The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-03
Think On These Things
CopyrshL iei7 b, william AshIcy sunday.

10 WIN your ttofnHl HnlNatiOu, Just
as certainly M the points OF the com
pass have to do with the steering Of
/ che ship. The Bible. tho Word Of
God les true. Whatsoever things are
F. true, think on these things. and
[ nothing IN more firmly established
! than that truth. and God has blessed
/ every people and every nation that
/ has honored and obeyed II ~ Ills
| word. II has stood the test of time
as no other book ever has or ever
/ viii stand. No other book has ever
| had such severe critics as tho Hiblo.
| Every man whose NE was wrong or
who wanted to live a wrong life has
boon against tho Bible. lie thought
because he said he didn't believe II
that that made him immune from
any punishment why the man
who thinks that is as big an idiot
A. one who imaginoa that by shut
ing his eyes he can turn the courHc
~ a bullet
II don't make any difference
whether YOU believe n or not. YOU
! big goose 1t Is true anyway Don't
be an idiot and sit out there and
say. ~ don't believe tt" You Will
40 to he'll whether you believe II or
not
Everybody whore life was not
right did everything they could do
TO destroy the Influence or the Bible.
/ rhc hatred against the Bible has
| hccn pcrslstcnt II has been deter
| mined. IT has bocn relontlessly Bit
ter,
Everything that philosophy and
that science and that reason aud
cunning aud brutality could do has
been done, but II has stood. because
IL Us tho word of God N has been
destroyed and burned In untold num-
I..H 4.
culatton uf any book the world has
ever known or ever viii.
II falls from the presses like the
leaves In an autumnhl forest II ls
eng read by men and women In
every country and language and
,onguc today. II Is read In five hun
drcd languages and dialects through
out the world.
Men have been burned at tho
stake. they have been thrown 20 the
wild beasts In the Coliseum. they
have been suffered to rot in prison.
Tor no crime other than believing
what the Bible taught. and living
what u taught aud having had
copy OF II Ia their possession.
Wars have been fought because
of the Bible. cities have been de-
stroycd because Of It. But It is hero
and 'tA power aud Lpfluenco were
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tho world than right tonight my
friends, AZ you and | are here.
oh, every brewer. every saloon
keeper. every bawdy house keeper,
every gambler and every hrigand,
every liar and very anarchist, and
all the good for nothing. God for
sakcn, rag. tag and bobtail oftscour-
ing OF society have been against the
Word OF God Hut II In the Word
~ t.nH and t,tliinna ~
II is Just as well as they know that
they are alive or that they know
their name.
And yet I suppose thcrc nre somo
people looking into my face that
haven't read n page In the Bible In
ten years. Then don't you blame
God N you wake up In hell when
you have been such "a fool and
wouldn't look into the means that
God provided 10 keep you out OF
there. Don't blame God IL you 60.
The Lord isn't to blane--not at all!
IL II the only book In tho world
that tells us OF "A God that Il is pos
slble 10 love. OF a heaven TO win and
"A hell TO shun and a Savior that Is
able to save.
The young people go TO school, go
to college, go 10 the university To
learn all OF philosophy all OF art. all
of science, all Of literature, and yet
they know nothing of the Bible.
And all the rest Will not save them
without knowledge of the Bible.
while II you know what ~ IN the one
Book and obey that, II will save you
II YOU don't know beans about any
of the others.
But there Is nothing inconsistent
about knowing all there is to know
In the other books and knowing the
Bible and living that, tool
Do you think that ! will admit
that anybody that doesn't believe tho
Bible Is the Word Of God knows
more than | know and that he Is
more bright Not on youT tin typol
Will never dip my Colors to that
guy--no, sir! never,
And these things are written"
the Bible says that yc might be-
lieve that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, and by believing We
might have life through ITS name,
Now. thar tells why the Bible was
written. The question IL often
raised. why was 1t written" Here
1t is:
Written for Guide
These things were written thar
/ ye might believe that Jesus Is the
| Christ the Son of God, and by be-
iieving ye might have life through
| His name"
II you read railroad guide to
| find out how to raise potatoes. you
won't get along very well. and ~ you
study cookbook TO learn how 10
shoe horse, you won't get along
very we'll. when ! look into an
arithmetic, | know II was never In
tended to teach me tho history OF
the United States, and when | study
a geography. | know that It was
never intended 10 teach me the
chemistry OF n buckwheat cake.
II you want TO get out of "a book
what the author Intended, find out
why he wrote the book. why did
God inspire a man TO write this
book? Like a carpenter said to an
apprentice. Il am soins to bo gone
today and l wish you would grind
my tools"
And when he came back at night
he asked the young man how he got
along. and this verdant young fell
low replied, Il have worked hard
all day and TO save my life | can't
| get the hicks out of that saw"
A lot OF you people don't show any
more sense IN your attitude toward
| the Bible than that young fellow did
trying 10 gring @ saw like you would
| an axe, not a particle In the World,
The greatest good can be had
from ANYTHING by using 10 for the