The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-29

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Progress to flee from the wicked
city, stopping UP his ears lest he
should hear the cries OF those whom
he loft to be DESTROYED.
No, all this is contrary to the
spirit OF true religion. We are to
love U neighbors as ourselves. Be
ginning with the family MS the cen
ter, that love spreads out until 10
takes In the community. the nation
and finally all humanity within the
scope Of its circumference. And
love means service. 80 long as we
love, we serve" says Stevenson. $50
long as we are loved by others. |
would almost say that we are in
dlspensable. and no man Is useless
while he has n friend"
Must Work While We Pray.
II was not. therefore. the world
OF human relationships. the world
OF humanity that st. John meant
when he said, Love not the world"
Nor was It finally the world Of bust
ncss. ones profession or occupation.
There have been those who thought
hat work vas ~dcmeaning, that bust
ness was antagonistic 10 religion.
But let II be remembered that God
was never glorified by idlencss, that
TO work Is To pray. Every uCcupa-
ton, II II contributes to humunity's
progress. is Il divine calling. We
must extend that sense Of vocation
beyond the ministry to other profess
sions. The doctor should see his
profession in the light Of service to
humanity, how much suffering he
can alleviate. II he works Just TO
accumulate fees and to extort money
without thought Of service rendered.
he IL n quack. The lawyer likewise
should look upon his profession as
the means of serving his fellowmen,
To uphold the laws OF government
which bind our social fabric to-
gether. II he works only to get
around the law, to bring In TO him
self great retainer's fees though jus
ticc and equity fail to the ground.
then he is n crook. And so we
might go on to show how every pro-
fession from the highest to the
humblest is "A divine calling II
viewed in the light of serving hui
mainly rather than self. Through
Il, n may serve the Lord.
We have seen that the world
which the Apostle John warns us
against, is not the world OF nature.
nor the world Of humanity, nor the
world of life's business. What Is
Is then? The apostle. himself, goes
on to explain the forbidden world,
The lust Of the flesh and the lust
OF the eye and the pride OF life"
The lust OF the flesh"-the de-
sire to please the physical senses.
sense pleasures, the qualification OF
bodily passions-thls is not OF the
Father but Is OF the world" Now.
tho desires OF the body in them
selves are not evil. Those forms
Of religion like gnosticism and as
ceticism which condemned the body
of itself az evil are not Christian but
pagan in their outlook. Christianity
eXalts the body as the temple of the
Holy Spirit. II il the misuse of the
body-the qualification OF bodily de-
sires for their own sake rather than
for the purpose God intended them
that Is sinful. that IL the lust of
the flesh, Eating when one Is hun
cry is not sinful but eating when
one does not need the food, just for
the pleasure, is gluttony and glut-
tony IS one OF the seven deadly sins.
THE lust of the eye"-that Is, at
tachment to the material world. II
is right to appreciate the things OF
the world but II Is never right TO
make things our god-whether
money oT rare jewels Ut NH'
beauties OF the world. When a man
puts out God and supplies some
thing material in His place-that Is
the lust of the eye.
You remember the wonderful
painting by Leonardo da Nlncl rep
r~esenting the Last supper OF our
Lord with His disciples. 1t is paint
cd on the walls of the cathedral OF
Milan. II Is told that when Da
Ninci had first completed this pic
ture he was showing it TO n group
OF his friends. one OF them con
graduated him upon the beauty and
the vlvidness OF certain golden gobt
let's hat lay there on the table In
front OF the master. At once Da
Vinci stepped up to the picture and
| with a few def strokes brushed out
those golden goblets which drew the
attention from the face OF the Mas
ter. SO. IL the things OF this world,
even the beautiful things. come be-
tween us and God, Il they put God
in the background. we must brush
them all aside and give ourselves
wholly TO Him.
The Lure of the Unreal.
(4) The Pride OF Life-"The
pomps and vanitles Of this wicked
WORLD Inc circumstance ana llAle
which worldliness offers In place
Of real worth. II Is the world of
the unreal, the tinsel and show, the
shams and baublos with which men
play in life.
Do you remember the poem that
was such a favorite with Abraham
Lincoln?
30, why should the spirit Of NOR
tai be proud?
Like a swift fleeing meteor, n
fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break OF
the wave,
Man passes from life TO his rest in
the grave
These three then-'the lust of
the flesh''-the qualification Of tho
physical senses; the lust OF the
eye"-the attachment to material
things: THE pride OF life"-the
seeking after the superficial
these constitute the world which
st. John tells us not TO love.
Misplacing Our Affections.
We pass now to the eason why
we are not to love this forbidden
world.
% And the first reason Is this
to love such n world excludes our
loving God. IF any man love the
world the apostle says. the love