The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27

| IhpV dlnnt make a hOht 70 tfhFel
on land. thoy didn't make a locomo-
tive to g0 through the water. The
way was made for ne rails and the
engine was made for that. and go
God will make the road he wants
you TO walk IN and II you step
where God tells you. tell you you
viii find solid rock. That's what
David found when he got out ot the
uit. and in the pit he was sinking
deeper and 80 Ia everybody who is a
sinner Every breath you draw you
are getting worse and farther and
farther from Cog.
LOOK at the two pictues. One
shows where the devil puts man.
] The other shows what God does for
a man.
We look IN pity, my friend. upon
n man down In the disgusting pit,
sinking deeper and deeper into the
/ filthy slime That's what the deNu
/ does for humanity.
Get upl Ny God! Get up intel
/ liRent people, tell me why man
has got TO work hts life out TO get
people TO he decent. Come on ana
| tell me why. When a man stands
\ and breaches, tolls you what to do,
and you refuse to follow God. Tell
me what right you have TO expect
anybody 20 call you decent i want
to know. Come on Tell me why.
/ My friends. tell me why you
| cant even be decent American,
/ for In my opinion. the very princi-
I plies OF Amerlcanism were built on
/ faith in God and In the Bible.
As Andrew Jackson said. point
/ ing TO the Riblo That book, sir. Is
/ the rock upon which the American
republic rcats, you can't move IL.
THE poor man cried" oh, my
/ and 80 your feet are taken out OF
| the mire and planted on the rock.
/ lie goes running. leaplng with
song on his lips Joy in his heart,
| face lights up as he thinKs nf the
/ city whose builder and maker Il
/ cod. There Is no question which is
/ best.
/ Cry 90 the lord.
There is no question which u
| bcst. to be sick. or well, 20 he blind
or have good eyes. to be deaf or
ahln Ia hear "a hs virtuous or 10 he
! Impure. TO be drunk or to be sober,
to bo n liar or to be honest; there
Is no question which is best.
Whether TO go to Heaven or Hell,
whether to have God smile on you
or the devil say, 'Ah. you're a
udINNs 1 III hluNk pll A'As
This pood man cried" Now
there Is one sure way to get out OF
trouble. DO what the man In my
text did. Cry unto the Lord. II
was the best thing he could and
the only thing he could do. And
/ wherever n man reaches the point
/ whore he will cry to the Lord. then
sir he has reached the place where
he is dead sure, he will get to Heav-
en-. and he was stopped expecting
help from your morality. That
can't take you out.
Your money--oh' wake up here
and show me your bank book and
make me your attorney. That won't
help me out Give up and present
to me your certificate of graduation
from the institution. That won't
help you out No! Stop expecting
your morality and your culture anc
your philanthropy and these things
/ which are good and which are COM
mendahlc and which God Almighty
applauds and loves but they can't
take you out. No! mol
This poor man cried. and the
Lord heard him, and delivered him
out OF all his troubles" When q
man crios to God Tor help THAT'S
evidence that he is willing TO be
helped I'm Gods way. Some OF you
don't want God to have his way.
You keep your mouth shut.
when ,su cry 70 tine Lori, iiiitt
means that God will not do II your
way, as you want Him to. When
you have reached the place when
you will stop rejectl>- Gods plan
OF salvation, then want to tell you
God is nearby TO help you.
THE Lord saved him out OF all
his troubles " when the Lord helps
He makes clean sweep.
IAN his troubles.i-- That's a
beautiful myth, that when God
made the birds, he made them
without wings. lie put them on the
ground and they pocked and
scratched hut didn't sing, ard later
on he happened TO think about Il
and made them wings and they be
gan to flv and they have been fiy-
ing and singing ever since.
Did God forget 10 make them
wings the first jack out OF the hoxP
God don't have TO go back and do
things Overt When God does it,,
it's done.
II the text had read, This poor
man had trouble" some would
say, "Well, that man had one: l
have got many. That fellow had a
little one, mine Is big. His was dif-
! IeItnl litIu
But this man had many troubles,
and the cause OF the troubles is not
given. So that let's us all in.
I don't know what his trouble
was, but whatever II was, God de-
livered him out OF 1t.
This poor man cried and the
Lord heard him and delivered him
out OF all his tropbles,' but lie
didn't say what they were ard SO
He will do for you what He did for
him. Never mind what yours are
He will help you out OF them. he
helped him out OF his, - am glad
the Lord didn't tell us what his were
because II there were lot OF fools.
they would have heen wondering II
they could get out of theirs II they
weren't Ike that.
The text is good news TO every
body. II the Lord will help one,
the Lord will help all. That verse
wasn't put in the Pible 10 fiji up
space. Oh, no, not at all! That
verse was put in the Bible out OF
which TO make ladder to shove
down In front OF the man or the
woman In sin, In the pit and mlry
clav. that they might climb up out