The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-26

and salvation. heaven and hell. Christ
and tho devil!
l. God 80 loved the world. that He
gave His only begotten Son. that
whatsoever believeth in Him shosfLd
not perish. but have everlasting life. "
You run against sin every time you
move. You have business relations
with some man. He makes a statement
to you that you xnow to be an in
famous. wilful. malicious. unmitigat-
~ sfvrr1-%ft<f ~ II k1~T VI 7ot 4
( s,.n .heneaf.s. 4 .el,l.,s,s s sh<fynth rs not
q virtue,
Walking the street. you gee drunk
en- men staggering. Keeling, vomiting,
spewing and muttering and mandling.
II Drunkenness Ia not q sin, sobriety Is
not a virtue!
Turning the street corner, you hear
company OF rogues and OF Jimmy
toughs pouring out torrents OF pro-
family, vomiting and spewing out
their triangular oaths. If profanity
is not a sin, then prayer liz not vir-
tue.
/ Listening to the gossip OF the street
or of the crowd. you hear of some rel
low who has run away with some
body's wife, or is keeping somebody
on the side, and the fool is selling her
virtue, or looking for easy money. as
she calls it
Is assassinating your conscience
easy money? Is being able to eat
food that you could not eat II. you
were v!rtuous easy money? Is wear
ing clothes you could not wear II you
were decent. easy money!
| And there are thorns on your PHI
low that make you roll and tum bic.
and you have to take dope In order to
deaden your sensibilities. Is that easy
money. Don't you let all the devils
in hell try to push that dirty business
down your throats!
And If adultery liz not sin, then ]
say chastity is not a virtue.
/ And some one coveting your
money. coveting your tewelry. enters
your home to steal and he has to kin
| in order 20 get 1t. If murder Is not
a sin, mercy Ia not a virtue!
And the world for thousands OF
years has been fun OF lying and
drunkenness and adultery and pro-
family and murder. Therefore we say
the world is full OF sin--it Is full or
sin! Prove to Us that these things
do not exist. then will believe thai
there Is no sin.
And yet God loved this old, SIN
cursed world enough to give Jesus
Christ and the plan of salvation to save
1t. That's why God did 1t all for US
in the world.
! wcriA n stafweA.
, This world Ia biighted: this world
, is stained this world Is cursed
damned, ruined by sin. Gin is the cause
of disappointment, Sin Ia the cause
Of pain, Sin 10 the cause OF shame,
degradation and corrow. With that
one word--sin--I can spell all the
misery. all the heartaches. All the
worry. all the murder all the theft. all
| the adultery. all the panderfnE. all
| the lust. all that curses and mars ana
bi,ghts this old world. sin--thats the
cause of II all!
/ And ! am asking you. my friends.
to enlist against the biggest enemy
tof the human race-stn and the devil
your enemy and mine.
| Therefore, sin In Coos enemy and
sin IL the enemy OF the human race
I Yet. God 80 loved the world. that he
gave his only begotten Son. that who
soever hciieveth in him should not
perish but have everlasting life
! want TO say to you. take warn
ing: some Of you that may be careless
In your lives: take a warning. II you
are allowing some miserable FELLOW
90 pour into your ears compliments
that are rs empty as the heart and
head that gives them
Take q warning from the fife and
J the death of Mrs, John W. Springer.
Of Denver. Col. who died friendiess
and a pauper in the Metropolitan hos
pital on Blackweli's Island. But she
was my friends. the pet OF interna-
tiona' society. surrounded by vast and
fabulous wealth. decked with Jewels
nntii she sc.ntiIlated with their bril-
! fiancy.
Oh have seen the palatfa1 home
! In which she lived in Denver. her Per-
! sian rugs and all. which SIN made her
turn her back upon; sin drove her to
ward in tbs hospital on Biackweirs
Island
| She was she favorfte OF high So
ciety. II Is said. but IN the cities Of
+ Europe and IN the cities OF America
she yielded TO the sins OF society. and
she drank In hotels and IN cafes and
N ere she met men OF similar cali
Der. the regular parasites OF society.
and her name was whispered with un-
savored relationship with these men.
and two Of her admirers. Won Phul and
Henwood. met IN the barroom Of the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver. She
had written one OF them. and the other.
| Jealous Of his affections started quar-
| rel Henwood ripped out . gun and
he whiried around and shot Won Phul.
And Heuwood was arrested and SEN
fenced to life in the penitentiary at
Canyon City. He was In tail when I
/ was In Denver.
He made An appeal to have . re-
! trial, to the supreme court. bat they
denied Il and they took him to the
! pen ttentiary in CANYON city and he
changed his tuxedo and diamond studs
to the prison garb and \ cell In the
penitentiary.
All Hen smSleA.
| An hen smiled at the wreckag~ and
all haven wept and II all came from
the devil, the devil. that dAmns and
| blirhts the world and lives!
! Oh, God be praised that many Of
YOU are not surrounded with influence
| like that.
! Home was never nike this" she said.
/ Patting the curis on her Silly head.
! AS che glanced around the gtided cafe.
Where hundreds idied the hours away.
/ And she saw the dancers 20 whiri-
! ing by,
The carm,ne Tipped and bold o. eye.
, The dolls called women. the chicken,
/ the wren.
The rat-eyed things dressed up frke
And over the scene a swamp-rntst lay
| OF the rotting hopes and moral decay;
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