The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-07

hands are horribly lmpotent ana
withered when it Genes to dainty deeds
OF service, when it comes to giving
cup of cold water in the Masters
name. Isn't it passing strange how
strong our hands are in materially
matters now withered when it comes
to finer spiritual things? There are
voices that are loud and insistent in
the home, in business, in argu-
ment and in a thousand things,
but are strangely silent when 1t comes
TO speaking out good word for
Christ and His Church. Our voices
have been powerful all the day long
In talking to our neighbors and busi-
ness associates about a thousand and
one things but strangely dead in
speaking for Christ and His Kingdom
Oh, what a revival we need for spirl-
tual voices, voices that have endless
clatter in the worlds trade but thai
die down 10 shadowy whisperings in
speaking for our king.
Tie Wi;;ered Purse
There are withered purses. Your
purse has been opened to all your
business interests. You have watched
with eagle eye for every opportunity,
as Igo, to put money into your
purse but often times these same
purses have become strangely wither-
ed when it comes to making larger
/ inves ments that always declare eter-
nal dividends.
There are withered faculties Of
sleep. We are never behind at the
place OF business. The door is IN
locked on time. But often we are
possessed of sleep on Sunday morn
| ing, lacking utterly the power to
awake. We are wthered into aoiri-
tua sleep. We argue with ourselves
| that we have worked hard all the
week for the world and for the things
OF The world, and then quietly look
/ the Master in the face and say: mo,
we cannot watch with Thee one hour.
( We have become withere1 sleepers of
/ death. And with many this physical
sleep has continued so long that the
soul too, is sleeping he heavy, sonor-
Gus sleep OF the intoxicated.
| Hope may become withered. The
man who sees the unfinished garden.
4 the roses that are yet to bloom and
all the things that hope dreams about
may see 1t all fade, droop and die
and he himself become hopeless. Love
may become withered until there is
no strength left. Some times this
happens at the very core of life and
love withers and dies away, leaving
nothing but the gray ashes of waste
and baroness.
The Withered Conscience
"The conscience may become with
cred. Things you once did brought
pain to your conscience. You can now
do them without the loss OF sleep. You
l;ave become, color blind to righ!
and wrong. Conscience has become
withered. Gods alarm clock arouses
yourself that your early notions Of
right and wrong were old fashioned
and narrow, and that you are broad
er but it is the broadness Of the with
cred conscience. Moral unsoundness
corrupts the pillars of life and be-
comes an unspeakable peril, indi-
eating tha- the man is dead.
"Then again we may have a with
cred will. The most superb thing in
the universe is the human will. The
eternal God, Himself does not invade
this sanctuary. All barriers give way
before the imperial II will" II will"
is the most daring as well as the most
wonderful thing Of which a human
soul is capable. But the will may be-
come enfeebled. Everything becomes
languil, sickly and pale. You resolve
but your resolutions vanish into
thin air. You say you will, but You
don't. Oh, heart, heart, your will is
withered. On, the thousands of men
and women with withercd Wills.
What Is to BE Done
What is to be done about all these
wiulered faculties? We must bring
them and sun them in the light that
comes from Calvary. He orders ust to