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

your brow shall you earn your bread
all the days Of your life"
| / wish they had run and cried
Life! Lifei"
| We have reached a crisis and you
as individuals will reach It. During
the English mutiny In India the
English were surrounded and in the
! battle Of Lucknow. they were Civ.
! ing themselves up to the fate which
they believed. inevitably awaited
| every man ana woman and child
ls3f'.sr-es~ go !. -. = SeIS5g
| ana naass5cse nj .ckHsse,s and men
There were $1,000 Bcpoys clamorfrfy
and thirsting for their blood. And
$4,000 more. The English garrison
was giving itself up to the fate OF
death. when suddenly Mrs. Brown
the wife Of one OF the English Officers
put her car to the ground, and listen
| ed. and she listened. And suddenly
| leaping to her feet. and with her hail
streaming in the wind, she ran and
kcried out as she ran, II hear them
coming!"
And the scottish Highlander
marching to the tune OF annie
Laurie" under tho leadership Of Col
onel Campbell. fell upon the right
wing of the sepoys and beat them
back and paved the ground with Their
dead bodies and set the imprisoned
garrison free.
And by faith can put my ear to
the ground and / can hear them COM
ing into the kingdom of God like
doves to their windows. Thousands
and thousands OF them. We have
reached a crisis. Now the hour has
come to realize, that the church n
not an end but means to an end.
Education. my friends. Ia the end.
the universities or the colleges are
the means to the end Any church
that thinks IL Is an end IL curse TO
any city. Churches are not dropped
as churches OF a certain denomina-
ton. but that church Is put in this
city to try and save this old city for
Jesus Christ, and for no other pur.
poso does she exist.
Thu church my friends. Is the
means TO the end: the end Is saliva
ton OF souls. a friend OF mine told
me he was at one time asked to be-
come a pastor OF a church. That
he thought was the end. lie never
achieved to so much money and so
little religion all his life. He said
they just spent $4,000 on the interior
decorations. and they used to make
their servants sit in the gallery
would not allow them to sit below.
want to say TO you that the woman
who scrubs your fioor and washes your
dirty duds Is as good as you are II she
lives square with Jesus Christ.
II is not down from the psarfcr
to the kitchen. IL Is not down from
the piano TO the wash tub. 1t Is not
down from a pink tea to SCRUB
brush. my friends ii Is rot down from
silk ITO homesl IN. and the man that
drives your car is rs good as you
are, you lobster, IL he trots square.
And he said they never took col
Iections except for charitable pur-
posses, for they had an endowment
fund, The interes. upon which paid
the running expenses of the church.
And they used to come and hug their
sleek well groomed sides and say.
This is our idea OF church" and al
the time the old town was going to
hell so fast you couldn't see it.
Melody was converted and finally
he went around and bought several
hundred copies of Moody's Gospel
the pews In the morning one OF MS
elders came in and shufyled down the
aisle. He had taken SO many pills,
his Joints were bail-bear!ng.
He came down and took pew
and he picked up one or those
hymn books and he dropped II like a
hot potato. He shuffled out and said.
What is that? What in THAR
And the preacher said "A gospei
hymn. sir"
He said. take 'em out. Let's
have the old hymnals'' and he kicked
I'D aaach row that In order that the
ssrvtee might not be spoiled, my
friend went ard got the Basket asass
the sexton gathered them UP and put
the old Dutch hymn books back INTO
the pew.
struggles on to Sucxess-
He struggled along for months and
nooody was converted. He SAID. Il
don't propose tina, any God forsaken.
back Sudden old Official should tell
me how TO preach. IL he knows more
how to preach than I, he ought 70 De
preaching.
So. without calling the ofnciAis to-
getfer. he had thousands OF tickets
printed and hired men to distribute
them. saying that there would be a
gospel service on Sunday night in the
old church. It created a sensation.
Everybody nocked to zee what his
gospel service would be like.swfth that
bunch---it was such an fnoSsation AND
the first hymn they started TO sanS
WAS. Ring the Bells OF Heaven.
There is Joy Today"
My friend said no heard the voice
Of the older elder ring out clear above
the $4,000 soprano up in the choir
loft and this old fellow had o voice
that was a cross between cane mill
and a jackass, And when they got
through they had little after meet
ing ana three young men came weep
Ing on. Of their sins into the king
dom. The old fellow shufY1ed mp to
my friend and said. What kind OF
hymns were they we used tonight I"
My friend said, Gospel hymns"
He said. Bless God, let's sing 'cfn
all the time. Let's use them sunday
morning. put them in PRAYER meeting
You have my consent. Hymns that
will sing like that-iet's rne them AL
the time"
While my friend remained pastor.
hundreds pressed into The Kingdom
OF. God, the people woke up to the
fact that Il was the means to an end.
The eud was the bringing OF people
to Jesus Christ That's the churches
business. The hour has come to
realize Il. and for plainness Of speech
on the part Of the preachers. don't
believe In lighting as one that beats
the afr. believe II you have anything
IN anita 3unixA nut with II. SpeCt1y II.