Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-30
TULSANS OBSERVE
THANKSGIVING DAY
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and Switzerland. and so was Pales-
tine--countries where love Of the
homeland has been supreme. To the
Son Of David the national past was
alive, the hills and lakes of the father
land were dear.
There never moved across this
earth q truer patriot than Jesus. But
his patriotism was hidden by The
larger than Jewish idea of humanity
that possessed him. And so as we
grow Christlike will some elements in
our patriotism be forgotten; the vir-
tue will not be lost at all, but modi-
fled
A Day of National Testing.
Meanwhile our patriotic faith is sub
jected to trials. The contest is moi
pleasant. Yet success to our arms
Will come, and that thot com.
forts, Indeed. the very idea OF
trial or test involves the possibility
of triumph. over all the other vir.
tues 1t is faith that stands sentinel
Therefore faith must first, and most
there is a victory to be won. 1t is a.
tried soldiers that we desire at last &c
go into the great captains presence.
"Sccrct Things"
'It takes faith then to believe thai
America is for God, and will be. Grea
faith is asked, too, to believe that Goo
is for America. At least. so it is il
my case. In a day of intense excite
ment, when liberty was on trial, Jane
A. Garfield, as president of the United
States stood before a throng in New
York and the first words he spoke wer,
these, The Lord reigneth, let the earti
rejoice; clouds and darkness are rouni
about Him, but righteousness anC
judgment are the habitation of Hi
throne The clouds and the darkness
do Try faith. Unto the Lord our Goo
the secret things belong; they are no
ours. Without faith surely we canno
do our national work. Without faitl
today j for one could not even believ'
that God is doing His work-so darl
is the veil of secrecy thrown aroun,
His present leadership Of this natioi
and this world.
During the last three light-hearte(
decades we have been smoking tn,
opium pipe of evolution, telling tn.
world how far it has risen, chiefly b,
its own force, from the depths il
which 1t began; describing the speed
with which il has mounted under GU
sage and dreamy eyes, and prophesy
ing of its complete ascension in thu
near and sweet bye and bye. Recen
events have broken the opium pip
and dispelled the delusion. Indeed
the wild beast has broken loose IL
the race of men. Cur own people
are in the storm, with thin huh onl.
between us and an angry sea. Wher
is God? Certainly lie is not easil,
seen, or clearly. Still more, where i
the God of America ot Whom on 81
many THANKSGIVING days we hav
boasted? We could almost say tina
with the secret things as lie Himself
wy does God not stop the war? Ant
why did lie not keep America ou
of il?
God and the War.
"All the little / know about Co
makes me believe that whatever IL
does He does in mercy and love. Gu
God could make this war 10 cease
could destroy the authors of the wal
and at once He could remove the dc
lusion of Germany. lie could chang
her disastrous purpose. In fact IA
Is doing this. But He is doing 1t II
His way, not ours. For II is not God
way to override human freedom--t
force men of nations into sanity, hu
mility and charity.
'It is the very meaning of Ire, TN
very essence of real personality, hu