The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-24

we follow, not with fears.
For gladness breaks like morning.
Wherever Thy face appears.
The cross Is lifted Ger US.
We journey In it's light,
The crown awaits the conquest.
Lead on. Q God of might"
Lead on. Lead on! You talk about
moral equivalent for law. Gosh.
you can develop more moral backbone
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you ever developed h, all your life un-
til now! 1t Is all around to show
your grit and -colors for God. The
modern man or woman today isn't
a disturbing element enough against
the forces Of evil. We are too easy.
Too easy: I'd like to see people dis
turbing elements with the forces of
evil.
A gentleman In satisfied with his
sins and the way no is living. and
I here are modern devils that need
our at tention---the devil of drink, the
devil Of graft. the devil of CONNER
cial sickness. the devil OF social ex.
clusivencss the devil Of religious for
mality, the devil OF voice and the devil
of Righteousness. There arc plenty
of devils that need our attention and
that we should line up for. great
man said. ri think it is part OF
mans religion to see his community
wel governed"
SO I think IL is n part OF his re-
ligion to live right to help other peo-
pie to, do right So by the heroes or
the arena. by the martyrs of the early
church: by the suffering Of the cove
nanters, who dyed the hills and tho
heather with their blood; by the mur-
der Of the Hugenots; by the murder
of the Armenians. until one million
men, women and children have fall
battle; and the shot and shell Of that
bloody, Infamous. God -forsaken, TN 4
iqu.tous. white iivered. crowd OF
thugs, the Turks. until they lined the
Armenians up and they said to the
men and women, IF you will only say
that Allah Is God and Mohammed is
prophet YOU may GO And they
folded their arms and said, Jesus
Christ is the Son OF God" and Bang.
Bang. rang out the Turk guns until
million OF them were slain.
oh. the ayenging God sits on the
throne. don't worry about him. He
may be a little slow. according to your
schedule, but God will be there when
II comes to the showdown
And by the SIX hundred thousand
drunkards slain each year. by the
weeping wives who wait for the hell
holes OF saloons to vomft out their
drunken husbands: by the waiting
mother who is wringing her hands
over the grave where sha has buried
a drunken boy--oh. / call You to the
battle in the name OF Jesus Christ. 10
enlist or the side of God. and stand
up bra,ely for Christ In the face OF
the sneering enemies. like Mieaiah.
"W whatsoever the Lord saith unto me.
stxA SHa yF9qsx Y n
On. be like the brave man OF old
And il my standard bearer fail
As fail. full we'll he may,
For never saw ] promise yet
OF such a bloody fray;
Press, where YOU see my white plume
wave
Amidst the ranks of war.
Be this your oritaamme today,
King Henry OF Noyarre."
Lead on for the Lord and for lib
truth Whatsoever the Lord saith
that viii do"
Capacity for Enthusiasm.
think i know how to measure a
great soul. Capacity for great love,
decency and truth. Capacity fer
great enthusiasm. for ANYBODY that
is going 10 make the world better.
Ca pacity for great wrath against any
thing that is darnning and dragging
people away from the Lord.
like TO gee man or woman who
IL incarnate with religious hate
against everything that is evil and in
lquitous and driving people down TO
perdition. Like man looking into
the face OF arether who had de-
ceived him, he said II have for voa,
air. an. infamous contempt"
And Gladstone. when q man was
repeating an indecent story. and 9th
or people laughed, Gladstone whirled
around and said: O. what you call
witty i call devilish.'
When man was about to tell n
sr1utty story in the presence OF Cen
sral Grant, he looked around ard
said: Are there any ladies present? ?"
mo, sir, But" said General Grant.
there are some gentlemen present"
So the demand today lis for conse-
Grated effort for Jesus Christ and to
do his will; preacher. fathers and
mothers. that are going TO keep on
the right side. And as long as YOU
are conscious that you are marching
to the step OF heaven, no matter who
sneers CT blasphemss. you will never
yield an inch 10 all that will try ana
drag you down. And by the saints OF
the early dawn of Christ. or the saints
Of Imperial Rome, saints OF tho
clustered Middle Ages. and saints OF
the modern chapel, saints or Tho
frozen seas, saints Of the isles that
wave their palms in the far-ofs anti
podes, saints of the squalid lands and
saints OF the silent soitudes, saints
OF the prairics and Of the plains. youll
he OH Gods side.
That is what God wants and what
tho world needs that we should stand
for Christ, my friends. no matter who
may sheer. I read sometime ago
this little incident in history that /
hope will help you, where Robert
Bruce. as he lay dying. turned to his
true and trusted friend. the Earl of
Douglas and said: when I am dead
wish you would remove my heart
and take 1T and -deroxtt it In the .ss.- =
puichre of my Savior in Jerusalem"
And when Robert Bruce died, his
true and trusted friend. the Earl OF
Douglas. opened his body and re-
moved his heart, put it in a golden
casket with jewels, and surrounding
himself by band Of brave men. he
started for the sepuichre OF our Saw
ior to fulfili the dying request Of his
King. Robert Bruce.