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THE COMFORTER OF PROMISE
Big Crowd Heard Frank Leonard
Tell of Great Movement Found
ed by Mary Baker Eddy
(Prom the Coffeyville Journal.)
The Jefferson theatre was well fill-
ed Sunday afternoon to hear Frank H.
Leonard of Brooklyn N. Y. lecture on
"Christian Science The Comforter of
Promise."
I. II. Patton introduced the speaker
In a few well chosen wards as fol-
lows: Friends: Christian Science its a sub-
ject of world wide importance today
and it is a subject much misunder-
stood and misapprehended and it Js
with a desire to correct these mis-
understandings and misapprehensions
that you have been invited here this
afternoon and I am pleased at the
Interest shown in this subject as Is
evidenced by the large audience pres-
ent Christian Science bears the distinc-
tion of being the only religion ever
founded by a woman and its founder
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy occupies an
enviable position among the world's
most famous women.
Christian Science bears the farther
distinction of having had the most
phenominal growth of any religious
movement in forty years this great
movement has encircled the globe and
today Christian Science services are
being held in every country on this
globe. With the Bible In one hand
and the Christian Science text book
In the other It has gone about the
"Father's business" and followed the
great Master's command to "Preach
the gospel and heal the sick;" it has
taken Into its folt the sick the Gin-
ning and the dying and made them
better healthier and happier men and
women.
We are Informed by the last Uriiled
States census that the membership of
the Christian Science denomination is
960000 In round numbers with over
I 000 church edifices the attendance
at the regular services no doubt ex-
ceeds the accredited membershin by
one third to one half and when We
consider that every one of these 0-
000 people have been healed of some
physical mental or moral disorder
we may well contemplate this move-
ment with wonder.
The gentlemen who is to address
you on this subject is well qualified
to do his subject Justice and I am
pleased to introduce to you Mr. Frank
II. Leonard C. S. B. of Brooklyn Is.
Y. member of the Christian Science
Board of lectureship of the Mother
Church the First Cnurch of Christ
Scientist in Boston Mass.
Mr. Leonard's lecture was one that
held the attention of the large audi-
ence for more than an hour. His mes-
sage was a direct and earnest one frr
a practical Christianity or as he ex
pressed it for a greater use of Chris
tain Science (Christian Scienc; cr
common sense in our study of the
Bible.)
Mr. Leonard said in part:
"In approaching Christian Science
from the standpoint of honest desire
to know the truth about it the average
person' finds there are nome things
about its Leader and its teachings
which they do not understand and
which they are entitled to have ex-
plained. It Is my intention in tin address
to confine myself chiefly to a discis-
sion of four fundamental teachings of
Christian Science which when under-
stood establish the posit ior. Mrs. Eddy
occupies in the movement b reason
of being the Revelator of Scientific
Christianity to this age and uIm "lately
elucidate the Christ-like nature of the
teachings of Christian Science glorify-
Ing and praising God with endless
thanksgiving for His woundert'i:! good-
ness unto the sons of met:.
First one usually wants to know
the origin and purpose of the Chris-
tian Science movement and its chief
purpose in the world.
Its origin streUhes back so far that
no man knows the beginning of it. It
had its beginning when God legai.
It is Truth which the Christian Fclenee
movement is demonstrating and it is
therefore as eternal as is Cod him-
self. What is its chief purpose and what
w;ll prove the state ruent I hive just
nacie? Its chiel and overpovenr.g
its all and only purpose is to glorify
God and to do it by destroying sin in
the world! It has no other purpose.
The things that are accomplished un-
der the ministration of Christian
Science are accomplished only in pro-
portion as man turns away from the
contemplation of evil and lust and dis-
cord and inharmony and disease turns
away from darknee and lifts his gme
unto the everlasting Light which is
a better understanding of God and
learns to know that only as the wor-
ship of God is made practical does
man become Christian.
We as Christian Scientists have
most of us been church memoers or
church attendants. I myself was one.
