The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12

VVPo viii sell themselves into th(
slavery OF sin, for the grati1catioI
o. pleasure. and they will give -
hours they should have devoted n
self Improvement for the gratifrsl
ton OF pleasure. They will bred
the laws or health and stumble ;n,l
premature graves to crafty .hai1
Jtr'hhtnR &ssrjssts-(Se-'< UT. y T.,z !.
!, - frssl,s' ~ ,,si,sA ,sss.el,j.,s. 4ear-s4
( the wards OF hospital saw this. LvI
inv on the bed was fine iookin
fellow. So far as the outward ava
dence was concerned. YOU could ~
/ no Indication of disease
Ny friend enid to tho doc.cYl
What about thai young fellow? ri
doesn't look as though he vas s,ct \
! lie answered. HE IL afflicted witI
a disease, and it's gnawirx ia val
into the jugular veins He /. paw
ing the price OF his sins He euwsJ
to the wind. he is reaping to mi
whirNwtnd. 1t is already eating int.l
the thin walls and with a little extra
txertfon, there will be a hemhorra -
There is nothing on earth tina, ca n
stop it,
! They hadn't rome to TIE end al
the room and returned. until ind
walls gave way and the crimson shoI
from his mouth ard nose Oh yo.I
: paw the price OF your sins,
II You would seek GOD ~ I'll, tn
perseverance, that YOU seek pleasure
! Go down town tonight through thj
saloons and cabare s ard no ols arJ
the i1aunts o: sin, Look at then, .oI
night. What for? Seeking Tor pleas
! ure. oh. II they'd aeek God isse IN.
seek that there wouldn't be IN
OF them that woult put theiy head al
pillow ard SO to Slssp win y
wrath Of God with them Iiesv9y
would be smiling or them ms cad al
..cii ieaping ur and cheering
d Another thing that people ace
after is the qualification o. thesI
am bitten. You ie: man becoro
am bilious for the accomplish men
OF anything In he wor'i ara he d
srolle6 for everything else althousiI
/ the ambition may be camHe ndah,eI
! Whist won't men DO for political
] recognition today? They will ponI
out their money like water and terlj
Light into day They viii ,oi, I'D
years To reach excellence and euud
cation in science. captains 81 indasI
try, all things which are rom mend
able
Look a. CoiU.nb bus He het.a~,5
sArll hif ious to discover a nvu world
Not exactly that. but when be start
ed he said, Il can sail west md rel
turn east" They said. "You'rj
! crazy
Result OF Ambition.
lie was ambitious He 0-ent ircu1
plae To place. from city to cits}
MY TO meet with rebuff. until al
st Ferdinand and isabella put u
their jewels and furnished the monev
He sailed ana discovered the nes
j world.
Audubon became ambitious 10 So
coed. He took his gun. he took hi
pencils. his pads of paper, and bad.
podhs To civilization. lie wenI
through the forests and studied tn !
habits and customs ~ birds and thei
oiorings. He classified them. studies
the food they ate. the things they aidI
and recorded them,
! with the result OF years OF woYs
he came back. He nu. the reeor.
IN an oaken chest, ard the rat
gnawed, a hole through II and the
made nests out OF his Iahors. Vine
Audubon oneneS the chest. he founs
II all In wrecksge.
Not discou rcd, he put his gut
on HIS shoulder and with his pencil
and pads Of paper he babe goodhy +
10 civilization He plunged into II |
fores. Listen to me, IL $bu wan
to know anything about birds, AS
Audubon, He il the last word. n
i 81 the ambition brought II to US to |
iav,
a p>sn watched woman threai
a needle lie said. There % 81
easier way 10 = 1t than that" III
toiis,4 and II friends hadn't furnish |
ed the money to keep his ehildresI
from starving 70 death he'd hav
had 70 80 10 the poorhouse. Hi
finished. and we owe a debt OF graft
Fsr tv,s~ 4
chine and all the rnarveis II ha-
brought 10 the world, Ambition 4
certainly valuable whether that am
bition ls commendabie or not.
Listen that's what they do. LOOT
ut Napoleon. He became am hitiou
to conquer. I'D all Europe eouldu'
afford a pillow large enough for him
to rnst his head. And str. they push |
ed him out upon 81. Helenas harres|
rocks where he frowncd from IN !
pinnacle OF the worlds hate. Tonirh
IA that monument on The hank OF tn
Seine he sleeps with his marsha
about him. ,....-.. .- ..,. ..sas
Alexander the Great became am
hitious He won his first bath
when he was eighteen. lie Wa
king OF Macedonia when he ysI
twenty. Ee sat upon the ehercssoI
, the Aegean sea, wrapped thy
NrtreFfSS OF MS tt5-t n apNut Niity
sae&thed his sword after II hal
drunk the blood of conquered
world and crept into his grave
on'" twenty-five years OF age.
William Pitt, prime minister q
England was only twenty FIVE. an
although he was matched againa|
, such intellectual geniuses as Fc4
and Burke. yet they were all corn
PEELED to lift their hats 10 the Eerui
of William Fit
A man becomes ambitious. III
succeeds IN politics. In war he sue
ce"ds in science, in discovery II y
, all coInmendabie certainly. l a..
plnud . man who Is ambitious. bu
Great God, Why shouldn't = ma
be eqrally ambitious to go to Heaven /
Why should he be ambitious to turl
his back on God. That's all l an
asking
Seek We the Lord In seekini
health. there Is no sure way to md
IT, You may so to the doctor unit
.our money Is gone. and then yous
he disappointed. You may seek lit
under the surgeons knife. and yc@
will siId shroud and a coffin. Yoy
may lose out,
Men have devoted their lives
IS king gold. only to find nothing j.
the end. and die in squalor and poy
erty.
Pleasures. Oh. they nit by lik