The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-26

4 ln&F6 are nltt0Ns OF people IN
this enlightened Christian land that
are In open rebellion against God or
anything that savors Of God. They
say wa will rot have this man reign
ever us. That Is the heartless cry
thai rings from once. factory, shop,
store. and home. in university ana
college. and everywhere. There are
multitudes of people who select from
the Bible whs, they personally like;
they think they can codify God and
eliminate what they don't like. II
they read something in the Bible and
don't like ii, they will say they don't
believe H. they are Just fools enough
not 10 realize their responsibility to
believe. A feet is a fact whether you
have sense enough 10 believe IL or not.
A riAn may say. ] don't believe there
is hell, but that doesn't change the
fact that there is hell simply be-
cause he Is fool enough to say he
doesn't believe Il. man may say
Il don't gcl eve Jesys Christ Is the
son Of God but lie is. whether you
"Multitudes of people say, Well,
give rs the Sermon On the Mount, or
give as the Deca1aEue minus what
we don't IKE They have no King
hnt self Muititndes OF people Will
not do things unless they personally
desires 10 do them They don't ~ai'
to think whether their doing that
makes It harder Tor somebody else to
DO right They 40 II, and they don't
give a rap what God says, and they
have ths audac!ty to call themselves
Christians Yo4 are not Christians II
you ara going contrary to the VIII OF
God God SAYS My viii be done
ard / don't care II you are going
contrary 10 tho viii OF God. you are
net a Christian e you are sprinkled
and irurl erseG every ten minutes, ana
I don't care II you 60 TO confession
every haif-hou-, II you Know the thir-
ty-nine articles Of confession SO that
Won can saw thcm frontward and
beflzyard. and 4 YOU are confirmed
eves4- ten Minutes. I am not saying
anything against the ordinances, The
lnra IA now rejected. by the world
fYfsoyytge,}. hy the many still neglected,
b.. the few enthroned.
Lazy Way 10 Look af II.
THE matter - that you leave all OF
that to the Lord. That is lazy
way to look at 1t. I repeat that
fhiuk ali that Is Que to n lack Of deh-
mite effort being put forth by the
minister and the church to persuade
a. definite person to accept definite
Saviour at a definite time now. GOD
urornl ses are in the present tense Tor
salvation Now is the accepted time;
now IS the day Of salvation. II today
Won hear His voice, harden not your
hearts To the ona promise Of GOD
That Ia the present tense TOO mucl
preaching Is in the future tense
'sIf an army went out into the neld.
would In sit around the mess tent and
let the general do all the fightingf
The government does not pay them 10
sst around and look nice in their uni
forms That - the curse OF the
churches TODAY The preacher sits
down and folds his arms and thinks
there In nothing for him 20 do. II
NE had an army Ike that IT would
meet with defeat before 1t could COCK
the tlrst gun.
failure IN not confined simply TO re-
ligion. Nlnety-nine per cent of tho
business men OF this country fail; only
three out OF a thousand succeed: .
per cent Of the lawyers. abandon their
profession without success 60 per
cen, of the doctors fail TO make good
no this element OF failure is not con-
fined to religion. 1t is IN business
In professional life as we'll These
three classes, the business men, law
gara and doctors. and / think 1t u
due 20 lack OF definite systematic WORK
and no application.
mo political campaign II won by
any STUMP speaker or any spell binder
on the platform. II is won by man
to-man conversation
.In the presidential campaign OF
1888, when Benjamin Harrison was
elected President over Grover CleVe-
fand-everybody knows that Ne"
York state is Republican and New
York city In Democratic-~-and they
hfSan majority
would come down from Harlem and
overcome The majority OF New + ORR
4aa.x-T AAY-kaax- thaEa-waS frandn-
lent registration IN New York; they
knew that there was hallot-box stuff
ang. What ala they do?
business in Politics.
They went to work and got an
expert business man and gave him
charge OF New York city. and he
sxent to work and divided that city
into little districts and the districts
into wards. and they subdiyided this
wards, then they subdlvided every sub
division until they had a man AT
every block In every subdivision Ihe
leader said to these men: You are
responsible who Is elected PreS1'
dent; you are not responsible VINO IL
Mayor OF the city, but you are re-
spons.ble for knowing the name OF
every man Wa&O Az Ai4 ypAi S4|~h
how he Yoeea You are to keep tan
on every man And they especially
watched the fraudulent sections, and
when the vote was taken the Repuo-
llcan majority rolled into Harlem ana
swaraped the Democrats, and Bsn1a-
Yntn Harrison went TO the White
HOUSE instead Of Grover Cleveland.
This man, whom they appointed lead
err was q ahrewd business man. he
was an expert IN organization. and ne
had systematic way OF doing things
II know a varnish company that
paws a Representative $4,000 year
INST to he a good fellow He hob
nobx with the heads OF the railroads.
re never offers 10 sell them anything,
He doesn't sell quart OF varnish, but
he paves the way for the representa-
dyes who come on the job. lie Is
being paid 10 get acquainted with the
heads Of tbs departments and disarHl
their prejudice, and f they want var
ratsh he has the way paved for the
representative to sell the varnish.
iris man gets $4,000 10 smile and
loo. pleasant A lot Of people wouldn't
smile TO save a sinner from hell, Some
of you have faces that would stop
n clock. Shine up! What's the mat
ter with you? Be. happy!
That's what Jesus meant when He
4 SAID *rhe children Of this generation