If I were honest I would say I was one
because I had to be. My experience
in early life was one of misery dis
cord and suffering and I was forced
to go to church where I heard time
and again that some or all of the mis-
ery sent upon the world was the visit-
ation of God. My mother honest
earnest Christian worker In her church
knowing my suffering knowing It
might have a fatal end at any mo-
ment tried the best way she knew to
make me think that in this awful suf-
fering laid upon me God In his wis-
dob was preparing me for better
things! Was teaching me to bear bur-
dens so that in a future state I might
have Joy and peace and be fit to dwell
with Him in Paradise. I was only a
child and that statement did not ap-
peal to me. The only thing I knew
was while I saw other boys happy and
free and having a good time I my-
self was unable to do anything but
suffer. And as I hrard it more and
more I ceased to love God because
I believed Him to be the author of all
my sufferings and I felt that I had
not done anything that should cal it
down upon me. And then Christian
Science came into my life and taught
me its mission of health. It told me
the belief that God has taught to do
with suffering is absolutely false and
untrue and an offence against Him.
Christian Science came to me and said
audibly and mentally! Don't you
know that God has stretched out un-
derneath the everlasting arms so that
you shall not dash your foot against
a stone shall not stumble and shall
not fall? Don't you know that the
Bible teaches us that God said "Come
unto me and I will give rest?"
Don't you know that as you turn to
him you will find him not a mighty
potentate afar off but a tender lov-
ing passionate Father right at your
side a very present help at your side
a very present help in trouble? And
don't you know that in proportion as
you accept the knowledge that God is
Love the very radiance and glory of
His divine effulgence will descent up
on you and make you free? And It
has made me free. It touched me and
cleansed me from the sin of believing
that God the one whose eyes behold
everything and yet is "of puer eyes
than to behold evil and canst not look
on iniquity" as Habakkuk tells us had
aught to do with my suffering or with
any suffering . The chief mission of
Christian Science Is to show to every
man woman and child just as it did
to me that the belief that suffering is
from the omnipotent and all powerful
God is untrue giving surcease from
the suffering which legitimately goes
with any such belief.
Right at this point the question
naturally arises who does the Chris-
tian Scientist mean when he says that
sin disease and death are unreal? Do
Christian Scientists mean to say that
there is no such thing? Do the Chris
tian Scientists in saying there is no
such thing as sin give to the world
the power to say and do anything evil
and then claim sin in nothing! The
law of justice demands compensation
of mankind before it may rise higher
in right apprehension of Truth and en
forces penalties to force progress along
right lines.
The law of God never pardons sin
in the manner we have always be
lieved but in its changeless and inex-
orable nature demands that sin he
forsaken before the penalty can be
escaped thus eliminating the appar
ent cause and effect at one and the
same time.
Christian Science on this question
as to what constitutes sin goes deep-
er than any teaching that the world
accept stoday. Cnristian Science
teaches us that a man may seem to
keep every one of the moral laws of
the land! He may seemingly he one
of the sweetest characters that the
world knows and yet be a sinner.
The Bible teaches that we shall be
held accountable for every idle word
and surely every word that we utter
which does not glorify God in some
way is an idle word And what are
words? Simply the outward manifes-
tation of the thoughts which precede
them. Therefore that statement means
we shall be held accountable for everv
thought we think that does not glorify
God and His Christ. Our Master taught
that the thought must be made right;
for he said if one looks with adulter-
ous eyes he is an adulterer. There-
fore if it is true that the thought of
adultery constitutes adultery it is true
that every sinful unrighteous unclean
unholy thought constitutes unright-
eousness uncleanness unholiness. And
the redemptive mission of Christian
Science and its chief purpose on earth
is to teach mankind to guard his
thought and keep that pure for in
proportion as he does this is he obed-
ient to the law of God.
What do we mean when we say that
sin disease and death are unreal?
Christian Science gies men just one
standard whereby all things are meas-
ured by the standard of the perfection
of God and if in any particular it fails
to measure up to that standard it is
of necessity cast to one side as ungod-
ly and if it is ungodly it is not eter-
nal; and if it is not eternal it is not
real. Therefore when a Christian
Scientist says sin disease and death
are not real he is saying in other
words that they are ungodly unholy
and unrighteous that they constitute
the things from which we are to be
saved. .To enlarge on this thought a
little take the statement that we live.
move and have our being In God. Then
add to that the statement there Is no
place where God Is not- In other
words that God is omnipresent as the
Bible teaches us. Then we can begin
to see that if as the Bible teaches us
God Is the Alpha and the Omega the'
beginning and the end the first and
the last and with It all is as it teaches J
us in another place the One altogeth-
er lovely we can see from that stand-
point that nothing really exists save
that which exists in God that the real
standpoint from which the Christian
Scientists determine as to what is real
and what Is unreal is viz: That that
which is real is that which can and
does live and exist In God and that
that which is unreal is that which can
not and does not live nor exist in God
and therefore has no real existence.
