The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-10

and sac his heart beating itsolf out
against his breast. longing to be free
from the slavery NJ old Hyde, oh my.
right Against Appetite.
| think the btaVest fight, sir, that
a man ever makes ts the fight
against physical appetite. one 81
the greatest heroes IN the world. IN
my opinion. is the man who is strug
Cling against the demands OF an in
| famed appetite, = disordcred phyh-
/ cal frame where every nerve Crt"s
out for something TO drink or for
| the qualification ~ some desire. Oh,
what battlCi on, how he fights.
| on. how he struggles! oh. how ne
cuuIurcs up the fond face Of his
mother and OF his child, that FOR
( their sake he may be decent and win
out In tho world
They found over IN Egypt not long
| ago massive tomb Of a princely
young fellow who was buried alive
5000 years ago and within the dark
chambers Of that tomb he had fran
u,ally hut hoprlcssly and helplessly
fought for his NE Evidences of "A
fearful struggle. was everywhere
visible. His body was doubled and
I his fingers were clenchcd and the
wallis Of the tomb were stained with
blood. lie had battered against the
walls until his flesh fell off his
bones
have seen deeper dungeon.
have seen darker prison. | have
seen a tighter grip, the cruel grip
Of an evil habit, where mec have
struggled to be free from Il, my
friends. as hopelossly as that poor
wretch struggled to be free from
that tomb 1900 yeaTs ago, over in
Egypt
When Lincoln walked over the
battlefield OF Gettysburg after II had
/ been baptized with tho blood OF that
awful conflict. and as he gazed upon
/ the wreck and ruin wrought by the
+ war. hc said. How dreadful TO sec
the faces of the dead staring up at
MS through the grass and the flow
crs!"
/ have seen something equally II
/ not more trrible. I have seen the
/ pa,c. bleached. white. anaemic face
I Of tho living, one moment in an at
mosphere of happiness and purity
and the next moment their peace ana
| their hope gone forever as these two
natures battle and struggle. Oh.
what an awful conflict they arc put
/ ting up all over the world and you
never know what a reputation is un-
/ I'll you lose II.
When the body masters the soul,
| you've got n sinner. When the soul
master body you've got n saint Tho
soul is gift Of God. The soul can
think with God. act with God. The
soul without God is lonesome and
. tho soul wants God to come and
/ dwell within it, The soul talks with
/ God.
What the shell is 10 the nut. what
/ the skin IS TO the orange, what the
| shoe Is TO the foot what the cas-
ltct les TO the jewel your body is to
! tho soul The grandest moment in
scious Of the fact that you've got a
soul. and that two forces are con-
tending for heaven and he'll, right
| and wrong, vice and virtue.
one hundred years ago the col
I orcd peoplc trimmed the outer part
/ OF the audience and listened TO
| George whitfield. Gods great lion
/ hearted preacher OF othr decades,
as he preached Jesus Christ 10
| them, and they shouted out to him,
/ Hey. Mr. whitfield. has We got
souls, too, Ike the White folksF
and he said YES"
They leapcd up and down and
said, "Ilallelujah! Yves got souls
/ too"
Tho archaeologlsts have digged
| magnificent cities from under the
sands OF centuries and what they
| have uncovered they have been
pleased TO name buried magnih-
rencc." and I believe that there is
| in the heart of every man and won
an with whom we rub elbows on the
street, iu society, a buried mag
nificencc." Oh, / will admit II Is
buried under booze and licentious'
ness. buried under unbelief and in
tellcctual pride and physical pride
And ! will admit that there is q
| buried magnificcnce in the heart OF
every man and woman. What Is
needed TO recover il is Jesus Christ
He can bring II TO the surface
| That's what this tabernacle is for
Years and years ago minister
went to preach one night. He pre-
pared his sermon and it stormed
| and there was n small audience, lio
gave the invitation and nobody camt
to tho front but little boy about
~ years old. when he got home
he looked discouraged. and his wife
said. Whats the matter, husband
Was there ANYBODY there
Just a few
ANYBODY converted"
Nobody but little boy. That's
all"
DO you know who that little boy
| wasr Bishop simpson, one of the
greatest bishops that the Methodist
lchurch ever had except my friend
Bishop Wilson. Bishop Wilson Is
lust the same type OF man thai
Bishop Simpson was
There is a Mr.. HYDE in every mar
and woman. and this miserable ma
ture neutralizes and paralyzes auC
murders and elcctrocutcs and ter
rorizes your aspirations after good
Stevenson isn't Ia fairyland. Ole
Hyde is alive today yon bet YOU
life he isl
Dual Natures,
And there Is I'm the hearts Of mer
and women force that chains tc
the devil. You bet your ufe. There
are two natures battling and strug
Cling to win out Society Is organ
izod around the idea thar men have
tendency toward sin. That idea IA
back of every law on our crimina
books today You may not like th'
doctrine OF an original sin, but un
less you are moral idiot you can
deny the fact that there is an In
born tendency on the pHrt of mer
60 sin don't give a rap who yol
are
Hero is the proof Paul said
| What | hate, that | do. II Is NJ