The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-21
"GLORI0US HOPE"
THEME OF SERMON
Doctor Abel Gives Inspiration to Con
grcgntion In Easter Sermon
on the Aficr Life.
ADDUCES MANY REASONS
Nature Revelation Intuition all
Prove Man Must Live Again
N~nIrpnG~ MANY.

"Dur glorious hone" was Tho sub.
jrc' Of the sermon given at the First
NJ + church sunday morning 10y the
pastor. the RcN j " Ahcl The
text WAS taken from Job lIli ."tf a
man die shall ho live again" Doctor
Ahcls sermon follows IN part.
Rcthlchcms m1ngcr. Calvary
cross ahd Joscphs tomb arc the
world'a cnigmas The incarnation.
the n9nomrul and. the resurrection
are the supreme events In time.
They are the divine satisfaction to
tho deepest longings ~ the human
soul They are GODS affirmation To
the on" great question Of the ages.
II u man die. shall ne live again r"
They are the beacon lights that
flash their rays OF Joy and hope into
those mystic depths where proud sci
cncc has Jailed 10 reach with her i'm
porical demonstrations, ana remind
US.
we shah not he left in the dust
Strong son ~ cod mortal love,
Whom We that have not seen thy
fave.
Nv faith and failh alone embrace.
believing where We cannot prove -
''l'N N'lA 'lllllh w w lfllNNf Nv lllf
Immortality Of the soul
Commemorate Triumph
So this Easter time We are here 10
commemorate 4hY' triumph of the
worlds cunqucrur who laid strong
hands on the MASSIVE bars OF the
tomb and turned IN on the spectral
scene tho light of NE and wrote In
letters Of hope and love and faith
the doctrine Of immortality
"lf a man die, shalt he live again"
II is the question Of the ages and
men are stiil asking H. I would Ike
10 answer II IN the affirmative this
morning, by Hll the TOYS Of this East
ertidc, by the universal belief OF men,
hy the analogy of nature, by the
voice Of reason, and by the sstimony
OF divine revelation
We're our senses not so dbll the
race would not ask for a demon
HtratiOn Of this truth NO native to
the intuitions of the soul and that
has IN large a place in all realms OF
the natural word But because we
hrc thus limited by the dullness OF
our Aenses we need the reassurances
OF the lessons of this Eastertide,
our ignorance OF the fact Is not
evidence or proof against the fact
itself That We cannot gaze on the
faces OF our loved ana lost or hear
the familiar tread OF returning feet
II not proof against the fact Of their
spiritual existence. There are those
who live today who. remember when
there was no telephone and yet tx
porance was no argument against the
fact OF It's possibilities,
phere are thousa nds OF cxiHtcnccs
and realities Of which We have no
pattern I'm our own mind. For years
NE Plus Ultra on the stony tHce
OF old Gilbralter told the mariner
there was nothing beyond But one
day n man holdcr than ali others
turned the PROV OF his ship west
ward and on the l2th day OF Oc-
tobcr. lt92, found there was great
continent in the watery waste be-
yond Gibraltar.
This EHstcrtide furnishes the an
swer to the dictum OF Hume That
We are 10 believe nothing beyond the
And yet the blade OF
grass beneath our feet holds Sc
cret OF life that none of us have ever
fathomed.
And the prattling babe on Its
mothers bosom IL the incarnation
OF thousand truths that We oan-
not understand but which we cannot
deny.
Very nptly It has been said that
we cannot demonstrate the truth OF
Immortality. God has done that Tor
US in the fact uf the resurrection and
II is a truth TO he believed on the
authority Of the higher senses.
And there are many. many Things
in the great natural world about us
which Ike strange driftwood por-
tends new undiscovered land out
somewhere beyond the ken OF morhl
man Ard In our better moments We
give expression to our taith.
Tho from out our bourne OF time
and place.
Tho flood may bear us far,
We hone TO meet our pilot face to
face
when We have crossed the bar.
Answers with joys
SO let me answer the question TINS
morning. the old. old question OF JOB. /
bv an the Joys that cluster AROUND
this F,Astertide. for " Is the gladsome |
season Of tho wear Everything seems !
10 hc atune TO the divinest harmo-
MICS God is speaking to us In every
thing and through everything, HIS /
tearrat messages Of hope and love.
nh. rsaurrpCtiOn confirms human ]