The next question is what position
do the Christian Scientists accord to
Mrs. Eddy. Do they place Mrs. Eddy
on the same plane with Christ? Do
they consider her a mediator? It hap-
pens that I have something I have been
carrying in my pocket for a good many
years that answers this question in
Mrs. Eddy's own words a great deal
better than I could possibly answer
it. This is a little article written by
Mrs. Eddy herself and printed in the
New York World February 1 1895 in
which Mrs. Eddy writes this: "There
never was is not now and never can
be but one God one Christ one Jesus
of Nazareth. Whoever in any age ex
presses most of the spirit of truth and
love the principle of God's idea has
most of the spirit of Christ of that
Mind which was in Christ Jesus. If
Christian Scientists find in my writ-
ngs and example of greater degree of
ths spirt than in others they can justly
declare it. But to think or speak of
me in any manner as a Christ is sac-
rilegious." It does' not seem possible there is
anyone who believes that the Chis-
tian Scientists have ever thought of
the Leader of our movement as Christ.
The meekness and humility of our
Leader is pointing us always away
from her and to Christ as our Shop-
ard it seems to me should have before
now settled this question everlasting
ly. Christ? No. Jesus of Nazareth?
No. But one of the meekest and
most humble followers our Master ever
had on the surface of this earth. Striv
ing not for personal advancement
striving not for personal glory cap
able of having an adulation that would
exceed anything in this world if she
demanded it Mrs. Eddy has adjured
everything of that kind and has sa!d
Look away from me and unto Christ.
She watches strives and prayj in sea-
son and out of season to have more
of that Mind in her which was also in
Christ Jesus in order that she may
emulate the example He has set lor
us and so prove unto the whole world
the truth of Christ's teaching so that
man may read as he runs and the ver
iest child may understand and know
God and his Christ. The position that
Mrs. Eddy occupies is that of a chan-
nel a channel of ce that has boon
so cleansed and so purified by striv
ing watching and praying that
through her has come into this world
the Comforter and our Master prom-
ised he would send and that should
never leave us comfortless; the Com-
forter that is in our midst today bind-
ing up broken hearts healing us from
all diseases and delivering us from
all diseases and delivering us from al'
of our iniquities. It has been said that
we Christian Scientists worship Mrs.
Eddy and that statement has gone
hand n hand with the belief that we
have placed her on a plane with Christ.
I want to tell you there is not a
Christian Scientist who worships Mrs.
Eddy or any other person for the in-
stant that personal worship enters into
consciousness that self same instant
oen ceases to be a Christian Scientist.
No. no we do not worship her but
we do love her. We love her with
a love that transcends any that may
be described. We love her fr her
self-sacrifice. It is bcause of her con-
stancy in season and out of season
sitting always at the feet of our Mas-
ter striving watching and praying for
more of that spirit to be in her which
was in Christ Jesus that she is the
channel through which this Comforter
comes to man! And because through
this Comforter thousands have been
raised out of sickness and ruin and
pain and death do we give to the one
who made this possible the love and
devotion t which she is justly entitled.
We give our allegiance to Mrs. Eddy
and she occupies the position of Lead-
er in our Cause because to her first
came the efficiency of Christian Sci-
enc. Then she left friends relatives
everybody and secluded herself that
she might study to find out the law
that was back of what Jesus had ac-
complished on earth. She grew to
the absolute knowledge that those
things were not exceptional not oc-
casional but were the manifestation of
God's law and realized when that law
was known those selfsame things
would be accomplished by every man
woman and child on the face of the
earth. Never was one so blessed and
so wonderfully cared for as was she
while she communed with God in those
years. The result of her communion.
