The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12
AY EXPORTS HIS HEARERS TO OPEN THEIR HEARTS

to this world. It was the very last.
and man repudiatcd 1t In bitterness
and blood when they spat upon him
and nailed him to the Cross and drove
the spear into his side.
God said: well, II men will not rev.
erence my love manifest In the fiesh
and blood through my only begotten
Son, what can ] do to save them. II
they haven't respect for my love, az
have shown 1t through Jesus
You can show your lave ID gig
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showed hia love by the gift Of his only
hegotten Son. He said: -If men re-
fuse that, what can / do to keep them
out Of eternal damnation
But they did, and they spurned
him. All have been. or are. or wiz
be husbands, sors or fathers. and in
the relationship Of Father and Son.
God knew he'd strike the cord that
would find more responses than any
other relationship. and appeals. to us
on the basis OF that relationship. My
friends. God tried to block mans way
Ito hell God did everything he could
and he is doing 1t now.
Ever been to Chicago? Ever been
down to the Lake Shore depot7 There
stand two trains on parallel tracks
= They are SO close those In one train
can talk to the occupants OF the other
train or shake hands. II they wish.
They are both headed In the same
| direction. The man calls Get out of
that train. That's the wrong train.
You are on the wrong track"
Those trains run On parallel tracks
| for six miles until they reach Engle-
wood Then the Lake Shore train
swings off to tho left and hurries
down through the sand hills and
! sand dunes Of Indiana. 1t skins
| along the southern shores OF lake
Erie. Then 1t PUSHES into the Union
! depot Of Buffalo. down through the
| Mohawk Valley OF New York. crosses
the valley. ruslles down TO the Forty
SECOND street depot and stops at the
| Atlantic Seaboard. painting.
| The other IL the Rock Island rail-
| road. She swings off to the right and
| hurries along and crosses the Mis-
sissippi at Davenport. II hurries out
through the garden spots of Iowa.
crosses the Missouri river at Omaha,
dips down through Lincoln. Neb,,
down through Denver, Colo, through
| Colorado Springs. Pueblo, Canyon
City. 1t then goes up through the
Royal Gorge, up to the San de Cristo
range, and at last she stops at the
| Golden Gate where the setting sun
! looks like Il huge ball of fire drop
ping to sleep In the Pacific.
What about the ends of the road,
| 5000 miles apart?
| I see two lives They start from
, the same home, the same church, the
| same surroundings. and the same city
and they go side by side until they
reach the age of accountability. One
! accepts Jesus Christ, the other re-
! iects him. What about the ends of
the way? Heaven and he'll are the
! ends of the road
Then God started out my friends,
and tried his best He sought
through The songs of poets To warn
men 10 fee from hell, and God placed
! in prophecy mountain, Mount Cal
vary. There is where the road de-
fleets.
] We all walk on the same road un-
Lii We reach the age OF accountability.
don't know anything about This
state but in Illinois. the law says a
child OF ten years is old enough ~
| know right from wrong. They take
a child OF ten years of age out ot
your home and put IL in IA reforma-
tory.
Then there stands the cross. II
points to the right and to the left
and God placed right there where
the road defects my friends. the
cross and the emblem of hope and
peaSc ana JOY anu siduHeSs. mingled
with sorrow. just as the smile shines
| through the tears. and the rain bow
through the spray.
The Stumbling Block.
Az Joseph Parker said. the cross
was the stumbling block over which
the waves OF eternal love of God
broke into spray When John said
For God so loved the world. tina,
he gave his only begotten Son, that
whatsoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life