The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-16

I Epou name TOT that Dird, they tel
mo, never slngs except when on IN,
/ wing q don't mean our common
lark, but our Engllsh songbirdD A,
| tho bird mounts higher, the sope
increases IN sweetnoss
Years ago In Detroit a man re-.
coiyed cablegram 10 ~ over Ia
London. 20 hurry TO SEQ his mother
who was very ~. lie Jumped on
the steamer IN New York aud hur-
fied over 10 London. and three days
after his arrival she died. They car
riod tho body 10 tho cemetery. They
had tho grave near a cluster oi
shrubbery, and As they were lower
ing the body. out fro nit. burst q
bevy OF larks. and thcy started ia
circle round and round, and as they
ala, they began 10 sing: and he
said they forgot their sorrow and
grief ana the occasion Of their visit
"a the cemetery. and they threw
their heads back and gazed Off into
the illimitable space and watched
tho birds as they mounted higher.
and after they had passed the point
OF vision, they stood with their
hands behind their cars, stralning
10 catch the sweet song that fell
upon their cars.
There are men and women today
who stand by tho graves where they
buried their ambition, their hopes
and virtue, ana buried tho things
that are noble. But there can he
n resurrection through the song that
VIII cheer ana inspire.
Three thousand years ago he
wrote these words We arc positive
that David wrote it. and that he
wrote seYcntystwo other psalms that
bear his name. I remember hearing
John McNeal say that he thought n
David hadn't written that psalm. he
must have written II. for II was a
perfect counterpart OF Gods deal
ings with him.
David Knew By Experience.
After you have read the psalm,
you say, there IA u man who was
subject 20 MI the passions that were,
and therefore you feel that some
body Ia more In sympathy with You
than ever, because there In Van
that passed through the various ex-
pericnces OF which human flesh -
heir. lie may have written Ii as "A
song 20 sing for old King Saul. and
/ have often tried TO imagine the
sweet singer of Israel, David, with
his ruddy checks. standing before
this old grouchy Saul. singing his
paa Inland smnny OF the psalms
were written and sung na songs In
the temple--I have tried to imagine
herring David put the emphasis on
the personal pronouns, for this
psalm had been forged on tho anvil
or experience.
Some fellows, when they give their
experience. stand up and pun their
blrd.tail whlskers. clear their throat
and say, well. forty years ago
started, brethren. on this good old
way" Yes. and he hasn't gotten
three miles from whero he started.
David wrote this psalm and then
sang II as n song:
The Lord Is MY Shepherd; shall
not want.
''IIe maketh ME to lie down In
green pastures; He leadeth ME be-
side the still waters"
That was forged on the anvil of
experience. And when he was sing
Ing that song he was only telling in
melody what God had done for his
soul
read the other day OF the Per-
sian monarch. who had been ele-
vatod 10 his high position from very
humble surroundings. and as Kip
ling says, Lest we forget" he had
In the palace. what was known as
the Shepherds Room" and In that
room he had reproduced every hill
ana valley, rock and tree and water
course, Just as he had known them
when lad herding his sheep and
leading the sheep to Craze In the
pasture. And he used 10 Eo into
that room and sit for one hour a day
and gaze upon those scenes which
reminded him of tho fact that he at
one time had been shepherd. He
didn't want to lose touch and sym
pathy with the people; he didn't
want To become exalted over the
taet that he now had n crown mind
ed or the days when he used TO wan
der and roam, hareheaded, my
friends. II IL n good thingl
Sit down.sif YOU have got apart
OF decency In you. and run back.
See what : low-dOwn, disreputabie,
degenerate you would
be II II wasn't for the gospel OF Je-
sus Christ. And yet YOU sit there
ana sneer and say you have no use
for the gospel, ! say to you, the roa-
son you are as decent as you are,
In due to the restraining Influence OF
the gospel OF Jesus Christ. although
you may not be decent enough to
admit II. Yet You are so low-down
that you take all God will give you
NHR 'ANN ~ hNN0 NNu Ndll, Mnllt
you refuse to acknowledge allegiance
to the one that makes you as decent
as you are, and You act as though
II were something inherent In YOU
and II you were left to yourself
you'd go TO the devil 30 fast, they
couldn't sec you for dust.
It's "A good thing. Tho biggest as
set 10 this city ls net her great banks
with her hundreds OF millions, Il is
not your great stores, II ls not my
friends, this wonderful marvel OF the
Twentieth Century the greatest as
set to New York, Chicago, pitts.
bnrgh, Boston, or any other city, Is
the gospel OF Jesus Christ. for IL
you drive all the Christian people
out OF the city. your real estate
wouldn't be worth 2b cents on the
dollar by Christmas There wouldn't
be decent man or woman living iu
a community whore there was no
Christianity That's how much you
are Indebted 10 the very thing YOU
damn and sneor at. You are so low
down | wouldn't spit on youl
/ tell you that it's good thing.
Sit down ana see what you'd be II
Il wasn't for religion: sec how much
you owe TO God.
Now the position OF n Is signlfl.
cant--it follows the twenty second.
IL has been called the Psalm OF the
Cross, You have got to first reach
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