The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-27

them up carly it will injure business
ana drive trade away"
He went out and used his influence
+; ne was wealthy man too. and stood
high, In the lodge and church. and
no defeated the proposition. His
uaughter married young fellow IN
that town who had learned to drink
IN the saloons. and after hours too
when they ought to have been closed
Ihey were married and they went Ia
/ a western city, a year and a halt
. Ihsys!1 gone by and he staggered home
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by drink. She chided him because OF
1t and he whipped out his revolver and
sent three bullets crashing through
ner body and as the clock on the man.
Tie struck twelve she fell dead.
Chickens Come Home to Roast.
| some day. Don't think you can beat
Some years ago there was n
western contractor in New York Il
read OF how he had many reverses
ana he lost his fortune and he had
poverty staring him in the face when
friend of his. a wealthy man. call
ed him and said to him: Here are
specifications and plans and / want
you to build a house according to it,
He said: Il have estimed the cost
and deposited the money In the bank
for you to check against to pay it,
and he said, GO ahead and build
hat house. / want to help YOU He
said: Here's my check, I'll give you
all that you can save on the amount
or my estimate"
So the fellow went to work and
he hired incompetent workmen and
put In shoddy material and when the
mouse was completed he walked into
the office of his friend and said: 1T
is complete. and there Is so much
lett q forget the amount) and the
man turned to him and handed him
the key and said: Here. take it and
move your wife and children In there.
Here's the deed to it"
And the fellow said to himself as
he went out: 'If ia known that, I'd
have built a better house. I've built
a mighty poor house to live In
And when you are going out and
committing sin, you are building "A
mighty poor house to live intake 1t
from me. Take IL from rne, don t
let the spirit OF yourself dwell among
those that are saturated and wreck
ed with aches and pains that wouldn't
be there IL you would pray. And il
y
TO do, 1t wouldn't be there.
No matter what appearances are,
there is no profit IN doing wrong, and
II you live tr God He will see that
you have a living. mo good thing
will ! Withhold from them that walk
uprightly."
Virtue has never been straved to
death yet and it never will either
David said: once I was young, but
w -
the righteous forsaken nor his seed
begging bread"
And SIN can be truly measured only
when resisted and ii you want 10
know what n power sin has over you,
just resist 1t and see. just try to
get up and walk down here and take
your stand for Christ The only true
way to measure sin is to resist it. You
let fellow who has an appetite FOR
drink try and resist his desire for
drink and see how strong the power,
see how weak he lis.
II you want to measure the power
of sin. / say, resist It. Just try It,
1t Is the only true way to do Il in
the world. And sin often makes one
afraid to know themselves. There
are people who know how strong sin
Is over them and they are really
afraid to do anything for God AL
mighty because they don't want to
know how weak they are. A lot OF
people are afraid to come &c this tab
ernacle because IL they do they will
be converted and they are afraid to
really know how weak they are. That's
the whole thing in nut shell. They
are afraid to know themselves. Afraid
to do anything that will mako them
know themselves. To know how real
ly strong the devil has his grip on
them.
And God will lead you to victory
by directing grace The moment ri
accept Jesus Christ as my Savior and
give my heart to God. the Holy Spirit
comes to dwell in me, a power In
my life to help me to resis' sin.
friend OF mine was over in Flor
snce, and he was going through the
art gallery and he stopped in front
81 a world famed master piece and n
man sat there copying 1t.
He got consent and my friend lean
ID over his shoulder and looked at
he master piece, then at the copy and
he dog the fellow was making. He
said he couldn't help but laugh to
hing what a poor reproduction he
was making. He said as he went out
he thought that il that man had the
mind OF the fellow that painted the
he could have repro
iuced 1t as well as the master but