The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-17
TULSA DAILY WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER H. 1921

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flesh. next 20 the heart. He gets O |
bundle Of letters, he goes home
they broke him up. and he rolls and /
cries, Nobody cared for my soul. |
only my pocketbook"
Time OF trouble' when death |
comes nnd they back the hearse up .
in front OF your house maybe the ]
Lord will call around with a white
one. maybe he will send, my friend, !
the black one before he will ever
get into your heart. God will come
Kind and gentle, trying to win peo-
pie from ain, but II He cant do It
ono way, the Lord will try another
TO keep ua out Of perdition.
Years ago, cut I'm a town OF Iowa,
they had a plague Of dlphtheria and
10 children died In three weeks, and
they came mostly from the homes OF
uUn-professiug Christians, ana at
last the dread maludY reached the
I home OF n man IN that town that
was an infidcl and he edited an IN
+ ndel paper and he had a boy 10
/ years Of age associated with hlm I'm
/ tho edtorship OF IL. His wife had
/ died with broken heart she d
| gone to a premature grave because
I she couldn't stand the snecrs ana
ostracism OF the community because
I her husband was an infidel and be-
The dread malady reached his
home and his little girl, years OF
age, at last succumbod. She Kept
. begging her father to send for my
. friend, Dr. Knox, who was the pastor
0f the Presbyterian church at Cher
okce, Nob. MIR. Knox has since been
| bishop Of the synod OF Indiana, but.
hc is dead now.
And ahc kept begging her father to
send for my friend, Or. Knox. She
went TO f'lc Presbyterian church at
sunday school. lie had never allowed
a preacher to cross his threshold
aud he wouldn't do Il. She kept
getting worse and finally he relented
and he sent for my friend, Mr..
Knox: and he told me that as he
walked up the step he met the ply
sician, Or Butler, who has also since
died, coming down the steps, and he
said TO Dr, Butler, How Is Mabel y
meaning the little girl.
lie said. "Shc is very sick. she
will never live till morning, She may
live Till midnight. but she Will never
see the sun rise again, never.
My friend went In and he said
well, Mabel, you have sent for me
to come. What shall we talk
labout?"
She asked him TO talk about heav-
en- and he told her about the place
loved Jesus She smiled and said
she was going, all right, and her
father stood by and said:
Honey you are not going TO leave
me. / know I am big. swearing.
cursinE man, but | love you, and you
won't go. will you? | couldn't live
without YOU"
She said, Wei, papa. l am going.
saw mama with Jesus and the
} "a 4 u .lrr nd
were begging me to come and l am
going"
And he said 90 her. Honey don't
you 20. l couldn't live without you"
And my friend stood there and he
talked and he told her they wouldn't
need 10 causterlze her throat and she
so dreaded that. That was In the
days when they used to do that, be-
fore they gave any anti-toMn.
And oh, about half-past IL the
/ little girl turned her face to the wall
} and was seemingly asleep and
breathing at regular intervals, ana
I my friend sat there until the clock
e struck 10 and still she had her face
z to the wall. breathing regularly, and
I no said to her father
We'll, | must 90 now. There ore
1 other people that want our comfort
and you know the homes are closed
to everyday but the physicians and
, the ministers. We have to go to give
e. comfort and to pray and the doctors
Q TO give medicine, and | Will go now
: and IL | can help you send for me
lie said. II beg OF you. don't goSl
think l will die; the stiffness VIII XII
> me-
And my friend stayed until 1880
> and Mabel still had her head turned
= to the wall, breathing regularly.
when Religion Comforts.
, And my friend said he couldn'
have gone more than four block
q from the house when the little CIR
!, opened her eyes and almost jumped
|, out OF bed. She threw her arms
!, around her papa, and, shivering, he
9 teeth chattorcd and she said, Papa
( don't you let me get into the river
a III freeze. Don't you see the bil
V cakes OF ice going down.
, lie said Honey, you are not II
V the river. You are In papa's arms
n Don't you hear my heart beatf'' an'
Q he laid her head against his breas
,l and she smiled and said. "Oh. is tina
4, you, papa? Where have you beef
v and when did you come back ?"
It He looked into the pupils Of he
e eyes and they were dilRting. II
looked at her lips and they were pur
, pie and her fingernails were blu
and her hands were getting cold
e She still oluug with her arm
'r about his neck and presently sh
10 cried again, "Oh, don't let me fal
'r in the river will drown"
ie lie said, Honey you are not Il
the river. You are in papa arms,
and he hugged her tight as he ktsse
.p her. lie said, Don't you feel IN
l' hands,"
-t And presently she released tn
's clasp about his neck, reaching on
~ her arms toward an imaginary be
" ing. she cried Papa. you needn'
w carry me over the river. Yonde
"a comes mother with Jesus and tn
~ angels and they will take me over.
,o And they bore her away on thei
ie snowy wings to their immorta
m home,
He laid her on the bed and sen
"A for my friend. Mr.. Knox
a. Why didn't he send for IN
brewer? why didn't he send for tn
m president OF the infidel club?
"a oh, ] will tell you. When tn
tH lurld lights OF the farther shore flas
L into your face, and the death de-