Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-09

/ II our position here be W,ll taken
! then the church Is under tho greatest
| obligation a. begin once mere. ana
| with convincing apostolic elmostnrsa
| cndcayor 10 bring into prominence
| certain facts rcgardlug The Christie
gospel which have hitherto been OBJ
scured or their Importance mder-cs-
| timated because they did not suit our
own way of thinking especially such
| facts as these Listen, That God is a
real Father not a fictitious one, That
! Gods name is love, that Code face Is
| liEht That men are llls real children,
| crrng children 10 be- sure, ignorant
children, wandering aud SHINING chill
dren but Tls children still, And that
they have the thildrens right the
ohild's right, just because IL Is ignor-
ant, to the Fathers wisdom tho
babes right, just because Il is weak
and sick 20 the physicians SKIN and
medicine.
The Spirit of Divine Justice
The church is finally learning that
! the convert terrified into the church is
! Of no use 10 the church as a convert.
| lie adds nothing to the power OF the
church. Indeed hts outward confor-
vitality and reduces the church 20 a
spiritual shell. Violence might bring
recantations and add numbers but Il
brings no life. And when the church
comes TO understand that the only way
to grow-with growth worth while
| is to imbibe the spirit Of right, business
and justice and brotherly love, and TO
persuade men into fellowship with
Him who "is the way and the truth
and life and with a gospel that en-
bodies the power Of God unto saliva
ton; then and then only viii recruits
be won who are real access!ons and
! helpers to the church and to the cause
OF the Divine Master.
Lest | be misunderstood here you
will permit me to say that while all
! higher debts are TO be paid reverthe-
! less there is an element Of fol giveness
! that ameliorates the debt burden. The
! laws of the universe do not cut off the
sinner from the creative tidea Of life,
! The broken bone is mended, the scar
red tree is healed, the diss,pated life
can be and is reclaimed. So tho justice
that is not tempered with mercy Is not
! Justice and cannot withstand the di-
vine tenderness which is the divine
! justice.
Tho the relentless, unforGiving man
! or nation may defy the laws of the
universe no man or nation iS strong
enough to override justice Mcndel
| Beiliss, the poor Jewish peasant ar
raigned for an impossible crime at
| l<icv, is mighter than the arrogant
! Car Of all Russians, ana today
| throughout the civilized world
wherever the unjust accusation is
| known--there arises a holy protest
! that pronounces the doom of the
sinister nation and the supersititous
| Christianity that effects to administer
I'the viii Of God on earth. The Chris
! tic Christianity In whose name this
atrocity Is being perpetrated is the
self same Christianity that viii dis
mantle the arrogant conceptions of a
church honey-combed with the gan
creme of selfshness, and fortified by
medieval dogmatism superstition
and priest and dethrone even
ually the tyranny fortified by battle
| HIlpS anu slduulIE al llll'S
Satan's Whispered Suggestions.
In the further consideration of our
subject. may l plead with you to put
aside any preconceived notions you
may have had regarding the ven
geance and wrath ST God, as against
the broadness of His Mercy, a notion
based very largely upon the whisper
| I,gt
er to whom always the soul should
| give the same answer Get thee be-
hind me Satan" For I am firmly
| persuaded that vengeance is never
satisfied by sacrifice. That the end
of fanatic violence comes A. last not
through punishment of it, but
through the futility Of it.
Let me bring this though, before
you, if l may, by practical illustra-
ton. The law, Shylock Ike, eXacts
| to the limit it's bond, thouGh in the
taking there of it spills the very
hearts blood of it's victim. 1t meets
blow for blow and II the burglar kills
his victim the state hangs the bur
! slar; so that one murder hath it's
counterpart in another murder; judi
cial, tits true, but murder Eeverthe-
| less.
| recognize this as the stage Of the
argument where you may be disposed
! to ask the question as TO what one
would do with murderers, net them
| continue to kill 2" That however, IS
| but to beg the whole question at issue.
| We must confess to very little iuitia-
| tive if We concede there is no other
| way to care for q man who takes hu-
man life except TO break his neck on
! the gallows, or stop his heartbeat
| through the more modern appliance
of electrocution. No crime can be
committed to my mind that warrants
such outrage. There Is one God-given
right that we all possess. and which
no one has any right to take from us
when there is any possible way
around. Each individual has a right
to every possible opportunity for sal
vaton. II a state or nation removes
man from this life say at the age
Of thirty-who would have otherwise
| lived until siNty-it takes from that
man thirty years of opportunity for
salvation. The excuse that the muir
| derer took from his victim al oppor-
tupity for salvation does not change
| in the slightest degree tho original