Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-14

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The Worldwide Ideals of Jesus
Christ.
Now as we look at human history
we can see that Il corroborates PauIs
idea so far as there is anything in the
world worth while, so far ~ there Is
| any moral progress SO far as there
Is any hope for the future II either
arises from Christ or is In accord with
Him. And on the other hand, the
Things that are not according to Him
make for decadence and destruction.
! The concrete example of the terrible
war In Europe, now working havoc
with the priceless values OF Civili2a-
tion-which causes our very hearts 10
bleed, and our souls to blanch with
horrOr-well illustrates this point,
| There Is the setback 70 the march or
progress Of hundred years, the raw
aging Of ethical and Christian IDEAL
| ism, the inevitable bankruptcy of the
nations involved, an impoverished and
crippled condition which n will take
many future generation to repair,
the very flower OF the nations Ciu-
zenship dead or crippled. while broken
! womanhood nursed lifelong grier.
and helpless childhood wanders hum
cry ana homeless, begging bread from
those as Impoverished as themselves.
! The question Is raised, and most
( PROPERLY as to the success of Christi
/ ianity in view of what We hear in con.
nection with this war. If this 10
| Christianity as applied 10 national and
| International life. how is it better than
the unculturc of semi -barbarlsm?
When Tennyson said; Better fifty
years Of Europe than Cycle of
| Cathy." did he really know his Eu-
rope? Obviously some things in Eu-
rope have not been penetrated with
the spirit OF Christ: its diplomacy OK
/ craft and secrecy its So-Called states
manship with its theory of the balance
Of powerO It's false and selfish patriot-
ism0 Ats sectional economics, its race
hatred, Its militarism- may be
| justifiable from the theories of politic-
ianss but they are every one of them
foreign TO that higher ethical content
enthroned IN the midst OF that
brotherhood of nations yet 20 be born
and hostile to the humanitarian and
world wide ideals Of Jesus Christ. The
trouble Is they have been trying to
build a Christian civilization upon an
un-C Christian foundatlOn-the founda-
ton that might makes right. They
| have endeaVored to construct human-
/ lty upon a physical, instead OF u moral
basis. But think of building Chris
ton civilization with its wealth OF
| commerce. artO SCIENCE morals ana re-
NgioD upon q powder magazine. which
some irresponsible anarchist, or soma
halfowitted diplomat may touch off at
any time and plunge the world back
into bagbarsmo The entire mOnarch-
Val structure is wrong. II breeds not
only militarismo but the passions Of
the brute ia the breasts OF humans.
where love Of God and neighbor
should reside And not until the de-
struction has penetrated to the seat OF
which kingo car and kaiser sltV Will
they be impressed BY the colossal de-
'usion under which they ruled
How vastly different would be CIV
ilzation builded upon the ''Sermon on
the Mount" with the Golden Rule as
US Magma Chartao whatsoever ye
| would that men should do to you, do
We even so unto themo" "But." says
the politician ''yOur fine ideals are
impractical: they cannot be put into
operation In the world as II now Is,
with men as they now are" Very
likely that is why the world as it now
iss and men as they now ares are
doomed We look for nothing lesd
than a ''new heaven and new EARTH
and we have faith to believe that they
are coming. Christianity has failed in
the sense that It's task Is not yet fully
achieved; but 1t has not failed in that
the world today is filled with a sense
Of shame and a consciousness of itg
uncivilizationO and it brings itself to
trial before the judgment seat OF
Christ and His TRUTH The fact that
the world acknowledges ITS guilt Is
the most impressive testimony to the
power of the truth of Christ.
And the same thing Is true of in"
diViduaI life. We are coming to see
that the ideal OF strenuous efficiency.
which has no regard for God or man.
which is Contemptuous of ideals and
Indifferent to the interests of human
nature IL already convicted at the bar
OF reason and Is inevitably doomed.
No man has any right to try to live
unto himself, He is his brothers
keeper. No mans life Is truly sue
Cessful unless it conforms to the
teaching OF Jesus Christ
Christie Truth Has Persistence Not
TO BE Exhausted.
IN Pauls great statement IN our
text there emerges three thoughts
with regard to mems relation to truth:
that Is, truth as Paul understood It.
The first Is that we can really do moth
ing of any account against the truth.
We can be- effective in many ways. but
not In this. Here we touch point In
which man and his works are utterly
futile. And why? For our great
reason, because God Is back OF the
truth, or In 1t. giving 1t impregnabil-
itys
In the book Of Job--that greatest
product of all literature. according to
Carlyle-we see that man of Infinite
trials summoning the universe and its
God to the bar of his conscience and
demanding why he. who has always
done uprightly. can be thus afflicted,
and still the universe and Its God be
considered just. SO confident is no
OF the sureness of his position that he
demands it-as If it were some right
Of his position that he demand 1t
that God shall come and explain
thlngs and defend Himself. He goes