Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-19

az Egyptian Endorsement, get away
with it, AZ the slang phrase has II.
In doing this he, like Rehoboan,
listened TO the advice Of hot-hcadec
councillors and despised the cautious
counsel Of jeremiah. Taking out OF
confederation the fact that he must
have known that the Jewish people
had incurred the just wrath or Je-
hoVah ana that the penalty was Justly
due them, he added to breaking the
national compact with God the lesser
sin of breaking his agreement with
Northumberland. That the Chaldcan
klng was an alien oppressor whose
yoke the people resented does not
palllate the sin Of their king breaking
ms oath to that oppressOr. 1'Wo
wrongs never make a right. We often
near offered IN excuse for our uomg
wrong things to others that they de-
served no better treatment at our
hands. We are prone to give our
brother "as good as he sends This
i3 not righteousness Honor is honor.
no matter how dishonorable may be
the other party. Wrong is never right.
Oppression may Justly be resisted by
force, but never by dishonesty.
Thus, primarily because God had
condemned Judah to suffer the just
penalty for its infidelity, and socony.y
because the Jewish kingdom happened
20 be in the way OF a traditional
contest for power between the two
chlei rivals for world supremacy, it
was crushed and prophecy were fui-
filled. Neither NebuchadneZZar nor
Iedekiah acted as they did because
II was fulflllmcnt Of prophecy Each
had his own motives and each fol
lowed his own devices, but both were
instruments in the hands Of God to
carry out his designs. even as now he
makes the wrath of men to praise
him. Yet in all his Just anger at
judah, the Lord never forgot his
promise to David that his seed should
maintain n royal line until the
Messiah came The Jewish people
were not racially nor religiously OBJ
liberated. They had come to the point
where admonition and chastisement
no longer We're no eetaoin EATING.
their loyalty to Jehovah. The ma
tional consciousness had degraded 10
the point where only the most severe
lesson could save them. That lesson
they learned by captivity, and we find
them afterwards returning to Jerusa-
lem a chastened people no more to be
deceived by the wiles Of idolatry. And
the plight of this nation resembles the
plight of some men. They have steeled
thelr hearts against God until only
desperate remedies will bring them to
their senses.
The lesson that had to be taugnt
to judah was that it is Impossible
to escape the consequences of sin. The
fate that confronted them had beeu
plainly laid down to them In the writ
ings of Moses. to which was added
the frequent admonition Of godly men.
They dared the consequences, and, as
the slang users OF the day aptly put
it, they got what was coming to
them" Tho greatest error we make
nowadays is in thinking that we caA,
sin and escape the consequences. Ever
Gods forgiveness, while il may wipe
out the record OF our transgressions
and give us a title to eternal life,
cannot and does not pretend to ohvi-
ate the consequences in this word OF
our misdeeds. What we have sown
we must reap. The devil whispers
to us that, altho others have met their
fate, we are too discreet and cautious
to be caught. Never did a man violate
physical or moral law but what nc
mad at some time and in some way
tc pay the penalty. Every little evil
thing you say or think or do has left
an indeiihle mark upon either minc. or
body that shall remain with us till
we die. DO not flatter Yourself that
you can avoid the consequences tha-
every other sinner has had to endure.