It has meant to me personally the dif-
ference betwen a dead boy in Brook-
line. Mass. many years ago and a
live man now. It has meant the differ-!
ence between a wrong comprehension correctness f Its teachings
of God which engendered hate and a Christian Scientists have been us-
right comprehension of blm which Ing "Science and Health With Key to
has made me desire nothing on earth the Scriptures for a good many years.
bo much as to be found good enough They have not been just reading. 1
to speak the word unto those who are- think that all will agree with me that
seeking light In order that they too the trouble In the Christian world is
may partake of Christ's cup. and be that theer Is too much reading of the
one with our elder Brother in the Bible and too little study of it The
knowledge and light of God. Bible needs study. It has lessons for
Do we put the Christian Science every ne of us and not one but that
text book "Science and Health With may be comprehended by everyone if
Key to the Scriptures" which Mrs. they will study their Bible intelligent-
Eddy has written on a plane with the ly and from the standpoint from which
Bible? No we do not. and we never Jesus looked at things and so see that
have. There is Just one Bible and that which He and His disciples and
tnat uiuie is tne noiy uioie mat is
used loved and revered by Christians
all over the globe. That is our Bible
only ive are pretty old fashioned about
such things! We are so old fashioned our Christian Science text book is sim-
about our Bible that our churches ply the book that we use to aid us in
use no other than the King James the study of our Bible. The Bible it-
Version because in that old text we self says that the "letter kllleth but
have found sufficient food to sustain
us and lead us on the journey of dark-
ness into light. The Christian Science
text book is exastly what it is called
a text book. Now a text book to be a
text book must be a text book about
something and the Christian Science
text book is a text book about the
only thing that is worth knowing and
that is knowledge of God the Truth
which our Bible teaches us makes
man free. I have met people who have
said "I have read that book through
from cover to cover and I cannot make
head or tail out of it. It looks to me
as though you could begin at the be-
ginning and go through begin at the
end and go to the beginning or begin
in the middle and read both ways and
it would be just the same:" So it
would. Truth is Truth. It does not
make any difference whether you be-
gin at the left and go to the right or
begin at the right and go to the left
or in the middle the text book on
Truth brings you exactly the same
knowledge no matter in what way you
use it If you use it intelligently..Sup-
pose one should come to you and s'ay
"You know I never have studied math-
ematics at all. I never had a chance
when I was a boy and never had time
since I have grown up. So I went to
the library one day and got an arith-
metic an algebra a geometry a trig-
onemetry and calculus and I have
ben at those things for the last six
months. I have read those books
through and I tell you I cannot make
head or tail of them. There is noth-
ing in them." Suppose a man should
come to you who had never studied
anything but English aDd should say
to you "I was awfully swindled the
other day; I went to a store saw a
book I liked; it was small compact
and I was pleased with the appear-
ance of it and they told me it was
Homer's Iliad. When I took it home
and opened it there was not an intelli-
gible word in it! I was simply out
so much for nothing." What would
you thing of him? Would you think
he was intelligent? Would you think
he was intellectual? WThen we come
to the use of the text book on spiritual
things and endeavor to materially
study those spiritual things we find
ourselves- face to face with an impos-
sibility. It cannot be done. The wise
men the Scribes and Pharisees of
Jesus' time the men who examined
into the theology that he taught went
so far astray from the truth he ex-
pressed the Master was called on to
say "I thank Thee Oh Father Lord
of heaven and earth that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and
prudent and hast revealed them unto
babes."
When I was a school boy my reader
had in it the story of a beautiful shield
which hung over a road. One day two
Knights approaching the shield from
opposite directions stopped as was the
custom to saluate each other before
passing under it. After exchanging
salutations one of the knights remark-
ed. "What a beautiful silver shield."
The other knight responded "Surely
it is beautiful but it is not silver but
golden." The other knight said in
reply "Nay 'tis silver." This started
a controversy which finally led the
knights to endeavor to kill each other.
