Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-09
Choose Your
Suit Early
Tomorrow

familiarity lures us into indifference
and indifference turns the face into
an awful blank, then the crushed
heart looks up into the blank face and
painfully wonders If God face is
blank too.
1t is indeed hard for any man to
believe IN burdcn-bearing Christ
when he finos no burden bearers
among men. To many life that
drags itself along in chronic weakness
and weariness and grief that is the
agony-thc agony OF wondering II
God becomes accustomed To the sight
Of pain and suffering and sorrow: II
his face becomes a blank: II out of IT
there fades away the light of "a fresh
compassion
The Business of Exchange In Burden
Bearing.
Just at this critical period in the
worlds history, when mans unbrid-
led ambition and greed for CONNER
cial supremacy has wantonly and de-
liberately plunged its sword into the
heart of civilization, and which pre-
seuts itself before the eyes of the
world as criminal tragedy un
cQualled in the annals of all time. we
have challenge to the universal
church such as no other situation has
u.
of moral failure, moral need. and
moral opportunity. which rises before
the church in this terrific crisis
which is including not only all Europe
but all humanity in its embrace-call
Christians to supreme test Of how
much they believe in this Christie doc.
trine of burden-bearing or, in other
words, how much she will do and suf-
Ter in this critical juncure Of human
fate.
Looking sQuarely at this tragedy of
the nations-a tragedy without prece-
dent in the history of the world-can
any of us question that If Christianity
ever intended to vindicate its name
among men as the champion of n bur-
den-bearing religion. merging into a
compassionate brother feeling meas
urelessly profounder. now is the time.
Now Is the hour for sacrifice. for de-
votion that costs, for fidelities un-
flinching and unlimited. Recession
anywhere in burden bearing at this
time would verge on treason.
Christian givcrs have assumed In
other times and under similar condi-
tons that they may lawfully abridge
their benevolences in the proportion
that their income decreases. Perhaps
that is fair abstract principle, but
1t does not apply now. In the pres
cnce of an unprecedented economic
strain, stress Of burden bearing
must be shouldered by the church
which it has never borne before. How
can there be hope for its marching
forward If, straightway-when the
teeth of hardship and sacrifice clamp
in its flesh--it shrinks back?
"Bear ye one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law Of Christ
These are the words of the stalwart
apostles theology. But every man
must bear his own burdens" says an
other part OF our textual thought. You
are asking perhaps how these sayings
can be harmonized.
Long before Christianity stirred my
soul and I became a follower OF the
Lord Jesus Christ. II was true that
must bear my own burden. That was
my personal account. One I had to
attend to. I must bear my own bur-
den of personal progress. n the
church militant were to surround me
with all its organization, with songs
of rejoicing, tears, sympathy and love,
still would have to carry myself.
And am sure that no man can bear