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


AId yet your wife has just as
good "A right to walk down and ait
around with a gang and fill her
hide up with booze as you have, and
thcn stagger home vomiting and
speWing as you htve.
Just as good n right to sit around
and spit out oaths as you have; Just
as good n right 10 walk down tho
street squirting tobacco Juice on the
sidewalks as you have. But neither
~ you have. And do you know some
such dialogue as this has been going
on between the sexes for ages until
Jesus Christ came into the world
and changed IT,
Even now we seem TO have gotten
far from It, Man demands OF q
woman that she retain her original
place OF purity whore God put her,
but he has cut out for himself "A
niche away below where God Al
mighty placed him, and she leans
over the balusters and battlements
or her alabaster purity and says
20 her ltege and lord
Where are you golng?"
None OF your darn business"
Cant | 80 Win your,
No"
"Well what Ia sauce for the goose
Is sauce for the Rander. why uot2
y because II you do they will tram
pie you beneath their feet"
When do you think you will be
back"
"None OF your business. III come
back when ! get ready"
O. a fountain OF purity for women,
"A hog wallow FOR men. springs of
purity for women, mud puddle
for men. Nd. sir. Such doctrine
crawlcd out Of the pit Of hell. God
demands the same standard OF living
for both men and women.
Somo women, viii go to church,
kncel at COMMUNION, plight their
eternal allegiance 10 Jesus Christ
and knecl with the unseen arm Of
Christ about them and say,
My ilegc. my lord, rcnounce the
world, the flesh and the devil FOR
thee"
And within As hours they are
down on some ballroom floor. or In
some cabaret with some lizard, with
hlsarms around her squeezing the
life literally and spiritually out of
them I am asking for information.
want to know.
Untrue to the emanationa OF truth.
untrue to Jesus Christ. the source OF
ali truth
Bc True To God.
o. | can Imagine a man being un-
true In business. 7 can imagine with
a vast stretch OF Imagination, a man
untrue In politics. And lean Imagine
by a vast, ,st strentch OF imagi-
Macon, untMnkeble as Il is and
ought to be. / can imagine man
being untrue to his marriage vow.
! can, as unthinkable as 1t ts. | can
imagine II because II is so.
But he true to God and he will be
true to you. Untrue to God. he will
'trn ms back on you. True to God,
he will stand by you through life
and death.
I pray God my words may ring
true on your ears and you--that may
be standing upon the very brink OF
the procipice, about to say goodbye
to Cod may return with all your
heart and all your soul to do the will
OF the Lord.
II was Christmas eve in the coun-
try. A farmer had piled the straw
around the horses, the cattle and the
sheep. All had been generously fed.
IIe came TO the house and knocked
tho snow from his heavy boots. took
his muffle from around his neck,
took hts coon skin cap off. hung II
upon the rack behind the door; had
supper. sat in front of the fireplace.
and the dog came and begged for
recognition. The wife sat knitting
when the clock on the mantcl struck
nine. She stopped her knitting, put
her specs on top OF her head and
said to him,
Husband. have you forgotten this
is her anniversary and It has been
six years since she went cwayP'
The old man stopped caressing the
dog buried his face In his hands ard
the tears trickled through his fin
gers He arose and walked to The
window, framed his face In the win
dow and looked out into he night.
II was Christmas eve IN 4 grcut
city. The church was thronged with
worshtpprrs. and great Oipn organ
pealed, AID the choir sang the an
them, and the light filtering through
the stained glass windows fell with a
mellow glow upon the snow. They
could hear the cracking OF the side
walk under the power OF Ju y; Frost
and the preacher took for his text:
Bruised for our iniquities,' and di-
hted upon It's beauty. and the love
of God. and his Willingness TO for
give.
A woman OF the street drifting by
shrank in through the door and hud-
died up close to the radiator, When
the service was dismissed and the
Hbnls disappearing uHufl Ah' HlabiN
wand OF the sextop, the minister
came down the aise putting on his
ovcrcoat and his gloves. She, em-
boldened by what he had said and
who he was said,
"Did YOU say wounded for cur
transgressions
lie seemed to citing to his COM
mentsrles and didn't understand
and didn't know He nodded assent
and hurried on.
She headed out into the cold, 4
paroNysm OF coughing seized her
She leaned over the railing and she
coughcd. Down the street came a
policeman. whose beat was near. He
recognized her and he said,
Hello Mag what graft Is on to-
night?"
She said. between her paroxysms
Wounded for our transgrossions,
bruised for our iniquities."
He touched his head and said,
Poor girl, she Is bushouse,"
She Went Home.
List She regained little
strength and hunted around and
found In her rags the last money OF
her ilgotten gain. She got on n
car went on. on, Off out in the
country and on around the curve
and saw a glimmering light. She
went up the pebhly walk. opened