The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

yinced powerful and scholarly pa
lgans, yet In a way that, while sill
enclng their doubts about Jehovah.
/ did not reach their souls and pene-
trate the venee. Of pagan philosophy
land tradition. Felix was almost
|persuadcd TO be Christian. yet was
not quite. Nebuchadnezzar was
moved to shortly God when his vision
Twas revealed TO him by Daniel. Yet
we will notice that he did not glorify
God as the only and supreme deity
/ for man to worship, but as a greater
god than any gods he had heretofore
known. lie pronounced him the goo
OF gods and lord OF kings. yet ne
Ibid not say that he believed all other
gods ia be Cnunterfeits For. soon
latter this episode, the king made "A
golden image OF himeclf ana re-
luuired all his subjects to worship H.
We have plenty of men today VINO
acknowledge that's God is supreme
and has right to claim their dis
Icriminayng worship and their best
service. yet make no effort to put
their belief into practice. They stlll
worship the golden image OF their
own qualification and of the power
Of wealth and worldly, ambition.
yhey are still building Kingdoms OF
iron and clay and forget that Goa :
kingdom Is entitled to their all as
most reasonable service. II Is one
thing TO be convinced. another 10
surrender.
Adapt Teaching To Pupils.
The wisdom OF Babylon, when con-
fronted with the kings threat OF
lgnominious death IL they failed 70
meet his demands, very truly said
There is not a man upon the eartn
THAT can shew the kings matter.
And Daniel answered. But there is
a God in heaven that revealeth sec
rNs." and added that for the sake or
saving these magicians from the an =
ger Of the king theJ Lord had made
him the revealer of the dream. we
OF today do not Use the same meth
ods OF witnessing to the goodness and
the power of God as did Daniel and
Ahis Compatriots, but we do not live
in an age of lions dens and fiery
furnaces, an age dimly lighted by
dreams and omens. God was dealing
with the capacities of that age and
using his followers in "A way that
was suited to their understanding
and modes of thought lie Is not
confined to any one fixed pathway OF
approach to men. He has as many
teaching his will as there are va
rieties of people and ages to be
Ntaught. The tendency of modern ed
ucation is to shape the instruction
for everyone in the same mould
which is bound TO be n misfit. Pauls s
idea was better when he said he
; would he "all things TO all men,. As
we study the primitive methods OF
revealing deity adapted 10 Daniefs
day we ourselves may come 10 un-
derstand God better as the God OF all
nations and of all times. Gods rev.
elation of himself and OF his works
and plans to man WAS the most nec-
essary, as we'll as the most blessed
gift bestowed upon human creatures
NehuchadneZzar's dream taught tha'
J monarch and us that the best efforts
of man are short lived and subject
to decay: that only the kingdom ol
God will endure forever.
J Nations In Divine Scheme
God has always had spiritua
kingdom i'm the world. The physica
universe has been under his undis
lputed sway; he has made us OF tho
lpowers of nature and the course o
history for the widening OF thai
. kingdom. Even Cyrus, a heather
= king. was used unconsCiously to carry
QUE his purposes. His outward or
Iganizatlon, the people of Israel, wal
i always exceedingly small when con
-, trasted with the great world powers
Assyria, Babylon, Egypt. Persia
=. Rome. But II was the great spirit
: ual force holding to the personalit,
! of God, his ~neftess. his holiness hi
! spirituality. and insisting on man.
"a immortality. In Daniel 2 we hav'
= not the dreaming of a magician. tn
: hope OF devout men, or the fore
q sightedness of n statesman, but
prophetic vision and announcement
of the enlargement OF Gods work
n People are naturally religious, the,
!, must worship some unseen power
4 The worship OF Jehovah with hi
: lofty character uplifts; the Alteration
: lof demons, snakes and lizards pull
y down. Jesus with his sinless nature
= his lofty character. his highly ethica
u system, his words of forgiveness, hi
: interest in life. his hopes for the fu
a ture, canpot be classed with the re
ligious leaders of heather lands. H
x takes with him education, healin
;, ministries and the spirit OF broth
. er hood. God may work great spirit
:, ual Transformation in the years t
. come.
Lack OF National Cohesion.
II Is not very profitable TO specu
a late on the precise meaning of tn
), details of NebuchadnezZar's dream
y except that II shows us how tenn
" poral are the plans of man as con
. trasted with the permanenCe of God
plans. II is generally conceded tha
% the image Represented the succeed
:, ing Kingdoms OF history which hav
u already passed into fulfillment. Blu
70 II Is we'll II we linger on the toes o
y iron and clay, which would not co
e here. All OF mans plans for alter
. ing or improving on the plans o
:, deity have resulted In ultimate fail
" ure. We call America the "meltin
!, pot" but how shall we be assured o
~ the proper degree and permanenc
u of the fusion? A writer recently de
e clared, according TO the Christia
- Union Herald, that out OF 100000,
y 600 persons in America, only ~ pc
o. cent are church members of an
=, kndv Romanist, Protestant or He
. brew or present-day youth In tn
= United States 90 per cent have NO
. an atom OF religious education; an
D. only p per, cent OF all children at
tend Sunday school About So pc
II cent of all inhabitants in Americ
~ today are Of no church and pay n
regard to any religion. Ralph Con
!, nor says: Religion is the cure 70
u this nation. Believe me, Americ
II will never he right so long as II
"a irtellgious. do not care how wealth
~ eba q ham many npiparSitiaa sl