The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-15

get the opportunity 70 SUCK your Au9t
under her mahogany and drink
her booze and champayns ana tnen
stagger home ecueed, than 70 please
Jesus Christ. That's your IDEAL q
life ana the way 20 live IN the world
Oh. no!
ten you there Is hardly a city on
earth that doesn't need to be taken
down 70 Gods bathhouse and the hose
turned on II for Righteousness and
.;r~>t f-..s~S ~~.-~ ~ eAA lord 81
Ono preacher came TO me OFT IN
Iowa and he said to me. ''Mr. Sunday
what We need = an ethical revival
said. Forget It, Bud! Forget It!
You can starve to death on ethical
stpr"
Sure you can. Go TO hell with that
ethical revival What We need u q
| revival that viii give Us = better
home. sir.
Tendency 10 Break Down.
| Oh. there's a. great tendency to
break down the family altar today
Father forgetz that he Is the priest.
| Mother forgets that she represents
Jesus Christ. ana they turn their kids
over to come governoss or nurse who
who Ia only Interested in their chill
! dren because IL means so many dollars
q week salary-that's all. And she
hangs around and kisses and hugs q
Pomeranian.
This revival. my friends. is one
tide from an old sea that ha6 swept
the world Since Pentecost.
20 Lord. Revive Thy Works" We
need revival that will give us more
men for the ministry. We are fac.
ing crisis in the ministry today
Men are leaving the ministry.
having been trying to preach In ms
crude. illiterate. jabbertng paragon FOL
i twenty years up and down the land
ever since put of the spikes
For twenty years have been COINS
up and down the land holding up the
bleeding form Of Jesus Christ Al
Gods atonement for sin and doing
my best to help the people to Jesus
and / would rather preach than any
thing on earth. and II President viii
son should telegraph me, or telephone
mo tomorrow and say. Bill. win yot
! change jobs with me?'' I'd ga,
Nothing doin'--Woodrow.
I have the honor to be the father
Of three boys and one girl and ]
would be willing to make any sacri
fee II knew that when I grow OLE
or my voice gives out or breal
down and head in-on the sidetracl
and lock the switch, II my boy wouit
! hcGp tilS VII eAc 80 -
line. sir, for the years to come. IL
be willing to make any sacrifice.
I What Trne Religion Is
You will never have students TO
the ministry until they see what real
true religion is and they see !
through q revival Of religion. II !
said that Whenever men heard PHI
lip Brooks, one OF the COOLEST. nobi
grand preachers that ever walked Tn
said that whenever men heard Fnfi
] Brooks. OF Boston; whenever the
heard Moody. whenever they hear
J Charles g. Finney, they were nre
with a burning ambition to go ou
land become preachers OF the gospe
OF Jesus Christ, and can wish 10
no better thing out OF this grea
awakening than that hundreds o
young nien might offer themselve
as missionaries and ministers OF TN
gospel of Jesus Christ
Now. what are the indications
il: Well. Spurgeon said, II have n
confidence in polished rhetoric Q
anything Of the sort"
II you all agreed with me then /
know was wrong. There are q goo
many things that YOU have sal
are three things that you can sa
First, I love God.
Second. ! love humanity.
Third, / am doing me best to max
II easier for you to get to heave
and harder to get to hell.
Somebody says What Id
to promote a revival!"
Well give II your attention: civ
II your money: put everything els
ion d Gidetrack. Eidetranks are VA
liable. for they keep the main lin
clear. II there were no sidetrack
II would take you month to get
Chicago.
Never mind your lodge meetings
never mind your pink tea; neve
mind your social: never mind you
literary; never mind the Lady OF tn
Lake--let her rest for while: neve
mind Ruskin. Emerson, Carlyle. Plate
Aristotle or Demosthenes - forge
7 them, Never mind housecleantng. tn
bugs have been there all winter. IL
them stay little longer.
Now. then. brethren, as churche
and preachers. let's all suhmerge on
non essential Emergencies of opinic
and let's pledge ourselves in the fed
Grafton OF effort 10 win this cit
for Jesus Christ, not caring what de
4 nomination Of church receives tn
largest mum her Of acceGsions IL onl
God can be glorified and men an
women can be saved through Jesu
Christ
believes In Dcnominat ionalism.
4 ] believe IL denomina tionaltsn.
don't believe In your attempt to fed
crate your denominations into on
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT on your !ife!
don't believe In Auch! Denomination
reflect the variety Of temperament
Of people. No two blades OF graa
are alike. God loves variety and he
GOT more than fifty-seveu kinds.
!, Mature loves color. Look at tn
green OF the grass. the purple OF tn
grape. the yellow Of the orange. tn
red Of the apple, the white Of tn
snow. the black Of the coal. the blu
: Of the sky. the crim6on sunset an
the golden glory OF the noon-tid'
These are but faint suggestions
the spiritual varieties that ara revea'
] ed through the various denomination
! "a the divine iixht steals through tn
catehdrai windows bfs your soul.
! believe in dcnonainations Oh.
J you've got q good. gingery. warn
enthusiastic makeup you'd make
; good Methodist Tor would have b
J fore the Methodists lost their religion.
n you're little stiff. you may be .
EpiacnunliAn or PreshyteriAn. 70
; need to be toooened up q little bi