The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-19

I Lincoln said. II am not bound to
win but I am bound to be true, /
am not bound to succeed, but / am
bound TO live up TO all the light I
have"
So IL Is in nations, so X is ia re-
/ iigion. fou are bound to live up to
all the light you've got
/ So your neighbors and your wife and
children and has!Aess associates and
right to know by your life and lips
fhat SO far as YOU know and under
stand you are going to be q Caristiaa
Two Ways 4" Learn
Tfere are two ways by which we
can and do learn. One is theoretical
/ and the other Is practical There are
two ways TO learn about God and
Christian salvation. One is thecreti-
cal and the other is practical was
out I'm . town In Iowa one time and
there was one fellow In town that said
IL we could ret him to take his stand
for Jesus Christ We could get fifty to
follow him.
He runs ar egg factory and ne
made the crates. He made the paper
isliers ard the machine that made the
paper filters and he made he paper
went down TO see him. Every town
has few leaning posts. fna1 ctai. po-
lttical and whatever they do other peo-
lpie do. This city's got few leaning
posts and | can name you City men
II they'd walk out md take their
stand for Jesus Christ. so>powerful Is
their Influence In politics and I'm bnsi-
ness win venture ten thousand men
would fellow them into the kingdom
of God. IF they'd do 1t financially and
In politics, they'd do II In religion.
l went down to see this fellow and
ne was showing me through the fac
tory This machine was about fifty
feet high, The machine was out OF
order and the fellow was trying to fix
1t. He attempted to explain Il to me.
He said: Bill this produces that and
that produces this: this produces that"
And l said to him: II am all In now,
Batcheiler. Il can run a locomotive.
II used to ride on the Northwestern.
and used to fire for the Northwestern
end If she would blow out 8 tire could
bring her In on one side. L don't
understand that machine"
He picked up one OF those filters
J. and said. That machine makes this."
He said, 'if you come back at O'Clock
I'll show you"
| When I came back the next morning
and they were feeding in from three
rolls Of paper and there they dropped
down fifty of them minute. and
there sat boy about fourteen years
! to one side. saw the machine make
what he said it made. All right. start
the machine and see what 1t will
make.
Do You Want to BE Decent@
lot of you fellers are afraid to DO
, Gods will because you know II will
make you decent and you don't want
lGod you'd need to know all mystery
and all prophecy and all history ana
you'd have TO explore with your mind
| all time and space. In other words.
you'd have to be God yourself. You'd
have to be equal to God In intelligence
and wisdom, you'd have to have the
greatest development of mind the
/ to know God, In order to know Jesus
J Christ. all you need to do Is to sur
render your will to God.
! You may not know whether two
ard two make seven or nine or one.
You may not have enough 10 buy
| government bond. but ali you have
to do is to surrender your will TO
God. l might as well try and speak
with my feet, l might ~ well try and
think with my fingers. That chair
might rs well try to understand The
| words l am talking over as for you
TO find God by any other method.
plan or principle than your surrender
| to God.
Some fellows assert. "Wen. take
nothing ON trust
| Well, you ere a fool and they con-
| slider people. weak -braiDed owe- cred
,ilous souls that never use tho reason
God gives them. Do you Daeai, to
i insult and insinuate that man uses
/ his wisdom.
, Tom Paine wrote book. ''1'be age
Of Reason" Die be want ~ msin
uate that the people that didn't be-
! lieve in Jesus Christ uss. their rea-
son. while the people that did were
weak, sissified bonehea5sf Do you
mean to tell me that the uoan tIlat
goes home drunk uses his ~csapu?
No. ii IS the fellow that goes hnrne
sober. Do you mean to te! pre that
the man who dnmns Jesus Cseisg
tses his reason? Nc, the man that
gets down on his knees and prsys to
Cod, ne uses his reason. lie Il the
reasonable man.
So they consider people of faith.
weak-brained. over-credulous souls,
etupad and nevsk use THAR reason
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