Setting their lances they ran full tilt
at each other but did no damage! As
they turned again to charge they
found themselves on the opposite side
of the shield from which they had
started and glancing up saw that each
had been right in their statement for
the shield was silver on one side and
gold on the other. They say they had
been looking at it from the wrong
standpoint to understand the other's
views as to what it was made of. The
only standpoint from which you ef
consider spiritual things is from
Christ Jesus' standpoint. It is Impos-
sible to conceive of anything in His
teachings other than from the stand-
point of His knowledge of God and '
His knowledge of Life which is His
lessn as He learned it and as He lived
it. for you and me to learn and live
If you should read any text book and
did not take the statements it pro-
pounds for the purpose of working out
the examples of problems it states
you would never know whether it were
true or otherwise. There is only one
way to prove a text book and its teach-
ings and that is to take what it teaches
make absolute use of it see the an-
swer you get from the problem you
have worked and then you are in a
position to know and determine the
tns roiiowers ror 3U0 years accom-
plished was not a Bpeclal dispensation
but was the accomplishment and mani-
festation of knowing the truth. So
the spirit giveth life." We have been
having the letter of our Bible for
countless ages and we have continued
to prove that what we have gained
has been its letter because we have
continued to die! And our Master
said "If a man keep my saying he
shall never taste death." I know the
theological teaching is that what is
meant in spiritual aeath but if one
will read the Bible and see what I re-
fer to they will see what He meant.
There Is no such thing as spiritual
death and never was. Cod is Spirit.
God is eternal life and in Him there
is no death but Life everlasting. Our
Master was very explicit on that point.
The question comes contemplating
those he raised from the dead. Why
did they not continue to exist here if
He overcame death for them? The
question answers itself. We have our
own work to do finally! The dead
Jesus raised were raised as the re
suit of His demonstrated knowledge
that Life is deathless. When this same
question came again to those He had
raised they had the problem to solve
themselves and were not able to do
so at that time. This should show us
beyond question that each one-must
work out his own Salvation some day
and that Jesus is literally the "Way
Shower."
Our Master was tempted like as you
and I. He had to meet everything
that you and I have to meet. He had
to go through everything that you and
I have to go through with. But our
Master met all temptation as tempta
tion handled it as temptation destroy
ed it as temptation and so was with-
out sin. It is no sin to be tempted it
is only sin to yield and so when our
Master met and destroyed temptation
as He did He indicated to you and to
me the way we must go and what we
must do in order that we may work
out our salvation. Not all the inter
cessory appeals not all the sermons
not all the lectures that may ever be
delivered will work out the salvation
of mankind or point out the Christ
way of redemption if they stop at the.
point of intercessory appeal sermon
and lecture! the works must go hand
In hand with them in order that we
may know the way and do Truth's
bidding.
Now Christian Scientists know the
more that one knows and has of re-
ligion the happier the more joyous
the freer he is. Religion is not some-
thing to make a long face about it is
something to make a man sing praises.
It is not something to bring distress
and unhappiness! it is something io
bring deep peace in every way and
Christ Jesus has set standard of Chis-
tianity for every one of us and when
He set that standard He pointed out
to us the freedom and joy that might
and should be ours if we were only
obedient. He established the stand
ard of Christianity when He made this
statement: "He that believeth on me
the works that I do shall he do also;
and greater works than those shall he
do because I go unto my Father."
When He made that statement He
was healing the sick from all man
ner of diseases and yet He said I of
myself am nothing. He said It is the
Father that works through me who
accomplished all these things. Chris-
tian Scientists will say that they of
themselves have never done one sin-
gle redemptive thing on earth. It is
the Mind which worked through Him
and is now working through them that
is doing the works today. The heal-
ing work that is accomplished under
the mission of Christian Science is ac-
complished solely and wholly by and
with the Word of God. So Christian
Scientists do not consider a man has
been healed simply because a pain
has been stopped for him. We do not
consider as Christian Scientists that
a healing has bitn accomplished ur-
less with the destroyed pain there
has come greater love for God greater
love for Christ greater willingness to
follow in the footsteps of the Master
making for more meeknesj and
humility to serve ?.nd not to command
willing to serve and not to command
willing to do whatsoever come3 unto
him to do so long as it may glorify
God.
