The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-08

lin the garrett and run 1t down in the
cellar.
Years ago a young fellow walked
into the office of old Cornelius Van
derbilt, old Commodore Vanderbilt,
and he said Il can stop trains with
air"
| Vanderbilt drove him out OF his
office-thought he was crazy. He
said. Get out of here with your non
sense"
! >.ssss NSe-sst ~ &c. TT c-:,
] k1.:,' ssnaacs L. The lvouus tcCrs
name was George Westinghouse. Van
derbilt drove him out Of the office.
A few years Eater the Legislature OF
New York passed a btu making Van
derbih put Westinghouse airbreaks on
his trains. What would we do with
out the Westinghouse air brakes to-
day? 1t wouldn't be possible to go a
the speed our trains do today Af il
wasn't for them.
:, They sneered at WESTINGHOUSE
when he said he could stop a train
with air. pump the air out Of tank
and stop the train. They said, I'll
can't be done!"
The preaching of the cross liz tc
them that perish. foolishncss." So al
these things were foolishness, and
am not surprised to find that PEG.
pie think religion is foolish. too. The
are foolish, the Y. NJ. and Y. w. c. A
are foolish.
/ What was foolishness yesterday. II
Ipower today. There 1t Is: What
was tooiishnexs .estei day is pow !:
today.
Send a cablegram 10 Europe. wha.
was fooiishncss yesterday Is powe:
today.
Get on a railroad train here and
get off in San Francisco. What was
lfoolishness yesterday is power today
/ said the first wagon-wheel wal
all nonsense. but Is became the pho
neer that made travelling mile q
minute possible.
Steam was fooiishness. but toda,
steam Is turning our wheels. driving
our machinery, shooting our railroad
trains over the country and oul
great steamships over the sea.
Il Electricity was all foolishness. bu
today Il eliminates our homes. ou
public odifices, and we apply X II
our mechanical pursuits.
i Religion All Right.
And these and thousand other
things were foolishncss. because we
were the fools. not the thing we con
wrong because you condemn it, YOU
are the foot. Religion Is all right
You are the fool.
And all Of these things became q
power to US when we had sense
enough to take hold of them in a wa.
! SO that they could be blessing tt
us. SO 1t In with religion. All thes'
, things were waiting to do US goot
in the world. There n only n steI
| hOf NJ n 1<
because you will not take that step In
= way that can be convincing &c
you. you are missing that power.
| Two young men. when they firs
put the trolley cars out, were cross
ing a bridge underneath which ran ~
interurban line. One of them said
They say there is power enough il
that little copper wire to kill n maj
it he takes hold Of il"
The other said, That's nonsense
He reached over and grabbed hols
of the wire. and fell. q corpse, to tn,
} road below.
/ My text comes like the word o
judgment, and divides the world Int,
just two classes. Oh. we divide ricl
. and poor. black and white. learne'
I and iliiterate, native and foreign
just two classes-Saved and lost
I That Is all there Is to the world .
! far as God Almighty looks upon it
. saved, lost
: What u foolishness to An unsave,
man 10 power to = saved man. 1t .
foolish ness to you because You hav
: never put yourself In relationship Il
: 1t 20 II can prove its power. 1t /
power to us because we have sub
mitted and we know from expert
= ence Therefore, the one who In
D submitted to II knows, and hAv
\ never seen an tnndel this side OF hel
4 whose opinion I will take In prefer
. ence to that Of q preacher or any
body else.
r One fellow aya There II nothinl
I to 1t He hasn't tried Il.
something to It." He has tried It. II
has got sense: this fellow has go
And It IL power Of the highest or
y der. too. because 1t II the power o
!. 0od.
/. II the Bible Is nonsense and fool
. ishness to you. You ought to b
u than the young man who was kilie
= by taking hold Of tho live wire. HI
ignorance OF electricity desuoye
=, him. and you viii perish II the Bibl
- is no more to you than any 0the
book. and II Jesus Christ In not NOR
to you than any other man, you ar
lost God pity the peril of your posi-
toni
~ Salvation Through Jesus.
~ Now, IL II impossible to be save
z and not know jesus There u n
l. salvation outside Of Jesus. It Is i'm
possible to have knowledge withou
o being learned. Latin and Greek ar
% all nonsense to the man that know
r nothing about II. but to the man VII
knows about It. 1t = knowledge an
It IL power.
~ The finest music fails ON unmusics
! ears, but to musical ears Il 10 charm
ing. sing the same tune to q
a song1-Yankee Doodle. They're .
y alike to me. Every time . man Q