The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-25

II satisfied with IL being done. some
. thing the devil hates Is being done.
! and away down In eternity, heaven
will ring again and again with the
nusic Of rejoicing over Infinite sur
prises and way beyond the time when
the brightest stars grow dim and the
mountain peaks have been incinerated
into ashes, oh. You will meet souls
in the eternal world who felt the touch
OF Jesus Christ through some effort OF
yours. when you didn't know thing
had been done.
II shot an arrow into the air.
1t fell to the earth, / know not
where.
For 40 swiftly It flew that sight
Could not follow II In it's flight
IT breathed a song into the air.
And It fell to the earth. know not
where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That 1t can follow the flight of
song7
Long long afterwards. in an oak
found the arrow, still unhroke;
And the song. from beginning to end
found that again in the heart OF
friend"
Do What Lord says
So do what the Lord tells you to do.
Tha. is hut a repetition OF what Is
going on all over the land. Not one
man In q thousand on the battlefield
knew whether his bullet hit anybody
or not, but ne kept firing away just
the same. He didn't know anything
about It. no. And so even our fail
ures are sometimes the things we need
to bring about certain results.
When George Washington was
boy ne had his heart set ON being a
mitshipman in the British navy and
TO go, and at the last moment his
mother weakened. blubbered and cried
and said: George I can't let you go.
and IL that little sixteen-year boy
had had hts way. perhaps there would
have been no Revolutionary war: GER
tainIy. the capital Of our nation
wouldn't have been what II is tonight.
and that great pillar on the banks OF
the Potomac. pointing $50 feet in the
air, lifting It's head above the fog.
wouldn't be there---if ne had had his
way What seemingly was failure
was a great blessing to you.
Now, no matter how things go. be-
lieve that God still lives. preacher
was one time preaching written ser
mon from a manuscript and right in
the midst OF what he thought was the
Important pAEt OF II Tic "'Ho VIZ"
the page out Of the window, and in
great modification he had to stop.
Years afterwards he met a man WHO
was converted at that meeting through
the awakening that came to him by
the last thought the preacher
dropped In his mind before the ser
Mon took wings and went out of the
window.
Go t. Wrong Doctor.
To
body liks this poor woman. they nav"
been going to the wrong doctors Tor
years. getting no help.
I believe In God IKE tho Unitarian.
I believe in morality. believe In
culture. I believe In virtue. I be !
lieve in good company. ] believe In !
all that l believe in all he believes
and / believe more than he believes
for I believe that salvation In by faith
in the shed blood OF Jesus CHRIST ana
not by faith alone.
I believe all the Univcrsalist be-
iievee He believes in heaven. In hell. 7
He believes In Jesus Christ. but he De-
lieves that everybody will be saved.
I don't wish they would. Moth
ing would please me more tnan 10
have everybody saved but everybody
won't be saved. not on your nfe.
wish they would be saved. believe
there n good in Ali OF them. but here
they have been going to the wrong
doctors. because they are offering sub
etitutes for Jesus Christ: and they go
70 the doctors Of ethical culture and
spiritual culture. you know. but with
out Jesus Christ that doesn't saw any
thing on earth. I believe. my friend.
that Christian Science h good. II mas
q lot Of good things In u, ana ~ mas
a lot Of nonsense. Philosophical re-
seArch--
remedy. for Hog Cholera.
IKE physician ort In . western
prepared a remedy for hog
cholera. He was travelling on the
train with a jurist and he said
Judge. have you ever examined my
remedy for hog cholera
The Judge said: Did you ever cure
a hog with your remedy?
he said: That rs not my business
I prepare the remedy and others
And the judge said to him: You
wait ~untiI you cure a hog with your
remedy before you come to me and
ask me to discuss the proposition win
YOU"
some new-fanxled religion. when you
hrinx me soYhe expurgated edition OF
the Bible. say: :,
"You walt until your religion and
your Bible has made a record. For
our Bible and our religion has taken
sin from the hearts Of countless mil
lions, until 1t has saved millions or
made thieves to steal no
more. made the scarlet woman as
white az an Arctic snowdrift. made
to pray. Oh! until you
can bring me q religion that can show
4 better record than the old gospel
Of Jesus Christ. won't consider 1t.
not for m instant" s42issa4
wilr tell you. the old-timc religion
listen. my friends. not only presents
God as Creator and Preeerver and
Father. now listen. but 1t Offers the
Bible as the Word OF God. Jesus
Christ as the Son Of God, the Saviour
Of the World. az well rs the example;
and I will not allow Jesus Christ to
be stripped Of his diety by any God
bunch on earth. I will fight
them first. I won't do It, no, sir.
Mus4 He Moro Than Man.
Now, the Christ needed to save this
world, az my friend. Bryan, said, must
be more than q man. Good! That
In true. The task that Jesus came to
perform was not y mans task. No
man aspiring to be god could do it.
but God, condescending to become