The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-10

! clearly,
To love his fellow man sincerely.
10 act from houest motive purely.
TO trust in God, and hcavon surely.
n a man finds himself falling m
| ono line Df business no viii bo wisc
| II he quits 10 and goes into another
/ thnt no cHn make mIcrcss off,
! Religion ig not for time. not for
! money. ~ is not for business, " is
NOT for society II ig not for politics
. II o. Tor GOD, 10 o. Tor llfo and death,
] tDf better or for wurTfp, tu Doc caro-
fully considered before you cuu take
"a step ana set your face Ike 70 fun,
and never drviate from the pntu
| that God lays doWn for YOU ia un' "
/ iu. n VIII end In apostaHy N you
don't return.
Potcr denied Jesus. lac returned
with tears Of repentance. ola Iudas
denied him ana hc wont out aud
committed suicido, and he diod AN
| apugtAtc. They both denied
JcHus hut one came back and the
other didn't.
Tho Wrong Fish.
Down iu North Carolina some.
| time ago an old fellow went OUT
an caught seventeen fine brook
trout lie brought them home and
! cleaned them aud his wife said
You'd better take them up 10
/ town 10 the preacher he's got some
friends visiting han and he's got "a
bic family himself"
So they put a little salt ON them
and wrapped them all up, put them
In basket and hc started 20 town
10 give them 90 the preacher. on
the way he stopped at n little coun-
! try grocery story to buy some
groceries, and "a little country black
smith shop TO got his old mare shod
and was telling about n And the
grocer's boy went ON sind took the
Hpeckled trout out ~ the basket
and put them In tho see box, ana
he wrapped up n piece Of rotten
codfish ana put that I'm the basket
| The fellow ordered some groceries
md drove on ana when no got to
tho preachers house he got out anC
got his basket. walked In and said
"l went out aud caught seventeen
OF tho finest spockled trout I ever
! cleaned. I heard you were having
some company 10 brought them ~
TO you.'
Then he took the fish out OF the
/ basket. ana when the women got
| a Whit Of II they grabbed their
fnosos and beat It for the door. ana
( he said.
Maria Ia losing her mlnd. sho
put that Goldfish in there instead OF
tho fish,
And so he took them. put them
| IN the basket and Started back ON
| his way back he stopped at tho
| grocery store In order to get the
groceries ho had ordered ON the
The fellow noticed something was
wrong and said, what In. tho mat
ter, JackY'
"Ohl Maria is losing her nina,
tell you she is going crazy"
lie told thom about the Goldfish
and the boy went out and got m,
Goldfish and threw II <out of IN,
basket, and put the sfccklcd trou
back I'm and !hs a!i fellow. ,trov;
on home and his wife came out 1,
meet him.
well, Jack, what d!d tho preach
er say2"
"Go on bnckl don't want yor
TO talk to me, you're losin' yer
mind" he said, What made ynl
put those rotten Goldfish In thero2
Losing my mlud l am not"'
| Yes you arbl'
No I'm notl'
yes you arel"
And they had one of those DO.
lmestiC explosions whose names ar,
legion. He went and got the PACK
age out of the basket. She unrolled
4, and reached down and pickcd ut
q sprcklod trout by the tail.
'ThCre' who is losing tlNiI
mind?~ IL them spcckled trout OF
rotten codnsh2"
Tho old fellow looked at. them
pulled his whiskcrs and said "Well
You may be speckled trout In tn,
country but you are rotten godfist
ia town.
Some OF you folks did amount tc
something before you came to town
but now you are nothing but rotter
Goldfish All right, como on bach
to God and be somo of the Lord
specklcd trout and not the dovilN
Goldfish.
What do you sayy The dcvi
has no happy old men or women.
have never tahooed but two town
that l over preached In. ono wa
a little Jay town In a western stat
ana l tell you they had $50 chartc
members In an infidel club la tina
|, littlc town. | stopped AT the hos
hotel and | WIS afraid OF my ne
They could have started a foundln
, asylum Ia that town. There wer
, only two men thcrc they callc
, Christians and they put question
mark after their names.
A fellow called me into his stor
/ one day and he said to me "Bin "
am selling out to get out OF this Go,
! torsaken hole and | am settling ou
, at n loss OF $4,000 on my original in
| vostmont,"
said, what's the matterG"
, Ito said. 81 won't raise famil
, here. have got two daughters an,
there iNi't "A young fellow In thi
/ town ia let walk the street witt
, my girls IN day time To say nothinl
/ OF the night And there isn't
young fellow In this town that II
let como into nay home and sit al
i with my girls unless had hol
cut In the ceiling and GatlIpI
Z gun trained on him, so-Im goin
r to get out
d And the loader of the bunch wa
d a fellow WHO used 80 be elias
$ leader in the Methodist church ~
y had "A little Ono-norse country gro
. Gerry store, about az big as "a sleep
? ing car and whenever new preach
, er came TO town he'd send out III
I emissarlcs and call his huzzard gan
E In and tell them 20 40 up TO IN
Methodist church 10 hear IN