The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-22
LILY SUNDAY EXHORTSHIS HEARERS TO EMULATE JOl

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, God, He II either deaf. dumb or blind
There Is no use. There II no use"
n Jobs wife knew what kind OF re
| ligton he had. the same A. evcry man'i
wife knows IT. wonder how many Of
what your wife knows about your re-
iligion7
Now that strikes some Of 70,
preachers. And Jobs rsligion- Oh! 4
hit the devils business every time. NJ
far ~ oan And out Netiee how con.
fare Of his children and when the
days of their .faasting WAS gone Jct
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letsfsrsd burnt offefing according K
the number OF children
Job said. EFT may be that my sons
have sinned and cursed God in their
hearts" thus did Job continually. He
wanted everybody in his family te
be right with God and to keep right
!eutward forms, he wanted them right
In their hearts. although he was busy
and had big business interests. as any
man aa wealthy, as we are told. was
the greatest man OF tho East.
| He took time TO keep the fires
burning on the family altar. Oh!
where In the religious man today II
he had rs much business ON hand rs
Job; whenever he attempts TO pray
he punches his vito and children In
hts prayer to save time. I can see
some Of you fellows crawl out Of bed
q little bit late and you viii bolt your
breakfast and grab your cup OF coffee
and sinker, and grab your Bible
and turn to tho i17th Psalm that only
has two verses and drop on your
knees and aay God bieas my vito,
my son John" and then bury your
face In q Newspaper IN Jour limousine
or I'm the subway.
The Motions of wox1hfp
| oh! they Just go through the mo-
tiops OF worship and God has TO take
The tag end of everything. Isn't that
a fact? Why sure!
| Another reason why the devil was
against job was his wealth. Listen
in all his possessions OF all the men in
the Last. Job was the Vanderbilt.
Aston. Rockefeller. II his country.
Richest man. best man, moat religious
man II that colhtnaticn was not
lenough TO keep the dsvn ON tho jump
you tell me what was
| Wouldn't II DO great when you
wanted to know who waa TIE best
man to go down and find ont who has
tho most on deposit In tho bank; 80
to the court house ano find out who Is
paying the most taxes
Whenever wealth ana piaty be-
come synonofnous terms Tire devil
will be out of job.
Soms OF the nobiest men and
women I have never met have been
men and women Of wealth. / have
lno patience no sympathy with the
God toraaksr mutt who will loaf
sroun6 tho street corner. stand On a
,ary goods box or hang around Nadi-
son Square and got Up and damn a
man that has au honest dollar. expect
ling everybody to go out and divvy up
with that God fnrsaken bunch that
hangs around the stale beer Joints
and hit the suds-
Now one of the hardest things for
God Is to find people that he can
trust with money. II liz as oasy for
God TO give wealth as it Ia for him
TO give sunshine. mo good thing
will nc ithold from than that walk
luprightIy" ana you will be like a
tree planted by the rivers OF water.
that bringeth forth its fruit In sea-
son" blessed shall be the increase
OF thy flocks and OF thy herds"
sometimes II is o through ticket to hell
, to .he fellow that owna T. There
wa day when the sons OF God came
to present themselves before the Lort
and satan came aIso4~
, don't know when tAe devil Ars'
started going to church. but no ven
, to church in Jobs time and he has not
missed a meeting since The devil II
rs sure TO be At church an q Sunday
, lechool picnic is apt to DO scattered BY
a thunderstorm.
The Lord said. "Dsva. whore die
you como from
The devil said. From walking q
, and fro and up and down on tbs
earth" Gosh. I feel we have got hin
on the run now.
=, But you see how scared he is Ths
, devil Is more frightened IN this ole
, town that he has ever been since HI
encamped here ON this old city.
, Don't yon sec how the saloon In on
, the defenstye7
A lot of good fo--notAfnx, GOD for
, saken liars working for them. and
brand them as a lot of white-}ivared
black hearted tmps from he'll. ! have
not gotten through with that gang yet
haven't got started.
And the Lord called the dsvirs at
. tention to Job and he said. "HAve 20,
considered my servant Joby Hav,
you noticed him. devilT' Oh! the irony
Of IT, ~Y1nve you noticed him. devil ?
4 why, the devil hadn't been dosnt
anything else but keeping his eyet
peeled on job. Walking up and dowI
, tho earth looking at Job from all an
giles, sizing him M. Job kept tho devi
wide awake.
7 once read Of man who WAS trxv
cling in \ strange country and no wen
, down tho road and saw a beautiful lit
Ito cottage standing in the midst q
Ia cluster Of treea With . spactou,
lawn and flowers here and there: happ,
children laughing and rolling on thu
grass and n happy mother watching
them and up on the roof he saw grea
big DEVILS tearing around to beat tbs
band, sweat rolling down their face,
nd on he went and he saw presently
n great monatrous building. It was 4
ma gnifcent cathedral and no saw ont
little devil lined up there in the chin.
ney sound asleep and ne went ~
farther down the road and met devf
as big ms a touring car.
Tho devil said. watt q minute
stranger" He said Hurry mp"
''T am stranger and I saw Hetat
house and seven big devils tearing
areend TO beat the hand and came
, down TO 4 great big magnificent build.
ing and there 10 one little devil NJ
there and he was ae1e00. Can yUU