The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-18
The WOrld:S Sunday Sermon


irritability II the people about
you are HVing at a pace that you
cannot run. do not strive to initiate
them DO not drive yourself at n
rate you were not intended to go.
Make less money, do Tower things.
out De what you were meant to be
u can be. II YOU are a ten-horse
power machine do not try to 20 at
the rate Of u fifty. Something is
sure to break. You have your limit.
Determine what 1t is and stay
within Il.
Because | spent tho strength Thou
gRvcst me
In struggle which Thou never
didst ordain.
And have but dregs OF life to
offer The
o Lord, l do repent.
Cumbcrcd with Much Serving.
The danger Of exhaustion IL true
even of unselfish work. You may
be 40 ambitious to do good and to
De usctu that you ovorreach your
self. | have seen housewives and
mothers who, like Martha % old,
were so burdened with the multitude
OF household cares that they were
neither good wives or good mothers.
Because OF their efforts to see to
the physical comforts of their fam
lly' they became exhausted, cross
ana irritable. Their husbands
avoided them because they were so
pcppery and their children grew
up without that sense of
ionshtp and admiration for their
mother which Is so essential. be-
cause she scolded them so much.
women of duty no doubt, or rather
women OF many duties. but missing
that greatest of duties-the reflcc-
ton of the divine in their own souls.
y placid face and gentle tone will
make your family more happy than
anything else you can do for them.
The cultivation OF spiritual re-
sources, reliance upon hidden man
ma, which omc from above-that
IL the chief duty above all duties.
In time Of great stress and trib-
ulation one who has often fed On
the heavenly mamma finds himself
able to rise above all advorsity.
How splendid 1t is to see one vino
has met Disappointment after dis
appointment, financial disaster,
sickness in the family, poor health
same h~elpfulnesS and the same un-
selfish love for others as before.
Mr.. Lincoln was not always the idol
Of the country. There was a time
when he was maligned by his enc
mics, and distrusted even by hose
OF his W party. Yet through all
those years he never swcrved from
his purpose, there was no turning
back, there was only the constant
allegiance TO his duty to God ana
humanity. ! tell you, such courage
can come only from the heart OF
faith can only come from continual
communion with The divine. by
keeping close to the fountain-hcad
Of all strength can we be made
strong.
Father, let our faithless fears
Rest on Thee, alone inclined;
Every anxious thought repress.
Keep our minds in perfect peace.
ITO him that ~overcometl will l
give a white stone.' | vas thinking
of those words as I walked along
the bank OF a stream this summer
and stopped down to pick up a white
stone from the waters edge. l
wondered what light 1t could throw
upon this promise of Coda cur
ious figure this-'"To him that
|ovcrcometh will I give a white
stone" There 1t lay in my hand
n white stone. 1t was pure, it was
hard. II was symmetrical, Do these
not have an application to human
character?
Purity-washed over by the
waters Of grace until all defects, all
blemish has been done away. Are
YOU struggling for purity of thought
as well as of deed? II you are not,
then you are only n half-conquerer
over yourself, and you are likely
at any time to go down in total de-
feat. If you are struggling for COM
plcte victory, then you will be
clothed by God in the white robes
Of holiness.
Hardness-not the hardness OF
or selfishncss but the
hardness which mean strength
wherein Is no flabbiness or wavering
uncertainty but persistence in
righteousness. SteadfaStness OF pur-