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

does the selfish man. who lives for
food, for drink, and all honeyed de-
lights.
But once the nervous capital is
gone and disease comes in. once the
nerve is racked with pain ana the
brain tortured with sleeplessness,
wisdom pronounccs ner verdict. II
called upon YOU, and ye refused |
stretched out my hand but no man
regarded ye set at naught all the
counsel of physiology; ye would none
of my rcproof through hygiene; We
have robbed my body OF its rlghtful
claims; now ! will laugh at your cal
amity; | will mock when your fear
COmeth; when Your fear cometh as
desolation. and your destruction com
eth as n whirlwind; when distress
ccmeth upon you. Out OF your phys
zeal pain, they shall call unto wisdom.
but | will not answer. Through
their physicians they shall seek me
early, but they shall not find me.
They would none of my counsel: they
despiscd all my reproof. Therefore
having broken every law of the body,
so fearfdlly ana wonderfully made.
they shall eat of the fruit of their
own way, and be filled with their own
devices"
Find. if you may, in all the litera-
turc of the ages, pronounced by any
throne of judgment, Il more terrible
verdict Every man must give an aC-
count of himself to some higher
power, but alas for those who come
seeking a verdict to the throne of
science and wisdom organized into
the laws of the human body.
The Most Complete Institution in
Modern society.
Again, there is the code--Which
for the want of a better name we call
the throne of civil law-created by
legislators. interpreted by judges, and
executed by representatives of the
state, one of the most complex insti-
tutions in modern society, anC under
which the citizens life and property
are safeguarded.
That the civil law represents a
long ana slow evolution goes without
saying. 1t is a far cry from the rule
of force-when every man did that
vhich was right IN hls own eyes, and
by the duel settled his controversies
to an end when the citizen is fenced
about by every cause of mans
ignorance, prejudice and selfishness.
exact judgment is practically impos-
sble. At least, every judicial verdict
is a makeshift In the physical
realm knowledge is certain through
expert skill. Today, no wise man
would not give Judgment as
To whether milk OF sugar or tea IS
pure, that is for the chemist and lab
Cratory. But on matters ten thousand
times more dlfficult--aS to motives
and acts ignorant men dc not nes-
ltate to pronounce q judgment on
their fellowmon.
A warden in one of our peniten-
tiares-in his address before the
Prison In, yata tl.,.
there were four classes in our prisons;
one-uuartoI OF the men We're worse
than their sentence; one-quarter were
better than their sentence; one-quar-
ter so hcdged themselves about by
silence and secrecy that any judg-
ment is impossible another quarter
are quito innocent. being the victims
of circumstances. ignorance and pref
udice. Admitting that to be true,
then the most terrible thing in mod
ern life is the mOnStrouS Injustice
wrought upon that last one-fourth
Recently, the warden Of a penlten-
tiary in one of the western states
received pardon Tor a man of mid
die age, who had been sentenced
many years before. What were the
facts in this mans case? one after
noon he entered his home just as a
physician who had murdered his sis
ter was escaping by another en-
trance. The physician saw his chance
and stopping passerby. said, There
is something wrong in that house."
I hey rang the doOrbell, rushed in,
found young man leaning over his
dead sister. the physician furnished
tho evidence, the young man went to
the penitentiary for life. For twenty
years the physician carried the secret
and then-unablc to endure his re-
morse longer wrote out the story
and committed suicide.
After twenty years behind the gran
ite walls and iron bars of q prison
this innocent boy was vindicated and
released, but at what cost The
next day. after the so-called pardon"
went into effect the man asked the
warden what he could do. His health
was broken, he was at the beginning
of premature old age. The twelve
men in the jury box who had stupidity
believed lies; the stupid judge who
took such pride In being called the
terror TO criminals" society that sup
ported the monstrous deed-no one
would lift finger to right his wrong.
Society mad robbed this man OF twen-
ty years. but no state legislature
would tax society to remunerate him
for the lost years. Branded as
convict. the prison gates changed be-
hind him, and he passed out into the
world. his life irretrieveaoly ruined.
Do you know, my friends, that
what is called Justice" is the crud-
est thing in our modern life? While
everything has been done that can
be conceived to pass only the wisest
laws, to sift testimony and to secure
Judges who can hold An even scale,
1t etill remains true that he who seeks
justice at the throne of civil law finds
but a partial verdict for his person,
his property and his deeds
Gods viccgerant at the Court of
Mans Soul.
In the further cons, ,deration of our
theme let us consider. very briefly
indeed, the judgment throne where
conscience-God's vicegerant at the
court OF mans soul-sits to test every
man by ideal standards and pro-
nounce Its penalties and to bestow Its
rewards.
Through conscience an automatic
Judgment seat u made possible. Every