The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-08

she said hood bye to more blessings
than you will ever give her In ten
OF fifteen years. You Will have III
tie differences and discourage
All right, you will IN your new
Christian lfe. IL you confess your
sins and begin. the Lord will take
care OF you.
when Moody vas preaching, a
woman came TO near him. Some
thing made her mad and she went
out saying she never would return
The next night she was back. He
said something that made her mad 4.
der than ever. out she went and
her brown dress swished around the
door like a fox's tail and she de.
clared she never would return.
A few nights later her anger be
came nebulous and at last disap-
pcarcd and at last she bobbed up
...,uriA In her spot. somebody told
Moody what she said about him and
Moody said. sister, ! am glad to see
you here. what can | do2"
"Hrothcr Moody want to be a
Christian"
'1ou've come to che right person
and place.
SO ,--ody talked TO her used all
Ia, dIguuacnt NE could think OF.
tie was just getting discouraged.
Finally he happened to think Of that
I' .dtlun Of tine pcudulum and the
clock on the first day OF January
tho pendulum sat down and figured
o.J now many times II would have
Ia tick In year. Getting up in the
billions IL threw tho pencil down ami
.a4u, 40 use. nobody can hold out
to tick that long. ! won't try IT,
But then It thought. But it's only
tick at "A time
Shc looked at Moody and said
Brother Moody I will tick the first
tick now" and she fell on her knees.
Then she got up she said, Folks,
accept Jesus as my Savior
She turned TO Moody and said. Il
have ticked two ticks"
lie said fright sister. so out and
tell others"
She came back tho next day and
said, Il have ticked IL ticks since
saw you last night"
She invited Moody home to dinner.
She gave him a beautiful clock. gold
hands and figures on the dial, dec
GRATED with Jewels. She said, You
take this home and IL anybody asks
YOU the story you say It Is only a
tick at q time.
Now Is the Time.
II you go TO his late home in
Mortified you will see 1t on the
mautel. Tick your tick now. The
Grape may flutter from your door
knob tomorrow.
Behold, now iythe accepted time
Now is the day OF salvation"
And God will remove the STUN
bling block out Of your way. then
what? He will give you tho assur-
ancc OF peace and of salvation and
when you begin TO live out your be-
lief your belief begins to grow and
take form and shape Ike Pygma-
lions statue of Galatea.
When he started to carve he had
nothing but a piece of repulsive
marble and at last there stood before
him the beautiful form OF Galatea
and when you try to live out your
belief your belief takes form and
shape. We see 1t in everything. In
music. / can't read music to save
my life. ! can't do it. will bet
you there are a lot Of folks In that
choir that can't read music. Rhody
can read It. Brewster can read 1t.
but. most people that sing by ear.
You. can sing Brighten the Cor
ner Where You Are" but can you
read the music? No. They will
open the book and read tho sharpa
and flats and measures and SEX
tettes, run the chromatic scale like
a squirrel climbs a tree SO we all
know, brighten the Corner Where
You Are We all know, "Since Je-
sus Game Into our Heart" Most
OF ny sing that by sound and not by
note. You are willing to do the
best you can.
A mans highest happiness and
greatest useiulnesS is reached
through Jesus Christ. Christians,
II you are not right in your expert
ence YOU are wrong In your life. lf
the Bible is dun, dead book to
you, it you haven't Gods peace and
! Joy you are wrong in your life. II
you'd fulflll the conditions you'd
have the results.
You say, "Bill. the Christian life
/ is mysterious" Two and two make
four Is complicated mathematical
proposition absolutely incapable Of
/ being understood by anybody on the
face of the earth when compared to
the plain A II g OF repentance and
faith in Jesus Christ to save my soul
II is not mysterious and the biggest
liar that ever lived Is the one who
| tries to make you believe that re-
| ligion is something mysterious.
In the name of God and in the
namo OF Jesus and in the name OF
OF the angels and Of your wife and
your mother and the redeemed be-
fore whom I may stand today and
before whom you may stand,
throw down the challenge and
say, "Come on out on Christ's side
and will to do His will the you
know how and then you will know. ="
Years ago in Chicago, a friend Of
mine studied in McCormick's semi
nary He used TO go down into the
foreign mission and help. one night
he walked north on Clark street and
he caught a north hound Callc car
on the corner OF Clark and OF Non
roe and the cable train went east
on Monroe street to Dearborn,
turned tho corner i'm front of the
First National bank and a crowd Of
young men and women got on the
cable car there They'd been down
to the old Columbia theater that
used 10 stand where the old Inter-
Ocean building does and afterwards
they'd go to old kiugley's restaurant
and try 10 figure up on their evo-
ning's outing.
Gave Seat 90 Scrubwoman.
They ran II up TO a hundred dol
lars and quit. The cable ran up to
Randolph and turned west to Ran
dalph and a couple OF women, they
were sCrubWomen, they got on the