moral men and the .,
Ice church folks without any real =
We to God and men in their hearts >,
at public2ns and sinners should en- :,
r the Kingdom Of God before they II