Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-03-26
BILL SUNDAY ARRANGES
OWN TRIP TO HEAVEN

Heaven" is the subject of one o
Billy Sundays famous sermons il
which he says:
would like, if my strength vii
permit and your patience endure, t
ask and answer three questions. First
what do l want most OF all? A MAJ
in Chicago said to me one day: 81
l could have all / wanted of any on
thing | would take money" He woul,
be fool There's lot of things none,
cant do. If | should meet with al
accident which would require a surgi
cal operation or your life would b,
despaired of, there is not man her,
but that would gladly part with al
the money he has if that would Civ,
him the assurance that he would live
q year longer.
Ii you had all the money in the
world you couldn't go to the grave
yard and put that loved one back II
your arms.
A steamer tied up at her wharf
having just returned from the Klon.
dixie, and as the people walked down
the plank their people met them Il
congratulate them on their success OF
encourage them through their defeat,
when down came man l used to
know in Fargo, N. d. Friends rushed
up and said: why, we hear that you
were very fortunate"
Eyes, wife and / left here six
months ago with hardly anything Now
we have S350,000 in gold dust In the
hold of the ship"
Then some body looked around and
said, "Mr. Lippey, where is your lit
tie boy?" Inc tears rolled down
his cheek and he said, 1--WE left him
buried on the banks OF the Yukon be-
meath the snow and ice, and we would
gladly part with all that gold if we
only had our boy"
But all the wealth of the Klondik,
would not open the grave and put
that child back in their arms. Money
cant buy the peace OF God that pass
eth understanding. Money cant take
the sin out OF your life.
is there any particular kind of life
you would like? If you could live
100 years, you wouldn't want to die,
would you? | wouldn't. l want to
stay as long as God will let me stay,
but when Gods time comes for me to
go, Pm ready any hour of the day or
night.
Wants to Live While Longer.
L think when the time comes for
me to go, I'll put up an awful argu-
ment to try and persuade God that
it wont do any harm to let me stay
a while longer. No, none of us like
to think of dying; we'd all like to have
eternal life.
for you to do is to go for doctor
You go to your doctor and say, "Doc-
tor, I've been thinking it over. I.dont
want to die Can you help me?"
He looks at you and says, 81 have
100 patients on my hands, all asking
the same thing. They ask me to use
my skill and bring to bear all have
learned, but cant fight back death,
l can prescribe for your malady, but
cant prevent DEATH"
Well, go to your philosopher, Good
philosopher, | have come to you for
help. | want to live forever, and you
say that you have the tombstone of
philosophy and that you can describe
and solve. Can you help me?"
He says to you, young man, my
hair and my beard have grown long
er, and as white as snow, my eyes are
dim, my brow is wrinkled, my form
bent with the weight of years, my
bones are brittle and l am just as far
from the solution of that mystery and
problem as when l started. l, too
must soon die and sleep beneath the
sod"
/ go to the millionair, and l say,
go man of wealth, you will not die,
you can bride death. You bribed leg
islatures, city councils, you have
bribed the lawmakers and congress
men. Certainly, you can bride death.
Tell me, want to live forever"
Ha cows ar CON bira tho host tOp-
tor on both sides of the Atlantic, and
i can bring to my bedside the skill OF
the world, but, ah! they cant prolong
my life"
In my imagination | have stood by
the bedside of the dying Pullman car
magnate, George M. Pullman, whose
will was probated at $25,000,000, and
have said, ooh, Mr.. Pullman, you
will not die, you can bride DEATH"
And l see the pupils of his eyes dilate,
his breast heaves, he gasps-and is no
more.
Wires Cant Prolong Existence.
/ summon the three electrical wiz
ards of the world to my bedside and
l say, Gentlemen, | want to live and
/ have sent for you to come" and
they say to me: "Mr. Sunday, we can
flash messages across the sea with
out wires; we can illuminate your
homes and streets of your city and
drive your trolley cars, and we can
kill men with electricity, but we can't
prolong life"
look back and l see Alexander the
Great. At Is he fought his first bat
tie. At 32 he sheathed his sword, the
conqueror Of the known world. But
he could not fight death. l see Ma
poleon. The same thing. Say if I'd
lived in Napoleon's day, would have
followed his star, because he was n
man who could hit the ball.
Morality doesn't save anybody. Your