The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-19
And He Said, Tomorrow
Copyright 1917. by william Ashley SUNDAY.

tination.
Years ago a ship was wrecked.
The captain and his wife became
stranded on an island. They fired
me lifeline and then attached to
that a larger rope, which the cap
tam fastened under the arms OF his
wife.
lie said: Now" and she hesitot.
ed, clung to her husband, but the
reccding wave caught her and hurled
her back. They pulled the rope taut
and then fired the lifeline. She was
cast into the sea. The captain, with
| the aid OF those on shore, found
the dead body OF his wife lying upon
| the beach. She had hesitated and
the undertow caught her and hurled
her back.
1t is flood tide now,--God helps
you to leap out in faith to Jesus
Christ and do His will, do 1t for the
sake OF His influence.
In no time or place have ever
preached whore men and women
seemed more hungry for the gospel
OF Jesus Christ and bent their ear
more to hear 1t than here. And to-
| night finds you still beyond the pale
or Gods mcrcies. Not only you, but
others. Maybe some act OF your
own could have saved all Of YOU
In a western city a crowd stood
In front of a bird store. There
upon perch, sat an eagle. Around
his neck was n string. on a round
piece OF cardboard was For Sale
S2,50." His feathers were ruffled
eyes heavy, and around his leg was
a clamp and fastened to that, IA
chain.
A fellow walked In and said:
How much for that eaglo2"
Two dollars and fifty cents"
Here's your money"
He took the eagle and took the
clamp from his leg and carried 1t
across the street and put the eagle
on top of the billbord. The old
eagle Strengthened up. He throw
out his feathers. He shot out one
| wing as IL he were going to fly ;hcn
spread the other He started 20 fly.
He scared higher and higher till he
mounted above the buildings, then
he shot OF toward his mountain
| home. They watched him until ne
disappeared.
Confession Frees.
They asked him: why did you
buy that bird and let him go?"
He came from the section OF the
country that / did" he said. MANY
n time I've watched That old fellow
swoop down and take a lamb from
my flock. The best I could do was
to knock feathers from him. But
although we were enemies, / couldn't
bear TO see him chained. when | had
seen him beating the air with his
wings in freedom"
When you have taken your stand
then you viii all be free instead Of
sitting there enslaved and brutalizcd
by sin with bands stronger than steel
and more enduring. For the sake
of your influence you should all
take your stand for Jesus Christ,
and there are not ten men here to.
night who think that If they had
done their duty they wouldn't have
been in the kingdom of God long,
long ago.
Delays are dangerous. When>y
delay your heart grows hard. and
when you drive the spirit away and
1t leaves, you, you become indiffer-
ent.
You say you are not afraid TO die.
Great God, that's no Indication that
you're fit to die! Many a man who
cares nothing for God has said that
in a spirit of bravado.
When ! lived IN Chicago. a wom-
an took morphine, intending to kill
herself, They rubbed snow on her
face and bare arms and breast and
led her out into one of the parks.
They cut n hole in the ice and made
her stand in the water. She moaned
and said: "Oh, please. please. let
me lie down for Just five minutes.
then I'll be all right"
They knew five minutes meant
eternity for her, and I believe the
devil is using all his influence today
/ n =.
YOU may have TO be n Christian. !
have every hope you will all yield TO
| jesus Christ and become saved.
| When they led Sir Walter Raleigh
out to execute him, friend said to
| him: How lieth the head? %
ut matters little how lieth the
| head" he said, $50 long as the heart
condemneth not"
So ii matters little whether you
know much about the plan of sal
walton. so long as your heart is full
/ of faith in Jesus Christ. Don't stag
ger away because you can't compre-
hend It In fun.
Years and years ago when they
executed Gibbs the pirate, In Bos-
ton, he made statement similar 70
/ this. He said: when the subject
was first preached to me to become
a pirate. | shrank in horror from
taking life and property. The more
they pictured Of how In Il few years
at most we could became fabulously
rich and spend our lives in ease, the
more | was disincnned to be n pi-
rate. / will never forget when my
prejudice was broken down and
yielded and we raised the black, flag
II will never forget when we went
over the side Of the first ship. We
| had to take life TO get tho property
For days and nights couldn't sleep
! thinking of the deaths and the
| blood.
I but driven nv avnrice and greed
and by continual indulgencc, my
heart grew hard, until we could run
along the side Of n shin and / could
take a child and beat his brains out
over the side of the ship and hurl
/ the body into the sea.
II grew go hard that I could seize
I a woman by the throat and waist
and hit her up and plunge her head
long into the sea and stand and
watch the sharks as they would
1 fight for the dainty morsel, and Ia
I laugh at her screams.
Il Crow so hard, sir, could take
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