The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-24

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Benedict This 10 Mn asnsasots"
He said, "You aer't Sasw Row
glad aIa 10 zee yoa,"
He said, ~ wish ycu would tell rae
what Il was in nay sernien that moved
you"
He said, Nothing rye nsver heard
10 scng that moved the ~ sermon
that moved me, but" he said. when
Iyou came 10 my home ten years ago
and stood in my harRyara Wy 10
Ion ION -FOUR our creek. ana sold ire 1Ras .ySau
were praying for me and / cussed
lyou, I've never forgotten your face
from that day 10 this I've been
praying about II, ! heard you was
lover here and have come $50 miles"
! He said, III you want to know
what has brought me down here on
my knees, II was the tears that you
shed down In my oarnyard ten years
ago"
You meet this community with an
argument like that and the number
of people that have taken their stand
will be nothing compared with what
they have done. What this old world
needs Is little concern.
was preaching in a town In West
ern Iowa and one morning q man
came 20 the homo where ] was being
entertained and raped. Six o'clock
In the morning. / went down there
/ and found a fellow there who said:
Mr.. Sunday, / am not living right"
| said, That's too bad"
| He said. What have I got to do 7"
| said. Just confess that you art
not living right"
! lie said. You don's believe ! have
80 tell people what ! have done7"
mo, that is none OF their business
II said, "All you've got to do ir just
you want 10 renew your vow and that
there are things in your life hat you
know ought not to DO there That
is nobody's business what those things
are, you so tell Ii to the Lord"
He said, IAN right. I will do 81"
He said to me, win you pray for
my boy7"
said. IT'S your son home"
Mo, he has gone TO college"
said, Yes. ] will"
Come TO Meeting.
He came to the meeting In the at
ternoon and he did It And he came
10 the meeting at night He said. y
am going TO be OF more use TO the
church than Two ever been. l just
Joined The meeting house, / am go-
ing to join the prayer meeting and
the Sunday school and The Sunday
morning services and the night SER
vices. j arr going to take up . class
al the Sunday school and do some
thing"
Tho last thing he said when he
started for home, he said. You are
not forgetting nay boy. Ernest7-
| Ills boy was going 10 college down
at shenandoah, twenty miles across
the country. He went 10 class that
afternoon and wasn't feeling wsn
and he addressed and went TO bed.
They were going to nave class party
and the boy changed his mind and
put on his sweater and dressed warm
and put on his big dog mittens and
started for home, seventeen miles. He
reached there about half past five or
six in the morning, raped on the
door.
His father looking down. said
'~who Is there7v
| He said, "It's me, Ernest
He said. whats the matter with
lie said. Father. Tn such ainner
Il can't rest
"rcw did YOU get homer
Pe said, II Walked
1t was seven below zero and one OF
his toes was frost bitten. he said.
| Come in. son"
They called the mother. prayed
with him, brought him to the meet
ing. he gave his heart to God. went
to Shenandoah, Iowa. graduated; he
In a missionary In India. he is preach
ing Jesus Christ today.
God shot the arrow of conviction
seventeen mica As soon as the
father got right he became concerned
for the boy. The Lord can do that
"Being in agony ne prayed more earn
estly." Agonixing prayer will ac-
compiish what nothing else will.
Ilearn another lesson learn the
possibilities of the human soul.
never looked into the face of a man
or woman or boy or girl but that
think they are locked UP caskets OF
pos !bilities. You are part of Gods
pi4n and SO am l. Insofar ms ] an,
lin harmony with Gods plan. is God 4
plan going to succeed You are
part of Gods plan.
Part OF Gods Plan.
There isn't n prostitute or a drunk
ard or thief that wasn't part OF
Gods plan and Gods plan. 10 far as
they are concerned. will never be per-
feet, but God will go ahead and work
without them. God will work. but
Gods been pleased to put this IN an
earthen vessel. Gods put II In
earthen vessels What terrific
honor that God puts on usi
Why, my friends. they say Of Vol
taire that ne became In tnndel by
committing to memory q poem on in
fidelity, and that poem had such an
influence on him. And mon today
are stumbling over voltatre's polished
shafts of infideIity into hell
Carey translated the Bible 20 that
24o 700, 900 people can read 1t IN
their own language ana dialect. Vim
ney, they say. turned nearly a million
men and women and children 70
Jesus Christ. Moody turned tens and
hundreds upon hundreds Of thou
sands TO Jesus Christ. and although
ne Is walking the streets OF glory and
sitting down at the feast OF Moses
and the Lamb, his name ie still fra
grant and people are being won from,
sin through the memory Of Gods no.
BILE, saint, n. l.. Moody.
So learn the possibilities OF a
soul Then I learn this In the last
place. God honors that spirit He
win honor that Ffnney said. This
spirit OF deep concern is tho result OF
clear views regarding God a. God.
Jesus as the Son OF God. the Bible al
the weird Of Goa, heaven fer the
sayed and hell for the lost and saliva =