The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27
TULSA DAILY WORLD. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27 1921

I when you seek f.r God, Ike tho
famishing Will seek for food, Ike
the thirsty for water. like the sick
man hunts for health. or like peo-
pie hunt for wealth and prosperity.
then you VIII find Him.
II YOU seek the Lord thy 1od.
thou shalt find Him. " thou sceH
Him with all thy heart and with all
thy soul"
So long as he looked at himself.
hls chse was absolutely hopeless.
David said, "He brought mo up
also out of an horrible pit. out ~
the niry clay. AID set my feet upon
rock and established my goings."
Thefo ig only one way to be Int
Cd out ~ sin and that's by the hand
that was nailed. 20 tho cross. Jesus.
Human hands WOULD holp you &
they coufd. Oh. N I could. "a save
, every man and woman on earth
before the sun would rise tomorrow,
Human hands would help you "
they could. II your mothers could.
u lot of YOU follows that are here
tonight sinners wouh not DO mere
sinners. YOU'D bo here Christians
\ friend can't help you or your
wife can't II her prayers could
have hclped you, you'd have been.
saved. and I believe one reason whv
I many "A man who Us sinner gots
along In this old world rs because
his wite'a or mothers prayers are
like n lightning rod above his head
and keeps the wrath OF God warded
of
No. they can't help you Che
fac, that lie took David out OF a
horrible pit. is sure proof that lie
will take us out. u the LORD
wasn't willing 20 help us. you can
bet every dollar you've got the
forty-siKth Psalm would never nave
been put In the Bible, Never
Never
Psalms Arc Experience.
Ana what God does for one, lls
stands pledged to do for all FOR tie
;,yucetcr Of possons. who
socvcr win may come"
Some people consider Psalms as
all poetry Wrong Psalms are
Christian experience. THE nor
ribio pit and the miry clay"--they
are not figures OF speech, but they
are reality In the life OF every un-
saved man or woman. No matter
where sinner goes, he travels IN
mud. and the longer he lives In siu,
the deeper he will sink In sin.
Take the girl. out merchandising
her womanhood, selling for gain
Oh, there was a time when sne lived
in a flat. There was time when
somebody. perhaps, bought hcr
clothes. grew tired. cast her off and
threw her 20 one side Now she IL
creeping away by herself; she didn't
start there.-nd no!
A fellow THAT'S In the pen 'tcntiary
didn't Jump there at once, he start
cd out and kept going deeper and
deeper ana deeper, and finally the
poor. blcar-eyed hopeless. helpless
drunkard was lying In a stale beer
Joint. 10 took him "A good many
years To get there. He didn't get
there quickly. ne kept getting deeper
and deeper In sin and making II
more improbable that he would
ever be saved. and the devil tighten
ed his grip on his throat every time
he said mo" TO an invitation 10 bo
a Christian.
You Just tie another knot In the
moose that's about your neck and
! it you decide to hold on to that rin
and indulge In It 20 hours more
God Almishiy may let you keep IT
} forever. lie may say. well my pa
thence is exhausted with you. My
= spirit won't always strive and IL
ynn have made up your mind you'd
rather do that than to be decent All
7 ignt'
II wasn't because he was the son
OF Jesus that God heard his cry. oh,
no! II wasn't because he'd taken
tho stone and hurled II and slain
Goliath. the giant OF Gath that God
heard hts prayer.
Not II wasn't because he was pa
tlent and forbearing with old Saul
out David plight have chopped hts
block off and been king n half dozen
times hut he never took, hair
from his head. That wasn't the
, reason God heard his cry. No!
II wasn't because he'd slain the
lion and the tear that came To take
the lambs from the flock, that Ged
heard his cry. No! II wasn't be-
cause he was great king that God
heard him. No, It wasn't because
he was a great general and David
never knew defeat, and the army
OF Israel which David led never
dipped their colurs to any nation
, on earth, That wasn't the reason
, God heard his prayer.
= II wasn't because he was The
, sweet singer OF Israel. Mo- II
wasn't because he was the harpist
OF old. MOI Playing for old King
! Saul In his melancholy moods, no
. Whenever the cry goes up to the
, throne OF God for heip, that aeip
: comes down to the bcggar just the
! same as to the king on the throne,
: OF the president In the white house.
a
= 40 ignorant that God Almighty Will
: not hear his cry, Just as wcH as no
y viii the most gifted being on earth,
= And God will hear the cry no mat
j. ter from whose lips It goes up. That
Is the reason God wants TO help us,
u Now some fellow said, Il wlllteN
y you Bul. ia be a Christian, / d bu
= the first fellow to so down there
g and take you by the hand, hut am
q afraid | can't live up TO IT.
II Think OF David preferring TO stay
y In the pit for fear when he got out
3 he'd fan again,
Think uf a sick man not wanting
y to get well for fear OF getting sick
d again Imagine a hungry man re-
d fusing to eat because he'd get hun
y cry again. Thing OF a thirsty mar
Ic refusing to drink because he'd gel
Is thirsty again, or a freezing man re
l. fusing to warm himself for feai
'r he'd get cold again.
p Oh listcn II you can trust God
10 20 take you out, YOU can trust God
~ TO keep you out. II God Almighty
d Is ablo to do one lie can do the
.e other and u He can take sinner
out ot sin, you can bet your bottom