Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-21

ing to die again II this is true"
our thlng-cursed era-Broaning under
its weight Of iron and stone and stub
ble-such thought may be deemed
impractical and quite out OF place.
Yet It Is hard to believe that any nor
nal soul can ropress a thrill Of Joy as
he thinks OF the spiritual stature OF
the noble dead who have for ages been
growing more and more alive. How
extremely alive they must be today!
Think Of that trinity OF the old dis
pensation-Moses, Elijah and Elisha.
| Two Of them were glad to vacate
heaven long enough to meet with
| Christ on the mount Of transfigura-
/ tion. Unto what majestic proportions
/ Of manhood all must have attained
under the tuteage of the Master in
glory! Dante said that the dying
| Stephen made his eyes gates to be-
/ hold the skies" II under that deadly
rain OF stones Stephens face took on
an angelic brightness how could aver
age mortals dare to look at that face,
/ now that ii has been gazing so long
! into the fountains Of beauty flowing
| from Christ? Ruskn called Dante
! the central man of all the world; and
Carlyle held that "Danto is world
/ great not because he is worldwide,
, but because he is world-deep." But
| there are those who think that Dante's
world-greatness is due neither to his
world-wideness nor to his world-deep-
ness, but to his heaven -highness.
/ kind of supernatural loftiness, a strain
of celestial sublimity characterlzeS this
man who gives voice to ten dumb CEN
turtles. But 30 you not think that that
| august man has grown tremendously
during his six hundred years absence
from the earth? Who shall say what
grander dimensions are his, with his
nearer, clearer vision OF that love
which moves "the sun in heaven and
| all the stars"
The Encouragement Christs Savior
hood Gives to Men.
A final consideration is the en-
cOuragement which Chrlst's fathom-
less savlorhood gives to men and
women now on the earth-right here
! in the thick Of things-when the
planet seems staggering under its
weight OF woe and sin and injustice.
Emmerson once said that the man
never lived who could feed us ever;
and he Is grandly right; no mere man
can be the bread OF life to the souls
Of men Some OF these ages, those
| belated thinkers, processing to be ad-
vanced, will wake up to the fact that
| they are some centuries behind the
| times. We are only truly up with the
| times as we are livirgly in with the
| eternitlos No, a thousand times no,
no mere man can feed us; but God
manifest In the flesh; God strengthen
] In OF T., gI
| lowllness and lifting us to the high
still places in Christ-suCh a God
verify feeds all who will have food.
| Imparting to blind mOrtals the love
/ lines that Is immortal, he makes life
suddenly sweet by opening 1t to his
unsoarchable riches. In his presence
| hunger and thirst vanish utterly away
save as they make the soul more
| CapaCious for his food and drink. Civ
/ ing TO men a distinct heavenliness OF
| temper he makes them assuredly
aware that, however dark the night.
/ the shadow draped hills but conceal
/ a brighter dawn. II am the light of
| the world"-the light of all the worlds,
the light that never IS out, but
| burns glowingly on and on, until
| heavens light and earth's darkness
shall kiss each other In the white
| radiance OF eternity. What a glorious
commentary on this passage is Mrs.
| Alice Meyhells poem, Christ in the
/ Universe" of which Albert Cook, in
tho British Review, said greater poem
had not been written In the last hun
dred years.
| with the ambiguous earth
! His dealings have been told us:
these abide;
/ The signal to a maid, the human birth.
! The lesson, and the young man
cruclfied
But not a star OF all
! The unimaginable stars has heard
| How he administered this terrestrial
ball;
Our race have kept their Lords en-
trusted word.
! or those dark-visiting feet
None knows the secret, cherished,
porilous-
The terrible shamefast, frightened,
whispered, sweet
shattering secret OF his way
with us.
No planet knows that this
our wayside planet. carrying land
and wave.
Love and life multiplied, and pain and
bliss,
Bears as chief treasure one forsaken
grave.
Nor In our little day.
May his devices with the heavens
bo guessed.
His pilgrimage to tread the milky way.
or his bestowals there be manifest.
But in tho eternities
Doubtless we shall compare to-
gether, hear
A million alien gospels, I'm what gulse
lie walked the Pleiades. the Lyro,
the Bear.
oh. DO prepared. my soul
To read the inconcelvable. TO scan
The million forms Of God those stars
unroll.
When In our turn we show 10 them
"a man.
Our Father. we would lern to trust
In thee at all times. We think we are
trusting thee when the sunlight falls
unbroken and bright upon our way;
but when the clouds gather and the !
storm breaks our hearts faint and our
faith loses its vision. May we have !
such faith as will feel thee in the dark. |
such faith as will enable US TO walk |