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

| troubles might come, that demon
/ would never trouble him. though he
| might bear the scars to his dying day,
Goodbye to the demon.
The deepest sorrows ever known are
those that come to you through your
own flesh and blood The deepest sor-
row. that comes to = wife In the sor-
row her husband bringA The deepest
sorrow to q man IL the sorrow hts wife
brings, or to parents the sorrow their
children bring. The deepest sorrow
that comes to humans are those that
come to you through your own flesh
and blood: and the highest joys that
come TO you arc the joys that come
when your own loved ones are max
ing good and are decent and making
the world better because they are iiv-
Ing In it
Gave two sHits" Yearly.
Imagine that father giving twenty
Eve cents a year TO missions as q mark
of gratitude for God casting the devil
out of his SON! Imagine anybody be-
ing sttngy after all that God has done
for them In feeding and clothing and
giving us air to breathe and water to
drink and making life worth while.
people to be decent II to DO . Chris
tian meant to be disreputable.
wouldn't expect any of you to be, but
when IL means to be what God wants
You to be, I haven't any respect for
you. Don't you feel ashamed of your
self Well. IL you don't the Lord pity
yon.
II you have lived as long as You have
and come in here and are not q ChIis-
tian, you ought to hang your head in
shame to think that you have gone
through this world and haven't thrown
your influence on the side of God.
Disciples PuxsleA.
While the father and mother were re-
joicing over the deliverance of their
child from the power Of the devil and
the neighbors were running In to Join
with them. the disciples had gone TO
Jesus privately and asked him the
words of my text why couldn't we
cast him outT'
Now iistent. They didn't ask ono
another. No. They asked the only one
that could tell them, Jesus
preachers meeting is a poor place
! to find out why you have failed You
can't get any light on the subject in
any church paper I. have ever read
You don't have to read books to find
out what your weak spots are. Take
your heartaches and do as the disciples
did. GO to Jesus. and ask why you
failed and he will tell you and he win
tell you how 10 succeed
| / am glad this lesson was not left
told that the disciples failed; am glad
we are told why they failed. II Il had
been left out OF the Bible, never
would have dreamed failure possible to
the disciples who had seen Jesus face
TO face, lived with him. seen him AS he
4 wrought his wonderful works. heard
what ne taught, and received his ex-
PLANTATION to his teaching. and Il would
never have entered my mind that the
disciples could have known the same
heartaches that we know today, and WE
are apt to think that they were chosen
vessels of choicer mold and that Their
enjoyed IA perfection which Is not ours
GOD Can Repeat.
That tsn't true What God did 70,
them he can dosfor you today II yor
will do what they did what God did
for them he win do for the people o,
this city. They failed and because
they failed. we can learn how to sue
coed. for we,can learn what made them
Ifaii- and then unless we are fools WI
VIII avoid the same thxng. That il ths
lsshsas proposition. z, II ron know thai
drinking impure water gavs YOU
neighbor typhoid fever. you are a bis
fool to 20 and drink the same kind o,
water. because II win do the same
thing for You.
I what Causes F~iiure.s
Now then. when we see what causei
many people such fools as to 90 ans
do the same thing? Tho man who VIII
60 in and spend all his money on drfnl
knows II will hasten his ruin. And tn,
girl who goes down with that wIlt
4 gang and dances and sits around ant
hits the booze. she knows IL cause tn,
ruination Of three-fourths Of tho. Nv,
hnndred thousand prostitutes IN tn,
country and that II will Just do fo1
\ her what II does for tho rest Of them
Why. they think that the man tina
! stands up ana warns them is tHei,
enemy he fs.>the best friend they eve,
listened to. He's trying to put then
next
don't want your virtue. am no
looking for your money. want Il
! warn you of the other fellow that doe,
want It. don't want your money,
am trying to warn you OF some bod,
else that does want Il / don't want It
want your soul and God wants you,
soul. he wants you to live right. an
trying to teach yop how.
Knew TAey Failed.'
/ am glad to- know that the dis
! ctpies knew they had failed. halieluiah
and I am glad they were dissatisf1e q
with the fact that they had failed and
!, am glad to know that they wanted Il
learn how to succeed There In hope
!, for the fellow who has lost his wa,
anu ~ au1fouS ABOUT IL. There 10 lit.
tie hope for the fellow who think,
he is right and keeps right on unit
he stumbles over tho cliff down int
the canyon. They knew they had failet
J. and fallen short Of doing what she dis,
cipies OF Jesus should do.
Over shooting gallery out in Butte
Montana. friend Of mine raw thii
sign. "If you can't find out why yos
miss you viii never hit the butts eye.'
i II You can't md out why You fan
you win never succeed. II You haven't
got sense enough TO know what made
you fall you win never succeed Find
ont, That IL true OF every life In thu
world. The doctor doesn't give thu
medicine until he finds out what In tn,
matter. That is why he does it.
Ia-r Ia Your Life q FalluFey
Il The, frst step to success 10 to find
out that you have failed. The secont
step Is to md out why you failed Arr
you making failure of your Chris.
tian life? Are you no good? Well
there is a reason for It, This n NOT .
world OF chance. God don't wind X ar
and then throw the key away and lei
her rip tilh she runs down Nothing
comes by accident There IL a cause
for everything There n a cause fol
; that light blazing above my head-ths
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