The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-07

GhlOIH MOtnernODd.
on what crown awaits for the
mother Of the Wfsleys! I'd rather
be old susanne Wesley, with John
and Charles and that brood OF kide
than 10 have been Queen Victoria
with her prince OF Wales and the
crowned heads. I would!
friend OF mine riding on train
out In 1owa--a fellow sitting right
behind him reached over and
touched him on the shoulder aud
say, pard. do you believe Ia a
woman's lover"
My friend said. "Yesl"
We'll, | used 60 but I changed my
mind about all of them but one"
and he put his hand In his pocket.
| pulled out piece Of paper. unrolIed
! ia photograph leaning over
he showed II In front OF my friend
and said That's my mother"
lie said II was married. Tho
| tongues <bf gossip started; they told
my wife | was false--it was all a lie.
She believed them. got a divorce.
/ married. Home broken up" but. he
/ SAID, that woman's mother. She
/ would follow me across the coun-
I try and n ! were. condemned she
would have the rope put around hor
chair, and die for me. sir"
oh, the principle OF love Is what
n going to move the world We
don't miss them Yntil they are gone
many Of themR Like a friend OF
mine out I'm Iowa-he was a very
rich farmer, he didn't pray, didn't
think anything about God-and his
little boy was very sick. IIe called
his father to the bedside one time
and said:
"Pa, II ! die, please don't let EN-
bury mo In the graveyard over on
the hill The weeds are so high and
the owls are over there and I'm
afraid. Pa, IL die, bury me down
In the pasture under the big elm
tree. You do come down there
sometimes to see the hogs and cat
tie"
And jim. the little fellow. died
and they didn't bury him In the
graveyard up on the hill where the
weeds grew so high and the hoot
owls lived. They buried him under
the spreading elm In the pasture
They put a little picket fence
Jim led me down one dag Lean
ing over the fence he rainea tears
down upon the violets and the daf-
fodils and he said:
ia give all the farm" (and he
owned thousands Of acres in the
black corn belt OF 1owa) he said
'Bill, I'd give II all u could only
bring him back and let him hear me
pray"
You don't miss them until they
ara gone. ThRre are $4,000 00c
young men IN this country between
the ages Of l6 and 50. Fourteen mil
a q
any church Seven million OF them
attend occasionally. Nine million
never darken church door. Church
memberships Increased IL per
cent last year. The population in
creased o per cent. Crime in
creased. 10 per cent and ~ per sent
OF our criminal young men under 2I
years OF age
Why call ye me Lord. Lord.
and do not the things / say'-in
your home and in your family and |
Attacks Sins Of Society.
Wait ninutei have no quarrel
with society-only against the sin
ful usages Of society / believe in |
society with both hands up, but I |
believe the most God forsaken, good |
for nothing, useless woman on earth |
!a an American society woman |
whose life Is frappes and there is |
nothing, my friends. to her but a |
frame upon which to hang fashion
able clothes and digestive appa-
ratus to digest highly seasoned |
foods.
There is n great tendency to clas-
sify social standings according 70
dollars. nowadays. A lot Of people
are more anxious to get their names
on the social list than they would
he to get them on Bradstreets or n.
@. Dun. or heaven.
oh, genius and talent are choked
by the insane desire to mould |
ourselves according TO the social |
demands until we become in
famous nonenuties in the world
And II you only knew the inner life |
Of many OF the Weather class you'd
know how happy and dissatisfied
these social butterflies are with their
NE and with the emptiness of IL all
and the way they live.
| believe in parties. Jesus Christ
didn't say, when YOU have a party
simply invite In your friends" MOI
He said, Go get the poor, the maim-
ed, the halt the blind, the lame
they cant return the compliment
SO there.d be no recompense." You
apply the gospel and Il will abolish
the sins OF society, II will drive them
out We've got today the severest
Tetributton against the impurity that
turks In the alley and in the cellar
ana in the fan tan. the opium Joints
and the coke Joints, my friends. and
All that--the stale beer joints-and
we cry against it; we hurl the indig-
nation OF the law against II but we
become lenient as impurity arises in
atfluence, high social standing. and
finally We are disposed to palliate II
not apologize for their cussedness
Hays OF uncleanness today. they
walk our streets. they ride In their
lmousines sail In their private
yachts. they look from behind
french te-glaSs ana aide behind
'ich tapestries, they walk over Per.
lan rugs, sit beneath fhe flash Of .
ne can telabra OF wealth and thew ,
luatt their wine from gold or sil-
,eT tankard and they cat from Hav- I
land or hand PANIED china I
Society II Rotten.
And society today is fast hasten-
ng 10 the Judgment thai overlook ,
'ompeii Herculaneum and Sodom !
md Gomorrah, when God Almighty I
made old Nesuvius vomit and puke :
n hemorrhage Of lava until hc !
buried Pompeii so feet deep be-
'eath the red-hot cinders and ashes
where their Nleness was 7culpturoa )