Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-14
and how he had opened the door OF
faith to the Gentiles"
The Psychological Moment.

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The Psychological Moment.
We are fond OF ascrbing the sue
ccsscs OF great men TO their ability
to seize the psychological moment and
dare TO do things that others would
not undertake. There is tide In
the affairs OF men, according to the
poet. and the man who " prepared
to time hs voyage To take advantage
lof that movement Is the one who
achieves the quickest and greatest
success. There is more to this view
than We are accustomed 10 think
circumstances have much to do with
Iswaying the emotions OF men, and
when you get possession of mans
emotions You are well on the roau
to his convictions. Just little word.
lust little deed at the right time
has often changed the whole course
OF u life. Yet this FAME deed or word
at another time and under different
circumstances might have been pow
erless u attract the serious consider
alton Of the same nan. II is always
lsafe to do good works, for ;heir per-
eft is never lost, but there are times
and places whore the effect produced
is much greater than at others. If
raul was thinking OF this when he
healed the lame man, he was at least
II good Judge OF human nature. Moth
ing else could have so stirred up thlS
heat hen community and so effectively
have fastered the attention of this
people on what he had 10 say. II may
he objected that we arc overlooking
the promptings of the Holy Spirit
when we ascribe the actions of TINS
great preacher TO his knowledge Of
human philosophy. That is not true.
THE power OF Almighty God was the
power that made the lame mar wholc
when Paul said the words of com
mand, the power that enabled Paul to
demonstrate to this people that he
bore "A commission from the i.orI 81
al! the earth. dicty more potent
than their Jupiter and Mercury. Yet
the Holy Spirit Is protuptinb force,
land all the power of nature and OF
science are AT his command. II Is no
ld,traction from that divine efficiency
| for us to use the means Of nature
and science in his service, Tor Al
Ithc powers OF nature ana science ne
long to God and are his servants.
True, there is "a tendency IN tnis u;ty
land age to lapse into the dramatic IN
Itrying to get the attention of men
| to the preaching OF the gospel and
sometimes these efforts go to the
length of insinccrity and deceit. iut
There was neither lnsinccrity nor ie-
| ceit in the fact that Paul used ms
miraculous powers for the furtheran'c
Iof his work, nor was there any irfoV-
Cruncc IN ms uSlHB MS hH'N '''S' ~
Human nature to help in The saving
of souls. In fact. the man who doe.
not use all the righteous means at hiI
Idisposal for the better service OF tn
| is. after AL! an unpr"tltabic serV?st
| Like the people of Lystra, even ed.
Ii requires sometimes a demonstr1
or the overrulng power OF iit on
TO wake q peoplc from their lci told l
and make them take notice T. and II
IupSSage of mcrcN. mcp of
| II Paul knew what he was bf thiG
| about when he said that God ~ IN
| times past suffered all nations 10 walk
their own ways we are forced To tnt
conclusion that there is diitereht
degree of responsibility for the nation.
| or the individual, who has tbe adVah-
tage of enlightenment and revelation
than that for those who are Eroping IN
IGNORANCE. There was an age of the
world, according to this *iew. when
God permitted Il great many thlnss
of which he could not approve. pc
cause of the ignorance 81 those VINO
sInncd and because the time was not
vet ripe for the great scheme OF re-
demption to be made known to man
kind We are not taught anywhere
that these people shall not answer Tor
their sins, but we are taught that
there are grades of punishment from
| SIN. ana lllIl lHoSt " uO SIN 'iShi'sN
the light must suffer much heavier
penalty than those who did not know
Gods will Even Sodom and Gomor-
rah. which were obiiterated from the
face of the earth. because of their
great wickedness, will rise up IN
Judgment to condemn those who have
defied and disregarded the appeals OF
mercy in this age of bibles and
schools, of churches and Sunday
schols We may pity the heatheh
who knows not the true God; but bet
ter be heather that gropes along in
ignorance of the truth than TO dwell
in "A land of enlightenment and ig-
more our individual responsibility
to our Creator The lot of him who
knows not God in the last day will be
much less miserable than that of him
who knows what is right and refuses
To do it, But we have another rcspon-
sibility. AS long as there remains n
single human being on earth who
knows not the gospel of Jesus and its
power to save him, we have not I'm
ished the work God gave us To dc
when he gave orders To preach the
gospel to every creature And while