The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-30

want you 70 be fpr jesus uflHt uu' |
not want you 10 he a Christian is O |
dirty dog. Anybody that doesn
want 10 TO be FOR Jesus Christ doc
not deserve your friendship. NO
Friends here and friends hcrCaftcf
want you 20 he q Christian.
had n friend that used TO be IN
New York. working In connection
with the y W. g. A. and they used
10 meet the immigrants az Castle
Garden whore they used 20 land
particularly young men. And tho'
gave them advice and instructions
that they thought would be helpful
ono day a shipload came In from
Scotland and he was especially at.
tracted by q fine. kocn cot looking
young scotchman. He walked up
10 him and said.
~ represent tho Y. " C. A. Can
I be Of any help 90 you2'
no. said the naughty, arrogant
young ScOtChman. Il know where
| am going"
Ana my friend said 10 him "Aro
you q Christian ?"
Tie said mo. and | never cx
pect to be-
lle said Are your father AMI
mother Chrlatians2"
lie said Have you brothc
or sistrr2"
lie said ~ have n slater"
AND" he said, don't you want
10 be a christian"
Iie anid. mo. have Eottcr
along thus far without Jesus Christ
and ! think ] can get along the res
OF the way"
My friend said 10 him. Look
here 7 have seen stronger mon tha.
you that have come here and tric'
TO win without Jesus Christ an
they have made wrecks OF their
lives
"Oh." laughed tho scotchman. 90
conld. throw you IN the bay
And AZ my friend contrasted hie
physique with that OF the young
Scotchman he didn't question hi.
ability to do It. When he left him
he gave him this verse TO remember.
Young Man Died.
He that being often rcproved
hardeneth his neck. shall suddenl'
be destroyed. and that without rem
edy"
lie left him with those words
Later on my friend was transferred
TO Chicago and when he resigned
from there l took his place with th'
Chicago Y NJ. <. a. when I quH
playing baseball.
One day the telephone rang
some years had passed by--and
somebody asked that some one con.
and tell and pray with a young ma
who was dying In the Cook count
hospital. That is charity organi
zation. or institution. That bclnG
my friends duty. he journeyed on
car and went out there.
He found tho warden on duty and
he said;
You can't see him FOR three rcas
/ Ons; first. it Is past visiting hour
two 20 four.--you are not an m
dained minister or priest, who have
access at any hour, and last this
n malignant ward
But my friend plead with him -
/ that finally the warden said to him
"Well. you can see him. and h
| you wish to talk with him and pra
with him. you may but you cant
| touch him"
I will not try TO describe thr
young mans condition, for two or
three reasons: First, | haven't tn
| language, and second. l haven't IN
| disposition TO tell you. and third
YOU wouldn't have the disposition to
listen 10 me Suffice to say In pass
ing that ne lolSed upon one who wn
a mass Of putrefaction from heal
to foot and the stencil that aros
from his body was almost stagger
| ing.
/ Ny friend recognized the naughty
arrogant young ScUtchfnun OF "A few
| years before that ho had met a.
/ Castle Garden and when my frien
made himself known. that younr
! Scotchman lifted up his hands
from which the flesh was rottint
and said:
MY God, isn't II awful! Look a.
me. / would give the world II !
| could be back there and listen t.
/ you and have sense enough to obey
/ | wish you would tell the young mov
! OF Chicago for me that they can
stem the tide of life nor win tho
/ battle without Jesus Christ"
"Litt me higher" and he put his
arms beneath his neck and held him
Until his arms ached, and when he
Ilowered him. he was dead. But n
had lifted him into the arms of Jc-
sus Christ long before that---long
/ long before that.
Us It well with the child ?" I
preached ono time In Troy wher
| | was with DR.. Chapman. There wa
man there named Hector Hall
/ pastor Of the PresbyteTian church
He told me this story;
He came from Scotland pkeyious
| ly either from Aberdeen or Dundee
~ unn IflffHlnfI llnN-- uuN IN.
Ia the incident There was a ma
as noted as preacher in that coun
try as John y. Cough or John
Woaley were here.
He was delivering sermon 20
an audience one night when,hn ush
er came down the aisle and gave
him note. II said;
Come over here, your boy f.
over here drunk"
lie read that note and said
81 haven't heard from my hoy 10
four years and l didn't know wher,
he was"
lie asked the audience to eNcuss
him, which they d.d and nd wcT
10 the place indicated In the note
down a rickcty stairway into a dark
diugy underground Eroggery, and
there, breathing the vitiated air ana
among the comrades OF darkness o
both sexes that hibernated there ir
that ceEspool OF iniquity, he found
his boy half asleep and was snoriu
In his drunken stupor.
He aroused and awakened him
and he was surprised to see ht
father and partly carrying and part
~ dragging him, he took him ou.
and took him to an inn. lie put him
in he'd.