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

,h,,r, am ne Light Of the world. lie
u"t i9IloweSh me shall not walk in dark.
1 ne,s, but shall have The light Of lifs'
John YIN. H. " nv
10 where you will the primary
.ao.s concerning the creative power
,,ah, ~. sun, the fertilizlng wonder OF
ns"' cohIronts you. The tsprinptime
When earthI face is wreathed with a
Ineasureless smile Of greenery. is a
miracle too great to We told: hut when
you mink OF all the springs that have
peeh' with their illimitable patches of
Color their throb OF pregnant mower.
tneIr whir OF wings and their wafture
-, ,.hsr'hce, now can you recount the
ovar, tessherative capacity. Why.
- !itue brown seed that has
,or' %n'u 10 ire In the long. long his
s,ri v, ."e ases past and gone; every
| sp''s oi grass that has climbed ont
Vi Ns uny grave and becomes an
s,eraid string for the south wind 10
Hhser resurrection meIodv on.
every Tree that has thrown ou. its
oi"nchcs as so many begging hnnds
10 DC filled with treasure from the
atmosphere; sN the animal life that
-, ana is to be--all represent the
sun. 's'"' VI '"e
m Loo Look at the sky above you, at the
will. the deeps under the earth and
yon are even~in the presence OF the
sun hegetttng power. Untold agps
"ko 'od IiIled our world cellar with
c'di. And the miner who brings his
pIack diamonds from the bowels of
our planet is simply uncovcrine huge
layers or stored-up sunshine; taking
pnt OF mother earth clot of the suh's
blood turned black.
ire sun. under Gods directive
u. i, heips to build the body in
w. 'n RaPhael or Newton lives
sor rev yeary; but the undying
N'",oh. the immortal Raphael. nor
.he lowest human that ever dwelt in
! mouse OF clay. pay homage to sun
or star. They get their being from
pehind the wells OF force, cod
breathed his very self into them and
sent them out to pioneer among the
WHO'S OF sense and time. For a few
years they wrought In the fields of
me human, then shook themselves
se OF the enveloping dust, and re-
with light as with a garment. guilds
them back to the golden bomelsrds
OF the soul.
] have said this much by yay Of in
troduction TO our theme, 1.-THE Re-
demptive Versatility of the Christ"
from the wording OF our textual thot.
we are led to infer that as the sun
creates all physical life, so, also. our
L.ord creates all spiritual life. lie is
nuinanity's terminating power. His
spir::uaily creative way suggest the
tar-off birth Of things. I'm the be-
Enning-God. God was old-the
ancient of Days-when the heavens
ana the earth felt the first stir of
Ire In the maiden womb of the uni-
verse. Old night and chaos were
touched to splendor and harmony by
the broQding spirit of Deity. Ana
tiod said: Let there be light and
there was light" Here we are at the
dim beginning. God had begun to un-
fold the universe. II am the light of
the world" here we are far advanced
In the course OF things. . God has
humanized himself limited the IL
limitable to the dimensions of the
human, and is going about this part
OF his creation in the form Of a man.
How could the solar system be
without the sun? Is II possible to
have the circumference without
center? Do you catch the thot?- A
sunless solar system is the counter
part of a Chrtstless world. The world
creating Word became flesh that He
might creatV new humanity. '1f
any man is in Christ. there Is a new
creation; the old things are passed
away; behold they are become new"
The law-defying things give place to
the high up realities. The forgiven Of
Is life indeed. He brings the gulf Of
spiritual distance that separates us
from God. Evidently God has no
other way of saving the world but In
and thru Christ. He Is the fount
whence flow the sweetening streams
OF the higher humanities. He Is The
Spiritual Sun. out of which come all
our immortal radiences. In him we
touch the unfatbomed mysteriousness
OF our own being; in him we touch
the unplumbed deeps In the being OF
God; and so, in him. our wandering
spiritual tones are gathered up and
wrought into unjarring harmonies.
He alone unveils the essential worth
OF the human, giving 1t unfluctuating
value in the mystic markets of eter-
nitY
Many. thinking OF the devils task
to which EurOpes leadership had and
is devoting her strength. prostitutine
the power that could achieve for all
broader ana better lie to the cam
ceiling policies of hate and death and
fear-exciaim: 1.-THE Spiritual Son
has suffered total eclipse: It Is not
light but the mailed-fist which exalts
brute force to the place which Christ
claimed for the kingdom Of love, that
trumphs: II is not the lamb but the
lion that conQuers; II is not Christ but
Caesar that il on the throne. II Is
the Corsican and not the Gahiean |
who has conquered"
Now. such expressions as these are |
mere brain-storms in the hours OF |
thot-friction. Chiefest OF the lessons
We may learn In this school OF in |
ternational agony-where lives are
being poured out In murder like
hearts blood into sands this:
Civilization Is not a synonym for |
Christianity. Some have confidently |
assumed their identity, but the brute |
In man Is now busily gnawing and |
clawing that assumption to pieces.
No. NV friend. Christianity has not |
failed: Il II your efficient. clever.
cruel, Christless civilization that has |
failed, and must fail hour by hour |
Tomorrow It will utterly fail. and
over It's heaps of charred ruins. |
bleaching bones, unmarked graves, |
broken bodies and accusing hands Of |
mothers and little children the Light |
NJ tho World will riao nfraah with