The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-23

sn old gossip. Keen your old mouth
shut, Then they will have some re-
spect fos you. want 10 say to you
that this old wprld would be a mighty
good world IL everybody would mind
their own darned business. YOU bet
iyear life I notice these people that
iare always tstting into somebody else 4
iVTairs oon't even attend 10 their own,
iff they'd let other folks alone. they'd
aes along g asrned stght better. Fray
Gsa - N@tp yea 20 save someone.
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Wee Sf@tts asde A4a j. tserpea ont into
the Audseree ara spoke 20 . bright,
xnsrry Sou7r fesisw ssers seventeen.
Ais father had fess died and the viii
was nFohasea ard aesy this fellow about
\ sisa.eaa lie tAcrxAt every girl in
to~S was breaking Aer TOO, neck to
marry s3rn. ue was ss chesty you
eenlan't gwt Within forty <e~t Of him.
! sstdn't knew tits at the tim. spoke
! To HIM I walked acwe and said.
How do yea de- Are ycu Chris
ton and no gave me TIRE cid shoui-
/ der and he said. Ne
/ said. "Yun ought to Dr."
| He said Forget IT,
/ And said to him. oh q bright look
( ing young fellow like you. with a good
lsuit--you didn't buy that IN Sears-Roe-
| buck or Montgomery and Wards: that
looks like tailor m ade~--why. a young
fellow like you. you don't mean that
/ He said. II don't care about your rc-
! iigion, sir"
YOU don't care whether von GO 10
heaven or hem-"
/ He said, mo"
| ] said. Wen, all right. go to hell.
then." / said, There arc only two
places to go. and It's dead sure you're
not going TO heaven"
| And said to him. Now look here,
young fellow. n live I'm this town
| fifty years, TIL never ask you to be a
Christian again; Tn through"
/ The next day I was out talking q lit
| Tie walk with Mrs. Sunday and met
this young fellow. He'd been down to
q sale and bought several head Of high
blood cattle. and he was driving them
home. He paid 5000 for one. And
wa1ked down the road with him a mile.
nd he tried to open up the subject OF
! religion but sidestcpped. and
talked about everything under heaven
hut religion ! wouldn't mention It TO
him.
The second night afterwards gave
the iBvit8tfon and the first one to come
forward was this young fellow. who
took me by the hand and gave his heart
to Jesus Christ. said. II thought ron
told me you didn't care whether you
went TO h6atsn or heli"'
He said. I've changed my mind. I've
! haen In hell for three days. and don't
want arv more" 10
] said TO him. what was II that
brought you here
/ One Between fhe Eyes,
/ He said. when I told you that I
didn't care whether 7 went to heaven
or he'll. ard you said there are only
two places to 30 so Id have to go TO
he'll because I surely wasn't going to
heaven" he said, ~ haven't been able
10 sleep since. hardly. l just realized
wouldn't save my soul" He said.
That's what brought me down here,
because you gave me one right square
| between the eyes"
| Then pray God to give power TO what
vou say. and 10 carry on the work after
you are through, There are soeciai en-
documents you need: First, clean
hands, pure heart David said. TT I
regard iniqulty in my heart. God won't
hear me-" And second. n wise head.
! The church OF God needs a baptism Of
horse renEe today-preachers and all
the rest OF us, Good horse Renae! 7
tell you that's what we need--a wise
head!
Forces to wtn-you need love, love
desire to see them saved. That's
what you have I'm your home. II
! loved one is sick you desire TO see
! them well and you spend your money
| to get the best physician In the
country. I don't blame you: you
ought to have concern to see people
well. but you ought to be concerned
! TO see people saved Wouldn't yon
Z .rs.$ssv9 sTssvs everybody iii efa fsicff-
mond praying than eursing: Wouldn't
| you rather have everybody going
home sober than drunk? Wouldn't
| you rather have every man and wo-
man pure than impuref Wouldn't
tho community ami the nation be oct
ter? Certainly, tell you. n nation
OF drunkards can't whip nation of
sober people nor nation of libar-
! IN the world And the more u man
or woman lives in Gin. the less snd
less they become a part OF the nation
| any individual or anybody.
SO We want a company OF people
that ara constantly alive. fun OF faith.
dead in earnest thoroughly awake.
always at II for Jesus Christ. That's
wonderful things for other things.
why not for religion? haven't any
sympa thy for the man or woman that
you have to drive to make some sac
rif1ce for the cause or Jesus Christ.
| Men do ii for other things.
/ Were Always at It.
/ Why, Newton used to study All
night Just to get thought or two
and frame 1t into a sentence. and
/ Reynolds would sit with a pencil in
! his hand for thirty-six hours and
refuse food and sleep just in order to
write An ode you can. read in two or
! three minutes And Carey transIat ed
| tho Bible SO that three hundred mil
! Ion people can read 1t that couldn't
| read 1t before. And Wesley used to
! travel five and seven thousand miles
n year on horseback and do most of
tNs studying and great deal of his
resting in that way Peter Cartwright.
| the itinerant Methodist preacher OF
! Illinols-his circuit was from Cairo
down at the south to Galena on the
| north. and he used to swim his horse
| five and ter times a day. He'd come
| to a stream. undress, tie his clothes
| on his back. swim his horse across.
dress and ride on, preaching the gos
pei to the people on the prairics of
Illinois; and II overtaken by night,
he'd sleep out with the wolves and
| the coyotes bowling around him. He'd
| build fire. for It IL known that Wild
animals fear fire. That's what men
dfd to rrcach the wrsynaf NJ Teens