Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-21
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Tho greatest results often come
from causes that are apparertlv lost
We cannot figure that every cause is
lost and It's power for good Killed be-
cause II seemingly has mot defeat
Great causes have been rejected time
ana over again ana their advocates
dI'credited and punished. Yet am the
time the lcavcn was working i'm the
public conscience and sooner or later
perhaps when least hoped for. the
disci edited propaganda has bios
Aomed out into a public conviction
and that conviction borne fruit I'm ac-
ton. Sometimes the change comes
with violence and agony. as the
French revolution or our own Ci,U
war; sometimes II has stolen up uuiet-
~ ana was am accomplished fact be
fore its enemies could gather force
f"r resistance. as the Prussian rcyolu-
ton or the female suffrage move
m'nt. Yet none of these have been
accomplished until after much eff q
ana many lives had been sacrificed
along the pathway that led to final ac-
ceptance.
The Savior of mankind went to
diegraceful death ON the cross. but
thru that sacrifice and the raising
from the tomb, man was given a plan
TO secure eternal life and the wcapons
put Into his hands with which TO
break the power OF sin. Thru one
mans death and the failure Of what
seemed 90 he the noblest propaganda
in history the race Of mankind was
given the highest eift that divinity
could devise. And the sacrifice was
necessary that the plan should sue
coed. \ grain OF wheat Is full Of vital
potenuality, but IT produces nothing
until IL Is buried In the soil and de-
Gays, when out OF decay springs a
new life that multiples its source
many fold. The similc Is good for all
great cndcavors, The disciples at Em-
maus thot that all the plans for hu-
man salvation had gone to wreck on
calvary They had hoped for a
greater redemption for Israel thru
this man Jesus. but the rabble had put
Him Co death and their dreams were
dissipatcd. Yet out of this very fail
ure. ass II seemed to them, came the
success which God had planned
II IS wel for us to remember this
80 great truth ls ever killed when its
advocates are tortured or killed or
osuac,zcd. Truth is eternal and can
not die But thru the blood Of it's
eyaugel.sts and tho repeated insist
enco Of Its dlscipleship finally per
mcotcs the human consciousness ON a
large scale and before We realize its
progress the truth has been en-
throncd ON the pinnacle of success
An old provcrb had IL that the voice
Of the people is the voice of God.
Nothing could be much further from
the truth. The people will reject
teaching over and over again for
years and perhaps centuries. and
finally change its mind and come over
TO the converts We govern by ma
joritics In this land of the free. Yet
majorit.cs are as often mistaken and
sometimes as tNrannicUlly wrong as
ever any individual dared be. Yet in
the ultimate without doubt the right
will prevail But because a cause has
met crushing defeat Is no sign it is
lost to humanity forever II IL has
within itself the germ OF q new life,
as has the grain OF wheat its burial
win mean the more rapid develop
mcut into harvest that will ustouish
even the busbaudman. No cause that
is right. no cause that is true, is ever
lost. IL IS only buried whore the
powers of gcrminatiou viii cause it to
spring up TO vigorous and irresistible
vitality.