The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17
IS AN ALIEN WHO MAY NOT ENTER HEAVEN

you have left has been spent for houss
rent and food. Tom sells . few pa.
pers and do get . little work once IN
n while. but people don't care TO have
O. woman around with . sick. oryin9
, baby" and 1t went on ~ only woman
could write.
! Eyes unused to tears in that court
wept. The Judge himself brushed the
! tears from his eyes and said, II have
no alternative in this matter. but yca
can all see that no man lives unto him
! self and alone. Others have to SUI
fer for our wrong doings or rejoice to
eur riERteopsgsss = ! send the man ~ 2
| VIVA Sshets NsSssta ,"'''a
Who suffers the most that man OF
that poor broken-hearted. discouraged
mother In a distant city with nothing
but her frail body between the brood
and the poorhouse. You only have to
| be unfortunate enough to be \ moth.r
with a little brood clinging to your
skirts crying for bread. with . drunk
en- father to know who suffers the
most
| Sot II Is the plan Of an plans that
I gee exempiifed every day that the
! innocent suffer with and far moro than
the guilty. From the fall Of man Ia
the Garden Of Eden until now. I see
no possible cease from sorrow until the
1 coming OF Jesus Christ, II has been
and is the rule that the innocent SUI
Ter for the guilty. 80 don't you charge
the plan Of salvation with being Z
piece of fooiishness on Gods part uu-
less you are q fool an idiot, an asa.
all three are gross nattery at that
Salvation to anyone who rejects
Jesus Christ IL impossible Out OF
Christ there In no mercy and there
could be none and IL there were mercy
out OF Christ, then Jesus Christ died
IN vain on the cross. II savAtiion could
have been attained otherwise than by
the death OF Jesus then all he went
through Was uselesA If I could save
myself by my culture and morality and
my philanthropy. Jesus Christ needn',
to have come into the world to die. J,
was perfectly needless, II can save
by some other way other than through
the faith in Jesus Christ: II was use
less for him to come and suffer. There
IS no salvation in any other way.
According to the Bible. men ars
saved because they accept Jesus
Christ, and men are lost. not because
they are worse than others. but be-
our sins to be forgiven must b con-
veyed somewhere. and God laid on
Jesus Christ our iniquity: 20 / &C
cept the one who bears my guilt. and
that lets me escape. And II the
world would be firmly convinced that
Jesus Christ n the son Of God then
and accept him. sin would instantly
cease. No man would staggcr home
drunk. nobody would lie and defAme
another's character. and I como to
night TO present to you the only power
that ran ynr fYAA iran, tha aims
which hold you an unwilling prisoner.
chained to your evil habits. and
can't imagine tho possibility Of any
body OF ordinary intelligence enter
tanning the least doubt about Jesus
Christ being the Son Of God.
And IL ! were the only man IN the
world who believed in Jesus Christ
ms the Son Of God. that heliefe would
be all the evidence that I needed
for myself: IL wouldn't make any
difference what you believed. So
overwhe Inning In the evidence on the
side Of Christ that II h Impossible
for anybody to deny that Jesus II the
Christ without committing intellectual
and moral suicide.
1 know OF world that II sunk in
shame,
II know OF a name, a naEie, 4 nae
and that car c'Hanse every sinner and
AXE every drunkard sober and every
thief TO steal no mora, and am pre-
senting to you that name tonight,
Jesus Christ, the Son OF Goa Some
one has said:
Give me all the gold OF me earth
and I will weld a scepter for him.
Give me all the mountains u the
earth, and / win build a throne for
! al
night. and win weave garland
for hts brow.
/ Now the blood stands for several
things--fr~t. for poured -out life. Your
lie is In your blood. Draw the blood
from your veins and arteries and you
are dead--a iifeiess lump.
Jesus Christ gave his life ran
som for me. Some OF our hymnol-
ogy and a great deal Of our so-cailed
the clarifying process OF the blood.
I believe the blood fiow-ing from the
wound OF Jeeus would stain my linen
as much as the blood flowing from the
| wound OF tho saloon-keeper would
have stained my linen The blood
OF Jesus wouldn't make my linen be
white; the blood Of Jesus was red,
when we are speaking from that
standpoint
w ksSh IL ~ SAtaA 6Oa opVH kx9 hAA&%
our Bibles bloody Bible and our
gospel Ia = bloody gospel. ana this
world Is a bloody world. bave never
apologized. and 10 help me God.
never win. You take the blood of
Jesus Christ out Of the plan Of atone
ment, ard that book we caIl the Bible
won't be worth the paper It II printed
on. Ycu take the blood out OF your
body and you are dead---a lifelesA
thing. 1t is the blood that gives Us
life, and II Ia the blood Of the atone
ment that gives the Chris.san religion
life. without that we've got nothing
to OFFER to the world.
| That's why lot Of preachers arr
failures they are preaching lot Of
ltommy-rot. poppy-cock. nonsense and
they think they've got an improve
ment over the blood Of Jesus Christ,
the Sen OF God.
The BLOOD Rcdeen&
4, Whatever the blood touches It re-
deems and AZ long Al the blood Is on
the mercy seat the sinner may return.
Il am not IKE an infidel who came to
me out west and said. ''Bill, don't
like your siaughter-houser religion"