Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-04
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PATRIOTIC SONGS
Adopted Children Rally About
Old Glory on Nativity
Night at Revival.
STIRRING SCENES ENACTED
College Iells Roar in House
of God; Outsiders Come
First With America"

one of the most dramatic Incidents
OF the Mcconnell meetings occurred
last night when one Englishman. two
SWedes, one Dane, three Canadians
and one little boy and his mother
from ireland arose and sang to the
crowded tabernacle, My Country Tls
of Thee ON the first line the crowd
surged to its feet as one man and
added with intense feeling. sweet
Land of Liberty OF Thee | Sing"
Many Tense Moments.
II was Nativity night ana the huge
tabernacle had been divided into state
sections. Each section rose at the
call of It's state, sang "A sopg and sent
a Ereeting--most of the latter being
!'ib!e verses. There were state mot
toes. college yells, alma mater songs
and local sentiments galore. II re
NAMED for the foreign born to give
expression To the surging patriotism
which must beat in every American
heart at the present moment and to
express in their biblical greeting the
sentiment which makes of American
ism a creed and of the belief that
here at last God has established a
melting pot wherein humanity shall
be above the nations, "A burning re-
ligion. The greeting of the foreign
bpll americans 10 Nnc coNntiNlnen
of their adoption was: "God created
of one blood all nations on the face Of
the earth God so loved the world
that he gave his only begOtten son.
that whosoover belieyeth in him shall
not perish. but have everlasting life. 4"
Other Patriotic Songs.
When the crowd had finished
America" with almost equal fervor
II sang, "Blest BE the Tie that
Binds"
To show that it had set up little
melting pot ION its own" with oil
fires burning brightly underneath,
Tulsa produced citizens from 2S
states with forty Oklahomans (most-
lY children), who sent greeting
about tine Promised Land to the FOR
egn born" within their gates old
Missouri lead the van with 161. Penn
sylvania had IS, Ohio 81 and Illinois
so. Kansas mustered 80 and Ken
tucky 40. The the numbers fell off
rapidly until they reached Minnesota,
Nebraska and far away California
with one representati\ each.
Il hope" said Lincoln Mcconnell,
that none OF you will be out when
your state roll is called in the great
kingdom on the other side"
Doctor Mcconnell took his text from
I / /
Ny ways were not Gods ways and |
turned my feet unto thy testimonies"
Whenever a man starts to do a thing
by thinking first it is likely he will
get something done worthy of himself
and worthy of his opportunity. The
major part of all the trouble in the
world comes to us from our slovenly
habits Of careless thinking-or not
thinking at all. Nobody. thinks Doc
tor Mcconnell. does wrong when he
thinks up to the measure of his God
given capacity to think. The revival
list spoke of his years Of service as
criminal officer and of his observation
Of the PRISONS everlasting refrain
"If had only thot. If | had only thot."
The Alternative.
He said that no sinner had ever
planned his way ahead. He asked his
audience to suppose themselves sight
ing along the gun barrel of their pres
ent course. There were only two ulti-
mate aims for every man-heavcn or
hell. The man who was drifting, Line
declared. was never drifting upward,
and that never in his life would 4
man drift into anything worth while
He said that of all muddle-headed
thinking they were guilty Of, men
erred the most on the subject of re-
ligon-and that this problem was
simplest. lie said that men were like
Japanese spinning mice with "a
spinning in the bean" with thots that
went round and round and lead no
where.
Simple Course.
In all the world, said Doctor McCOn-
nell there was no SIMPLER problem
than that of salvation. You started
with the promise that you We're Il
sinners that God had given his only
begotten son to save sinners. that he
had said, come to me all yc who labor
and are heavy burdened and | will
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