The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-03

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$50 .ne queens request. he sent the
ring back to her as an appeal for her
pardon, and one of her maids-in-
waiting, countess LOT Nottingham.
had sought to engraft her affection
into those of the Earl OF Essex. and
he spurned her advances. and like the
poverbiai worm. she turned.
They gave her the ring. She
withheld the ring, from sheer spite.
and when the queen learned that he
had been arrested she was too proud
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sleep forsook her couch. She de-
MED herself friends and she refused
food. The days went by and all
night ton~ she would be awake, think
ing about him.
The night before the day OF exc
cution. she paced the palace. She
would wiring her hands and sob and
moan in grief Shed frame her
face IN the window and look out
through the darkness. tryin% to catch
a glimpse of light OF the messengers
coming with the ring as an appeal
, They didn't come. The day dawned
and the axe OF the headsman cleaned
in the air and the head of her lover,
the Earl OF Essex, rolled in the dust;
and when she learned that he had
sent the ring and that the Countess
Of Nottingham had withheld Il, she
few a. her and would have torn her
heart from her breast and trampled
| IL beneath her feet II friends hadn't
have interceded and torn her from
her. And from that day until on her
death bed she cried. with $500 dresses
hanging in her wardrobe. her Jewels
by the peck. she moaned and said
"Afl my possessions for one moment
to time" for broken hearted Queen
Elizabeth never knew surcease from
sorrow
The Real Encmy.
And there is one enemy that keeps
Jesus Christ away from You tonight:
you will not acknowledge that you
might have that pardon. for He Of
fers It to you.
What shall dor Not what shall
! do--tust cut me out OF it. forget me.
7 settled that question thirty years
ago when 7 cast myself at His feet
one dark. stormy night In Chicago.
I took Him to my heart I never
regretted il and never will. Not
just leave me out OF It. No,
Some questions concern nations
some concern states some concern
cities, some concern familles--bu,
shan I do!" wait a minute. May
be I can help you 10 decide II: that
is the reason I am preaching this SER
mon tonight.
/ What shall do7" Not with
Caesar. not with the Old Testament,
not with the Jews. not with politics
Jesus Christ will determine the sal.
walton or the damnation OF others
: No man or woman on earth. no mat.
/ ter how low down or high up car
confine the results OF your acts &c
yourself what you do influences
other people. They are either damn
ed or pleased by whatever you do
SO Just remember what you are do
: ing. II isn't for you alone. Others
do by what you do.
, What shall dor Suppose thc
Jews and the priests had accepted
Jesus Christ as their saviour What
! the Pharisaes did damned them for.
ever. and what Zacchaeus did cannon.
! lied him. They said he spake a.
never man spake. They said, The
world has gone after Him. He has
lived as no other man has ever iiv.
( ed
The people said He was The Messiah
fIe was the king OF the Jews. the Sor
of God.
What shall dor'' I do not pre-
sent Jesus Christ to you as the high
est type OF manhood No, ~ouldn's
Insult Him that way. I present Him
as the Bible presents Him. the Son o.
God. the Savior of the world. The
Bible doesn't present Jesus as the
, llighes. type OF nanhood--not at all
It presents Hiu, from another stand
point
| You have difficulty in believing
/ His divinity will tell you. that ID
because you measure Him by the
rules you apply 10 men. ard you al
ways will. You Just put Him In The
God class and it won't be a difiicul
thing for you to understand H. fot
measure Jesus by the task He came
TO perform. and the task He came te
perform was not man'e task. Nc
man could do It. no man ever has o,
ever will. No. man aspiring to ne d
God could. but God condescending {,
be man could do II,
I Years ago literary debate Wa
held IN London. at which Thomas
| Carlyle was present. and the lad.
hostess Of the evening was hemoan
ing the fact that the Jews had spurn
cd and repudia'ed Jesus, She ended
her TRADE and structures by makins
this appeal to Carlyle:
''If Jesus had lived In our day
how gladly we would have sat at Ht
feet. listening to the divine precepts
and with what pleasure and aiacrit!
we would have performed His slight
es, request. would we mott"
No" snapped the old Scotch Gym
ic. He said: Madam. II Jesus Chris
had lived in our days as He did IL
the DAYS when He WAS on this earti
had He come spending money lik'
| water. wearing clothes of the iates
fashion, preaching doctrines palat
able for the highest social orders. NJ
doubt He would have been privileged
to receive from you an invitation
which would have been printed:
To meet our Savior at my home
Thursday evening. ten, S:lS.'
But X Jesus had lived in our da,
as In the DAVIS when be was on THU
earth, had He hurled His anathemaI
into tho ranks OF sinners. little. low
rich and poor. no doubt you wouie
have been one OF the first to hav,
dashed upon Him and cried:
Away with the long haired fanatic
to Newgate ana hang HIM"
/ Don't you imagine for one minute
that yon have got to go back nineteer
hundred years TO find men and wo
men vile and rotten and low-dowr