The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-20

cd back homo with his ret'nue of
servants he chased after him and
taid.
oh General Naaman, walt a
Wiuutc' lie came up painting and
said My Master has changed his
mind He has sent mo 10 tell you
thai h" would take a Few OF those
WEDGES OF gold and bnlyonish gar
menus. frankincense and myrth. Also
q fow of those bolts ot silk.
'Sanman said Certainly. GER
'ainly' Give them down. Throw
him down another wcdge Of gold
make three. Come on! ! an well.
feel so good
"Naaman dumped pile Of II on
the ground, and maze this. the lep.
rosy Of Naaman infected Gehazl.
lie was the first CRATER mentioned
ln the Bible. and he got his Try
ing 20 put II over on God. God said
You are lar: take that"
'Naoman Is going back home and
mo report had reached ahead OF
him and I can SEQ the old Kf~E
Hnd old Mrs Naama1 and all Of the
title Naamans coming out te meet
Daddy and he rides up and he leaps
or and runs into her arms and
says.
Hello. wife. My. that's won
derful God they've got down there
i1 Israel Here we've been down
here and letting these fellows pull
the wool over our eyes, and those
fellows are wonderful Don't you
remember how sore was? Now
looH IL here. Remember the great
big sore I had thcre2 Fine oh,
my muscles we're like big bicycle
tires. feel Of IT,
80 he said 10 Elisha before he
left. Can have two minutes bur
den OF earth?
They had mules and they had
baskets on them like the Indians
out west, and he wanted enough
dirt to fill those two baAkcts Two
mules burdens was as mu"h as two
mules could carry, back. and when
the mules came staggering along
thoy say: what have YOU got In
those baskets?
"'pirt from IsreaL
on, we've got better soil than
that up here
and diamonds and rubies ard sap
phircs and pearls grouDd up
so he wanted enough dirt to
build an altar In the tcmplc so he
wouldn't forget God among the
heather and that gang. Wasn't that
great?
Il preached IN town I'm Iowa.
Along toward tho last Of the meet
ing. the last night | believe II was.
or the next TO the last night, a fell
low came down crying. He pulled
>out a handkerchief as big as "A nap
kin or tnblecloth and spread II
down and said to me as he stood
there wiping his eyes with his hand,
a hard working fellow with cali
logsed hands he booked up and
"Bm. do you care II I take
enough shavings down here to make
a sofa pillow?'
II said What for. jack
"Go Weeks without Brcnd.'
"He Sald 'Blll. before you came
10 town ! was a drunkard, my wife
and my children never walked on
piece OF carpet, we'd go weeks
and weeks without hutter or bread
and, he said. 'Bill. | give my heart
TO Jesus and the first two weeks |
saved enough money 10 buy a lit
tie carpet. ! measured the room
one day when my wife didn't see
mo and | got n little ingram carpet.
II ain't much maybe for some. but
II was lot for me. and I had them
take II down at the store andS%hen
I brought II home Saturday might
with my pay throwed II down.
My wife cried for two hours. Bill.
She never ate any supper
"He said: I've been married for
17yoars. Bill. and she never walked
the carpet In her life. l spent all my
money for drink He said: Bill, II
YOU don't care I'd like to have
enough shavings to make sofa
pillow. because mo and my wife and
children and my neiRhbors can
round up: we have Vail been con-
vertAd. Pill. and we all knelt around
on this, and kind of like 10 get my
knees on that shaving pile lie
said: I'D like tn haye enough to
make n sofa pillow, so when you are
gone and I come home. IL am
tempted to drink I'll see that sofa
pillow and II will remind me that
I used TO be a drunkard. but I've
been saved. and I am sober. and II
is because God did In one week or
two weeks what the devil didn't do
I'm II years-put n little piece of car
pet on the floor, DO you care,
Bill?'
II said. No" Jack. and II you
want enough shavings to make a
mattress out OF. all right And |
said to him: Jack 1--WE were In the
tenO, II you want enough OF that
tent TO mako each OF your kids
pair OF pants. take your jacGknife
and cut II out
"He said: Il don't want to forget
God when the tent is gone, and
when you are gone, BILL
"Naaman said: Can ] have two
mules burden OF earth so when |
get hack home can make an alter
in the temple In front Of the old
idol. and when the King IL praying
TO the idol l will BE praying to God.
See?'"
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