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

tribes and kingdoms and peoples
There they cluster. In immortal
greenness, growing larger. more
Christlike. more thrilling alive. as our
poor. >distraught human regiments
march bleedinGly on to the coronation
of the Christ In the completion OF the
world.
The boundlessness OF the suns
energy, as we know 1t. IL "a noble
symbol. surely. Of the inexhaustible-
ness Of our Savior's nature and re-
sources The physical SUN is doomed
to extinction, but the Light OF the
cosmic winds nor Internal cyclones
can quench His light, because His Ii
the vitality OF Godhead, the genius OF
eternity. Can the unbeginning God
have an ending? Forever abroad In
the world ne goes conqueringly on
from epoch to epoch. The planets
may get untuned. but he remains ever
undestroyed because indestructible,
undying because deathless.
Some very practical thots arise out
of this great truth of Christ's unfail-
ingness. At what price, asked
Socrates Of his judges-whO had con-
demned him to death. AT what
price would you not estimate con-
IcTcICe Will f1cHiOu anu fiOIIlcT.
would indeed be willing to die again
II this should be true" Well. It must
he true. even tho to our material
cursed cra-groaning under it's
weight Of iron and sfone and stubble
such n thot may be deemed imprac-
tical and quite out Of place. Yet It
Is hard to believe that any normal
soul can repress q thrill OF Joy as he
thinks Of the spiritual statures of the
noble dead Who have for ages been
growing more and more alive.
Think Of that trinity Of the old dis
pensatiOn-Moses. Elijah and Elisha.
Two Of them were glad to vacate
heaven long enough to meet with
Christ on the Mount Of Transfigura-
ttOn. Unto what majestic propor-
tions Of manhood all must have at
tained under the tutelage Of the Mas
ter In Glory! Dante said that the
dying Stephen ''made his eyes gates
to behold the Skies" II under that
deadly rain Of stones Stephens face
took on an angelic brightness. how
could average mOrtals dare to look at
that face, now that II has been gazing
no long into the fountains of beauty
flowing from the Christ? Carlyle
called Dante because of his great
versatility OF thor and action, the CEN
tral man of all the world. But there
are those who think that Dante's
worldgreatne&s In due neither to his
world Wilderness nor to his world deep
ness. but to his heaven-highness.
kind Of supernatural l0ftiness,
strain Of celestial sublimity char
.acterizes this NInan who gives voice to
ten dumb centuries. Put do you not
think that that august man hus grown
tremendously during His six hundred
years abxence from the earth? With
His nearer clearer vision Of that love
which moves the sun In heaven ana
all the stars. who shall say what
grander dimensions are his.
A final consideration is the encour-
agement which Christ's fathomless
Saviorhood gives to men and women
now on the earth-right there In the
thick Of things-when the planet
seems staggering under it's weight OF
woe ana sin and injustice. Emer-
son once said that the man never
lived who could feed US ever. and he
IL grandly right. And seme Of these
times, those belated thinkers, pro-
Teasing to be advanced. will wake up
to the fact that they are some GEN.
turtles behind the times. For We are
only up with the times as we are ltv-
ing with the eternities. No. thou
sand times no! No mere man can be
the Bread Of life to the souls of men.
but God STOPPING to our lowliness and
lifting us to the high still places In