The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-14

Il. and it's up to you as to whether
you get II or not So you do your
part and the blessing win be yours,
There ts power in the man or woman
| who abhoss xiR--hates it. The ashes,
my friends. Of the martyrs is the seed
of tho church. Those who resist sin
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John VsTssr during the last Years
| of his life, was an inveterate sufferer.
He never knew what IL was to be free
| from pain unless under the influence
| Of an opiate. and he'd walk the floor
and he'd fall prone upon the lounge
and groan, while beads of perspira-
| ton would burst from his brow and
then he'd smile through his grief and
| wiring his hands and say:
Thank God, how much better 1t
| fy TO suffer than 10 sin"
Let that be your motfo--die be-
fore you do anything that would dis
grace God A brave man IN the man
who would scrape the bottom of the
meal barrel In order TO do rigtt.
A brave man is one who will die
before he will do anything to make
his wife ashamed that she married
him, or those children that call him
father: that's the brave person in the
world
DIR. Guthrie. m one of his sermons,
tells about n fellow. a farmer who
WAS driving = lot of hogs and sheep
to town for tho market. all of which
he had carefully washed. They came
to whore a mudpuddle stretched from
fence to fence and yon know hogs
have al affinity for mud. and the
sheep have G repulsion for Ii, and
when the hogs caught sight of the
mud they bursted every attempted
barrier Of restraint and they ran and
plunged In and soon nothing could be
seen protruding but the tin OF their
ears and their nose and the sheep
stood bleattng on the edge OF the
mud puddle and they jumped the
fence in order to get around and
evade the mud
Oh, the world can ten whether
you're a hog or steep! The world
can ten whether you're led by the
flesh or by the spirit! Not as many
as have been baptized or immersed
Not as many as know the catechism,
long and short Not as many as
know the thirty-nine articles OF con-
fessicn- Not a. many as have been
confirmed lyon can be confirmed
every fifteen minutes;) but sls many
~ are I'D BY the spirit Of God. They
are the sons OF God.
Not every one that's got their name
on tho church record--some of the
biggest devils this side of hen are in
tho church / have met them In all
my twenty years OF work, up and
down the land. arm glad to tell you
| they are IN the sad minority, but
| Judge religion by that bunch. not at
| ALL
World Cxn T>elI Attitude
| Ths world can tel your attitude!
Jesus Christ had his struggle the
same as you had yours, or / mine. and
| by relaxing hts resistance TO sin--oh
: he could have avoided a great deal OF
i pain and hardship. BY relaxing ms
resistance and by preaching doctrines
that were palatahle to the Pharisees
they would have appiauded him and
voted him a member of their clique
but Jesus Christ couldn't please God
and that bunch of hignbrows at the
same time, 20 he told them where to
head in. That was the crowd thai
nailed him to the Cross.
He could have preached-oh.
could preach "a gospel that woult
please everybody in this city except
the decent people: / could staad VI
land say:
Wen. now yea. If you want tt
drink, that's matter of conscience
but don't get too dunk. i wouIdn't
20 too far: be careful; don't get
caught at it,
+ could 20 OF and with great ap.
parent earnestness could preach like
that and there wouldn't be a single
old pairted-face. gum-chewing, pen.
cil-eyebrowed, Emphatic, dognatic
lphlegmatc. rheumatic old society
dame that looks at you through !
singie-barreiled eyegiass--there woult
not be a single brewer or an old distil.
Ter or a whtzk ey-soak or a hlasphe
mer, or q gambler, or a madam OF ths
red light or any o< the God -forsa ken
fniQutcua, buffoons, rapactou= menda
icious poltroona. and sexual and mora
pervert, triple mountebanks of In
fanny and rotten degcnerates that feet
and fatten and gormaDdize upon tn.
virtue of otheFs--they would say
Hes . real nice little preacher. II
been given to understand he was vui
gar and crude"
I used to SO into a town to preach
and would be there n week or tw,
weeks before anybody knew / WIS |,
town, but II I'd 10 now and couldn'
STIR that gang up, I'll think / has
cksafdden myself
'Ye are my witnesses, sairif tn,
Lord God OF hostA"
hear q hot OF people pray: 20 God
give me power"
Ton waste your breath, The Civ
ing OF yourself precedes power. Firs
they gave their own selves to tn
Lord. then the power came, and yo,
can pray until you haven't got a hal
on your head between you and bel
and God viii never hear your prayer
Then. the prayer you offer has go
TO be. God be merciful to me. sin
ner." Then God will save you. The
you can pray God to bless you and h
Twin bless you. Don't pray God to bles
tyou ~ long as you are an old sinner
he won't do IT. II you repent of you
sins, then God VIM biess you and h
win be mighty glad OF tho chance t
lido It
j Sc TIRE Lard, nay friends, rs lookiu
for people who are willing to be empt
OF self that they might be filled wit
his win. We don't need more Of God
God needs more Of you and of you
influence and Of your money and o
your power to save this old world.
900. 80 no!tsevft ETAOl
Il Major Whitney's Dcafhbeti.
II My friend. Major whitney. when h
laid on what proved Co be his death
bed, called his daughter to him an
he said: Ruth, how far can you see :?
She strol!ed to tho window an
looked ont and said: "Oh. guess
, ImiIe---maybe two, Pa. Why?"
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