Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-09

ial thoughts / have brought before
iou. Now II is not my purpose at
his time TO deal with anything at all
m bookkeeping except burdens. You
may-as you weigh carefully these
three teXts-say. There are some
things / have forgotten, ii | ever knew
them;" there are some things | shall
re-learn at once" and YOU begin to
carry out Your resolve by saying in
your own heart. There is one thing
clear, burdens are assets and not ha-
bilities."
That burdens are valuable from our
toXtual viewpoint at least, is self
evident from the fact that in none Of
these texts Is there the slightest init
nation that we are to get rid of our
burden. There is an enormous ana
unexpected value here. so precious. in
fact. that one had better look care
fully as to what he is getting rid of
or letting 60
There is another thing with respect
TO these entries of which We have
spoken where you may arrange this
accounting properly. and one of the
best things to learn in making a new
balance sheet. In the first of these
texts the idea is that the good one
gets from bearing one anothers bur
dcns is by-product. BY bearing
one another's burdens there comes
AZ a byproduct to the soul of the
burden bearer-somcthing more pre-
cious than he can possibly give to his
brother in the bearing of his burden.
And the man who does not know
what to do with the wastes and es-
pecially the man who does not under
stand how the by~products in this
great era of ours are the richest and
most precious asset that we have to
bank upon, Is sadly deficient in the
development of bis mentality. This
by-product of bearing one anothers
burdens is far greater than that which
you try to do, and it Is essential that
YOU have this thought in your mind
before you will know what kind OF
entry to make; where to put this as
set.
Burden-Bcaring.
Theer can be no dispute, nor is
there any question as to the facts
product. Let man start out in life
with the sole and only purpose to be
happy, to enjoy hismelf, and what
d miserable failure he comes to he.
But let him load himself up with SYM
pathy, be q burden bearer, and in the
loading up he will realize his relation
ship to his kird. All the forces in his
blood will tingle and be quickened.
and he will find himself part of the
great advancing race, with ideas OF
progress filling his brain and starting
his imagination, until all humanity
beats in his heart and looks out of his
eyes. Oh, what a glorious by-product
is this thing happiness. Is not the
failure of your spiritual life, my
friend and brother, due to this fact.
that you are keeping books on the
old lines. without any idea that there
must be a separate account for this
magnificent asset-the by-product?
And now that we have attempted
to make clear this question of by.
products in its relation to burden
hearing, let us look at another fact.
We must keep in mind that in this
balance sheet Of ours there is an ac.
count with ''the other fellow" How
is that? Because of civilization which
brings brotherliness.
There are some people, am one
of them-who think that the most
practical and important thing about
a man is his burden-bearing proclivi-
ties. Brute pity should be given only
To brutes. Cruelty to animals is cruel.
ty, and a vile thing. but cruelty to
humankind is not cruelty it is treas
on, for humanity is royal If we are
to enact the part of the good Samar-
must have two apparently antagon-
istic emotions in us at the same time.
We must think of him as intensely
miserable and at the same time in
tensely important. We must insist
strongly on his degradation: we must
insist with the same strength on his
dignity. Here, as / see it, is the
strongest argument for the Christie
conception of life.
nya g I'm ftts, do taI tNof,
the Christian life is that our Lord
lives in his redeemed children. that is
the Christians creed, the Biblical
creed. But how is it with us. Do we
represent or misrepresent the Great
Burden-I'ear in the presence OF
those who are crushed under many
burdens, stricken with much grief?
lnfirmity looks up into the Christians
face to find hints about the mind and
heart of Christ, to kno whow the Sor-
rowing One feels about it,
Now it Is the privilege of good men
and good women, everywhere, to
make it easier for the weary and
heavy laden to believe in the COM
passion of God. the All-Father 1t is
the privilege Of the Christian to make
1t easier for the widow and the or
phan to believe in the love of Christ
And 1t Is easier for men and women
NHoSt SoulS nave W pass through
darkness, through valleys of dark
shadows. it is easier, l say for them to
believe in the compassion of God
when they see reflections of light. and
experience the compassion of Gods
children But If the passing funeral
train awakens no more thought than
the passing trolley car; if the blind
man becomes so familiar as to cease
to break the spell of our thought; II