Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-14

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putting on various forms and colors.
Here Is a blood-red rose. Hold II
close TO your soul-ear. and itas Grim
son lips whisper: MY rich red comes
from the Aery red Of the SUM-" But
mere is another rose. It's petals are
hued with tender goldenness Hear
also It's confession of faith: ~. too,
believe In the very same sun that
gives beauty to my heart-red sisterA
! am what am because light is what
II is"
But lights versatility in the physi-
cal Is but large hint at our Lords
versatility In the spiritual. What true
man ever lived that did not own him
Master and King? There In no such
thing as human loyalty apart from
Chrlsts indwelling and expanding the
human Into It's possible largeness,
and nobility. Life (devoid Of Christli-
ness Is a sunray sheared off from the
sun. What kind of human tempera-
ment Is there that cannot be mastered
into spiritual kingliness by Christ?
Verify, He Ia the Savior OF the men
who can't, that they may become OF
OF the universe imparts royalty to his
! subjects by virtue Of his splendidly
creative power and versatility.
Consider this for a little. 1t il
quite generally admitted vhat Shakes
peare IL the most Opulent and many
sided genius In history. Think of the
poets power to project himself into
SO many different characters. Now
he is a king, now q queen, now q
clown. now an Antony, now a Cleo
patra, now an Ophelia, now a Ham,
let. now an Iago. now a Romeo. now
Juliet Is now Shakespeare's over
ta,lS a1s III. On
assume any character? Seemingly\h Me
delights In hiding himself behind the
OverflOwing richness of his powers.
We know 80 little of Shakespeare
the man himself IL veiled In kind OF
perplexing twilight-just because he
conceals himself in so many varied
human roles Thinking OF his fund OF
sentiments. maxims and observations:
Of his influence on science. art. his
tory. politics. physics. and philosophy,
the critic can only say: Shakespeare
timber shall be cut and used as long
as winds blow and leaves are green"
But listen! II Shakespeace by his
affluent genius recreates In imagtna-
tiOE, and moves his characters to and
fro in the fields of memory. Christ
exercises, at first hand, creative lord
ship over all kinds and conditions OF
souls, and causes them to manifest
his spirit in successive ages and in
countless spheres Of Nfe.
Here, for example. is John. brother
of James, son Of Zebedee. Like his
father and brother, he Ia a fisher
man; he Ia one of millions Of Jews
living in the first century Of our era:
he Is an ambitious, hOt-tempered.
average human being; goodness and
badness retire with him every night
and get up with him every morning.
But" you say, we call him st. John:
his writings are more familiar. II far
less voluminous than those Of Shakes
peare's; what then Is the explanation
Of this wonderful man? There is but
one answer: st. John Is a disciple OF
Christ. a shining human beam raging
out from the Light of the World.
very different manly the
whole diameter of being almost-is
that naughty, powerful young Phari-
zee named Saul of Tarsus, who
changes not only his name. but he
himself Is changed. The substance of
his character Is transformed; the in
most fiber of his being is ,recreated;
the center of his personality Is
shifted. What caused IL? Who
wrought 1t? II the pillared firma-
ment be not rottenness, nor earth's
base built on stubble, Jesus Christ us
certainly changed Saul the prosecutor
ito Paul the saint as two and two
make four, an the air you breathe
strikes health thru your cheeks. The
universe Is no stronger agument fort
the being of God than are John and
Paul for the redemptive versatility of
Christ.
The Inexhaustiblcncss Of Chrast's Ma
turc.
Natsre grows only one kind Of leaf
TO a tree, the tree may flaunt hum
dreds of it's kind; but the tree of life
is green and golden with every
variety Of age. temperament. strength.
weakness. faith. hope. love. All hang
there, mellow and beautiful an they |
take on ever-deepening ripeness. Will
liam Blake's childhood imagiation
was SO vivid that-playing among the |
trees of the feld--he saw angels in
every one. And do not eyes washed in
the silver waters OF Christian faith see |
something quite as wonderful? Walk
ing in the field Of history, we behold
the overarching and outspreading |
branches of the Tree OF Life. Dis |
tinctly visible among these branches !
are Augustine, Ignatius. Luther. CAL |
VIM Wesley, Edwards. Robertson, |
Beecher, Brooks. Martineau, Fair |
BARN, Gladstone. and great multi !
tude no man can number out OF all |