The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-10

take the throne of your life, and
II YOU weren't ! wouldn't be preach
ing to you.
In front Of you tonight stands
the mild hammered, pure, Virtuous.
refined Doctor Jckyil nature that
wants 10 pray wants TO be chris
tan, wants TO be decent. on the
other side crouches the dwarfed,
| mean, vile, low, missnapeu Hyde,
and he asks control Neither OF
thcm can take control until you
say which. You can say who VIII
win. heaven or he'll You can say
whether he'll will weep tonight, or
heaven will weep, cr whether
heaven will smile or he'll will smile.
You can Gay whether your namo
will he written on tho LAMBS BOOK
Of Life or whether II viii not. Your
win Is supremc--that Is the pivot
Of your destiny It's up TO you 10
say whether It's Hyde or Jokyll
who wiuE--its Up to you. God has
decro,d tho freedom OF your will.
Tho drug, az told you, IN Stcv-
euson's story had no discriminat-
| ing power OF actiOn. 70 was the
VIII OF tho fellow who took the
drug that decided whether II would
| he Hyde or Jekyll Don't forget
] that part And you've got the
| Same position today---nuw. There
| are men today who try to avoid
| this truth and they try and blame
/ II on others or other things Please
| don't do H. You arc at fault.
You remember when Moses was up
/ on the Mount and Aaron, his
/ brother. whose chief lack seems to
| have been backbone, permitted and
| helped the wavering children OF
| Israel TO make out Of ;heir rings
! and trinkets and anklcts and brace
| let's the golden calf which they
! worshlppcd, and Aaron fashioned
I that calf with engraving tools. But
/ when Moses came down from the
/ Mount, he was red-hcaded. on,
/ he hlt the ceiling, lie was indig-
nant at old Aaron, his brother for
/ following the children Of Israel in
/ stead of leading them, and Aaron.
/ like a whimpcring, silly kid who
/ has been caught In the forbidden
| Tar Of Jam and cookies. said:
/ "Now. look here, Moses, don't get
| hot under the collar. Wait q min
ute. Look here. I'm not to blame
| for that calf"
! why" he said, "the people
| brought their earrings and their
| bracelets and anklets and trinkets
and they cast them into the fire just
| like you would throw waste paper
! into "A wastepaper basket, and out
came this calf"
You see, Aaron tried to shift the
| responsibility for the idolatry OF the
/ golden calf onto the furnace, and
/ he tried to string Moses and make
| him believe that he threw the gold
| into the fire Just TO get rid of IL,
| Ike you would throw paper into the
| fire. and OF its own voliton and ini-
| tiative out walked that calf perfect
! from the tip OF his nose to the end
| Of his tail Aaron tried to put that
over on Moses.
Can't shift Blame.
You see instead OF Aaron walking
Iup and saying, Moses, I'm to
! blame" he tried to shift the respcn-
sihility Instead of saying, God,
! I'm to blame, I'm an old devil"
! you're trying to SHIFT the response
| bllity to someone else.
George Eliot, in Adam Bed"
! tells OF a Mrs. Poyser who sent
Molly, q sort of awkward, Clydosdale
| kind OF girl after a mug Of beer and
| when she returned old Mother Poy-
| ser began one of her famous tongue
| lashings at which she was a past
master. and in her humiliation and
| excitement Molly got nervous and
/ dropped the mug and II broke into
| a thousand pieces on the flagstone.
Then old Sister Poyser cut loose
/ like u battleship clearing for action,
and In her agitation she cropped a
beautiful and costly piece OF crock
cry which she held in her hand and
Il broke into thousand pieces and
Immediately she changed her tune
and put ON the soft pedal, and she
said.
We'll I swan. there do he times
when IL seems like CroCkery is be-
witchcd and II flies out Of ones
hand like a bird" and then she
ended her TRADE with one of our
comforting Presbyterian doctrines
what is to be broke viii be broke!'
Now, wait a minute! 1 am not
going TO sav one word here or any
place else TO lessen the enthusiasm
for the Improvement of the physi-
cal and the moral environment of
manhood and womanhood, | believe
In minimum scale OF wages, I be-
lieVe in mothers pensions, | believe
I'm child labor laws, | believe in and
| will endorse anything that Is GO
ing to help make II easier for men
land women, no matter what II may
'be
firmly believe that environment
has a great influence upon CharaC-
ter. I believe If society permits any
considerable portion of her people to
eight or ten people cook and eat and
sleep In one room, and where they
work ! or II or Is hours a day;
I believe il society allows deserving
manhood TO struggle along on less
than living wages and Compels him
and his family to live below the hun
ger line; If society permits the shout
ders OF widow ed motherhood to he
forced down under Industrial bond
age and throws the unripe strength
Of children into the great hopper
OF corporate greed to be ground up
into dividends. society has got to
share the responsibility if those kids
grow up to he thugs, thieves, drunk
ards and prostitutes
Here are some fellows who try to
shit their responsibilities upon their
associates. \ miscr who interprcts
all OF life In simple terms OF dollars
and cents. He will unhlushingly tell
you that he isn't 20 blame for his
'uiserliness, that when he started in
business the general policies of the
business world forced him to adopt
the principle. Every man for him
self and the devil take the hind
most" Some people viii try and lay
the responsibility FOR their Cussed