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

erend sunday preached tho follow
ing sermon at the tabernacle last
nights
In the 142nd Psalm, tho fourth
verse; mo man cared for my soul
Life and nature seemed 10 be
mado up largely OF contraats--
heat and cold, light and darkncs7.
mountains and hills. valleys and
plains. rain and drought. famine ana
plenty sickness and hcalth. vice
and virtue. success and failure. Joy
and sorrow, trouble, tears and happl-
ness.
Al riyos arc made up more or less
uf contrasts. but no lifo ia hirtory
sacred or profanc presents n larger
number IN my opinion. than that or
David. tho author OF my psalm and
text. arm first introuced 20 him na
n little shepherd boy, ana ho was
herdiug his fpther'a flockR when
samuel was sent Of God 90 nnoint
David. king ~ Israel. for Saul had
dcficd Cod and made n blunder and
failure. and God said
II have got shepherd boy out
horo that H. going 60 wcnr the crown
instead Of you"
Ana tho next vision ! catch Of
David rs that le hRs become King.
Ifo has thrown the shepherd crook
ON tho ground. put tho crown on hts
head, and he IL sitting yonder on the
throne OF Israel, and God kept him
20 keen tho flag flying when the
ciouda were lowering and threaten
ing iu tho Iowish nation,
And thou David was "A poet of no
mean ability. and when ! read the
a. psalms Of which no was the 0u-
thor, ! made up my mind that thcre
is man who passed through all the
varied experiences 10 which flesh
is heir, md he seems nearer, He
was musician too, and he played
for old King Saul In his melancholy
moods and charmed the crouch
away from the old king when ho wnH
sullen.
And bo was warrior too, and
tho Jown never knew defeat when
David lcd them on tho battlefield
never,
And here no atoops IN sin To drag
the namc OF God down. N seems
strange 10 me that anybody could
use the words OF my toXt-you know
hts sons had rcbelled against him
and sought his life and David had
been compelled 20 flee, and old King
Saul, Jealous OF David's popularity
chased him llko a partridge over the
mountain and David took refuge In
the cave OF the Engaddi.
Then" ne said. ~ was that
looked upon my right hand and
upon my left hand and refuge
failed me. No man would know me
No man cared for my soul"
II seems strange To me that any
man nt any period OF the worlds
history could use words Ike thoat
and they would he an ahtolutelN
honest expression OF the utter and
absolute Indifference on tho part o
poople 20 his or her welfare wh'
ought To bo considered interested II
them and soaloua TO see them dolnl
right Instead nf wrong. living 10
God instead of for the devil, prayini
instehd OF ourslng, being pure In
stead OF impure, sober instead O
drunk, filling the churches insten'
OF tho hauntH OF sin.
World In Indifferent.
II seems strange 20 mo that an
man in any period of the worl'
could use words like that, and the
be an honest expression of the ut
ter and absolute Indifference Of th'
world as 90 whether he went q
heaven or went 20 hell iiut more
than passing strange to- mo IL II thn
In your day and mine, with all W.
understand, ana with all the oppor
tunity TO do good and serve God, ane
with every incentive 70 do IL, thn
any MAN OF Mbiiuit WIN a HNAAlAht'
OF decency or reason would htoop u
assasslnate your manhood and cleo
trocuto any high and noble ambition
10 stoop TO do anything that tn
devil wants you TO do, and then wan
people to respect you.
mo man cared for my SOUL pil
you ever note tho concern we mani
fest in people In times OF physica
distrCsB2
When the wires brought us IN
news that san FranciHco lay supin
and helpless and that fire ha
broken out and burned and d,
rtroyed the city, we ran our hand
into OUT pockets up TO our eiuoW
and stream ot gold flowed TO ~
Pacific coast. until nearly ten mi
lions OF dollars had bcon sont
supply the people with food M
clothing and tho necessities OF M
who had thus been 80 rudcly drive
out and their homes wrecked az
covered with incincrated ashes.
And when the earthquake shot
Italy, tho United states was the fir
20 load vessels TO the wators ed
and send them with provisions al
clothing and tents and lumber
build temporary homes In order
house those whose homes had be-
destroyed by the forccs OF natul
IL made YOU feel proud aud ches
that you lived beneath the stars a.
stripes and that We We're always /
first to respond when people a
in danger and need,
A friend of mine told mo IN
years ago he sIt In the old Rus
House In Detroit. Michigan, whe
tho Pontohartrain Hotel now stan'
ana while no sat eating his dinn
the firo alarm sounded and IN
soon the 4-ll sounded, which Hul
moned all tle apparatus except I
reserves He said that he hurried
completed his meal and then e
lowed the people and the maehlI
down the street and they stopp
In front OF a building nino stor'
high, which was reputed TO be III
proof and the fire broke out In I
ninth story.
The people stood on the inside u
til the flames drove them out, a
they raised the windows and sio
on the outside until the flames sh
out. and then they stood with th'
sands were their feet had peen'
the window below, until the tiam