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

filed with obscenity and profanity
and blasphemy, and In his failure to
reach his ideal, he gotta discouraged,
my friends, and he says. who u GO
ing to deliver me from the power or
this sin that II in my life that pre-
vents me from being what ! want to
be and what ought to be?'
Wen, IN be satisfied when I awaken
In His likeness" but his sad and BIT
ter experience proclaims in hts ear.
Your satisfaction In up in Heaven:
How am soins Is 8 get what I am
bound to, what I ought to be. by
change? The incarnation tells forth
to you and me that the only man
who ever made what he ought to be
and what he was, the same things;
the only man who ever lived on earth
that reached his ideal; the only man
who ever lived and lived q sinless life,
was Jesus Christ.
Tho Incarnataon.
Tho incarnation. by this forth-tell.
ing and telling forth. tells you and
me that we shall become sinless in
proportion as we are united to God
through our faith In Jesus Christ.
And 1t IL only through your faith In
Jesus Christ that you ever wiz be
united to God or that you ever Will
be free from the things that prevent
you from reaching your ideal
So, the purpose OF tho incarnation
was to teach you and me that Goo
has power to deliver ~ new, - a
am here In tho flesh. DON'T have
Ito sing. TN the Sweet Bye end Bye"
In the sweet now and then. God Al
mighty can do IL
Here's a fellow, here's what he =.
Here's what he ought to be- How u
he going to get out Of what he ID
into what he ought to be? Here's
his ideal. Here he Is living below
his ideal and it's sin that makes hin,
do it.
Now the question that confornts
the human race Ia this how am I go
ing to get out from what ! am into
Fl ere in what am. There Is what
ought to be. How am I going to
make IL?
Forth comes the Universaiist and
TIE Unitarian The Unitarian walks
up and says, You wish TO get out
OF what you arc into what you ought
to be-"
Yes"
well. think good thoughts. keep
coed company. read good books. os
/ kind and generous and philanthroptc.
and that will take you out OF what
you are and put you into what you
ought TO be-"
You lie. I Will admit and agree
with you that we all believe IN NOR
aiity. virtue, kindness. culture. edu-
cation. philanthropy, and charity. but
all OF that won't take you out OF
what you ere and put you into what
You ought 70 be.
So, here's another poor devf1 who
SAYS, Here's what I am and here's
what ought to be-"
Up comes the Univcrsalist and
says, "Oh, you wish TO get out Of
what you are into wha. you ought
TO be. Don't worry, dismiss It. be-
cause we all ultimately get out OF
what we are. Ultimately we will all
! be saved"
You lie. wish everybody won,d
be saved. Nothing would make me
happier than when I bid you good
bye to see you beneath the cross of
Jesus Christ.
Old Mother Eddy.
| Poor t.evil. Yet he wants to get
out OF what he Is. So here he Is
and mn comes old Mother Eddy. q
understand one OF her followers IL al
legged to have said that Mrs. EDDY
will rise before the resurrection II
old Mother Eddy gets out Of the grave
/ before the resurrection. will eat a
! poiecat for supper and wash 1t down
with whiskey!
| So here he Is and I want to get
| out OF this over there. So. they say.
Wen have no devil Matter Is non
existent. but an illusion OF the NOR
! tai mind. and Mary conceived this
! idea of Jesus and gave to her ideal
the name OF Jesus. so the only name
| that Jesus had was Jesus because
Mary imagined Him to be Jesus. and
He was Jesus"
| They deny the cardinal doctrine
SO the poor devil Is still there. There
are a lot of good things about Chris
tan Science and there Is n lot OF
/ tommy-rot.
! So. here ne IS: he wants &c get
out OF this over there. SO up comes
the theosophiat- Old Madam. Bsava.,
sky "Oh, yes" they say. you get
out, why YOU are not what you Inn
agine or think you are. You are not
yourself, you are the reincarnatior
IF something or being that has lived
in other ages Of the world. and you
or that thing or being has now re-
! turned. and you are living In what