The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-08

| Northwestern and used to flra for
| tho Northwestern and W she would
/ blow out tire could bring her
/ In on ono sido. don't understand
that machine"
lilo picked M ono ~ those NIlcrs
ana said, THAT machine makes
| thF.' lie said, ~ you como back
et : o'clock III show you"
When I came back tho next morn
ing they were feeding lu from
three rolls Of paper and thcro they
dropped down 90 OF them Il min
ute, ana there sat "A boy about four
teen years old picking them No aud
laying them 20 ono side. I rnw the
machine mako what he said it made
Al right start tho machine and soc
what II viii make.
\ lot of you fcilora arc afraid 10
40 bod.s viii because you know n
viii mako you decent and YOU don't
want 60 be decent In order to un
deratand God you'd ncod 10 know
all mystery and all prophecy ana
AL history and you'd have to ovplorc
with your mind all limo and space.
In other words you'd havo 10 bc God
yourself You'd have 10 be equal to
God In intelligence and wisdom. YOU
would have tho greatest dcvolop-
mont Of MIND tho world has over
known, but I'm order TO know God
In order 10 know jesus Christ, ali
You need to do Is 10 surrender your
viii TO God
YOU may not know whether two
and two mako sccon or nine or ono
You may not have enough 10 buy a
government bond, but an You have
TO do ~ 20 surrender your will TO
God. 7 might ns well try and sneak
with my feet. I might as we'll try
and think with my fingers. That
chair might 1g well try TO under
stand the words | am talking over
rs FOR you to find God by any other
method, plan or principle than your
surrender To God
Somo fellows assert, '"woii, take
nothing on trust"
wei. you are fool and thoy con
slider people weak Drained. over
crodulous souls that never use the
reason God gives them 10 Won
mean to insult and inslnuato that
that man uses his wisdom.
Tom Paine wrote u book. "The
Ago Of Reason" Did - want 10 In.
sinuate that tho people that didn't
believe In Jesus Christ uFod thcir
reason, while tho people that dld
were weak. HisIflcd bonohcada2 DO
you mean To toll me that tho man
that goes home drunk usea his rca-
son7 No. II is the fellow that Foes
home sober. DO you mean TO toll
mo that tho man who damns Jesus
Chrigt uses his reason No. the man
that gets down on his knees aud
prays TO God, he use his reason. lie
is the reasonable man
So they consider people OF faith,
l. al IL
stupid and mover use their rchaou.
hut to the reasonable, faith, belief.
the acceptance OF tho truth on the
authority of others 10 the basis OF
our judgments In court. our con
cluaons. and our reasoning Ia every
department OF life,
have mover been IN Rome. but !
can tell you Of 81. Peter, can tell
you OF the Coliseum. I have never
been in Athens but I can tell you OF
Mars I'm, rvc never been In Par
k but can tell you OF the tomb of
Napoleon. I've never been ia Lon
don. l can tell you all about Ira
falgar square. can tell you about
buckingham palace, about the Lon
don tower. about Windsor castle on
the authority of others. / did not
live In the days OF Jesus Christ. but
accept tho gospel Hs genuine, uu-
theniic history on the testimony OF
others; I believe what they said.
| mover saw Mosea and he only
lived 500 years before Homer. I've
never seen Alexander the Great, but
I believe, on the authority OF others.
The newspapers tell me they had n
war In Europe. How did I know ?
I have never heard "a gun fired
They tell mo tho airship made a raid
on England, | haven't seen thcm
but believe on the authority Of
others. am n fool not to believe e.
4 fellow writes me and says his
mother II dead. How do / know
she ls dead? lie said so In his let
ter. bclievo on the authority OF
others. My doctor tells me ! have
pneumonia or appendicitis, boz
lieve Il.
Chemists tell mo that two gases
II mixod together produce water.
How do | know it2 History tolls
mo Julius Caesar was murdered.
How do | know | believe on the
authority OF others. oh, see.
And so you must believe on the
authority OF others or cease 20 live
right now. don't give a rap how
skcptical you are, YOU arc com.
PEELED 20 believe on the authority OF
NInNTh OF ttdN' W llNft lhNU hlif
n fool 10 believe In Jesus Christi
! No, sir, You are fool hccaugc
you don't, The other Is. set the
machine IN motion start her up
and sec 81 Il viii make the egg Ctate
filters and " It does. you've got to
/ believe what the fellow says, Al
right, set the machine I'm motion.
/ Begin to do tho viii OF God and see
Ia God won't do for you what lie
said lie would.
There are no activities In lifo
apart from your viii You are a
doctor because you viii, you nre a
/ lawyer because you will you arc a
banker because You will No ac-
tivity in life is apart from our Will
! Your viii is the base line OF your
l character, your viii il sovereign.
your will is supreme
Tho natural man is in rebellion
against God. The development OF
one faculty may make a man a
| genius. may make him an intel
/ iectual. musical or financial genius,
| The development OF ono faculty may
make a man "A genius. but lt can
never make "A man n Chr'sti71.
was out az a Chautauqua one time
| In the west. They had a merry 40
round and | stood and watched them,
I'm CANA "A uirl with a little. fifty,