The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-07

BiblesI How many OF you prayed
before you came here this morn
inR2 You have had your break krast
You have dressed You go out and
work hard to get money enough to
feed you three meals day. You
have to have clothes. You have
been educated. gone TO school. That
is the way we train our bodies.
But what about our souls? Never
pray. never read the Bible. Lots OF
people go to church Sunday morn
ing. but 'hcy never go sunday after
noon or night. They think they can
takes a spiritual brcoth bbig enough
on Sunday morning to last them
until next sunday morning. That IN
] the reason they go TO the devil No
wonder they drift away from tho
Lord You can't cat enough today
Ito last until next week. Don't for
get to thank the Lord,
There are men In this world to
! whom God seems ever TO SAY, mo.
| one OF them was Hudson Taylor, the
great Chinese missionary. When
ever ne wanted money God sent II
until he had enough.
a friend of IN ne met an Amerl.
can who lived In China and said,
/ "Can you tell mo the secret OF Tay-
! lOr's power2'
The American representative re-
piled, THAT is easy. Hudson Tay-
/ lor arises every morning ana he sits
| for one hour with God. Someumos
he spends that hour reading the
! Bible. Sometimes he spends IL In
prayer aud mediation. Sometimes
he spends It sitting there saying
over and over His dear name, Jesus,
Jesus Jesusi Hudson Taylor comes
/ from that hour OF communion with
| power"
Did you ever try IT, Try It and
see. An old supcrannuntcd Meth
! cd st preacher came TO me and said,
/ "If YOU viii allow me to. / should
! like TO make some suggestions
which will he a great source Of
| blessing to you
I said; What is It. Or. wilkin-
som"
lie said: "You let God talk 20 you
| Is minutes a day through His word
you talk to God Is minutes q day.
in prayer; you talk for God l2 min
utes a day. You do those thre"
or any one OF the three and soc
what 1t win do"
have tried to carry II out from
that day to this. always at least one
OF them.
You let God talk 20 YOU 10 min
utes day through the Bible. or
you talk TO God 10 minutes a day
through prayer. or you talk for God
Is minutes a day. and you will sec
what a power and blessing will come
into your life. Then the benediction
of God will come upon YOU.
A Spiritual Physician.
So / am trying to help YOU, my
| friends, spiritually. just as the doc
! sn. NA hall, nlaNvl-
/ cally, as n teacher would to help
your boy or girl Intellectually.
Therefore, don't look upon the doc
tor with gratitude and then look
upon the preacher with enmity. lie
is your friend. He helps you moral
ly the same as the doctor does
[ physically or the educator intelloc.
tually.
want the strongest body / can
have, the best Intellect | can get,
and I want TO be strong for Jesus
Christ. | think ! can preach better
III can eat three meals a day than
l could II 1 had indigestion. Yet
am the poorest sleeper that YOU ever
looked at. You never met a man
that eats less or sleeps less than |
LIDO. Yet ! have been sleeping bet
ter here than ! have been In any
place for three years. ] guess II 10
because you folks are so good. You
are a crackin' good crowd down
here. regret TO look ahead to the
day when will have to bid you
good bye and take the train.
And then, there Is another thing
get right with each other. ] read
Of three confessions in the Bible.
First. confess Christ as your Savior,
Second, confess your sins. Third,
confess your fault one TO another
don't know what your fault Ia,
Mine Is my temper. have no ap-
( petite for drink, am not tempted
along other lines. but temper IL
mine. ! have temper like a sheet
irsn stove. A bunch OF shaving'
and match would makt II red hot
In two minutes. But l am making
progress along that line. Lots OF
things come up TO provoke, and
|. hold IN and do well.
Christ is your Savior. confess
your sins and faults one 20 another.
/ I suppose the third Is condcscen-
sion that few people are willing 10
stoop to, and yet It Is essential. We
want to get along and grow and de-
volop. and then get right with eaeh
other.
/ Travelled for two years as an as
slstant with DR., Wilbur Chapman up
and down the land. he OF al iH'u
taught me TO preach, when ] quit
playing baseball. We went 10
/ town out west, and he preached
there for a week. and nobody was
converted. They would sit and lis
ten spell-bound. He called the
preachers and ne said:
"I have worked as hard as
ever worked in my life. There Is
evidently something wrong, and
am going TO quit l am going 10
/ the next town.
They said I'VE are just M much
concerned about the condition as
YOU could possibly be, and 1t has
been great source OF worry to us
| We have been trying 10 investigate
10 see II We can't find out where II
| Is, and we think we are locating Il.
| Won't you stay until Friday nlght?'
! This was "wednesday, and he said:
yes, IL you know whore the trouble
is, and can remo'e IT,"
The One AZ Fault.
| So the Methodist preacher and the
/ Presbyterian and the Baptist and
| Congregational preacher started out.
They went down TO n man who wa
/ the chief usher in the meeting. He
was Judge OF the circuit court