Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-04
THE CHURCHES AND
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q farmer boy. who became a great king.
and when he was dying. said when
Il man has God under him he never
knows how high he Will climb" And
there was another man. with his SER
want, who looked down upon a great
city, and his servant was afraid. and
proposed that they nee into the desert.
but the brave man said. we are not
two. we are three, for God is with
us and so he descended upon that
city. and his servant had "a new heart.
and the feebling became a giant and
wrought many wonders.
WHOLE LIFE MAY BECOME
RICH LIKE SUMMER
There was poet named Schiller.
who met another German singer, and
In three weeks men began to say that
Schiller was new man; something
had happened in his intellect. II l had
time | could tell you the story of many
men who suddenly changed; men Ike
John Bright. who went out with his
people the story of low wages and
black bread. and dark rooms. and cry
Ing children. Why, that one days
visit TO the tenements shook the soul
Of John Bright. and Richard Golden
touched his soul and poured new
life into the orators heart. and his
voice was one OF the most eloquent
that ever plead for the cause OF lib
ertv. Your mind will grow slowly b.
study and practice and drill. here
little and there a little, and then. sud-
denly. new book. new friend. a
country. and a new heart VIII be born
within you. and your whole life viii
become rich like the summer
Some OF the greatest men in the
world that you will always be reading
about at last came to feel that IT was
the new heart that changed their lives.
Read you about Jacob. selfish. cunning
and greedy. who one night wrestled
with an angel OF God. called a new
aspiration, and the next morning was
conscious of new heart, ana came
TO be called a Prince OF Israel. READ
about Moses, who unexpectedly met
God in the way. and who could not
sneak. and was afraid Of Pharaoh, and
how one day he saw Gods power mani
fes, in a blazing bush, and became a
brave man. although he was only a
shepherd and dared a king in his pal
ace Then read the story OF beau
,iful shepherd boy named David. who
stole the hearts of the people, and made
sweet music and became an idoi'
cheercd by the mob. yet later forgot
honor, betrayed his friend. spoiled MS
people and helped kill man, and then
read the nf,y-hrst Psalm. and how
David received rev heart. and after
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You will also And the story OF many
other men. and how Jesus gave a new
heart to coward named Peter, and
made him like a man OF rock, 70
timid boy named John and made MIN
a hero: TO a bad man named Augustine
and made him an author and the
builder OF "A city, TO a Spanish prince
named Xavier. and made him mission
AIRY hero. and to young physician
named Livingstone. and made MIN tne
savior of Africa. Some day you VIII
see 4 magician and he viii work mar
>eIs lie, me tell you about miracle
a had man named saul. going about
killing peopie met vision on the roau
10 Damascus. ard then went iorth %
he great hero. who could not ne
scared by stones. or blows. or the rack
or by man who threatened 10 cut on
NE bead II was "A new heart changed
saul into Paul, and IN turn chahsea al
history.
WHOLE CREATION on
An ,pW AND M\itCii
Thi. ncw heart VIII lend Tou hope
II i a .ar cry back to the cay" hiai
and IN. wooden stick, the hollow iog
and The bark hut Eut during az
these ages there has been STEADY
rro.ress The whole creation has been
out on an upward march straigh'
ahead. Old things have become new
Not one tool. not one art, not one SCI
.nre nor language but has been peFr
again cod has poured out ms snirl'
ipon mis- people. Now youth STANDS a
the beginning Of a new day We nave
vast and critical tasks before US. MANY
crises may come. The schoolhouse car
do something 10 help: our legislator.
can do something; but even politica
and economic knowledge cannot atone
save the world. And when We think
OF the schools and colleges, we hne
that often the wittiest and %ises
scholars have been the chief enemie:
OF liberty. AS for commerce. histor,
often shows us that the shrewdes
merchants have been the first to betra,
their country for wedge OF silver
AS power, thousand times ths
imam who has been al the head and -ec
the hosts has at the last moment sole
the cause Cor decoration. All th'
hidings of power are in God. This u
what we need. as people. and as ma
tions-a new birth. Abraham Lincoln
was right when he prayed for rebirtt
| OF liberty. but we need TO be borI
again in art, in the books or the coun
try. in its laws and in our homes. Ou
earth in these days of winter journey
forward. holds 10000. 600 sleeping roots
and seeds locked up and sleepinl
soundly in their earth beds. VIVA
they need is the coming of the spring
and the rebirth of the light. so tina
the sap may once more surge through
the huughs, and the bare branches one.
more be clothed III apple bloom. tina
there may be once MORGAN August ant
an autumn. with harvests abunGan
and orchards heavy with their fruit:
and golden with their waving grain.
Remember, that every morning vol
| ought TO be born again. just is every
| day you want some good bread to eat
| You must not think that a new hear
| is an insurance policy against hell fire
| You must not go back and say, Il hat
| the new heart once" and then neglec
IT, The apples on that tree In tn,
| orchard were sweet last summer, blu
| if you leave that apple tree to tn,
| gophers and worms and rabbits 1t will
| soon be an old tree with dead bough
| and branches covered with caterpillar
and wormy fruit.
| Remember that you carry an eternit.
| in the heart Perhaps Tomorrow
| through new book or new friend
it will be as If you met Gods angel il
the way. and when the end comes 70
| you as a boy. or sixty years from nov
as an old man. or whatsoever the sig
nails of departure come do not b,
afraid, but remember with tears o
| Joy, and with a singing heart, tina
1 death itself is only being born again. e
| leave behind wintry world. and fine
the summerland. unstormed by clouds
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