The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17

that we wait Tor patiently. We have
no patience In that IN which We have
no faith. no one stands out In his
tory to give W. a better example than
the greatest OF all teachers and men,
Jesus the Savior Of the world. Two
great forces came face 10 face In
nls time. The spirit and the law The
jewish thcolOgians and scribcs and
phaUCsecs stood for the law. Jesus
stood Tor the law plus the spirit. The
law merely as law was to Jesus an
empty code Of words. Faithful per-
formance Of the same did not revO-
lutiouize character. or make godd
out Of bad men. knowing this fact
Jesus had not faith Tn the law OBJ
served In a psrfunctory way. Having
no faith he had no patience. so ne
uses soorchiug words to condemn IT'S
deciploa lie calls them hypocritcs
and even in sterner and more pierC-
ing donuucidtion no calls them yip-
ers and serpcnta. Having no faith IN
what they taught he had no pa
tlouco. These men who we're FUN OF
hypocrisy he had no patiesce with.
but the man who was a sinner and
recognized his domoralized coudi-
tion. having faith In the power OF
q Cd To change them. and to their
open hearts. he displayed "a patience
that had no end. He had faith in
that for which he was dcvoting his
lifo and In three years he was able
to gather about him only a handful
Of followers, yet he had a patience
that gave him endurance to the end.
There is splendid lesson here for
Christian men and women every
whore who have banded themselves
together for evangel ll2ation Of n
o. "a ff All "a
patience and when hours OF restless
dis abstraction come, look to your
faith. Patience then is an inevitable
product OF faith and faith is an un-
cscRpahlc necessity N we arc TO live
A church without faith II dead 1t
ls faith iu the future that gives us
patience To- indure. u Is lack Of
faith that causes many Sunday
school teachers 70 become disCour-
aged and count themselves a failure.
Faith produces patience and having
no faith they have no patience, Hav-
ing lHborod with q certain mischev-
ious boy for months and seeing no
progress, their patience Is exhausted
and they are ready 20 turn the job
over TO some one else. The excuse
given 10 they have no patience. The
facts are they have lost faith.
and again faith is an unacceptable
necessity because existing in a COM
pick universe, whatever we may
think about the total meaning Of
creation ia fundamentally faith.
What you believe about the origin
and destiny of life Is faith. The very
fact that you believe Il Is undisput-
able proof that there is faith. Hoegel
says the creator 10 cosmic ether.
John says that God the creator Is
love. Both are expressing faith. You
can not prove that the creator Is
Cosmic ether and yau can prove
that God IL love by logical analysis.
There are some things that surpass
logic which even logicians admit as
true. Faith sees more with her eye
than logicians can reach with their
hands Whether you think OF the
Creator as cosmlc or accept God as
love and father you must decide.
Faith In either case is an unescap.
able necessity. We might continue
TO forufy our theme. the unescap-
able necessity OF faith by many 9TH
er arguments but time does not per-
NIT.
We must have faith II we are 20
endure. The highest pennacle of sue
cess In the world can come only as
we put our faith in the highest MIN
nacle of thought that has ever found
entrance into the human soul. This
is In the God ms revealed in the per
sonality and character OF Jesus.