The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-23
IOnI.WAIiD HOiND

1,Nt. Il'hrcWa H. 1915. 'lHcHo
am diod iu hith. not having received
the promises. but having seen thom
and greeted thom FROM Hfnr and
h1,iu. ,pu'csrrd that thry were
strangers and pilgrims ON the earth.
For thot that eos such things mako
10 ma.IIftst that they dr" sccikus
after ID country uf their own. Ana
II indeed they had boon mindfui "i
that country from which they went
out. they would have had opppriuu
.ity to- rctWu Hui now they desire
a. better country that is, o. heavenly
wherefore God l3 uut LAbaUCd ul
th,m, Go lc called their God, tpr lie
hath prepared for them city,
The preacher said lu part. Deep
is our interest bon the man whom God
has approved. iii8 Judgment is III
timatr and final Iis oommruGa
lion a ftulti,... aud crowned with
q d,uthi,s8 glory are thoy whom
heaven hon0rH Invaluable Indeed
30 viii br to uH n wc learn thc secret
pf divine dppruuttlou
The young musician socks insplr-
alton iu the study ot The Old masters
ukc beethoven, Mondci Hsphu lt,h
and Wagner The young nrtNt sock"
tu fam the fam" OF hiH genius al tho
feet ~ BhphuoL Rembrandt it'y-
nulda Tho napiraut for military
glory takes 1B his Ideals great war
riors Ike Joshua, Alexander tacaar,
Napoleon. Nou Moltk" why should
not the Christian imbuc his soul
with tho spirit ana temper the aims
that led and the hopes that inspired
the saints who's" names arc In Gods
calendar of fame ''
Lots look iu on these worthless a"
they Journey home. IatrlafchH ""
cali them. But we mistake II We
| think Of them az aged, long white
| locks Hud grey beard, bodies bent
with burden OF many years. Thoy
are clear eyed, Keen limbed, hlclt,
| heroic men. Tho writer cailH iho
roll. Abel who built tho FIRST at
| tar hard by the gate OF the broken
Iup- Eden. EuoCh. who walked with
God so far hc never returned. Noah,
| the ark constructor who pilotcd hu-
manity across the devastating flood.
Abraham, the altar builder, Isaiah,
the we'll digger, Jacob, the me-
mortal crector, supplnntor. trans
| formed into "a prince - those
! wrought riEhtCousness and all died
| In the Faith. And tho writer sums
Inp the meaning OF their lives and
! translates II into "A message Tor All
| ltimc-"rhcy that say such things
make Il manifest that they are seek
! ing after u country of their own"
They made wise men of II very
plain what was that fact2
Here pilgrims and strangers
This is true OF every life, these
recognized and confessed II. Might
ily their lives were influenced ana
their conduct, ordered by TINS sense
of pilgrimage. Sad indeed when
serious solemn facts are unnoticed,
and II noticed have no effect upon
life. They confessed it-what
contrast with those about them.
How did the simple fact influence
these old worthless
IL startod them on n quest for n
country where they would be nc
longer pilgrims and strangers. They
know the present wes passing: they
believed the future would abide
| And this is tho Christians hope, W.
, Journey from the transient To tn
. abiding, from the temporal To th'
eternal John Bunyan cannot b'
surpassed In his conception OF tn,
| life Of u Christian as continual
ascent where the end transcend'
lmmeasurably the beginning. Com
menCing with the city of Dcstruc'
ton and Slough of Despund, Il
works ever upwards to the delcCta
bic mountains, to the Land of lSeu'
lah, to the city of glass ana gem
and gold.
Before Bunyan wrote his impe
! rishablo story OF the Christian Pill
grimage the patriarchs lived It. The,
lived Il with an unConqucrablc f0ltl
and an invincible optimism tina
ought always To characterize tn
children OF God, what a contras
such faith ns theirs makes Will
the he scheme uf the old Grccl
poet who uttered these dcspairinl
, words, "Whcn once the npopintol
: time of youth is past, II II hcttcr q
die forthwith thar TO llvc.' or viii
that Of skcptiCal modern science cx
> pressed In letter of Huxley {
% John Morley. cit flashes across m
% AT all sorts of times with a sort u
q horror that IN 1909 | shall know n
n more OF what is going ON than | dl
!, In 1900, | would sooner be In he
I a good deal. nt any rate In one q
8 the upper circles. | wonder II yo
y are ever plagued i'm that way?'
n No man has discovered a way {
O make the life journey an upwar
V and victorious pilgrimage except b
the shining path marked out In tn
>, old book. Sciences answer To III
- most vital question, "Whithe
= Round" ~ one of despair, No stai
- ARE in her hcnVcns, No burst ,