Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-07-19
LYING IS A MODERN
FAULT UNCONQUERED
THE REV. FRANK NEFF IN
POWERFUL SERMON ON
LYING AND ISLANDER
ABOUT POLITICIANS LYING
Business Men Sometimes Lie
Without Thinking; About
Those Of Politicians

The following sermon was preached
ON last Sunday night by the ReV.
Frank Ncr, of the First Methodist
Episcopal cturgh, to crowd that
filled the basement There are pu'
two more Of tins series, tho sermon
for this evening being upon the tenth
commandment, tne one that teN.
Neff declares tC be the tap root ot
much ut the evil that affects men =
lives. The subject for the evening Is
"Mudcru Creed
The services icing held in the
basement are proving 10 be very pop
ulHr as the room is cool and COM
Portable. even 3n the hottest day
The sermon follows:
Lying and SANDER.
"Thou shalt aot bear false witness
against thy ueighror" Exodus 2O.I6
Gods word, ard human decenry
unite lon coudemning the Har ana
slaudcrCr, yet II great many people
are guilty of these sins Lake Valn,,
uiras they love the darkness, ana
when their victim Is least aware, they
fay,~n their fool forms upon hn'
aud elut their wcedy maws, lauSh-
iug ut his terrible suffering.
Lying is an appalling SIN, all the
moro dangerous because of IT'S com
mouucss II is a matter of very rapid
growth No man becomes a tuH-
fledged liar in a day Unconscious
and irrocout. 9,rhaps at first, of any
int..rtt,,.ul vr,ug doing the habit
,..a'.,,,'s fi,rd until the inno-
,, .,.r',..,rir1fnr' becomes the
1,,,i.,,d oid liar and "the hardened
",.' as homeless a case
,,lii. ,i''' ,. r,n na fouud among SIM
H., ~ World wide search Let us
,'ot. ,,,,o rorr.s of living that are
,..,n,1or th.t their seriousness is
$50 ,"'''',,ri' ',.n,i,,I ,I'nd
uII," ",N'. ,,,,,,,'t .,i,.,,, hosot tbc onc
,,l ..rls n i, A., easy to lie about
WH" 49, ,.,,ds snld. to riye
lH' t"""'' o' s.7a committing ,,iust
~ '"' a., rl,co oP what was
as goo" j" N n tho GOOD uoiuts
"i"'I'N' 7" ,nroaol tba had nI
o, pI,op,, ,3',.o n -" ir,ornnt purchaser to
SI tl',,,. I'M, fur himself or TO No
."o ur'9.r tbose false prin-
Iu '"S ""t ....,,.,tinu - ar
t!P''9' ,tt.'. ,l,o r,,aus - A rulo
'"' '"" l'''''. ~ I,.in,, or deceit
Una. "''N. r.,.,}o, iu,nlylrp
is ms ,,.l,,,'a. d,r,,nds in Gods
'N' ''' W ,ii, - "a. v,bnla truth
'.N u" '', tbf-,
"'u s ,,,.o,'.,. tolliur sotlo-
, snifofpI saving. as
I''"N az. 81 y.il oct even
'',E 7." ,''' .,,,t,,titrrs or rivals
WIZ .',...,l va business or love
tlt"vI "' 49,, ,.. ",,liret the one
IUl'" N.', So, thn tnn,rio going
I3"S'.- ,;''', ,ro soon smashed.
~" 1,rs ~ bard naticut
lHou-. .ifI tnn,n nm Here is a
""' ~ r'iltro ,s rniiticfans I'm
,"I' ~" -, gor office i'm this
W. ,.'',,,.,, and district are the
0'",' 'u ,i, ,,t If tba poui-
WIS a'' w. .,,,o,,l,srs and p5pcrs
lyI''"' >, wy ,,.,,r,, lyino mat has
are u'i'- ., ,ho tir,r ~ Ananias.
m''.' Nv t,,, ,,o,,o,.s and thc literature
~ ga. ~, re- ,.l t,,.,, ,,,bat these men
9vt' ~ 5,.,c,tc. ora saving of the
an" ~ .,o surely facing "A
"pP"H''.,.,,' Thnra arc INT few
SoiI .,t ,andiaatns AGAINST whom
Pi"IlI'i'"' au LjrGs ~ crookedness
'I'" ,,i,',, ,r.,el,. hurled until il
are H,' ,''7 .r l,r1,,ldorrd Drcacher
,'h9 ~ I I.t ,nust either be
th!l III, nr ,,,r;ble crooks,
I', NE isnlotod case. the
an" ,., ~. I,,ool,. trup with poli-
S.'Il'' ''',''I ,.,I1,.'.,,.,,.o friend once
lCIans ,',,r,,,,co ia nolitics.
,W'" nv ~, ~ ,.nnositton naper
me i''".' ,.,', u,rite a story