The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-13
Slams of the Times


1 These are days OF history making.
4INumerous things happen in cycle
OF years or even In "A years time, to
make one retrospective. Spring
usually does this anyway II seems
in the springtime, ones fancy turns.
not only to love, as the poet tells
about, but II takes us back to child
hood days when we just naturally
betooS ourselves to the side garden
near the raspberry bushes and the
apple tree just over the garden
fence In the orchard. already burst
OF bloom and we stopped close
down to mother earth to catch the
perfume OF the modest purple violet,
the small stalk Of white hyancinth
or the budding syringa Towering on
q nearby bush. II does not matter
N we i've years afterward, the small
membrances of childhood DAYS
float back each year especially IL
thcy are associated with these
primal instincts and jus: as soon as
the first robin begins to sing on tho
branch of a tree or the pungent odor
Of upturned earth strikes our recep-
a tive nostril, we see it all again. 1t
n lis just human nature after all We
live in cycles, not only from n sci
eniflC point Of view, but Just nat
urally as the months and years roll
on, We study nature and study our
solves and in the thought. comes
the trinity-heaven and the after
this is-life-eNperience, which we are
oil aiming for, even though we do
take different paths to reach the
goal
History making and history re-
pcating Itself. can be registered
chrunoiogiCally in life's book in
many ways. Fashions are made and
fashions repeat themselves, there
are society's fads and these repeat
themselves too. School life with
the kiddies OF today singing just the
same simple songs we sang in days
Of long ago. Good Mornin' Merry
Sunshine" for instance. Does it call
back memories? But in this matter
OF the trinity. Nature. ourselves
end heaven. Does christianity
change or is the world today enjoy
ing old time religion as in days gone
by? Christianity does not change,
hut the habits of churches and It's
people do and that is where the diff
ference is. The old church In the
country with the silent city" close
by where the people came from
miles around in buggies with fat
sleek mules as a motor power and
spent the day with well filled bas-
kets from which n sumptuous dinner
was served, spread under wide
spreading trees at the noon hour,
with sermon from one preacher In
the morning and from another In
the afternoon, where singing was
pitched with tuning fork or from
do, re, MI" where simple folk met
and told of the glad things that had
happened the past week or fortnight
IN the way Of good crops, a new calf
come in or fine liter OF pigs: a
visit from the city cousins, who
never ceased to praise the fine but
ter the honey and the milk. or per-
haps the story was different and
someone had been i'll and life's cloud
seemed TO have lost its silver lining. ,
however, the people met and en-
!oyed oldtme religion. The preacher
toId about the stories of the Good
Book and held aloft for human ad-
mohlshment, the lives OF those men
and women OF the days OF the Bible
Whom God loved and prospered be-
cause OF their love for Him and the
way In which they stood true to
themselves, and to nature, they, like
we or the present time, looking for
the golden reward which was sure
20 come II they obeyed His COM
mandments All this was told about
M me days of old time religion.
WIN lHt CITY CIulCnt ldSn-
tohed as we all know With the latest
conception OF concrete which has
taAen the place of the rude log
ohurch or the little white church
WIN the stoeple, today with the up
mustered seats where the people
would rather come than TO the
chlrch over the way. where the
sea'S are not so comfortable. where
we grand pipe organ sweeps angelic
IHylhm OF heavenly sound into your
var whore the fine choir leads the
CONGREGATIONAL singing OF Come
hou Fount Of Every Blessing" and
seems TO float just as dear to your
heart and soul as 1t did in the days
" that olden time when the tuning
iorK pitched the tune, where tho
preacher tells in much the same way
we wonderful truths in the Bible as
tu mat other man in the humble
,.HICn' Where the pretty young
woman comes clad in her smart
LICK and early spring hat as did
.uat country lassie OF ye Oldcn time
Ih 'he simple gown she made with
.I own hands and the pretty hat
uIhmed in cherry blossoms and a
ueuy blue bow OF ribbon, the girl
St Today, glances over her shoulder
t"Ihs the sermon or during n song
W see II the twin soul" Is near
mucn as did the country miss who
Monuered II John had made true his
uIh!Se 10 come and eat dinner
T,iN,h her at this "all day meeting
80 dinner on the grounds" HUI
Ih nIh nature is just the same, Christi
anlty is just the same" God is in
n.eayen and all is right with the
forId, but there Is difference
,,oh the old time religion and that
VI 'oday and what is It?