The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-02


Must Live Our Faith
only as our life. demonstrates our
| professio viii we be able TO make
any impression upon tho world. God
doesn't teach Christianity by the
stars. We find living testimony only
In the lives and from the lips OF
Christians. This is what Jesus meant
when He said, "le are the light of
the world" How quickly the world
Is able TO discover hypocrisy or
sham!
The wolf may don the fleece
thorns may bear berries; thistlcs of
A certain kind will bear blossoms not
unlike those on the fig tree; tho
false prophet may talk in high
phrases, but abe ultimate test is
not the blossom, but the fruit; not
the fair speech, But the life. And
the ultimate question is. does man
live up TO the creed which he pro-
mulgates2
Orthodoxy OF creed Is not enough;
there must be orthodoxy of charac-
ter and conduct
There was an old oriental rule
which required ono who met
Traveller In a strange country to turn
aside from his own journey and 20
with the stranger one mile to show
Z
fdded another and said Whose
ever shall compel thee to go mile,
go with him twain"
And II Is the second mile Chris
tian which the world needs today,
ana It is only the second mile living
on the part OF the processing Chris
tians that Is going TO make any i'm
preston on this Goddess world
why call We me Lord, Lord, and
not the things which I say7"
The people who make great pro-
fcssions, but fail TO live up to those
professions are the great stumbling
blocks in the way OF the spread OF
Christianity
Paul said In writing OF the Ro-
mans, Not the hearers Of the law
are Just before God, but the doers
OF the raw shall be justified" Not
only is this statement true in ref
erencc to God, but 1t is also true
in reference. to the world,
How true is Emersons MESA ge---
What you are speaks so loud can
not hear what you say" How many
people there are like the children
OF Israel In Elijah's time, OF whom
he said: why go ye limpinE be-
tween two sides?"
Whitening the Black Spots.
Dean Farrar tells US that when
the ancients wapted to offer a white
OK on the altar OF Jupiter they
would make a spotted OK pass for a
white one by Ghalking over all the
black marks. This is the dry rot
Of Christianity today. why call ye
me Lord, Lotd, and do not the
things which l say?"
The Christians ambition ought 10
be TO obey the comman nds of Jesus
Christ, Jesus said, My meat is to
do the will Of Him who sent me, to
finish His work" He also said, II
do also the things that are pleasing
% my Father"
Paul speaks about being ambitious
70 he well pleasing, unto Him who
hatch called him from darkness into
light 1t is your business and mine
as soldiers of Jesus Christ to obey
Him without questioning.
| think OF the reply Of the Duke
Of Wellington to one of his engi-
neers who urged the impossibility
of executing the directions he had
received. Said the duke, II did not
ask your opinion. I gave you my
orders and | expect them obeyed."
Such should be the obedience OF
every follower OF Jesus Christ.
ours not TO reason why
our hut to do and die"
Bishop ThobuTn was to address a
great student volunteer convention
at Nashville. His daughter was
lying at the point of death. The
bishop said, Il do not see how I
can go.' The daughter called him
to her bedside and said, Daddy, |
will not Clip away while you are
gone. There will be all those stu
dents at Nashville. You go down
and tell them that any one Of them
that gets a chance to tell the story
@. Jesus Christ anywhere in the
world ought TO jump at It," ThaJ
ought to be the spirit OF all Of us
toward the commands of Jesus"
Rewards of Obedience.
Spiritual prosperity will come to
us only through obedience to Christ's
commands When Wilbur Chap
man asked General Booth the secret
Of his success in the spiritual life
he replied. God has had all there
was Of my heart and II there is any
thing Of power in the Salvation army
today it is because God has all the
alteration oG my heart, all the power
OF my will and all the Influence Of
my life"
one OF Michael Angeles workmeu
employed on the mausoleum OF
Julius the Second thought he had
become great sculptor without
special effort because BY implicitly
following his masters instructions
he had produced from a block Of
marble to his own astonishment
beautiful statue, but In reality this
workman was no special sculptor.
From first TO last he had Been only
journeyman. His work was a mat
ter og imitation, but II was because
he followed instructions that he was
able 10 produce the beautiful statue.
So II ~ only as we follow out the
commands Of Christ that the Christ
life can be worked out In our lives.
was reading the other dav the
story Of the early history OF the
Cunard Steamship company. The
man who started this company was
Sir George Burns. The policy he
pursued in building his ships was
first safety and then swiftness. He
had competitors who were building
their ships first for swiftness and
second for safety In the course OF
time the other steamship lines, be-
cause Of many mishaps, were al
most put out or business, while the
Cuuara limo ~rpu In nonularitv.