Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-03-19

where physical force pronounces the
verdict. Water drowns-always
browns. Fire burns--always burns.
Stones crush-always crush, Nature
makes no exception. Natural law is
pitiless. The storms care not one
whit for the little child, nor does the
fire nor water. The people on the Lu-
sitania prayed to deaf ears. The
children sl;rieking midst the noNious
gas which poisoned the people of st.
Pierre-when the top of Mi. Pelee is
blown Dff--hear no response. There
is no pardon extended to ignorance.
1t is through these natural laws that
man has his tools. Tut let no man
expect pity from natural law Man
must, It's true. bring his tools, his
task, his burden, unto natural law as
unto a judgment seat But woe unto
the victim who must abide by its
Verdicts.
What we want, what we must have
if we would meet the needs Of our
age, is not a thought Of God expressed
in terms Of his imnanencc in nature,
but thought of God that will be to
cur age what an older conception
was to our forcfatherS.
| am tired Of all this talk about
immanence. My view Of nature is
briefly this: that If you are going to
adulate her and treat her on panthe-
istic lines, you will get no thanks
from her. She is too faithful SER
Want of God to enjoy that kind of
flattery What she wants us to do
is to stand up 20 her. She exists for
the purpose of producing souls that
will never find n home in her.
There is a great deal of nonsense
talked about the "imnauence If God
in naturc'-much insincere flattery
which does not come anywhere near
to the tremendous heart Of the situa-
ton. If God is not better than ma
ture, then frankly I don't want to
have anything to do with him. 1t is
only after ! had taken my stand in
the Christ spirit, and not till then,
that | can appreciate nature. 1t
is quite impossible to understand
or even get within sight of un-
derstanding nature, until you have
taken your stand with God. For
myself, alone with nature, l am
drowned ana throttled. ! must 20
outside for air and light. our primary
religious want today is to get some
absolute truth about God and, as
have already SAID, we come to that
truth through Jesus Christ, who is
the Way, the Truth. and the Life"
our next Judgment seat--organized
in the body as the mechanism of
thoughts that of physical force.
Man is a soul, but he has body
Fearfully and wonderfully made IS
this delicate instrument of thought
and feeling and volition. The laws
of health are stern and inexorable
laws. and whoever transgresSes
against these laws must pay the pen
atty.
Solomon. the wsest of all kings.
wrote the most terrific passage in
literature, about the judgment seat
set up in the body by its Creator.
Wisdom personified speaks in the
passage. She calls before her throne
the glutton. the drunkard, and the
youth who has exhausted his strength
by low pursuits. She is equally severe
with the good man who has drained
away his vital forces. The epicuran
turns the body into physical harp
of the senses, upon which he plays
through fleshly delights. The bust
hess man. over ambitious, breaks the
law of sleep. exercise and recreation.
The patriot and soldier, through no.
bile motives. taxes the body to the
last point of endurance. The beauti-
ful mother, through every force Of