The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-16

II beseech you brethren. by the
mercios Of Cod"
Never wns there a victory won
that ala not cost suffering. Paul
preached and thoy chopped off his
head Jesus Christ demonstrated
and they nailed him on the cross
Abraham Lincoln signed the
"Empancipation Proclamation" and
John wilkes Booth paid him with
bullet.
Never was there victory without
suffering, / do not care whether II
come In birth or In shelter, or In
business OF sins or heart or any
where else.
Present your bodies as a living
sarri0cc." That IL what the wife
does. She &ys. Il give myself
wholly TO the husband And he
Gays 81 give myself wholly to the
wife"
Lots OF people shy at that word
wholly" II that were our watch
word in business what a wonderful
world this would be. What a stam-
/ pcde there would be In shuyt yard
sticks.
Graft would be unknown. No ly-
! ing advertisement. No Fire Sales'
when there had been no fire, with
| in 700 blocks OF it. There would
I be no difference In Godliness IN
/ business and Godliness in the
/ church,
N that were true there would be
mo licensed saloons, no vomiting
and 9pew, ing out their drunken
/ horde. No drunkardt recling and
staggering 10 the Judgments OF God
Z No fallen women merchandising
their wOmaHhood. No thieves. No
/ body 90 stick a gun under your nose
or mine and say. "Nour money or
your lile.' No infidallty. Nobody
/ To wrigglo their carcass across our
/ threshold and try to scduce your
/ wife and wreck our home.
on, / think one Of the noblest
attributes of God Is reason. l
/ think lie IL never unreasonable.
/ God only asks his rights God only
asks you to DO what makes yau bet
ter, II you do and what hurts IL you
don't do.
| 1 believe no law was ever made
| for us that we should not have made
/ ourselves. IL we had known the
truth as God knows Il. God doesn't
ask you TO do anything that you
would no. demand yourself to do IL
you knew 1t. God never asks us TO
do anything that you were not bet
ter off by doing.
God Asks Hard THINKS.
God never asks humanity 20 do
anything that is not for the good OF
Iit.
Oh, I will admit all these things,
then | am through. God Will ask
some things that are hard things
/ will admit that, but never un-
reasonable.
1t was "a hard thing when God said
Ito Abraham, you so out with your
son. Isaac" and he took him upon
the mountain as a sacrifice; but God
had reason. Abraham understands
tonight and he Is satisfied.
II was hard thing that God
asked Of Joseph, TO be torn out Of
the arms Of his father and mother,
sold TO the Ishmaelites, then to
have that miserable licentious wo-
man trying to put one over on him.
seduCe him from virtue and truth.
when he stood In the midst OF the
kfires of temptations, he looked her
square in the eye and said, How
can | Cto this great evil and sin
against God?"
And God used Joseph TO preserve
the posterity OF the Jewish nation,
although he had 10 lie in prison for
years because they framed up
something on him.
oh. y was hard thing that God
fasked OF Joseph, but God had IA
reason and Joseph understands to-
I night and he - satisfied.
God asks some hard things, | Will
admit, but God never asks anything
Unreasonable. Never. Ii was a hard
thing that God asked OF Moses. to
take that great horde of half civil
'ized people, of Jews who had been
Tor four hundred and thirty years In
Egyptian bondage, and lead them
to the promised land. They
grumbled and growlcd, and they
drove him almost to distraction. one
day he got so mad he pulled out his
rod and walked up to that stone and
he said "Oh. Jesus, shall we bring
water out OF this rock2"
God slid, "Come here. Moses,
come here"
He took him up on the mountain
and He said; "Do you sec that coun-
try?"
TT is great. Lord. What IL Il?
THAT is the Promised Land"
where we are going?"
"No, Not where You are going.
You can't do Il. You forgot that the
rock-God Almighty was trying 20
teach these people was his idol"
They had been worshipingD idols and
had given Moses credit for HIS
power.
It was a hard thing that God
asked Moses 10 do. but He had a
reason And Moses understands to-
night. lie is satisfied.
II was a hard thing God asked OF
lob: 10 be covered with boils from
head TO foot and his Wife said
Curse God" but did he? No. He
said: Though lie slay me yet will
trust Him "