Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-28
BiNySunday Tells
fchnondP eopleHis Vie1os
on the Real Christian
Religion.

ark, The second chapter and the four
me people think that a inan can't be
serted unless he goes down On his Knees
me sawdust and shaytnSs and stays
sosfor an hour or two every night for
\ while some old brother and sister
ms the gates OF heaven.
inc people think a man has got TO lose
p. and become. SO pale faced and bag
Sssuod will pardon hiIn Some people
20 out OF tho way, and they don't
/ 4. ask people to go down On their f Knees
nave somebody come up ana swat 'crn
she back ana say. How do YOU feel?,''
4 hats why haven't four five people
rjng around with Bibles under their
\ . md faces long enough to make a fire
ashtyS has put it down in black and
g. that there can be sound and
stouEh conversion in an instant. y man
be converted as quietly as the dawn
go on, the ne, day and never 6ac!Sslide
Ills converted; what hope and praE
is the fact that he is converted and IL
5i;sl , that he Is converted and IL YOU
urn the hose on you and put YOU i'll II
I tijaeket. I'm not particular about what
4 ". but l don't propose to run around
m ss ySn a dEs In the bends OF iniout;y
!|as'ys all got TO get religion In the same
in Jesus Christ. but it may ma an ."t'o ONE
iaaoH different than it does another. II
.lRilR got religion the same way the devil
I'D go to sleep and take vacation.
rTeyery noisy case of conversion will
ike those in tins PSHns 9 ners
spk at Nicodemns: You never got
spsa he a him Mas nsa1 a the 5,5as 9nd the
n sincere, cautious sort OF a fellow. He
Eted 70 know the truth. He had a little
ss.with Jesus ono night and that talk
,ok at the man at tho Pool of Bethesda.
n a n Nm of y, nj, eli.
made for him and he'd been in that
aiiton q long time and wasn't able TO
lay Yes to Jesus Christ.
n F0oL OF BETHESDA
.w quietly he was converted. And as
iiSki.raling was case of conversion. This
Ivy didn't dance, he didn't do the tango.
up to the. ceiling like dying cali
d told him to do, he tool, up his bed
thing see OF that fellow, he is over
the temple prnising the God that had
strength into his legs and enabled him
s III. ~ the blind man in the ninth chap
hRa ,s Mhal CHA OF E Sm If TIC h %n
}sEssker.jask He's good pattern for
didn't have to hold him; he had as
y OF conversion as tho Bible
Siple Of the Lord, rs is evidenced by
'ctcar-cut testimony. II know" not II
rs. II Know and ali ' Who 'V came %, Dn near
lFlsnew 1t, too.
you've got the rheumatism. anyone that
4 Spsht 70 know whether you've got
r. hi give three whoops this side q
her people know it, ~
The twenty eighth verse, They reviled
X III That Is. these old pharisces said.
e. that fellow that opens your eyes
DON, Know WINE" whe'he T0f he's ana sinner
mot, but one thing L do know. whereas
az blind now can see, and tina, fellow
I become his disci,le?"
md they knew it afterward. and they
'Slg around opening the eyes OF blind men,
every man whose eyes I've opened be.
us and disbcieve in The. Pharisccs, SO
sa sny q" peo Snf
p. their eyes, witness for him and every
aess hurt this old gang.
n ON WATER WAGON
Sr4 PURE INJURY TO BREWER
g cry fellow that you can get on the
crawagon hurts the brewer. SO he doesn',
:f revivals. That's why he doesn't like
,ethins OF that dirty bunch. ia always
,sthe opposite side from that gang ard
other evidence of his dscipleship, he
Ito work for the Lord. So should every
a,aAnd he went TO work In a hard place;
i gang of high-brow Pharisces who are
lys found mosing around v4Ierevyrt. the
of God Is being done and lceple are
saved.
will lnd that dirty. black Hearted
n around knocking TO divert the at
ION aud keep people from being saved
Irving to make people believe It's my
that crates on their nerves instead OF
U ydirty. rotten, stinkng life.
his: lou Sui become ne hs '' di n@
al you? challenge anybody who does.
y. Mfrise lends. 10 , say that people are not
! by the side OF the life of the man or
hey said. .'Looli here, That fellow that
f. is that. so2 They said. Look here.
know that God doesn.t hear sinners"
ali Fight. How ala Il happen that hal G SS%
Is never heard your prayers TO open my
81 How did Ii happen that God hears
prayers OF this Inan aud my eyes are
all know that God doesn't hear The
are an old sinner because God has never
I'd your prayer. and this man Is not Il
the world that you were truly saved ?
"a you stand UP by the side OF this,
and not look Ike a plugged coulter
cent by the side OF a thousanH doIIa r
Nerty bond. don't you say that the way
got religion is tho only right way.
He rose and followed Him" lie moved
INSTANTLY and that move took him to
3fs Christ. That's the way that Matthew
right. and no can say that he
INT have as clear a case OF conversion as
va Bible has recorded.
ScTHEW WAS TAN
COLLECTOR OF ROME
sitheW was q business man. lie was
i srnmen;. He had job that was a soft
1t gave him a big chance for q
Sk-nh. II he didn't have any more con-
t7cc than some OF the politicians
of. he was taking st Matthew was
place OF business, looking out for
Der one, probably trying to think up
way by which he could get even
" gain.
"a Jesus went in as he went by. lie
tssomcthing &c say TO Matthew. won
yhow many of you have mad Jesus Christ
Gto your place Of business speak 10
he did to Matthew. or in your home.
III made decision just as deiiberat q
-.tlheW made It Jesus went 10 Your
III he went TO your factory. he went 10
", tfcfhce, he said
f9snk here. Yon are not doing business
les that shrink. You are selling goods
cured With n sawed on yard stick, there
only thirty-two Inches IN that yard"
salesman was selling goods when he
ayered II was only thirty-four inches
His boss said We'll, we will stretch
4 e salesman said. The cloth NAV stretch