The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-16


brother sitting upon the We
randa, all reproduced in minia-
ture. AnI when Lafayette saw 1t
and II painted upon the canvas OF his
memory his home In sunny Franc e,
the tears rolled like rivers OF wate-
down his cheeks, and the great
Frenchman shook as IL he had the
ague.
Heaven n. Splendid Place.
O. II l could lust pun back the
curtain and let you take one glimpse
into heaven and see all that God has
prepared for you. II you'd only for
sake your sin, and ] believe l could
break the heart Of every unsaved
man or woman In this tabernacle
and there wouldn't be a man or
woman going out of here without
Jesus, unless he we're fool or an
imbecile and God let's you out on
the ground that you are an imbecile.
Heaven is a place OF splendor, too.
Everything that ever came from
there tells us so-@treets OF gold and
gates of pearl, walls of Jewels. Some
day you may 60 sweeping through
the gate, but the entering in rests
with you, sir. II you accept Jesus
Christ. 1t is settled. II you don't
then 1t isn't for you.
They say. the deeper the water,
the larger and the more costly the
pearl / do not know whether that
Is 80 or not.
But 1 know this much: from the
greatest depths of iniquity God seems
to have taken some OF his brightest
Jewels. Some OF those who have
blazed the brightest aud lighted up
this dark, rotten. fostering. sln-
cursed world, have been men who
have crept and crawled in the sew
ers of iniquity and. of transgression
and OF squalor. 80 II is no cause fer
discouragement IL you have been or
still are a sinner.
why John Bunyan, the author Of
"Pilgrim's Progress" could BIAS
pheme 80 fiendishly that old sinners
would stop their earsf and 1t seemed
as though the old devils in the pit
OF hell would stop their ears and
cry out, Enough Enough! Enough"
why Paul was a murderer; hands
red with the blood of those that be-
neyed in Jesus Christ. Yet he be-
came the great Apostle to the Cen
tiles.
Biologists tell us that the diamond
is nothing but a piece of charcoal
glorified. A diamond Is made out of
the same substance as your lead PEN
cil---carbon. The only difference Is
that the diamond changes. while the
carbon retains its identity. but II is
the same material, the same thing.
BY some unknown process OF ma
ture diamond Is piece of char
coal or carbon, changed by the pow
er of nature.
Isn't 1t great that God Almighty
can change a sinner and transform
him until his life will be a benedic-
tion and blessing instead of a STUN
bling block. and he can live for God
The brightness of heaven, TO me
personally U don't know anything
about you) would be due to the pres
ence of the redeemed more than the
streets of gold.
Can you imagine your own child
or your children? Can you de-
scribe the sweetness OF chnds
song? Perhaps your own is there
tonight, singing with lips that have
been touched by the fingers OF Cod,
and God has made provision: who
soever will, may come" That Is
Gods invitation and the judgment
will be this: That you knew what to
do, but wouldn't do II. And one
thing that will be an eternal regret
TO you Will Dt 10 TtCdii tut Idct tndt
you knew what to do. but you were
too stubborn to turn from your in
iquity and do Jesus Christ's will.
The gates are open now. am
glad TO tell you they shall not be
shut at all, night or day. They are
open now.
wouldn't take YOU in; morality
wouldn't take you in. Your philan-
throphy wouldn't take SoG in. No!
II Is giving yourself up to Jesus
Christ and letting Him lead you all
the way by faith. and He will lead
you In.
/ don't know, I have sometimes
thought when my time comes to go
l would like 10 go as did Alexander
Cruden. The Concordance bears his
name.
One of his favorlte ways was TO
go into his study and take down his
books of reference and look every
where and search, and when he grew
tired. he would put his head in the
open Bible for a pillow for rest
and the rule was never to disturb
him When they found him In that
position,
They kyent In one day TO call him
for dinper and they found him in
that position, seemingly asleep. They
went back In one hour and he was
still in that attitude, Two hours and
three hours passed and he had not
moved. They had never known him
to remain, longer than one hour.
Four hours passed and no hadn't
moved. They ventured in and dis-
obeyed the rules. They spoke to him
and received no response They
stepped TO his side and touched his
cheeks. and they were cold. He had
been in heaven for hours.
I have sometimes thought I'd like
to go like that.
My friends, that Is the reward.
I have sometimes thought would
like TO go as did David Livingstone,
in the heart of Africa, on his knees
pleading with God for the people OF
that dark and benighted region.
He grew tired and weary and they
came TO a village and he said, Let
me rest They carried him into
a hut and placed him on the bed.
He asked 20 be- left alone.
His Heart In Africa.
They had never seen a white mans
face before and every now and then
they would pull back the curtain,
They tooR Livingstone In and left
him alone, land he got out and slid
onto his knees and he buried his face
in his thin transparent hands They
peeked in through the door and they