The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-19

~ AhoNe everything else. " Is her
task to mold and shape the greatest
human beings on earth.
" you want to find real. true great
ness, do not go to the thune. toward
the white house. toward tho halls of
learning, do not 20 to some great
factory, my friends; but go toward
the cradle
Wlrcn Jesus Christ was on earth
ana he wanted to give his disciples a
great object lesson, he called an the
little children aud placing them in
the middle OF them, he said. Unless
YOU become converted tui become
as a little child, you can in no wise
enter the kingdom of Heaven"
Jesus said, Unless yof have faith
IN Nc, such as the little child has
faith in his parents. and become con.
vertcd az little children. Nou can new
cr enter the kingdom ~ Hoavcn.'
80 there Is something tor YOU 90
learn.
u! you want your hoy TO bc sober
and TO pray and TO love God and
hate evil OH that Is better tram to
launch oatticship and wreck a
kingdom.
To lafnch a eirl that will live for
Jesus and truth and that viii hold
firm Tor God Almighty and her NIr-
verse than that
Moses was chosen vessel Of tho
Lord, So lie wanted him 90 got a
right start I'm tho world
There was a time when there wns
not man In the United states could
boat me running. n our speed was
equal could get away ahead ~ him.
] Was tho first man 20 circle a base
in seconds from a standing Start.
| do not believe anyone has over
beaten that yet.
And 80 God wanted Moses TO get
right start. | can tell what YOU are
going to be I'm the world 10y tho way
you start. There was not col ego
professor IN Egypt that God would
trust with the job so he Just put that
child back In his mothers arms and
/ ! will tell you. a mothers arms is n
safe anchorage for any boy or girl,
and am old fashioned enough 30 he
/ lieve that there is not devil strong
enough to pull boy OF girl out OF
/ the arms OF Christian mother.
Whom God sends a great man into
| the world He sees TO IL that lie gets
/ the right kind OF a mother Most
any kind ~ stick will do for q
] father, but God Almighty Is mighty
I particular And che greatest need OF
| this FOR any country Is good mothers
! believe We have more good mothers
/ in America than any land on earth,
although all OF them are not good
We have lot OF them that are
good for nothing. II George Wash
ington had mother like Happy
HooligaY he would he running
with an oyster can on his head aud
saying, 1T g.ts on mo MOVIES"
There may bo poetry In Il, but II
is true that "The hand that rocks the
cradle moves the world" And II
every cradle was rocked by good
Christian mother. tho world would
be filled with noble and good men
and women.
Mother Has biggest jobs.
a young man Joined church one
time and the preacher said, what
was it said, that led you TO do this?"
He said Nothing. 1t was my old
mothers religion"
want to tell you ono ounce OF OK
ample will outweigh an ounce of
theory and all that and II sou
mothers<liVc as you should live, We
preachers and the police would not
have so much to do as We have.
think 1t is mighty small business
being a king or a priest compared
with being a mother or the teacher
of children. These fiji places so
great that I win bet there Is not an
angel up in Heaven, who could
change places with you.
TO teach n child to love the truth
and hate lie. to love virtue and hate
vice, and to love tile truth and hate
false hood. o. that is greater than
to be able TO make flying machine
that can go to the moon and back
again.
In so doing, you start powers in
motion that will never, never end.
You help to bring the world Of har-
mony out of a chaos.
4 friend OF mine, received some
crystals tho other day from friend
a scientific American. and letter
accompanied Il saying, There is
power enough to give green hue to a
hogshead. Think OF it,"
Power enough In the boy TO grow
up to become a man that would
damn the town he lives In. is the
girl to be a curse to the world, or
a benefactor, or blessing to the
world, according TO sthe influences
that surround her when she Is
young.
You talk about greatness. You
wait until the mountains OF Ecr-
nifty are reached and you will read
the mothers names that sit in Gods
n scrub woman on earth whose
name will be in Gods hall OF fame. .
Chasing the phantoms OF pleasure
which might be molding the char
acter OF an individual that would |
he a benefactor to tho world. To
plant a thought I'm the minds Of
girl or boy and have It stay there /.
and grow, that is better than put .
ting in a big crop, my friend, or II /
is greater than to build a railroad .
or a great factory, God had a big .
place for Moses but do not forget /
that he had p bigger place for his |
mdther. and by the saving OF that /
baby she helped TO save the nation.
I think the angels must have held
their breath when they saw that 1T
tie baby taken out Of tho ark ana
put into its mothers arms,
How do you know but the anEe's
Watch YOU with as much interest
How do you know but that God Al
mighty has elected that your boy or
your girl shall become his mouth.
piece TO the generation that ~ YET
10 be borni How do you know but
that God viii send him up and down
the land preaching the truth?
| know tho work Is often discour-
..,i,r. aud ,spu have yOur trials ana