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

POSSESS ourselves. that we may be
able to discriminate, to know values,
ana what is our inheritance?
The record shows that it was no
unmeaning enthusiasm that took pos
session of Paul. Rather he saw in
his vision a perfectly new theory of
life and its significance. 1t was tc
him "a perfectly new dream of human
Development; perfectly new idea of
social development And everywhere
and under all circumstances Paul
went back to his vision declaring that
to be the only thing worth while.
And because he had seen the vision
he forgot his nationality and deliber
ately separated himself from all that
had seemed to make society secure.
Again and again he was met by dis.
failure of his friends-but he said:
"The Lord stood with me-" And
when the last day came and he was
about to be promoted to the service
that awaits all faithful men, he wrote
to his son Timothy these reassuring
words: II have kept the faith
The AbOminablc Paganisin of Selfish
What was the faith" that Paul
had reference to here? Was 1t not
that vision he had seen back yonder
in the desert, when he was told how
| he would be used to show men that
on which society rested, and that he
| would be sent to bring to men-may
| say it?-that which would establish
| democracy.
II have kept the faith" But for
what? In order that you may get
something that the rest of humanity
| Is cut off from? In order that you
| may be taken up out OF the stress
| and pressure, the horror and tragedy
of human life and be made comfort
able? In order that you may shut
your eyes to the distress around
one of the "elect" will be lifted up
from the pit and set where you are
secure? God Forbid
Oh, my friends, stop! think! Do
you not see the abominable pagan
| ism of such a thought? l personally
find no place in my creed for such
arrogant Pharisceism. which is as far
| removed from the beauty of holiness
as it is from the dignity of intelli
gence that is so enamOred OF its own
rectitude as to be insensble to the
sympathetic touch of the Master who
| came not to condemn the world, but
| that the world through him might be
| saved"
What man following Christ would,
| had he the courage, say any other
| thing than that which Saint Paul
said: II must take my chance with
my brother What nan-beariry Z
the semblance of human being
would want to receive that of which
his brother was to be deprived? What
| lends unusual interest, and indeed a
species of fascination, to Paul's life
the merits of which are legion--is the
fact that 1t sets in high light that
human element which prcoludes the
possibility of any water-tght COM
partments I'm his character. and the
whole history of whose campaign was
characterized as one Of self -abnega-
| ton in the interest OF the other fell
low-and on which he stood with his
hack to the wall-if perchance he
might thereby give comfort here and
there to some perplexed and yearn ..
ing soul.
That we need personalities through
which Gods immortal truth will
speak clearly and Enthusiastically goes
without saying. We need character,
because our character IL what we are,
not what people think we are. Our
regulations count for nothing with
God. God looks upon us, straight at
our innermost selves, and not at our
reputation. 1t is very essential,
therefore. to he somebody-to be
something. "Cogito. Ergo sum"-"l
think, therefore I exist"-expresse o
proof OF existence to satisfy Des.
cartes. But Hegel embodied volumes