The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-17
External Life"
Copyright, 1917. by william Ashley sunday.

come"
And they say 10 me. "Ohl we can
XIII people with electricity. W. can
light buildings. we can make search
lights, We can flash messages across
tho seas. but we caunot prolong
lfc."
Then ] summon the great Queen
Elizabeth, queen ~ country upon
which the sun never sota Three
thousand five hundred dresses hang
In her wardrobe. She measured her
| Jewels 10y tho peck. Dukes, kings.
earls and princes fought for her
smile and they came miles to touch
the hem of her dress. stand by
her bedside and hear her cry, "Ali
my prosecutions for one moment OF
| time"
go 70 Alexander the Great. who
! won his first battle when he was
| 1S; king Of Macedonia when no
was 20. lie sat down on the shore
! OF tho Aegean sea, wrapped the
! Idrapcry OF his couch about him and
lay down to eternal sleep. the CON
lquerer OF an unknown world when
ho was only 30 years old.
Greatest Warrior sleeps.
| j 20 To Napoleon Bonaparte. Vie
tor Hugo called him tho hrchnngcl
| OF waL lie aroso In the air Of
the 18Th century like a meteor HIS
| sun arose at AustcTlit2. n set at
/ Waterloo. lie leapod over the Hlain Of
| ma countrymen to the presidency of
his country; thon he was first CON
SUI and then ne yaulted to tho chair
OF the emperor OF France.
But II was the cruel wanton
achievement Of insntlatc and un.
sanctified ambition ana it led 20 the
| barren ~. Helena Lsic AZ the
storm beat upon the rock once moro
he fought at the head OF his troops
1t Austeflltz, at Mt TaDor aud the
Pyramids.
once moro he cried. "rm still the
mead OF the army ana hr fell back
into tho arms OF death, and tho
greatest warrior the world has
known since tho days OF Joshua was
no more.
Tonight on the banks OF tho Seine
he lies In his magnificent tomb, with
his marshals sleeping whore he can
summon them, and the battle flags
he made famous drapcd around him,
and from the four curnera OF tho
earth students ana travellers turn
aside 10 do homage TO the great mill
itary geniuh
So here =5 are IL tho midst or
plenty, the very apex OF CONNER
clal development, yet there IL Just
ono sourco---"For God 30 loved the
world that lie gave His only begot-
ton Son, that whatsoever believeth
IN HIM should not perish. but have
everlasting life."
Search the annals OF time and
The pages OF history. and whore do
you find those words2 Only In the
Bible.
How can ! get it2 An you have.
or VIII have, You will come into pos
session OF In one of three ways
honestly, dishonestly. or as a gift.
Only you will work for H. IL YOU
get Il honestly. Dishonesty. YOU
VIII steal II. And the gift you will
inherit. You have got to work for
anything you got on this carth---ro-
ligion or anything else.
Most people believe In high moral
ity. Thoy deal honestly In bust
ness and they are Charitable. But
| YOU cannot hire "A substitute In re-
lgion. You can't do some deed OF
| kindness or net OF philanthropy and
substitute that for the necessity Of
repentance and faith In Jesus
| Christ.
Did not Jesus Christ come TO give
morality Why doesn't morality
aave2 Because morality without
Jesus Christ IL incomplete. A man
or woman can be morally good and
not BIO u true Christian.
But nobody can be n Christian
without heing moral There is no
such thing as being "A Christian and
not being moral. hut the fact that
you are as decent as you are Is due
TO religion.
somo people WIN acknowledge
their sin In the world. struggle on
without Josus Christ, and do their
best TO live honorable, upright lives.
Your morality will make you "a bet
ter man or woman. IL is the best
thing you have got outside of the
religion OF Jesus Christ. But moral
ity does not save you.
Here ~ tree. IL bears sour
apples and tho man wants to change
| the nature of Il. one would say
pruno II and you would buy n prun-
| ing hook and cut of the Alperfluous
limbs. Still the apples are sour.
| Another says to fertilizo IL and
| You fcrtlllzc IL. and atill II doesn't
change the nature OF IT,
| Finally some one says introduce n
graft of another variety.
When | was n little boy, one day
my grandfather said to mc-.-my
father went away to war IN August
and ] was born In November 40
never saw him and SO lived with my
grandfather--"com on. sor." and
he took n ladder, n knife, some bees
wax, string, sticka and some cloth,
and we went down into the valley.
lie leaned the ladder against a
sour crabapple tree. climbed up and
sawed off some OF the limbs, and
split them and showed In them some
little pear sprouts as big as my fin
ger and twice as long. and around
them he tied "A string and put In
some heeswax.
l said, Grandpa, what are you
doing2"
lie said, 81 am grating pear
sprouts into tho sour apple tree
said, what will grow. pears or
crabapples7"
lie said, Pears: / don't know that
III live 10 eat the pears--I hope !
may--but l know, you will"
i lived TO see those sprouts which
were no longer than my finger grow
as large as my limb, and ! climbed
the tree and picked and ate the
Ipears. lie introduced a graft OF
n another variety ana that changed the
nature of the tree.
All Need Jesus.
So what you need Is a new nature
IL does not make any difference
whether you are rich or poor, learn,
ed or illiterate. you need somethinI