The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18

pose. How far can you keen on go-
ing In well-doing without becoming
Discouraged II men praise you not
II your work seems unfruitful. 10 all
you receive from men are COM
plants, are you strong enough to
keen at 1t? Remember that Gods
standards Of Judging are not those
OF men. II it is Gods work, He will
not let Il so harvcstlcss, "To him
that overcometh will give u white
stone."
And the white stone vas SYM
mctrical-trcc from all protuber-
ances and painful a]nEularitics. So
with he character that adapts itself
TO what God sends. There are no
protubCranCcA TO COME in conflict
continually with ones environment.
When one Is young ne thinks IL his
duty to compel his surroundings to
] obey his will, but as ono grows older
" he thinks at all ne comos TO die
tinguish between what can be helped
n what cannot. Tho object OF
life, on the one hand. is to be dis
satisfied with what can be improved
and to seek to improve It. and on
the other hand. to accept gracefully
what cannot be improved. DO not
rebel against the inevitable. You
are only beating against a stone
wall. Adapt myself to the things
with which thy lot haa been cast. 10
says an ancient stole. land love the
men with whom IT il thy portion to
live and that with u sincere affec-
ton. No longer be either dissatis-
fled with thy present lot or shrink
from the future
Happiness Comes From Within.
So many make themselves ex-
trcmcly unhappy and distgrceahle
because they are not rich and cam
not have everything that certain
others have. But do YOU not know
that the multitude OF things a man
possesses can bring happiness2
They can only bring added trouble.
Happiness must come from within.
from your attitude Of mind, from
your outlook on life. Do not go
after riches in the hope that they
viii bring happiness. for you will be
deceived. Far surcr is the road
marked out by william Henry Chan
ming.
+ live content with small means;
TO seek elegance rather than luxury
and refinement rather than fashion:
to be worthy, not respectable. and
wealthy, not rich; to study hard.
think quietly, talk gently, act frank
ly; to listen TO stars and birds, to
babes and saEos, with open heart, to
bear all cheerfully, do an hravely.
In a word TO let the spiritual un-
hidden and unconscious grow Up
through the common, this Ia TO be
my symphony"
ITO him that ovcrcomcth will I
give a new name written which no
man knOwcth saving he that rcCciv-
eth It," II may be that we shah
have to wait for this part Of the
promise. when we reach that far
Their shore we shall have no longer
the name which we bore here on
earth but a new name, "A new per-
~sonality, do you think God ever
forgets and forgivcs ones past p"
a man once asked of Doctor Jowctt
The famous divine replied God so
forgets a mans past that he forgets
the mans name. He blots It out
and gives him a new one"
And that new name no man
knoweth saving he that receiveth
it," Can any one OF us know the
trials and the struggles OF the man
next to us. The secret chamber OF
temptation has a closed and muffled
door. Every mans temptation Is
different and no mar can know an
others battle. But each will be Civ.
en- a name according TO his victory,
and this name no one but himself
can know. DO you think that Folr-
can know. DO YOU think that ~>or-
know the new name OF Mary Mag
dalene or Mary M%agdalene ever
know the new name OF Florence
Nightingale? DO you think that
Phillips Brooks could ever know
the new name OF ST. Francis Of
Assist or ST. Francis ever know the
new name Of Phillips Brooks? And
VET all those wore moro thai Rpn-
quorers in their personal strug-
gle but what their own personal
struggle was only God and them
selves can know. We all have our
secrets with the Lord. II Ia a per-
sonal God we have, the God OF
Abraham and OF Isaac and OF Jacob
and Of you and me, when He calls
you by your new name no one can
answer but you.