The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-16
Evangelist Draws Lessons From
Healing Of the Palsied Man
Several Confess and More
Ask for Prayers
TAKE SUFFERERS TO
GREAT PHYSICIAN
Preacher Appeals to Christian
People to Aid in Saving the
Victims Of Sins Wither-
ing Power

Sin as a deadener of conscience,
whose sting becomes less sharp as ain
blunts Il, until it has no longer power
to warn; sin as stupefier of the moral
sensibilities; sin as the autocratic.
compelling ruler of mans will-these
were sharply and clearly silhouetted
against the horizon OF mans life last
night by Evangelist big Bill" Tetley.
whose sermon stirred several to CON
fess Christianity and many Others to
request the prayers Of Christian peo-
pie.
The preacher developed all the les
sons of the sermon right in the begin
ming, revealing them in the story Of the
palsied man of the Bible whose
friends carried him to Jesus after over
coming many difficulties and saw him
healed not only of his physical infirm-
ity but his sins also.
This man was helpless and hopeless.
He had been a sufferer many years.
NO light Of possible health ever shone
for him, until he heard OF great heal
er who had come that way. Yet even
then he could not hope for succor, be-
cause the wonderful physician was
practicing on the other side of the
town and the sick man had no means
OF reaching him to procure the bene-
fits of his ministrations But friends
who were eager to see this man whole
again also heard of this mighty healer.
and four of them determined health
should be his.
Each man seized corner Of his bed.
and the four strained under the bur-
den as they carried him across the
town to the house in which the master
physician stood. But they couldn't get
in. Curious people, whole themselves
possibly, but elbowing and crushing
each other in order to gain place
from which they could see, hindered
the entrance Of this man who so sorely
needed help. and he could not win adj
mittance
These friends, however. were trying
Ito do something for their fellow man
and grimly determined that nothing
should prevent their progress to the
physician. So they conveyed him to
the roof and outgeneraled the curious
and physically well by letting him
down, bed and body, to the very feet
of Jesus Christ, the physician
Jesus instantly realized the mans
need, yet he suffered the Pharisees'
rebuke by first eliminating the sicK
mans sins-which first needed atten-
tion-and then curing his physical i'll
ness. Jesus did exactly what the pa
tient had been longing for all the years
of his suffering, and the man went
away in great rejoicing.
/ Every victim of sin is jimpotent and
helpless so far as humanity and its
remedies are concerned, Tetley assert
ed, and he is not going to rise to his
feet and seek to save himself.
I'VE are the saviors OF the impotent
and helpless and SHINING Tetley said.
I'VE must go to the suffering men and
women Of Chickasla, carry them over
the heads of all the curious and the
hinderers, take them to Jesus Christ
and see them saved in spite of all OBJ
staclesl Some we must get under and
lift up and help along the way to the
Great Physician! It is up to us, be-
cause the patients cannot themselves
make the journey.
God help the mau or woman in this
town who hasn't a friend sufficiently
interested to desire the salvation Of
his or her soul" Tetley cried. and he
went on to inform the unsaved that
he was not talking, nor were other
Christian folk, to assert any superior
intellectually but simply because
) rthey were Christians and had oppor-
} tunity to know spiritunl things the sin
ner did not know. There's no use in
/ you coming here and sitting on hard
! board and getting nothing out Of what
you hear or out OF this service" he ex-
) claimed. MY thinker is working clear
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