Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-02-22

seeks forgiveness, and grief no need
OF comforter? Have our ships
sailed so far that they have revealed
TO us a braver continent than the
fields whore pain once resigned? ls
our science SO acute that II has ban
ished failure from mans life? Is
mans heart AT last all-sufficent and
Rll-sufficlng?
The Bondage of Sin and Death.
That Christianity has but soanty
sympathy with this shallow optimism
whose Nagarles are only logical out
come OF a system Of teaching which
denies the existence OF sin ana spurns
the problem Of pain and suffering
and that, too, IN contradiction TO the
teaching Of One who, as great recre-
ator not roformer threw the whole
! weight of eternity into the emphasis
upon the duty Of cpnvictine the world
of sin-goes without saying. And it
| Is Just here that Christianity begins
With the calm acceptance of all the
facts. There is no ovadmg the prob
lom Of human suffering, no ignoring
the darker side Of life, with it, pain
ana sorrow ana death. But the way
out Is shown. Not only is forgiveness
offered, but mans need of comfort
is met And while It's indictment Of
existing conditions is as vehement as
that Of the most despairina possimist,
yee on the foundation of that pes
slmism II rcars the most audacious
form Of optimism possible to con
cciVe. It looks TO n new hca\en and
a new earth wherein dweleth righte-
business. It's eyes are open to the
present order Of things, to the evils
that hold the race in thrall but 1t
points 10 victory and ultimate tri-
umph. 1t sees sin, but also proClaims
redemption. 1t secs sorrow, but also
sees sorrow working out spiritual
blessing, and knows that God shall
wipe away all tears from off all faces.
It feels the bondage of sin and death,
but promises the breaking of chains
to them that are bound. II believes
in God and in man, ana in the good
that Will ultimately master evil and
overpowor II. IT sees in Gods love
love which looks eternally ahead If
1t abstains from succor now II but
clings to a greater good farther on.
me marNel is not then, that man is
SO often called upon to pass through
the valley Of the shadow" The mar
vel is, rather that so often the loving
providence or God flnds Way-and
that, TOO without deuaction-to spare
MN even lhose brlef pains which by
uHles comparisons seem so long and
!
ureadiuI, put by the comparisons Of
eterhlty 50 hght ana rlchly recon-
pensed'
lhat thefe is much or worth IN this
so-called scieIre' am ready to ADMIT,
put TO make the religion which Y rep
resents-a relglon with no room for
tne frouisais prayer IN Wmch nave
peeh included no hymns OF atonement,
SIN ana sacrifice; no message that
promises nope or happiness Tor men or
women VINO nave gone INTO the dcpths
oi SIN ana sorrow, no mortals-made-
over miracles OF eighteen centuries OF
ecspei conquest, the Augustlnes ana
bhhyahi ana Jerry McAnleys, the real
rescued men OF Harold Bigbls's,
l"ice Born Men ana Inc burning
prahos 1aithfuily biographed IN
Agnes taiinefs new book, 'Ihe Sal
wage OF Men the iouhda'lon OF one
whole IRE is not only deplorable In
lhe superllclahty OF ITS conceptions,
bul Is TO iall INTO the most fpltable
iallure lhaglnaple'
HioW queerly some people thlhk they
can get rld OF the WuTlus SIN by Ior-
seltils II! IL won De Forgotten, now
ever ana thcre IS no JOY or justice
among men until somebody sacritlces
TO atone Tor SIN, even according To the
manner OF the 'hrlst' IL the ages
have mlsconstrued the meaning Of the
S'nterlnEs OF the LORD Jesus must we
not at least-coniess that' endeuNor-
ltS 10 IolloW MN III laylnS down ms
me Tor Others men ana women nave
attained 10 new ana loltler ordef OF
service TO their fellow human klnd?
Ahc we Wiling that the caI or nero
ISM Which IS always sacrltlce, should
cease 10 ring out or 10 more bring re-
sl"nse? Oh course we should not sup
port theological untruth for the
sake or encouraging the self abnesat-
ing spirit; yet II by their fruits ye
shall know them that old clement
of sacrifice Is worth while.
Since IT is well recognized fact
that AL the noblest qualities OF the
soul are produced from sympathy
nd SVfnD hK that has never felt and ]