The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-01

Milwaukee made an extension from
South Dakota TO Puget Sound. IT
cost them hundreds Of millions Of
dollars They hadn't sold a ticket
They hadn't contracted for "a pound
OF freight They hadn't anything
but faith. They had faith to be-
lieve that people would travel over
tho road and freight would be
shipped over the road
without faith. there wouldn't
have been electricity. Thomas Edi-
son thought he would find n better
way 10 illuminate the home than
with a thllow candle. without faith.
there wouldn't have been the auto
mobile.
Henry Ford started out m the
Y. NJ. G. a, ir Detroit fourteen years
ugo. In the little department there
whore they had sort OF "a (what do
you call u2) forge. lie went in
there and went to work. lie had
an idea. lie thought ne could make
an automobile. thought he could put
II together. and he did.
He had 10 get money. The fel-
lows. one after another. refused
him. and finally he found man
who stakcd him Tor $4,000. The
fellow said, II am going to help you
and sit right on the job
That $4,000 has made that man
over S20.OO0,000. II all started with
faith Everything you see today in
business, everybody started with "A
faith In what they had. Begin with
your faith and see how it will grow
In this old world.
There Is not one that didn't first
believe before they over invented.
Fulton had visions OF his steamboat
before she over puffcd up the Hud -
] Watts Ind NfuInna gF "a
motive before II ever came out of
his brain. Howe had visions OF a
sewing machine before II took tan
giblc form. Whitney had visions OF
his cotton gin before ne ever in.
vented II.
Men go to South America. They
go TO South Africa, to the Riondike,
TO Australia, because they are told
and they believe they can get gold
Faith ~gives us energy, back bone.
Faith is the grandest word in the
lexicon OF man or woman.
There wouldn't have been any
, Jewish nation II Abraham hadn't
, had faith In God God -~ould have
taken somebody else and he'd have
, started the nation with somebody
else, but he took Abraham, the
father OF the nation. and he believed
and that is why you have the Jew
sN'' 'aAANaNh ANhhas
Faith n Hand.
Faith is the hand by which my
/ soul touches God. can't touch
. God with my hand. I can touch
- you. You are flesh, bones. and 80
! am I. God liz spirit, | cant
touch God with my hand. can
touch God with my faith.
Faith is n sort OF wireless teleg.
raphy which communicates with the
sky Faith Is to the soul what the
, law OF gravitation is to the world.
r Here Is a. book. I hold 1t In my
I hand. take my hand away What
made II fall? There Is a reason. on
gravitation yanks everything TO the
cen,es of the earth. See? That is
why.
Therefore, we find that faith IL tc
, my soul what the law Of graNtatior
is to the world. The law OF gravity
pulls everything down to the center
of The earth. All right. So faith
changes the center OF gravity. In,
/ stead of swearing, he prays. Instead
OF being impure, he is pure. Instead
4 of being drunk he Is sober. Instead
c Instead OF going to the saloon. h,
Q goes to church. Instead OF going t,
hell, he is going to Heaven.
Fa.th changes the center. 81
= when the power of Christ comes in
a these other things go out.
. Now you do these things. and nov
2 you go here. That's the power tha
: pulls you there-faith In Jesu
Christ. So gravity pulls everythinl
Y to, the center of this old earth.
= Car YOU find any fault With wha
I He said about Himself? Can yoi
r put your finger on any spot tha
. He didn't make good? He said, -
. am the light Of the world" Al
right.
o Now. listen. You take out OF thi
4 world all that Jesus Christ has don
4 for II. and It wouldn't be worth
(, rummage sale. II you take out O
J this world all that Jesus has don
: for II, you are taking down ever
i church and cathedral. Catholic an
Protestant. You tear down ever
, Y. VI. c. A. and every Y. W. c. A
: You close up every Sunday schoo
= You disband the W. G. I. L. an
!, every charitable organization. ever
f, mothers pension and child labo
! law.
Everything that Is done FOR tn
. benefit OF humanity, all charity,
s., all comes through the principles O
!, Jesus Christ. You go to the librar
= and select every book which con
p taius a verse OF poetry or prose ref
= erenc0 to Jesus Christ and tax
: them and turn them into ashes.
!, Then go to the galleries OF az
y and slash and cut and daub tn
= achievements OF man, Dore. Mile
!, MYrillo. Michael Angelo. Raphae
de Vincl, Ru bens Munkacsy
T, Christ Before Plate
4 Then go TO the hospitals an
II throw the sick into the street Tea
. down the buildings, close up tn
2 asy lums for the poor, the manned
n the blind. the halt, the old men. an
old women. boys and girls. Go
A the obsorvatories OF music tear ou
n all the songs, Jesus, Keep Me Nea
/. the Cross Jesus. Lover OF NJ
Soul" Pass Me Not O Gentle Say
II ior," until the world stands voice
If less, and songless and dumb,
II Then go TO the cemeteries. @
n from tombstone TO tombstone, an
II chisel out every verse that tells c
n the world to he. Sir Walter Scot
had Old Mortality chasing aroun
I with chisol and mallet to max
y more distinct the partly obliterate
, epitaphs on the tombstones. CT
a off every verse that your mothc
pillowed her head on when sh
= swept out into glory TO meet Jesu