The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-02
TIE 10Y OF LIVING.

No human being can st ~ tho bedside Of
Envy, Suspicion. Intolerance or Prejudice and
nurture these iniqulties Of nature without losing
tho great Joy OF living. without contributing
nightly TO the woes OF human relations and
human existence.
Only he who In somo manner dispsls the
clouds OF dependency and discourasement
from tho valleys Of life by an exhibition of
charity and genuine friendship. or Eilds the
dark.ning shadows OF the setting sun. may
truly claim to have worked with God.
only he who waves tho magic wand OF true
Christian charity over the miasmas OF intoler-
once and suspicion thus aliayins their con-
sumlng fevors Of hate can say he has proven
himself friend OF man. Mankind touches
shoulders with no greater enemy on tho path
way OF He which leads from the cradle to the
grave than he who appeals to the qualities OF
human nature enumerated In the first para
graph; qualities which lie dormant until
touched into life then they become consuming
flames capable OF dividing brothers. friends
and partners.
War Is state OF mind, no is peace. Friend
,hip Is a state OF mind; likewise hostility
Charity is a state OF mind: and 30 is Intolerance
and persecution. Which In to say that we all
first must bflUE 10 tue hCeHe W. lHhhp'' "'''''
with harmony or dlscord those precise condi-
Hons which We find and which we either COM
PLAIN Of or rejoice In procaming'
Ilfe's menaces and woes are almost alto
cether imaginary; not / In 30 is real 1t is as
easy to in our neighbor friend ana
good citizen as It is to discover an enemy and
a bad citizen There is an old axiom which
has Il that he who would have friends must
Ia. tVtn ha N
that. Friendship is an alchemy OF sottening
the hardest lines of hate between man ana
man. IT breaks down tho barriers OF mistrust
aud suspicion. fills the moats OF prejudice and
bridges the chasms OF intolerance with gossnmcr
cables Of love and faith
The material. physical conditions OF this
world; the relations OF you to your fellow men,
are precisely what you make them In tho re-
Elections OF your own innermost mind Ana
your attitude to your creator and the spiritual
affairs OF this life and the hereafter is deter
mined with metlculous cxactness by your mental
processes.
II Won see a danger In the attitude or the
action OF others. you see it because these duhh-
ties dominate your own mental processes ~
is the quality OF the eye that makes the colorS
of the rainbow. EVIL cannot exist save as you
yourself think II ana MAKE III nor V'h """'"
relations be seriously disturbed save as you
yourself contribute some OF the bascr qualities
Of human nature and set htoot the enmltier
and iniustlccs which constitute tho qualities OF
hell on earth
II was not by accident that the Naznrene
placed charity above all the other qualities OF q
Christian life, not that he enunciated the Colder
Rule and constantly advocated the return OF
good for evil The greatest philosopher of al
time as we'll as the greatest metaphyslchn' h'
knew that the heart and the soul and the mind
Of man must fret bring the qualities they dis
cover. he knew that as n man thinketh within
his heart so Is he.
No man or woman realize the full Joy o.
living until he or she stands Rt the tomb %
Envy, Suspicion, Intolerance and Prejudice, aut
plants there the enduring evergreen OF true
Christian charity.