The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-13
Barometer of Public OpiniOn


Editor world. The ordinary mortal in these
alsSnss T rm +" y WorS" o. aRs it or u"a "oh
Ing; with all its fulmInati0hs, implications and
inuendoed abuse, All.
The Sunday apology In its exegcsis OF ecclesi-
asical affairs in both editorial and general
modes gave vent To prelation of churchmens =
dominoering attitudes that must be met sooner
than many suspect,
In "A bold headline in Sundays issue of The
world this occurred 'if Christ Should Come to
Tulsa In substance. That were sacrilege OF
foolishncss. Take your horn. What business
could he bc supposed to have in such "A place
lie never dealt In oil, gas or politics. He would
get run In, tor he never carried money and cared
little II anything for style OF dress. In fact.
he never said anything that could lend even a
suspicion that he could In any manner aid in the
construction Of one of those large temples OF
of worship over there.
Neither In industry nor leisure did he advise.
Christ wrote no history. nor poetry, nor ro-
nance To say he ever worked u day IN to as
sumo without authority. He was deist himself
as To religion. His prayer in the garden to his
Father is significant OF this. He said, why call
en- thoH me good. there Is none good save my
Father which IL In heaven" again, cot that day
and hour knoweth no man nor the angels which
are In heaven; nor the son. but my Father only;
again. Il can do nothing OF myself but OF my
Father who worketh In me both to will and
To do
So Christ on his own authority, WAS not om-
npotent nor omnipresent nor omniscient' Not
having unlimited power nor wisdom nor good
ness, aud being entirely unacquainted with Tulsa,
Hs surroundings ynd peculiar history, ana espe
cially it's exaggerated claims, Us hyperboc
elaboration OF its own greatness, what could
any Christ do under such circumstances?
Tho cold -blooded fact IL this, the Christ cult
that IL preached Of this time is nothing but
idoairy and preached for an effect outside
purely religious rage and enthusiasm. That jails
may be fted satisfies the preacher appetite
now, Tho preacher OF today forgets that Jesus
said In this matter II was imprisoned and ye
visited me not inasmuch as ye did II not
unto Of the least OF these my brothers. ye
did It not unto me depart from me. ye
workers of inquity into everlasting fire pre-
paued for the devil and his angels"
such language has no place In the modern
preachers life. Too much for him, And this
modern fellow OF the CLOTH known by even
school children as mock man in raa red
blooded life, doesn't want to be cartooned! He
not only wishes to desert Christ and aid In rob-
htnG American soNereigns of all right that In
heres In person and which is no ones business
hat hands Oft Let his disa greeablo feature.
not be cartooned. will admit to picture him
IN his modern warfare against the rest of us, IL
but little short OF disgrace To the paper.
The preachers place " In the pulpit, else hi
| has place in modern lie, ana he Is going Il
| be told No. Told In manner he and hi'
! kind will not forget. What use is ho In moderi
! society? Just to abuse sinners assume unwar
! ranted greatness and authority Why, he Il
| the biggest coward in the presence OF death o
! any alive He stands to abuse human beings
/ whose rights are God-given and dam back thu
! streams OF Joy that misery shall flood the re
public.
set on propaganda OF blue-aws the highes
! character of stealing posi- ble--stealing th
/ rights of others from them and this outside tn
| true scope of legislation, The result In the en-,
| means bloodshed In the manner OF revolts,
We wonder how far the public press win 81
/ with this bunch,
+, W JACOBS.
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