Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-02

| Lesson for April 8, Acts 9:32-43.
| After the record of Paurs conver-
sion. we come back again to review
OF what certain other OF the apostles
were doing. Peter was in the fore
front Of the activities of these men of
God and we read Of many good and
notable things that he did. This was
the same Peter who In the night of
4. adversity had claimed that he knew
nothing about this Jesus Of Nazareth.
but this sin and its rebuke was per-
manent lesson TO him and we never
| find him again failing to take a bold
| stand under all circumstances for the
Master. This Peter was one of those
thorough men. He was heart and
soul in whatever he deemed to be
right. There was no halfway or
compromise with him. BlunderinY
sometimes. but always unqueStionably
in earnest. the Savior compared him
to rock. a steadfaSt foundation on
which his church should be built. His
Was usually the aggressive role, which
was well suited to his nature, but
after his baptism of the Holy Spirit
Oh the day. Of Pentecost we find a
new note in his oharacter-a pro-
round realization of that human COM
passion and sincere kindness that
inks the human to the divine. II is
10 these aggressive men that we owe
much for the spread OF The gospel
among those people whose antagon-
ism is avowed and intense. 1t takes
the militant Christian to make head
way in some places and under some
circumstances, yet We must take Il
just measure of their value. While
militancy has often driven in the en-
tering wedge, 1t is the loving. the
sympathizing preachers who obtains
the attentive hearing of the masses
and round out the work accomplished
by aggression. Jesus Christ was
never tinid in pronouncing the truth,
hut II was his perfection of loving
sympathy for rebellious man that
conquered. So it was that this apos-
conquered. So IL was that this apostle
o; blood and iron learned to become
minister OF mercy. We too often
forget this condition of tru Chris
tanity. 1t is not out mission alone
to condemn sin. but to WOO The sin
ner and bring him to Jesus with the
the greater part of their earthly
career in searching out error and
pounding II with theological weapons.
Sometimes they do much good. and
then again they do much harm by
emphasizing their own convictions in
combat with fellow Christians of diff
fering views and widen the breach
bttNctll tlbSc W no Dt Dltlll
rem. You know some of this kind.
for there are n few In every denomi-
nation. While error should be cor
rected. as far as we are able to judge
OF error. II is not our business to be
searching out bones of contention to
quarrel over. and While we are doing
so we are apt to forget that deeper
and more important mission of
spreading the love message OF Jesus
to a sinful world. Eschew pickering
and strife and give your best efforts
to the spread of that human brother
hood which Is the corollary of the
divine Fatherhood.
The Messenger of Bencficcncc.
AS Peter was making the rounds of
the churches which had sprung up
outside of Jerusalem. and they multi
piled rapidly after the era of perse-
cution that scattered the faithful
the country. he stopped
over at LYDIA. Here was a man
named Aeneas who for eight years
had been a helpless victim Of the pal
sy. It Is not recorded that this man
asked Peter directly for any relief,
we must necessarily infer
that he had made his affliction the
subject of many prayers to the Lord,
but at any rate Peter was moved with
passion, as the Savior had so Oft
en- been. Peter did not make this a
deed Of his own. but he said to the