The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-21

and anchored IL out OF sight for forty
days
Old Father Time.
Old Father Time is often pictured
with a scythe but never with a med
icine chest Seven-eishths or the
Christians in the world became
Christians before they were fifteen
years old. The devil would rather
see fivo hundred old men and women
boy or Eiri because that boy might
be 2 Moody. that boy might be a
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Luther, hut you old sin aer. the devil
knows he has got you over on the
other side OF the line.
And whenever you hear anybody
talking that they don't believe in the
conversion OF children, they arc
mouths pieces of the devil. l don't
care whether he Is n preacher or who
he is. You can tell them I said SO il
that will help you ont.
Seven -eighths of the Christians, l
repeat. in the world became Chris
tians before they were fifteen That
you are over fifteen that there is only
one chance In eight that you ever will
De . Christian.
And the Older You grow. the less
and less your chances become, You
take the expectation of life in the life
insurance companies The older you
become the more Of q risk you are
and the higher rate o. premium for
You TO b Insured.
Now. and II during this life with
every advancing year the possibili-
ties Of your becoming a Christian
grow 10 - and less. by what logic and
common sense do you figure out that
TX the chances were extended
through eternity that thIs law would
be reversed in tbs next world! See /?
The older you are and tho longer you
live. the less your chance becomes
Then by what grounds 10 you figure
that after death 1t Will be reversed
and the more you live and the more
chance that you would go back
Poppy-cock! The Law that works
here works over ycnder too. You
wait
Now, hell liz a place of remorse.
Abraham said to The rich nan. Re
member. remember" The r,Ch man
didn't take too much to hell with him
he took his memory, Everybody will
take that, whether you are rich or
whether you are poor. and If you are
rich and people are poor because you
become rich. you will remember
everybody that you made poor IN or
der to accumulate your wealth. You
viii member, many Of you, that
you lived simply for The aln1lEn4y q j.
lar. The gambler VIA remem Der
those that he robbed and sent 20 q
suicides grave. The seducex will re-
all whose virtue he wrecked
and assassinaied. The adulterer will
remember all with whom he sinned
or she sinned. The drunkard will
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murdrer will remember the man
" hose blood he shed Tie Christ re-
jecter VIII remember the offers OF
mercy that he spurned with sneer
and a ieer on his Fps as he sat lis
tening through his prejudice 70 the
preacher who was his friend and urg
ing him to forsake his sins and yield
to Jesus Christ.
An Accusing Memory.
There Is no torment like an accus-
Ing memory. Men so insane because
Of an accusing memory. have seen
men and women turn CHASTITY and
ghoetly pale because Of an accusing
memory. When Prof Webster was
'y!ng in tail ont in Cambridge wait
ing to be executed for the murder of
sheriff that the prisoners, In the
cells. were mockinE him and he re-
ques,ed that they be removed. There
wasn't another prisoner in The jail
but Prof. Webster. 1t was his mem
DRY.
PIutarch in his Delayed Ven
sence,' tells of a young fellow that
was caught wringing he necks of
young birds and fledEling from their
nests when asked why he did IL he
said. 1T was their fault, they would
scrcech and cry Parasite, parasite, >"
1t was his memory. Ii was his mem
Dry.
"out. out.~ Lady Macbeth cried.
AZ she lifted her lily-wht;e hands
win not all great Neptune's seas
wash this blood away"
There was no blood there. II was
the blood OF murdered Duncan on
her miserable. guilty soul. Con-
science all through Memory like
fanged hound of hell strikes its
fangs and intects its venom He'll Is
The insane asylurG of the universe.
where people remember. Yes. that
is important.
Now. punishment doesn't cure
There are those who deludc them
selves and fool others. by thinking
hat short term OF punishment in
the world to come will refine them
As tsoC mas rufIieC by IRE, and tnAt
out OF the soil OF punishment will
spring fair flower of pentitence
and OF faith and of purity. Oh! l
wish to God / could believe that. /
wish 1t were true. but / am COM
PEELED to face the fact that The over
wheiming majority OF prisoners in
he penitentiaries and jails have been
Imprisoned from one to six times be-
tore.
am compelled to face some facts.
wish i didn't have to do 1t | am
compelled to face the fact tina, an
attack of deiirium .tremens doesn't
have . curative effect on the man in
The grip of strong drink. No sooner
does he get over that than he will
walk right into saloon and drink
he booze that gave him deiirium tre-
mems. and do the thing he knows will
give him a second attack. Now isn't
hat fact! All right!
You are up against some things I
want to show you that n lot of these
sid liars have been leading you
wrong. That is what want to do
Wait a minute.
Face The Fact.
am compelled to face the fact
that Observation-Disclosures OF uplift-
ing life, and sweetening it. and put
ing hope. into lift does the reverse.
Il DEGRADED. brushes and .embitters,