The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-18
Nathan and David
Copyright 1917, by William Ashley Sunday

tuuiiy. Yet You utrdu Z 10 Outsil" pf
thN city to find the henthcn. You
nr,dul leave the tabernacle
a hH1thru is any man that doesnt
believe lu God Ills skin doesn't need
60 bc uIuuH lle dDcau ured 10 have
a queue hanging down his back like
duosu believe ln GOD. whether from
thIuk Anybody b. hcOthcn that
doesn't Irurve in GOD. whether from
Hulut ur Africa whether his nkin
BE- white or black. Tho same old
houthru. although YOU are prcsi-
dent ~ bank. You are u hcathNi
" yDu don't believe in God, n makM
no. difference whether you live under
the Stars and stripes or iu mo
IuuglcH of Africa, II you don't be-
Lew IN God you are n hUaihru
SO guilt IL graded by light. the
more light yoa have the greater the
guilt
COmbntz Quick Temper
Now. II might be Just aH bad for
me 10 lose my temper az 10 would bo
FOR you 10 get drunk. ! was not bo.n
with an auuotite for drink, but I was
born with % disposition to iose n
little piece OF my temper once In n
while, ana gosh, / haven't gotten
over Il vet ! can cltar for action
like q hattlcship when u comes 10 a
lshowdown
So you who put your thumbs In
tho nrmhUlos of your ycst and
swolt up Ike poisoned pup, and
thank gud you are not Ike other
people, You may be wOrno In the
sight OF uod than the very one you
condemn Tor you may h0vc had a
creator chance than he had. more
| light ! sad guilt " graded b. light.
JcHus said, WOE unto thee, Both
L a a laHN 80
workH done In thee had been done
In Tyre and Sidon. they would have
ropcnted long ago IN sack cloth and
ashes. It shall 'be more tolorGhlo
| for Scdom and Gomcrrnh IN the day
| of Judgment than for you" Why
| The people that lived In Soiom and
| Bomorrah never Fnw Jesus Christ.
They never heard Him
Jesus said. "You pooplo OF Cnpcr-
noum and Bcthsaida have looked In
/ My face and heard siy voice, and
seen Me raise the dead. You have
| seen Me speak and unstop the oaru
OF tho deaf. You have heard Me-
speak and the eyes OF the blind
have boon opened. You have heard
| Me speak and devils have gone out
OF men. Elrs Tor YOU are worse sin-
ners than the people OF Sodom and
| lGomoprah. for YOU have got mora
light thnn thoy have. SO II will bo
more tolerablo for Sodom and Co
morrah than n viii be- for you"
/ WHY because they had more light
than Sudum and Gomorrah. They
ainncd against their Hight. You arr
SHINING against your light, You have
got moro light than the people OF
| Tyre and Sidon. You have got more
! light than the pc pie OF Capernaum
SO the people of this city are worao
sinners than they were In the days
| OF Jesus Christ, Tor you have rot
more llght. There you stand con-
dcmned before God
Here ia one OF tho sweetest pic.
tures OF the love OF God TO man that
has gone astray that can fnd, 40
bring II to you for my text. II you
would ask me how best 10 overcom'
Temptation, and I could only answer
In a sentence. | would say, "kceI
busy for God. Satan finds some mis-
chief still for idle hands TO do, 0n'
an idle man tompts the devil
| Tgtourd on the arm OF "A Frenci
convict were tho words Il never die
n daya work In my NE"
The fellow that stands around viii
his hands In his brccChes pocket ~
to his elbows II won't he long unit
ho tries to got into the other follows
pockcta Idleness Is the foe ~ youth
II IN the curse Of ntanlti0l !. on
mo trade" Ia tho passport, and tn,
password by which 80 per cent o
our criminals enter the rc'nrr1torie'
and the penitcntinries OF the land,
Street oafers grow M to be gun
men, with no object ana aim In liro
oh, an Idle brain f. the dcyil's work
shop. Keep busy for God, ms
4 friends and then y Il viii never lane
IN perdition.
David was living in the midst o'
ease and luxury. and do you know II
one Illtle coruer or mis- kingdom In
had n lttlc caqc OF characterization
an lncipient sort OF rebellion, anc
instead of going down thcrc 20 pu
down the insurrection he delegated
that to Joah. David stayed nj hom'
and he was talking Of walking on tn
housetops In the cool OF the evening
ThsV built tho houses close togethe
In those days and they didn't hnv
ground spread out ait over creation
and they did not build the roof Il
Gothic. hut flat like we do TIN ROOT
and 80 they used TO walk on the root
That's whore they got the roof gar
den Idea. And we Gid the dome o
our temples. The first dome that wa
gllded with gold was Solomon's tenn
| pie. There IN whore we got the ldet
! We think we are great. old Sole
. mon did that way back yonder. see
} SO David was walking on IN
! housetops In the cool OF the evenln
, and no saw woman famed for he
| symmetry of form and beauty {
| face, Bathsheba. And there came
$ David a shot OF sin.
, Thought Comes First.
r No man or woman ever SHINE
4 that didn't first think the sin. n
, man ever reached out his hand
\ steal thar the thief IN him didn
, steal first. No man ever used h
4 lips to lie that he didnt lie In h
, mind and his heart first. No ma
, ever reached forth his hand to she
the blood OF his fellow-man that !
didn't shed the blood In hts though
, first. because he that is angry Is
murderer No man ever stopped
, commit sin OF any kind that didn
: first commit the sin In his heart,
Let the wicked forsnke his wa
u and the unrightcous man h
u thoughts and let him return unt
. the Lord and lie VIII have more
upon him."
}. You say. els man responsible (,
= his slthouEhtsT
u He certainly is Why. you say.
!, dear. good man like Dr. Talmndl