The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-17

ON my knccs and give my heart TO
Jesus Christ"
wonder " n would bo possible
I in the day ot judgement. N any OF
| you should shuttle off thlA mortal
coil ana drft out with the tide
right uow--how GOD would stand
+ before you. I tell you. the trouble
b la that we foil to realize that with
/ out Jesus Christ, we are lost There
/ l8 no other way under heaven given
among mon whereby they can bo
saved You fan TO realize that
. without Jesus Christ, you are lost.
| lost
win never forget In n town IN
] Iowa, there was one man they kent
TALKING 20 me about Tie was tho
/ mayor OF the town. and I asked n
any Of them had ever been up TO
see him, Nor a soul. 40 I said, u
WIN aud ! went down and walked
into his office and said.
Good morning, Mr. SnCbCr' /
said. How do you do. Mr.. Scchor2
havo como down 10 ask you 90 be
Ia Christian. Lots OF people have
been talking about you
You know very city has few
men that are leaning posts fiuan-
clal leaning posts, political leaning
pouH. and whatever they do.
thousnnda of people In the Same
community. where there iH "a sort
Of community intcwst and puoplo
are held in leash TO do right, De.
cause everybody knows what they
are.
/ said, 81 havc come down to
ask you 20 bo "A Christian
lie said. Thank you. ] am glad
10 ,Hoc you. I have lived In this
town u years and you are tho first
man that ever asked me that qucs-
ton" iIc said "DO the people
down there believe that am
savcd?"
said. wen. don't know" ]
said TO him. "Wcll. what are you
going To do about ~" / quoted
him this verse. "ile that bcIiVuth
not is condemned already"
llc said, "Do you know what
would do II ! believed that"
| naid. TT decent cut any iCC
, whether you believe It or not, II Is
true"
Tho follow says Il don't be.
liovo In heaven"
whether YOU believe In 70 or not"
Ito said. Il don't believe In Jea
|us Christ"
said. 'IId is tho Son Of God
whether you believe 10 or not: anc
please remember, whether you be-
llcyc II or not. u fact remains a fac
whether you have got sense enough
to believe II or not
lie said. 81 don't believe the Bibl'
! lg the word of God
said to him, Have YOU cvcl
I read it7'
( lie said, We'll, no."
/, | said, We'll YOU simp what righ
A., have you 10 say you don't brliev'
it2 what do you know about IL
, whom you have never read it"
&, Somebody comes up To me gnC
) asks IL | like Irwin Cobb's Las
! book like everything irwin eve
! wrote: he is a crackerjack. ! say
g NO"
lie says, ,"pid yeu ever read it?'
lie says, "wom. what busines
have you got saying that you don
= like It II YOU never read !; -"
This man said. DO you know
d what Ia do if / believed lt?'
said, NO, | don't"
why" hc said, "rd get dow
on my knees and ask you to prs
i for me-"
Prayers Won't Save.
n said. THAT wouldn't do 20
y any good. II prayers would hay
Faved you. you would have bee
saved long ago. You might a
a well ask mo tn eat for you when yo
are hungry. All the food | can ca
for you when you are hungry won
b. appcDse your hunger. You might a
well ask me to drink water for yo
when you are thirsty
II my prayers listen TO me-
n my prayers could save this city
\ there wouldn't be u sinner see tn
:, sun rise tomorrow, for they wOul
r. all be saved i'm my prayers coal
4, save them.
" And he said to me, "wouldn
., you pray for me?''
J., said. eyes. but II you didn
= pray FOR yourself, my prayer
= wouldn't save YOU" said, HAY
q you got a mother alivc?'
u lie said. Yes"
U "ls sho u ChristainY'
- "NeR"
T. | said, III prayers would hay
N saved you. old man, you would hay
been saved long ago, aud you al
N 80 years old. Your mothers prayer
X haven't saved you, why? Becaus
you haven't been man enough
" pray for yourself"
re lie said, 81 would pray for m!
,u self"
| said, AN righ. have pray,
for you and your mothers prayer
x II they could have saved you lor
n. ago"
nd lie said Another thing, | oN
ut 60 acres OF land out here and II
IA all uudeTlaid with coal"
re / was In the bituminous co
IT, region and he said, "They ha
he prnspoCted aud found vein In the
bc l6 feet deep and another one thr
ar feet | could sell the coal privileg
fe. on the land at $3.50 an acre al
10 that would be enough TO take oa
10 of me and nay wife and two daug
GU tcrs, and ia 80 up and down G
90 on street corners and on dry goo
n boxes and IN halls that I'd rel
and ia plead and IA beg and b
an scoch of people to be reconcil
49, to Jesus Christ | only behcv
,To they were lost"
WV lie thar belleveth not is co
., dcmncd already
was asked one time to go IN
| the Cook county iail In Chicago a
IA speak TO the prisoners. I motto
'W a fellow walking nervously up a
!, down several men were walk
Ng by the side of him, and / said, wv
OF is that fellow7"
nB They sud, THAT n Pierce, I