Jesus healed the sick from all Vincla
of diseases. It has been said that
Christian Science is a very good thing
for people who think they are sick
but when they have anyth'ng orgamc-
ally or fundamentally the matter it is
not a good thing because it ennnot do
any good in such inchances. Now I
have told you what accomplishes iu
healing. And our Master wo en the
sick came to Him to be healed did
not say. If there is anything organic
troubling you. anything functional? '
there Is It is your duty to go else-
where for your hearing because I an
handling only imaginary diseases. Our
Bible teaches us that he healed the
sick from all manner of diseases that
He cleansed the leper that He cast out
the evil spirits that He raised the
dead that He walked on the water.
that He fed the multitudes with frag
ments that He stayed the raging tem-
pest that He disappeared from the
multitude in one place and appeared
before it in another that He presented
himself to His disciples through an
unbroken wall. These are works that
Christ Jesus accomplished while He
was on earth and it is not simply that
I say so it is not simply that Chris-
tian Science teaches It Christ him-
self said "He that believeth on Me
the works that I do shall he do also.
J
Then from the standard that Christ
has fixed in that statement if we are
not In 6ome measure working to the
accomplishment of the doing of every-
one of those things that He did we be-
long to the class that He spoke of who
at the latter day should say Lord
Lord and His response to them ould
be I know you not. Why? Because
they had not done the works which
entitled them to call Him their Lord
and Master.
It is said Christian Science is The-
ology Science Philosophy therapeut-
ics. The question may be asked what
relation each of these phases bear one
to the other and which comes first re-
latively. Christian Science is redemp-
tive its work is redemptive and its
work to be redemptive must be ele-
mental. God during al eternity has
builded all things that really are. The
philosophy which is human takes man
up to the door of hope puts a question
mark upon it and leaves man hope-
less. The phiuosophy of Christian
Science takes man beyond the human
concept into the Shekinah where Jesus
has passed before us away from the
finite and up to infinite knowledge of
God. The theology of Christian Sci-
ence turns us absolutely to God as the
only the amniscient the omnipotent
the omnipresent all in all. The Science
of Christian Science makes us turn to
God as the only law maker and law-
giver. The therapeutics of Christian
Science heal the sick by making us re-
alize that God is Good and that nothing
can come from Good except good for
cause and effect must agree. No one
phase of Christian Science is greater
than any other and singly and collec
tively Christian Science stands with
man inside the door of hope the irre-
slstable irrefutable and irreversable
Word of God. Recognition of God is
the healing of the sick knowledge that
Good is Soul is eternal salvation. Un
til one has been a Christian Scientist
until one has felt fall from him the
shackles of doubt and fear and un-
belief until one has found and felt
the cleansing from hate malice jeal-
ousy rage self love self will self
justification and self complacency one
has never known what it means to be
free. To be free and to know what
God is eliminates the possibility of
anything else really being. Christain
Science teaches that all is infinite
Mind and its infinite manifestation.
We are told to pray for that Mind
which was also in Christ Jesus. Chis-
tian Science teaches that Mind is God
Teaching that God is infinite Mind is
simply saying God is omiscient. To
say God is omniscient is to say He
has all knowledge. Knowledge im
plies intelligence and intelligence is
the activity of Mind.
To say that God is the source of
all knowledge is to say the same of
intelligence and to pay God is the
source of all intelligence is to say that-
He is all the Mind there is and no
other conclusion can be reached log-
ically. The Christian Science teach
ing that God is the one and only Mind
is not therefore new being simply
the complement of the Bible teaching
that He is omniscient.
Do not mistake my meaning to be
that what we term mortal or personal
or personal mind is God for the belief
in personal mind is the cause of all
wretchedness murder hate jealousy
malice war dishonesty and untruth
fulness the world has ever known in
its history. This belief in minds many
is the belief in God's many and leads
to a belief of utter lack of individual
responsibility in all things the in
ability to discern what is good and
what is evil and finally to the belief
that evil is more potent than good
and is man's master.
Our Bible teaches us that the carnal
mind Is death and the spirtual mind
is eternal ldfe. Let us accept this
statement as true and cease our en-
deavor to justify ourselves and seek
rather to Justify God in all His change-
less glory and majesty.
We may not intellectually discern
the Spirit of Christ's teachings but
must intelligently accept them and so
grow in grace that the Light shall
dawn on our consciousness and bring
us to the eralization that there is no
Way no Will no Law save God's the
result of this faithfulness being the
attainment of the Kingdom of God
and His righteousness which our
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Marrs, D. M. The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1911, newspaper, March 31, 1911; Vinita, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc772682/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.