The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-14


crcascs IN ~ monning, Il decreases
Ia it, meaning II decreases In its
numbers. although that II "a shame.
SuppoHng by your friends, you mean
everybody thHt shakes your hand
aud says. How do you do, Good
morning You've go. scads OF
them
suppose by your friends. you
moan every man ana every woman
who Will defend your character Wh'n
your good name Is spoken ot you
haven't very many friends that VIII
duuhir their figtH and toll that rel
low he is a black-heartcd, degrner'
ate liar
guupuslng bv education. I mean
and write, We have In the neighhor-
hood ~ eighty odd million OF them
I'm the United states But suppose
by education / mean every man OF
woman who iH graduate of hlrh
srhool Tn. per cent o. un"-iitth.
from the universities and colleges,
one .fifth 81 one per cent Ana as
I Increase the principle. / decrease
the numbers that adhere TO H. al
though aa increase the principle.
I ought tO ,urrcspondiuglv Increase
the numbers that would adhere 10 IT,.
supposing by n Christian, mean
every man OF woman who has his
name ON a church record There are
about thirty.fivc or thirtN-siN mil
lion of thcfu. about equally divided
between Catholic and Protestant,
but suppusing by a Christian, I mean
every man and woman willing TO do
ono thing that vs. God d will. n
IL puts them In the coffin. We have
lnmoutablc few and I don't be
llovc there are ten million out Of
the thifty-fivo million that know
what II As to live an absolutely, fully
surrendered. uncompromising life
for Jesus Christ. the Son NJ God.
And go on the wosld goes. Oh. II
Is not more mon or more money or
more women the church needs. II Is
I more people that are right with God
/ that the old world needs
/ was In a southern city ono time
preaching and | said to the pas
/ tor of the Cumberland Presbyterian
/ church. Doctor how many nom
/ bcrs have your
/ Eight hundred and sevcnty-two,
/ but two hundred seventy eight OF
them | don't count"
/ said: How many are helping
you I'm the meetings as ushers, serv-
! Ing on committees. singing In the
| choir, etc2"
lie led me back on tho stage
whore ] was preaching In the opera
! house. He said MIR. sunday, the
LARGEST number Of my members
have been able TO get to serve AZ
committees, ushers or singing In
the choir has been 2s. and II my life
depended on making 1t hundred
/ ia have to die"
Those eight hundred soventy-twc
did not amount TO eight hundred
aeveuty-two snaps OF your finger
when II came to aggrcssivencss foi
Jesus Christ.
The trouble with the church today
Is not the doing OF things that God
tells you not to do, so much as ii il
OF not doing the things that God
tells you. The sins OF omission
"Cursed be thou, for you came not
to the help OF God against th'
mighty"
That IL what the church needs anc
what this campaign needs: II yOI
would look at a good many people
In tho church. you would think thel
had through ticket to heaven n
"A parltr car and had asked th'
porters to call them when thcl
headed into the yards OF the New
lJerusalem. But you will be side
tracked with a hot box, old man
pflOIt YOU get tntfe.
. And II | had a hundred tongue
and every tongue was speaking
different language in a different ke
at the same time could not do jus
;iCu to the splendid chaos that tn
worldly Indifferent people hav
brought to the cause OF Jesus Chris
| and TO his truth, | tell you there
but one voice from faithful preach
ers and faithful officials, about tn
church, and that *. she is sick.
But we say It In such painles
terms, and we won't work over he
in such tender delicate messas
that on the whole, she seems to en-
JOY. II not count and plead for a con
tinued sinvalidity But am n
spiritual osteopath | am no spir'
tual masseur am surgeon and
bring my scapcl and trocar. and
drive II to the very hilt In the pu
ltrifying abscesscs that are borin
: their way to her spiritual and morf
vitals. And some salaricd quac
cries out: "He has stabbed IA
church,
But huri back; you lIel / ai
. trying TO remove that which threat
ems the life OF the church"
, Faithful are the wounds OF
. friend. but the kiss of an enemy
deceitful and l am trying TO TAX
= away the thing that threatens
A take away from her her spiritui
power and spiritual life.
Four out OF five with their nam'
h. on church records are doing nothir
! TO bring the world 10 Christ.
the church Is counting the world an
Is bringing hor down 10 the level
n the ungodly; and az satlsfactio
FOR all this we are making n grei
deal out OF Easter and Lent, b,
lieve In Lent from the top OF n
20 head to the bottom OF MY feet. bl
II we can refrain for 40 days, wi
not refrain for 365 days and live 7,
Jesus Christ
u Some people would go TO hell su
N IL they died out OF Leuten seaso
n, | believe In Il with all my heart b
?. | say. why not simply let IL slI
,r over ard spill over the rest OF q
n year. Live. my friends, for God al
~ Tor his truth,
" Split on Rock
The Jewish faith struck on tn
70 rock and wrecked. The Rom'
" Catholic church hit the same roc
and split; ana the Protestant churc
~ Notwithstanding the warning OF hi
- tory, is fast approaching the sar
W doom, with their worldliness the