The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-02
Nd DISCOURSES ON THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD

Jesus Christ went with His apostles
out to Bethany, and the clouds re-
ceived Him. Bodily, He went into
the skies; body. He will come again.
am going to preach on The Sec
ond Coming of Jesus Christ" That
is the next great event in Gods plan
for the world When that takes place
TO air on the,subject at ali. am not
a fanatic. But that is tho next great
event in Gods program.
And so He arose bodily. He will
return bodily. He will return!
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1894 the ships went out into the
harbor to receive him, and as he
sailed in. the guns Numbered his well
come. He never shed tear.
She came up to her dock. He
walked the gang plank, and the earth
trem bled with The shouts and the APP
plause of the grateful people whom
he had helped deliver. He never shed
Q tear!
He got into carriage and was
driven down the streets Of New York,
and the streets had been paved with
palms and flowers, memantbes OF AZ
lection He never shed q tear!
The earth rembied with the roar
OF musketry and artillery. The road
was lined with the populace that stood
about with unbared heads. shrieking
and secreaming- He never shed a
tear!
He pamed beneath the triumphal
arches which had been erected for his
honor, but he never shed = tear.
They took him to Castle Garden,
then the largest auditorium In New
York. where the great men Of our
nation had assembled to do him honor
and as he entered they cheered until
the building trembled. and arose.
He sat down In the seat Of honor
assigned to him. and ~ he did they
raised a urtain. There ON the stage
they had reproduced in miniature his
old home back in France--the house,
the trees, the brook, the hill, his
father and mother and brother SIT
ting upon the veranda, all reproduced
in miniature. And when Lafayette
saw it and it painted upon The canvas
OF his memory hts home In sunny
France, the tears rolled like rivers OF
water down his cheeks, and the great
Frenchman shook a. il he had the
ague-
Q. II could just pull back the
curtain and let you take on glimpse
into heaven and see all that God has
prepared for you IL you'd only for
sake your sin. and believe / could
break the heart OF voery unsayed man
Or woman In this tabernacle, and there
wouldn't be man or woman going
out OF here tonight without Jesus, un-
less he wero a fool or An imbecile--
and God lets you out ON the ground
that you are an imbecile.
Place OF Splendor.
heaven Is a place OF spiendor, too.
Everything that ever came from there
tells us so--sueets of gold and gates
OF pearl. walls OF jewe4s some day
you may go sweeping through the
gate. but Inc entering In res&s with
you. SIR. If you accept Jesus Christ
II is settled Ii you don't, then il il
not for you.
They say The deeper the water ths
larger ana the more costly the pearl
l do not know whether that Is 80 OF
not
But / know this much: from the
greatest depths OF iniQuity God seems
to have taken some OF his brightas,
Jewels some OF those who have
piazed the brightest aud lighted ur
This dark. rotten, fostering. sin-curaec
world have been men who have crep
and crawied in The sewers Of ininu,,,
and OF transgression and OF sQualor. X
| II Is no cause for disbursement Il
you have been or still ara a ainnor.
why John Bunyan. the author OF
Fugrim's Progress" could hlaspheua,
DO nendtshiy that old sinners vouit
stop their ears. and Il seemed n,
though the old devils In the Dit Of hel
would stop their ears and CRY ont
Enough! Emo Ugh! Enough
Enough"
Why, Paul was . murders. hand,
red with the blood OF those that be-.
hesed In Jesus Christ Yet he be
camc the great Apostle To the Gen.
tiles
Biologists ten Us that the diamoot
~ nothing but piece Of charcoal ITO
| ritied- A diamond Is made out a.
the same substance as your lead pen
cii-cafbon The only difference Il
that the diamond changes. while III,
carbon retains its identity: but II 4
The same material. the same thing.
| by some unknown process OF m
ture, diamond In a piece of charcoa
or carbon. changed by the power o.
| nature
Isn't II great that Goa Almirht,
can change sinner and Transform
him until his life will Be q benedic
ton and blessing instead OF n stun,
Ding block, and he can live for God
The brightness Of heaven, 70 ms
personally II don't know anythinr
about you) would be due to the pres.
ence OF the redeemed more than th,
streets OF gold.
t Can you imagine ycur own child q,
your children? Can you descrihe IN,
sweetness OF child's song? Perhan,
your own Is there TONIGHT. sinrtns
with lips that have been touched 3,
the fingers Of God. and God has MAD
provision: whatsoever win ma,
come" This Is Gods invita- ton AND
the judgment will be this: Thai yo,
knew what to do. but you wouldn,,
DO It, And one thing that win be Ar
eternal regret to you will be to recall
the fact that you knew what to do
but You we're too stubborn to turr
from your intauity and do Jesu,
| Gates Arc Open.
| The gates are open nov. mr.
glad to tell you they shall not he shn
At all. night or day. They are opeI
But wait q minute. Reforma.,o,
Wouldn't take you In: mortaIit,