Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-31

dogma, poetry, art, literature or con-
troyersy; but he must know the Christ
OF personal experience In order to be
saved This knowledge IS personal,
vital, incontrovertable. and blessed
above all other human experiences.
Every ono who has passed through
this notwithstanding contact with
Jesus Christ can say with Paul, 81
know whom l have believed, and am
persuaded that He is able to keep
that which | have committed unto
Him against that day" Tho sad and
awful fact IL, that the unbelieving
and the impenitent pass into the grim
realities OF the eternal world without
this definite and divine knowledge Of
Christ, who Is the only true God and
eternal life. To all intents and pur-
poses they have lived and died as II
there wcro no Creator, Benefactor
Savior, Judge or King, and so enter
upon the long eternity without for
GlVeness, security or peace.
Cultivation With Christ Makes for
Perfection.
If II be said that these things trans
cend the common experience OF man
kind and are not matters OF daily life
and business we may reply that mans
rejection Of thing does not affect its
true nature.
Again, has anything been more
common in all human experience and
action than religious things The
strongest instinct of man-eXCeeding
even that Of physical life and repro
duction--is the religious instinct The
most characteristic fact about man In
all ages, even prehistoric, as remains
show, Is his impulse and practice Of
religious worship, based on a convic.
tiOn Of unseen realities. Man has
been called religious animal, thus
emphasizing the one thing that most
differentiates him from other ami
mails, and he has been said to be "ln-
curably religious" Granted that this
is primitive, emotional, and has led
, to many strange and Inconsistent
things, this only makes II the more
unmistakable that some reality, yet
unfathomed, but insistently pressing
on the sensitive nature of man for
recognition, loving response and final
fellowship, lies at the foundation Of
all this unquenchable fire, this un-
ceasing activity this unvarying and
irrepressible instinct intuition and
action. 1t is an essential of the human
personality. Any attempt to suppress
1t proves harmful, while cultivation
with Christ makes alive and makes
for perfection. The contamination of
efficient aid In its normal and com
plete development is Just what Peter
demonstrates in his answer to
Christ's question, the right attitude to-
ward Christ, and the life and service
that follow this vital union of spirit.
II 1t is the common in human eX-
perience that Is called reliable, then
y 10 taI tn 10 ~
unavoidable common thing, essential,
imperishable must be accepted and
appreciated, AS well try to eliminate
mans will to live as his will to wor-
ship. They both reveal the spiritual
reality and the reality Of the spirit 1t
is only the devitalized person who
seeks to avoid this vital and essential
thing in his own being. Even those
who try to refuse religion and the
worship Of God ever substitute an
other object Of worship and service;
the change of object and aim cannot
change that which actuates and in
spires worship. Misdirection does not
disprove, but really confesses.
The revelation Of personality here
made is as unmistakable as any Of
the revelations OF natural science.
Everything acts as II beneath the out
ward phenomena lie a world and q
power manifesting themselves In tho
phenomena; and action based on this
suggestion or Interpretation Justifies
itself by results. This becomes prac-
tical, reliable and OF everyday value.
The attitude Of a person toward per
son or q thing determines everything
in their mutual relations. Your atti-
tude toward Jesus Christ determines
your action with regard to Him, what
He can do for you, with you, and
through you. The final responsibility
in this supremely important matter
rests with you. Whatever another may
do to help you, this is one OF those
things that you must do for yourself.
On your attitude, your own free act
of will, rests as great a change in you
as that in Peter and that In Paul.
The Infalliblc Leader in Human
Experience.
We may say in regard to Jesus as
the infallible Leader in human eX-
perience today, constructively, that He
is a historic fact. AS truly as ever
was Caesar or our Lincoln. He can
no more be removed from history
than can the Roman empire. The in
fluenCe of each continues in the
world though both apparently came
to an end in ways common In human
events; Jesus by crucifixlon; the
Roman empire through downfall.
While the latter despite the organlz-
ing genius OF men, has not been re.
stored, and its genius seen in i'm