The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17
THE SUNDAY SERMON
UNESCAPABLE NECESSITIES
tcv william II. Murphy pastor Of socon
Church OF Tulsa.

\ customers and rob his ncighbors. 10
Wlfnts were automobiles every beg
/ gar In Tulsa could take a trip upon
| our bouleyardB and spend his time
| Joy riding.
a wrile life consists in dreaming
and not making dreams your mas
I ter, In thinking ana not making
| thoughts your aim. AZ lie ~, g. con-
/ sists not only In thought but In ac-
| ton and progress depends largely
/ upon the action. Faith is the actual
| izinR or dreams Faith is stepping
[ into the uukuowu with assurance or
things hoped for Faith is the Wlli.
iuRncss to hopefully adventure into
| the future. Faith Is au unacceptable
necessity by faith Abraham when
called Of God went out TO inherit the
land that God had promised, not
knowing where DE was PUlug by
faith he entered tho land that he
was TO inherit with Isaac and Jacob
and by faith Moses led the chill
drcn ont of Egypt across the RED
. Ho1 out into the desert by faith hs
dwolt iu the wilderness for many
years HIS life was endangered he
received the sooru and rebuff Of
his followers They cried M him,
| "Nhy ala you tako us out here to
die Far better ~ have remained
slaves in bondage under tho yoke OF
Egypt but by faith he kept his
eyes upon a land lying 10 the north
aud by faith he jourucyed northward
ever northwnrd,
By faith all great achievements OF
llfc have boon made. by faith Perry
set out TO reach tho North Pole BY
faith he liyod for months iu this
frozen paradise of weird and fam
I ~ leo
achieved. Ey faith Hartman, the
great empire builder" laid miles
and miles ot steel across the wcst
ana northwest. and today this spider
web covers tho utmost corners Of
this great republic. Faith 20 acty-
alizo air castles and dreams has been
tht driving power. Faith is an uncs-
capable necessity for life is not
thought only but action.
2. Faith Is an unacceptable no
cessity because n primo requisite OF
life is courage and the sustinancc Of
courage is faith. when a man loses
heart he loses everything Those OF
us who heard Newell Dwight Hills
speak In this city some time ago
VIII remember that he gave reasons
for the ruthless murder OF women
and children by the Germans Back
Of these hellish atrocities lies fact
fundamentally fixed tn human ma
ture. In tho German handbook for
soldiers ~ a paragraph which I'm
thought Is as follows. II H. the su-
nreme duty OF the German soldier
not only to be hoartloss in the MUIR
der OF those who bear arms among
our enemies. but TO murder and tor
ture the helpless old men, also
women and children, for by 50 doing
u A IN FgaIF
Hills then demonstrated fact that
the apparently unaccountable coll
lapse OF the Belgian army that put
forth n mirnCulouly heroic stand
against the Hun I'm 1914 was due to
the satanic murder OF little Belgium
children and women, The Belgian
soldiers broke down In spirit and
this killed his courage. what Ger
many accomplished was the destruc-
tlon Of Belrian faith. Faith sustains
courage and kill faith and courage
has nothing upon which to survive.
When news came TO that army that
their babies had been crucified. their
faith was crucified with their little
ones. The blow was too great. What
was there to live for? what was
there TO fight for? Loved ones dying
Ike cattle at tho slaughter house,
purity and motherhood cursed and
damned, the present and the future
mingled with bitter gall, all oppor-
tunity was lost, and losing faith,
courage was gone, the spirit was
broken. Faith sustains courage.
There Is a time when only men or
courage can achieve, This IS n time
when a man to live must he n man
and II n woman be not IA woman she
VIII surely perish, Fix faith firmly in
your personality.
g. Man can not live without faith
and faith f. an unacceptable ncces-
sity, because life demands not only
courage To achieve hut patience 20
wait and endure. All patience is
founded on faith, II Is the person or
principle IS which we have faith