The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1958 Page: 4 of 4
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May 29 1958
' the hammon advocate
by ORAL ROBERTS
YOU CAN HAVE MORE THAN “ENOUGH”
The prodigal son sat dejectedly on
the hog-pen fence He looked at his
miserable and degrading surroundings
Then in quick panorama his mind
wandered back over the past to the
Iiome he had left the good friends that
lie had a wonderful generous father
tasty food nice clothes and a comfort-
able bed
He looked again at the holes in his
ahocs his dirty ragged clothes felt the
surge of desperate hunger grab his
stomach
Then slowly and deliberately he said
these words aloud: "I’ve been a fool! In
my father's house there is food enough
and to spare and I perish with hunger
I'm going back home" And he did!
Another young man was there also—
his brother But when the rejoicing
began over the prodigal's return the
elder brother turned purple with rage
lie stamped his feet and confronted his
father with these words: "you’ve treated
me as dirty as a man can be treated
"I’ve never disobeyed you I've always
been honorable and at no time have I
ever brought shame upon you Yet
you’ve never given me even a little old
goat (a kid) to make merry with my
friends
"Now when this rascal who has
shamed you comes rambling back home
you even kill the fatted calf for him I
think it’s a low-down way to do and
you can’t make it right with me!”
But listen to this good father "Son
all these years you’ve been with me
And you could have had a party with
your friends at any time But you
wouldn't let me be the kind of father
that I wanted to be In your own mind
you've made me a hard master and you
wouldn’t be a son! You have tried to
be a slave!
"But look Son! All that I have is
thine! and has been all tkesc years
If at any moment you want anything of
mine whatever it is it's yours for the
asking"
In this twentieth century that para-
dox still exists God wants to be very
good to us He wants us to have the
best He has enough and "to spare”
He not only desires that we have just
enough to get by but there is the sur-
plus (more than we need) available for
the asking
The greatest surprise that some people
will ever have when they get to heaven
will be this: They have lived so poorly
in the good things of life (spiritually
financially mentally and physically)
when they could have been so rich with
enough and to spare!
How do we come into possession of
these promises? How do they become
substance rather than promise?
I would suggest to you that you begin
thinking about the fact that you are a
son of God Let that fact grow and be-
come large to you Then suddenly you
will begin to look for these promises to
be kept You become aware that they
are yours by natural right since your
own Father has said it
There is a surplus of good things for
you God has "more than enough” And
these are his words "AH that I have
is thine”
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I here in a rare portrait attributed to famous Civil War photographer
’Matthew Brady In 1858 five years after Commodore Terry’s black
ships sailed into Tokyo Bay Harris negotiated the first treaty of
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The 100th anniversary of this treaty is being commemorated by
the Japan-Americn Society of Washington 1) C and tho United
fetates— Japan Trade Council in collaboration with World Trade
Week May 18-21 as proclaimed by President Eisenhower
f A film ‘‘The Bai-barian and the Geisha” has recently been
completed starring John Wayne and directed by John lluston'
It la based on a fictionalized version of Harris’ mission to Japan j
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Training Service 7:00 p m
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Richardson, Eva M. The Hammon Advocate (Hammon, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1958, newspaper, May 29, 1958; Hammon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2066878/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.