The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17

nails were manicured. looked at
her fingers, and they were covered
with jeweis / looked at her gar
ment, and 1t was the finest of texture.
and / looked and / staggered back Az
/ recognized the mute evidence OF
Illicit affection. Going 10 be the
mother of an illegitimate child, she
had ended it, and they had fshed
! her body out of the river.
! AS I stood and looked upon her as
they laid her on the marble slab and
the water dripped, dripped, dripped
into her face, OH! II seemed to me
4 sro1y 4xsTs. s,lfs ass,aa. Ven sve.S
sin, from every wrecked virtue. IRON,
every stale beer joint, from every
| prison cell. from every death house.
| from every home of sguaior and or
want. from all Of the scourges OF hu-
mainly tcursed by sin there arose up
F., to heaven one endless protest, How
| long," o God, how long shall hell
, curse and crush ana trampie human
ity and damn The lives of men?
Oh, You ola reprobatc, you can't
argLa against sin. You can argue
against the Diblc, you can argue
against Jesus Christ and against
heaven, but you can't argue against
sin. 1t Is In the world, and the only
| power that will set you free from
| it's curse is faith in Jesus Christ
that's your only hope.
| don't understand you. I'd think
a lot Of you il you would have jumped
! to your feet and be down the way
here now and wouldn't let me kill my
self here preaching. When the chill
drcn Of Israel were getting ready to
! leave the Egyptian bondage they sent
word out:
"Get ready! XIII the sacrifice'
Tonight the angel Is going throughout
the land and is going to kin the first
born in every home where the piooo
isn't on the doorpost"
/ hear two Jews talking about it.
| What is this I hear? Are you going
| 10 do IL? should say am, don
! YOU hear that lamb bleating. ! am
! WAITING for the hour Of evening sac
rifice. I'd no more go to bed tonight
/ without the blood on that door post
| for | don't want to lose my boy.
| He turns to the other Jew. and he
! says: II should say not. II l put
/ blood on there I'd have TO scrub 1t OH
/ tomorrow. ! believe what Is to be,
] will be. and 50 / am not going TO DO
| it,
| Here stands an Egyptian. He lis
! tens to this colloquy between these
Jews. He says. That's great God
/ they worship"
He said, Il think I will do thai"
! and he kills the sacrifice and puts
! the blood on the door.
/ That night the angel drew MS
sword, the gates OF heaven swung
/ open and he made his way to this old
earth. He came to the home with the
| blood on the post and passed 1t by.
/ He came to the home OF the Jew
! without the blood and he went in.
| Under the Blood.
All right II you are under the
| blood, Halleluiah. congratulate
you. II you are not, God pity the
sword that hangs above your head.
l When the Standard Oil Company
! was trying to refine petroleum. they
! had a black, thick odoriferous sub
! stance left they couldn't dispose OF
! They tried to burn 1t. they tried to
! bury IT, II accumulated faster than
| the company could dig its grave. In
| their despera ton. not knowing what
! to do, they offered vast sum to any
one who would dispose Of 1t.
| The chemists took 1t and forgot To
| eat and sleep. They worked and la
! bored for days and months. One day
q man, tired, weary. tren bling from
! the loss of food and sleep walked into
! the office OF John d. Rockefeller. laid
| on his desk q substance as white as
snow called parafine.
You can take this black humanity
| cursed and damned by, sin. faith in
| Jesus Christ viii make It as white as
snow. So the only power to cleanse
! is through faith in Jesus. You who
/ reject Jesus, what are you building
/ your hope on? 1t will go down. He
| tha, despised Moses law died with
out mercy. What are you going to
do If you despise the blood OF
| Christ?
II man wouldn't bring his sac
rit,ce to the high priest he couldn't
escape punishment under the Mosaic
/ law. II you don't come though faith
/ in Jesus Christ you can't escape to-
/ day.
| A man dreamed he was going te
heaven by his good deeds, and every
time he did something good 1t put q
rung in the ladder. and just as he wa.
getting ready to perform the last one
/ the door swung open and Jesus Chris
leaned over the battlements OF gior,
and shouting into his face. said: "Ht
!, that climbeth up some other way, the
same IL a thief and q robber."
! You try to climb to heaven by your
deeds and your morality, you try IL
climb up b. any other way. God pity
you. There is no other way you evei
can do II than by faith In Jesus.
Terrific storm Arose.
| Years ago there was a steamer
crossing the Atlantic and terrific
storm arose and the sailboats were
swept away. She sprung q leak ant
they summoned tho men to pump anc
they pumped ana pumped and the
captain summoned his crew and raid
II have made a careful investiga.
ton. the leak 10 In the second hold and
at the present ratio of the increase
| Of tho water, in twenty-four hours ~
will he at the bottom Of tho sea. Have
| ] one that will volunteer and 50 and
stop the leak. It Is about al largo a.
mans arm and with some clothes
Then men said: I'VE VIM remain a,
the pumps. sir"
| They went back and pumped and
pumped and pumped and pumped. I'm
IN men tainted at their post and he
summoned the crew again and said
Men, ] have taken my bearings and
made my Investigations and at the
present ratio ir eight or ten hours we
ere at the bottom OF tho sea. Have
r MT ana What will volunteer his life