Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-05
MAKING MONEY IS
A PLEASANT TASK
Pastor Albert Massey Speaks
on "lIome Missions" in
Patriotic Strain.

/ bread; but these are not necessary.
/ II is always possible and often ad-
Nhntageous for us TO eat less and re-
strict our material living in many
| ways, when the right motives and
! right ends are at stake" said Pastor
/ Albert Massey, speaking from his pull
pit at tie English Lutheran church
yesterday morning in a sermon on
| Home Missions" but which had a
strong patriotic tinge.
Rev. Massey referred To the fact
/ that II 100000 statute OF Pasto-
/ fious. founder OF Germantown. Pa,
which has Just been erected In that
/ city. had been covered with boards
as soon as completed. because Paste
! fious was German, and he con.
I trasted this with the tributes that are
being paid Martin Luther. another
/ German, All over the world today be-
cause Luther stood for the liberty OF
not and religious freedom.
Not Covering up Minds.
Thinking people are not seeking
| to cover up In their minds and mem
cries the figure OF this greatest Ger
man. said the pastor. nor withhold
ing the honor due him on this four
hundredth anniversary OF the
reformation. in the light Of which our
United States was built.
you Lutherans. IL In well fer You
tc know that the rationalistic and un-
Christian theologians of Germany who
| have done so much to wrest that land
from the course of truth anc peace
aud corrupted many pulpit and pro-
fessnr's chair in America, are. and
have been, not one Of them Lutheran,
! either In name or spirit.
"It Is well that you should be in
formed that the present kaiser OF Ger
many rs not n Lutheran and never was
one. But " he were Il would have
nothing to do with this American
church. nor would II alter one whit
tho fashion Of your loyalty to the only
land of your allegiance
Last month there were in our va
rlous army training camps forty
thousand American boys known TO be
Lutherans A few weeks after our
entry Into the war the very first
American college after the West
FONT military academy whose 8ppli-
cation for an officers reserve corps
camp was granted 10y the government
was our great Lutheran college at
Gettysburg
And today the schools belonging 20
cur own general synod alone have
had since America entered the war "A
: larger part of their students actually
accepted and commissioned as United
states army officers than have the
schools of any other denomination.
These are quite as valuable forms
OF patriotism as wearing the flags of
The allies on ones automobile or gos-
: siping about Lutheran disloyalty.'
. Pastor Volunteers.
= "Ten days ago there stood in tins
$ very pulpit young man holding a
/ quiet pastorate In nearby city. To.
cay he has been accepted by our army
\ | a laff r,
l and is on his way abroad because hi:
{ country needed him"
Reverend Massey chose for his tex
a the 10th versesof the fifth chapter
OF Ephesians. "Redeeming the tim,
. because the days are evil"-St. Paurs
$ writing to the Christians IN the an
e. Client city Of Ephesus, the great trad
ing point of Asia, where merchant
e of the east and OF the west met &c
e watch for opportunities to buy and
sell
Standing in the market place is g
: wise and watchful merchant, keen for
7 trade in spiritual goods and gains,
I commented the minister. He sees 9
4 chance for business such as his hear
has hoped for; he leaps at it. seizes Il
'redeems It, or buys II and make'
II his own. st. Pauls picture is ex
= acuy The modern notion OF making q
y corner" except that the merchandis,
= TO which lie refers is not material no;
3 the monopoly of self Take heed tha
: YOU behave exactly, not as fools bu
= as WISE buying mp the opportunity
c because the DAYS are evil"
e Reverend Massey declared TIM
+ there Is no room for the timid ol
n easily discouraged Christian trader
Holy living is ALWAYS the conditio,
Of Inheritance In the kingdom o
| Christ and Of God
Opportunities taken and used lea,
us to everlasting life. Opportunitie
lost are what we are making our owl
| graves of-the only way by which /
will ever he necessary to die AL
good gifts are ours from God, and ar,
! our souls market days for trade. Blu
with opposing circumstances and OF
, evil days we are to get gain alsc-fo
for Gods glory. for mans good an,
for our own learning.
life Series of OPPORTUNITIES.
Life is probation-duty y-educa
ton; II Is n series Of opportunitie
taken hold OF and lost not because tn,
4 days may be evil; there will never II
v this life be an end of opportunities
a rut they grow smaller or larger as w
misuse or use them. and SO reduce
or enlarge our capital to buy more
: "St. Paul's words have n meanin,
a for ordinary work. Darwin said, =
: man who dares to waste one hour o
= time has not discovered the value o
u hfe There is Necessarily no opposi
!. tlon between a godly life and the en-
0 ergetic. successful handling OF busi
:. ness
:, They can well be supplied, too, 4
. cur relations with our neighbors.
n but the great prize of life is spir
8 itual Business is not SO much ou
n opportunity for getting on as II 1
= our opportunity for getting up
u Equal opprtunity for all is an i'm
i possible dream I'm any such world a
d this. but each man can use his par
y ticular circumstances TO further God
designs for his fellow citizens and 10
himself
y There ls always something o
Y someone within reach Of oru help. An
n all the good that We can now d
!, we shall need In the day that we com
TO answer for the use we have bee
:, in the world. The soldier patriot ma
fall in foreign land and die afa
Il ON home. His brother patriot VIII
= serves his land In business dies 4
r home, but he dies. too"
e Deer Gets Lost.
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