The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-30
Business Men UrgedtoK Keep
Up Interest in Home Church
Harry II. Rogers Says 1t Is
No Whim To Worship
Lord.
GREAT INSPIRATION FOR ALL
Path to Success and Peace
Made Easier Through
Religious Activity.
by JERRY RAND.

And ~ business men. we should
MS the. spiritual guidance without
/ which the fun fruits OF success can
! not be enjoyed For without the
! church and It's influence. It is an
empty reward which We .may win as
"a result OF our efforts"
The speaker was Harry II. Rogers,
president OF the chamber Of COM
pierce. His audience was composed
OF business men. members OF one OF
Tulsa o civic clubs. Those who heard
Mr.. Rogers address delivered at
luncheon one day last winter,
characterized y as the most remark
able address they hai ever heard.
And as Mr.. Rogers who was irving
his ideas on the matter OF city
building, digressed e. skeptit
might say, tears came to tho eyes
or many OF the staid business men
who had perhaps hitherto divor -
In their own minds, any connection
between business and spiritual
things, For MIR Rogers pointed out,
the business man had come 10 be 80
engaged In the task OF merely max
Ing money, that It was too much OF
an effort to bring out the soul In
tn" smooth path of fortune Not a
man who heard this talk failed TO bs |
Impressed AMI certain OF them said |
later that they had found comfort, |
that calm satisfaction ip linking !
up the idea OF having attended n |
place OF worship with the cOntem- |
plation OF the fruits OF their labor |
had left upon their minds and their |
conscience a more complete salts |
faction with their lives and have to |
the future a brighter vista and n |
moro helpful significance.
Church Going Is NoAa Whim.
But ms Mr.. Rogers alAo pointed ?
out. church going must not br
lroated as within which comes m
for merely occasional qualification.
Just as business falls to function |
properly unless IL * kept in tune
by daily efforts. so tho faith that
provides the fuel with which the
fires OF success are Kept burning
brilliantly, wiI flicker ont ana die
unless It ts uourishcd by a con-
science that feels and soul that
continually reaches out for sIs-
tenance.
This new aGe OF excitement and
rapid living and high prices has
threatened and is threatening TO un-
hermine the temple OF faith because
men are thinking more of getting
'han OF giving. Not In material
way for happily. Tulsans are blessed
m material way and material Civ
ng Is easy And therein perhaps,
les the reason for their care less
ness in spiritual things.
Why don't people go to church,
II isn't beneath" successful {
business man TO bo seen entering
,hurch.
Tho hoy Of 35 years ago was
Weakened Sunday morning TO curry I
he horse, pull the cariole out OF
no barn and await the pleasure OF (
tho folks before giving OLA Jim
he sign 10 head Tor the meeting
louse. The Old white church way the ,
ommunitv center After services. Il
vas time 10 talk over crops and the
hlance or the day was given over
o rest a
It's the same old Sabbath that veT1
ad 80 years ago. Tho old meeting
ouse Is still the same community c
enter II only people would make II S
o. That's all that's lacking. In /,
tead. they choose to feel that there :
no more to be gained by super n
Iclal pleasure seeking than there Is d
y sober practical devotion TO mat /
srs spiritual. n
Business must he kept goin9. The n
oors 10 the banks must remain r
pen, The new spapcrs must CON
nue.. The human mind cannot CON y
nive picture OF city without a a
lura h And yet here we have the :,
but the very people whose p
.inds rebol at the thought OF "a -
lurchlcss city are not doing their =
art To keep the church runctionlng. :,
he Episcopal church has "A move
Ient under way 10 bring peoplaS
ack TO the altar. II Is meeting with r
ready response. Men seem to have
"akened TO the suporficiality OF a
fe surrounded by only business and
easure. They have found that there
an element lacking to insure com
e's vat siact!on IN tho con'emp'a-
on 81 the results OF their daily
'tiviues. 1t Is hopoi that this is
e wave Of rejuvenated righteOus-
'ss which will carry back on It's
est. ns II gains momentum, the
'pe Of a rebstn America. tn which
lth will point the way TO new
eefon for business man. capitalis
merchant. Ia horer. clerk and ar
san, in which the 10Y OF accom-
lshmcnt. may be made complete
rough mo krowledgo that their
'nesN effort was guided along the
irithal rn'h which leads 10 perfec
iderst1nding.
The church points out this spirit
] path and this was the point
lich Mr. Rogers hoped to make
ar TO Tulsa business men when he
iicip7.ea the back 10 church"
lvement in his memorable ad-
ess OF last winter