The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-26
CROWNS FOR THE FAITHFUL
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Pastor First Baptist church.
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Pastor First Baptist church.
Re thou faithful unto death
and I will give thee n crown OF
ufe.-Rev. 2:iO.
There are some big words in hu.
man speech, but none greater thar
word faithful. We Americaps dea
in superlatives. We hitch a string
of blazing adjectives to n dog-cart
of thonght-poor adjectives, how
We work them, IL they had tongues
how many times would they cry for
puv. The simple words and modest
deeds arc the mightiest. We are
.,ore or less hero worshipers.
We cxait few brilliant men and
ronsign to obllvious realms the
,aithful ones.
You can memorizc all the great
names in history in an hour. count
the great gcnerals on your fingers,
reckon up the great orators the Same
by throwing in n few toes and 40 on
through all the high professions.
What is there for ordinary man.
made out of conunon clay. unnum-
bered and nameless millions? In
Gods economy "a possible crown for
every man.
Common Things Prcdominatc.
Lincoln Is credited with saying
"God must have flowed the common
people because lie made so many of
them" Doubtless lincoln is right,
but there is another fact, the world
. needs most the humble. faithful
goul. God in nature, is at his best IN
the plains, not in the mountains.
The mountains awe us, but the
plains feed us. they answer the
hungry cry of the world for bread
not with cold stones shrouded IN
blue-mist heights but with waving
tons of golden bread bowling for
the sacrifice. And the worlds work
Is done and humanity's victories
won, not by a few dazzling sons of
genius, but by the faithful army of
privates In the ranks, and Sod will
crown faithfulness wherever found.
Faithfulness is a noble trait of
character. 1t means fidelity to
trust, continuance in doing well our
part, not against It. May be hum
BILE place, in its favor.
Fafthfulness is the high test OF
character laid down by Jesus Christ |
basis for the reward of the five |
talented man; basis of reward for |
two-talented man. test by which |
ne-talented man failed and fell in |
TO the outer darkness. God does |
not measure by what we have not,
nuts Dy the uSe VI Wlldl we nave. |
Faithfulness is a coin that always
passes at par in tho realm of the
kingdom of heaven. 1t IL made
up of faith. conscience and well.
Three mighty steel columns in the
temple OF character. We are not TO
live under the spell of transient
emotions, or passing impulses. The
world needs men full of faith, men
in whom conscience is fully alive and
obeyed, and men whose wills are
fully set to do the work of God.
wear a crown. Some talk about
duty being cold-blooded. It is a
SANDER. duty is full of red-blood
corpuscles. Duty-doing is man at
his best and highest. BE thou
faithful unto death and l will give
thee crown of life" :
.F'aithfulness is the most necessary A.,
trait OF character.
Heroic Opportunities.
Arnold Won Winkolreid gathered
the Au.ytrian spears into his bosom
and cried make way for liberty"
and died. Horatius at tho bridge J
saved RoIne at cost of his life.
Washington crossing the Delaware !
in frail bark a.midst the floating ice
is heroic pioture, but you will /!
never have a chance to house Aus
trian spears in yoUr own Aeart, or
TO save Rome by tue sacrifice of
YOUR own life, or lead through per- J
lious place an army on revolution.
Such opportunities are rare, but the n
field of faithfulness is everywhere. /,
the occasion every waking hour; the
for every living soGL il =
is none the less heroic because COM ,,
mon. 1t takes more courage to do y
your duty within the secret shadows
than in the spotlight of popular at =
tention and approval. "Your Father :,
which seeth in secret shall reward
you openly"
a young lady came to her pastor
and said, II want. you to give me
special to do for the
Lord, you know ] have not done
anything for him for n long time"
What have you been doing?" asked
he pastor. She replied, my mother
has been sick and bedfast for sew
sral years, and / have been nursing
her, and then the other children
we're small and | had to be
mother to them, so have been shut
up at home and have not had an
opportunity to do anything for my
savior" MY dear young sister" said
he pastor. "If that is not serving
he Lord 1 know not what is" My
friends, so many of us make the
mistake that we cannot shine for
Iesus unless we be stars of first 4,
magnitude. God is not making :,
many stars, He does not tell us to IL
% great lights, but he says. Let n
our light---the light you have--so Il
ihine before men that they seeing II
'our good works may glorify your n
Father in heaven" Think not the
ipirit of chivalry is dead. Many n n
poor man going forth without COM p
,laint TO his daily task, supporting IL
~ hard earth-toil a helpless family a
'r mother is as brave and noble as II
my knight-errant of old in tourna- -
nent of Richard. the Lion hearted
'plintering his lance for the favor
II his lady, or marching under the
,anner of Tancred or Godfrey for
he recovery of the holy sephulcher.
Fidelity i'm Small Things.
Let US remember that our lives
viii be lived on the ordinary levels,
md IL we fail here, we fail alto
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