The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
MARIAN Dtsolsexed.

| your tintype." You don't get me
! il the muddy, turbid waters OF that
| reani. Why, we've got better water
| here in Damascus, We have FAR
etter streams than this. Why peo-
I lie living In the far parts OF the coun-
| ry come up here to spend their vaca-
| ions and battle In our waters. Mo-
Like many fool today. Listen to
! he, When God reveals TO him the
! Ian of salvation. instead of getting on
is knees and thanking God Tor giving
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| larned II he don't turn around anS
! lamn God and then damn the preach
| ss for preaching. Gods truth at him
| When God tells him what to do TO be
! saved. instead of being thankful, he be-
| gins to curse.
! Saaman was wroth. oh, God could
rave saved him without the dips. but
| ne wanted to take the poker out OF his
| back bone.
Here's a man wants to be a farmer
| What will he do? Oh. so hire out to
| slaughter house and work him there?
Here's a man that wants to be jew
e'er What will ne do? Go hire out to
! the railroad and work on the section
Here's a man. sir. that wants to be
doctor. What will he do? Oh, why. let
| him go work for farmer" Is that
the advice given him? No. II a man
wants to be a doctor we say:
Go to medical school and study.
como out, hang out your sign wait for
some fellow TO get cut up and come in
for medical attention"
| Here's some fellow wants TO be
lawyer. What win he do? Go to a
law school and study the construction
! OF the law, codes and ordinances. Here's
a jeweler. what will he do? Go down
to Tlffanys. Here's q man wants to be
a farmer. Put him on farm. Here's
& man wants to be a Christian What
will he do? oh, go ask some OF these
Cod forsaken old devils that are lying
about Jesus Christ? Go ask that God
! forsaken. dirty gang, SO dirty that the
devil would duck Up an alley to avoid
meeting them? Don't ask the preach
CT. he knows. He has studied, he will
steli you what to do.
Here's a man falls down and breaks
+ his leg. what will ne do? Call the doc
/ tor? No, he can ffx IT. Call in the
blacksmith He doesn't know anything
/ about it. So II you want it, go to some
! body that knows.
The man that condemns whatever he
hasn't tried is willfully unjust.
! Finally he listened to the entreaties
of the servant and / can see them get
ting him ready for his primitive bath
in the Jordan upon the bank of the
river Pretty soon a big alligator hits
him on the shoulder and he says, AN
insect they have in this section OF the
/ country
Naaman says. II thought fellow hit
me with a sabre"
And so I can see them out there
getting him ready for the bath. he
wasn't used to that. can imagine
in Damascus they didn't have any
porcelain bath tubs, prepared Cuti-
cura and Ivory soap that won't sink
andthat crooked thing that you use
to scrub you back.
i So they get him ready. He starts
into the water. He steps on a stone
that is covered with slime and he
slips off and cuts his toe on clam
she'll and says: "Ooh-oo-oo."
| He walks out into the water and a
stick floating down hits him and he
Jumps He gets deeper into the wa
ter and goes: Cold. Cold! Cold.
Br-r. Br-r, Br-r''
He gets up to his armpits and he
holds his nose and ducks and shakes
the water out Of his ears. Now, he
comes up and he begins 10 examine
| himself TO see how he feels.
Better After Sins Gone.
| | knew n fellow that went to church,
got under the power of the preacher,
had his sins rebuked and he said:
Wen, l think I feel a little better"
! Like fellow out in Illinois. He
said: Bib, I've been going to preach
ing two weeks and I feel better. I
only cussed my old woman seven
times today and only took FIVE drinks
of whiskey. feel little better"
BY and by the muddy sediment be-
gins 10 work its way into those old
sores ard they begin to itch and he
says: ooh oo."
II He goes under six times-no bet
tier.
oh. God said seven. When God
says seven don't stop at six for there
is no blessing in six.
| A good many in the church have
just got enough religion to make them
miserable. and IL you have no joy In
religion. you've got leak in your
| faith somewhere. Some haven't got
I religion enough to pay their debts.
No, I've sometimes thought I'd Hike
to yank string and every dud you've
got on that you haven't paid for
would fall of Some people wouldn't
have anything but a ceiiuioid collar
and pair of cufrs--a celiuloid collar
and one pair OF hole-proofs,
Religion Lacking.
You haven't got religion enough to
have family prayer--no. Haven't got
religion enough TO stop lying--no,
! Haven't got religion enough TO go
home and take the booze out OF the
ice box, to ask blessing at the table
no, not at all
4 WHAT'S the matter. Iney maven
completely given themselves up to
God, uncompromisingly that's the
trouble. I have a good. rich friend
who takes hundreds of the poor boys
and girls from the city. out into the
country. and they have the time of
their lives. He will take out, two or
three hundred boys for a couple of
weeks and they just romp and play
and they have everything they can eat.
They don't put Just so much on their
plates. but they set every kid six inches
from the table and let him eat till
he touches It. Then they go battle.
Oh, they have a great time.
He said he stood watching them.
one time as they came down the hill.
4 jumping on the spring board and down
came a red headed kid whose hair was
SO red, whenever he'd take sham
poo you could smell burnt omelet for
two blocks. His hair was 80 red they
would raise the insurance rate when
ne went into building. He came
running down there and hitting the
spring board. came up squirting water
I. and he said. That's great" as he
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