The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-23


to say about u that settles the quos-
ton and settles ~ right. but how
reads tho Word What does the
Bible say about ~ And what we
need 10 do iH to tako tho Bible na
II reads not as some big man says
IL urauH ZIG men have been mis-
taken about vital things Just aH often
Hg little ones The safest pilot iH
not the one who wears the biggest
hat. but tho one who knows the
channel the best We should let the
liibl" speak To us just as God means
" should, without distortlng It BY
the uroiudlcos and yHgarios ~ those
who arc always frying to pat their
own camel into n aud strain out
sOmcbOdyH clHo's guHt
n iH high time for ChriHiinua 90
interpret unfulrllcd prophecies By
The Hight Of prophecies already full
filled. The curses on the Jews were
brought To pass literally, so also
viii hc the blessings. The scatter.
Ing was literal. 80 also viii he the
gathering The pulling down Of
Zion was literal $50 also must hp the
building up Tho rejection Of Israel
was literal. aud so also must ho the
restoration. Tire FIRST coming Of
christ was literal. Visible and per
soual and what right has any body
To conclude that His second coming
VIII Doc altogether spiritual ~ his
first advent was with % real body.
why not th" Same with Ills second
coming
when Jesus first came. the small
est predictions were fulfilled to the
very letter. and should this not
teach us 10 expect that the same
viii be true when tIn COMES again
There are very many more prOpho-
ties concerning His second coming
than Tile first and docs this mean
that God wants to give ua the most
favorable opuortuuity DoHsIblr to
prepare tur it2 II tho humility
ana shame OF Christ at MS first
coming was literal and yIsihlc
should NOT tits coming power and
glory bc also literal aud visible
what right have We to ay that
/ the words Judah. Zion. Israel aud
Jerusalem over moan anything but
/ literal Judah, Zion. ! Israel and
/ Jcrusnlem7 Some one has called
attention To the fact that there are
/ only two or three places In the whole
| New Testament where such names
are used iu what may bo called a
/ spiritual or uhuratiyr way. Irrusa
lem occurs eighty times. and in
every cosC is unduesiionahly literal,
except when the opposite ls clearly
indicated by such qualifying terms
as heavenly" new or holy"
jew occurs q hundred tunes. and
only four az" even ambiguous.
+ Israel and lHracliir occur forty
/ times. and an literal Judah and
. Judca about twenty times, and lit
/ orHl In every case.
John Bunyan was once studying
| tho passages forotelling that tho
. q = Al 1 4
Mount OF olives, and he thus rea-
soned Some commentators say
that the Mount ~ olives means the
heart Of the believer. that II Is only
fiEurativo expression, and means
that the Lord viii reign in the heart
Of tho believer. and the Holy Spirit
win dwell there. But I don't think
IT means that at all. I lust think
II means tho Mount of olives. two
miles from Jerusalem. 'on the east. "
NAnd that is why the Lord could use
the poor tinker 80 marvclously, even
when ne was shut up in Bedford
jail.
Souls Must Bc Saved First.
While face to face with them
Jesus taught his disciples to bc IL
constant expectation OF his early re.
turn. and they so Understood hin
and lived accordingly They preached
the doctrine and taught II In theii
cpistles, every one Of them. Ger
tainly II anybody ever understood
the Lord correctly, Il was the men
whom He personally trained to do
that very thing. that they might
hand the truth lie gave them down
to us. II they failed to understand
Him what hope is there that any.
body else may do 500
Jesus IN going 10 come and rCNcp
Himself tot the members Of His body
F at the very moment when the last
soul Is saved necessary To- complete
that bodv--for the body OF Christ
must consist of a certain number ol
souls. or it never could bc completed
II IT we're an infinite number II
would be an endless task, and Jesus
would never return. Tor lie can ne
more come without His heavenly
body than Hc could come the first
time without a human body it Is
tho completion OF the body ~ Christ
therefore, that will bring Him. and
this shows how We may help and
hasten His coming Looking fOI
and hesting unto thc coming of tho
day ot God wherein the heavcuA he
ing ON rrc shall be dissolved and tn
elements shall melt with fervcn
heat I'll. pctor S.l2).
Every time We do personal worl
or try TO set anybody saved, We ma,
he doing something that viii hrin,
the coming ~ the Lord Instead @
being discouraged by looking ahou
us and seeing what "A small prospeC
. there Is OF the whole world beinl
. converted, Il will set our bones OF
/ fire to think that perhaps the Las
, man needed 20 complete the LORD
body and bring Jesus back To cart
{ may be converted this very day. Tha
- giyos us something definite an
! tangible TO work for, and hope roi
, don't you sce7
q Colonel CLARK, tho founder ot TIA
- Pacific Garden mission In Chicag,
- put In six nights out OF every scvc
- az the mission as long as he livcC
II one day somebody said 10 him:
Y colonel why don't YOU take som
rcstH You are killing yourself b
sticking To that mission so clos'
Why don't yea take vacation an
e go away somewhere ana rcst'"
3 II cant do IL, brother" answcre
(. tho colonel II oould never do tina
FOR every timo / start for tho mis,io
?. I think, maybe that last man ana
IA hc saved I'm our little meeting tuulgr
D and the Lord Win come. and T wour
x not miss being present az my Pc,
Al for anything iu the world. Whe