The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-25

mon "Wnero Tncre lS NO VISION
coached by Reverend Sunday at the
morning union services follows:
the text will be from the Pro-
,,,bs twenty-ninth chapter. eigh-
teenth verse.
"Whcro there Is no vision. the
peoplc PERISH"
That Is where there is no nppre-
.atlou NJ Gods plan. That Is
.,bsre everybody becomes a law
Nj themselves. That ls where you
Sont ellp TO consider or care wheth-
or yo1r action or conduct will make
h easier for anyone else to do right
or wrong. You DO that because you
personally want to do It,.
Tho only law you recognize Is the
law OF your own desire, and you arc
actuatrd by the desire to crafty
your own ambition or inclination, ir-
respccuyo Of the Influence upon 9TH
ems through that qualification.
Where there ~ no vlsionl There
ba better way for you to live than
YOU orc living.
Whore there is no visloui A man
Il bettcr 90 be well than TO be sick.
Where there Is no visionl our
people are better II they pray than
Il they curse or II they obey God
rather than II they live in sin.
peoplo viii perish"
n Thpy run riot. The restraining I'm
luonccs today are due 20 religion.
Thera lg many a man today that
doesn't caro- about God. Yet" he
lives a passably decent lifo, and the
fact that no doesn't, isn't due to his
unbclieg but II IN due to the re-
tirainlug Influences OF Christianity.
You do away with religion and you
will sound the death knell of moral
!ty. Morality will never stand. my
friends, and survive the death OF
Christianity.
Tho fact that q lot OF people live
a. good as they do, and yet have no
use for God isn't due TO anything
which they develop through contact
with each other but IL Is due TO tho
restraining influence OF tho religion
which they sneer and blast at.
Therefore, you take that religion
away and then SEQ what will become
Of your morality. SO: "Where thero
Is no vision, tho people perish" and
tho hope, my friends, OF the world Is
} 70 get people to see that God is good
z and that he is concerned for their
welfare.
We have visions OF the fact that
we have got to pillow and plant in the
spring, II we have anything to eat In
the winter. Therefore by working in
harmony with Gods law; VIC are
kept going. and our nation is kept
going and our bread---my friends,
wo have never scraped tho bottom OF
our meal barrel as a nation.
What do we do7 We simply work
IN harmony with the fact that God
Almighty has appointed that we
have got to plow our fields and
plant our crops in spring IL we have
anything 70 cat M tho winter. That's
vision, so we Work In harmony
with God to make that.
Seek First tho Kingdom.
the Bible opers with this verse
"In the beginning God"
That's tho first verso IN Genesis
That ought to be tho very first with
eyey lie.
Seek ye first the Kingdom OF
Cod That ought TO be tho first
verse, but with great many people
It In tho last.
About the last person they want to
sec Is tho preacher. They have no
Use FOR tho preacher in tho days OF
prosperity, when they so down the
line and Indulge In their desires. but
when the shadows IT life begin TO
gather and they realize that they are
about to drift out with tho tide. then
they like to have tho preacher
around.
Well send for him. he will come
any hour OF the day or night, but I
say consider It Is n mean, CON
temptible, unmaniy, unwomanly
, thing 10 do, to keep tho control Of
your life in your own hands and
thon at tho end of a miserably spent
lfe, try TO creep into Gods Kingdom
Because OF His long suffering with
you. | think it is damnable and
sneaky TO give your life and lnflu-
ence to the service OF the devil and
Just before you die ask God AL
mighty to take you TO heaven, when
you have never served God day
V long as you llvedl
And yet there arc lots OF people
Dat that's Just exactly the way they
I've But ] am very glad to say that
hey are IN n minority. Most peo-
pie are decent. Most people are
honest Most people are truthful
Most people are on tho square. Most
people believe in God. Now and
non you find one that doesn't be-
leye IN God. The Bible says he is
fool II he doesn't, and the man or
the woman that lives disregarding
Gods plan for their life is as big
z TOOL as the captain who steered
DIS ship by the clock instead of the
Compass.
Every nation must have vision
pr go down. We stand where we do
!oday because OF the fact that We
nave had visions, that our people
were better under certain laws than
lRder others, and this nation, my
friends, has recently declared and
catered tho great world conflict he
cause that is vision of other ma
uons, Of this world are better gov
erned by laws for the people and
py tho people than they are to wear
he collar OF militarism. For that
reason we barred our breast TO the
pullets Of the world and have gone
,otth 10 help the nations. We have
haa vision that they were better
N That way and we are willing to
pour our men and money and our
mIluence and our unsurpassed
power as a nation into the great
vortex " war in order that peace
might reign and that the nations
might be governed by the people
ahu so, therefore, We have got n
Vision OF that fact.
n 80 every nation must have It,
Every great achievement that has
moved this old world Godward or
brought beneficence or blessing TO
Ae world has been brought about
Inc fact that somebody had
sion, no matter what. No mat
s whether 1t Is commendable or