The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-27
MIGHTY MAN WHO
Il Il 4, CANNOT SAVE
on Preached Sunday Morning, Jan 2e by Mr. Sunday

~ hAAf5g coh' -os W @hi, N'Av y
THAT he will not hear
|, What would you think II l put my
book up between your face and my
face and then I complained that
couldn't
Don't pray for blessings when there
is sin between you and God, There
are lots OF people who pray God to
bless them when they won't get the sin
out of their lives. GU might just as
web ask God to appcase your thirst
when you won't drink any water. Don't
ask God 10 bless you as long as you
know you have sin in your life. Get
rid of that, then God will be delighted
to bless you. AS long you have sin
in your life, the only thing God will
hear Is. this prayer. God. be merciful
to sinner" The trouble Is with you,
and you are inclined to blame God all
the time. 1t is the same old gag that
Adam tried to work when he blamed
Eve. He Did not need 10 eat the apple,
IL he DID not wan; TO. II ne. was chump
enough TO do Il. then he need not to
have blamed her
In Malachi $40. read these words
bring ye all the tlthes into the store
house, that there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith,
said the Lord of hosts. II I with not
1 open for you the windows OF heaven.
and pour you out a blessing that there
, shall not be room enough to receive IT."
A man said to me one time, That
WAS Jewish promise" Primarily, all
Of the promises were--Jewish promises.
God said to the Jew. IF you will do
that, / will do this for YOU" and the
Jew refused to do e. God turned to
the Gentle and offered "a a salvation.
We accepted. SO the same blessing
that God promised to the Jew, he will
give us. IL you win do that ne wanted
you to do. And the same curse that
/ fell on the Jew viii fall on us II we
won't do IL.
So prima rily, IL WAS a Jewish prom
lse. but the Jews said. I'VE don't want
it, and the Gentilcs said, We will
take it"-and God said. ~Ali right. ]
will bless you" And so God is speak
ing through Gentle lips today to a
Jewish world, crying to- the Jews to
accept Christ whom they repudlated.
God Can Gene Back.
What COO has done God can do again
God can come back. God is not lin
din the manifestations OF his power
! TO any one individual or nation or
period In the worlds history. but any
= one that does what God tells him, he
will bless.
, So. 1t is a great inspiration to me
q TO know what God has done. There are
several books that / always love tc
The biography and Rutobiogra phy Of
: Charles G. Finney. whom | regard al
= one of the greatest preachers tha
ever lived ! love to read the auto
, ! biography Of Peter Cartwright the ole
. Methodist preacher in Illinois in tn,
: days Of Abe Lincoln. | love to reaC
@ the biography and autobiography O
: Iohn G. Patton. the missionary to thu
New Hehrides, and read OF what Got
y did through that man among the can
y nibals-
You know. the New Hebrides are o,
l. a coral foundation. There are n
= springs through the island. The waite
II Is salt, and the way they get thel
" drinking water Ia TO put out hug
# leaves Of plants 10 catch the dew. Tn
d dew there through the nights liz a
r heavy as our common rain, and the
q 1il their vessels from the water eaugh
j toy the leaves,
d Patton was working among the can
nibais, and re told them that Jehova'
n could make IL rain up through III
: ground They did not believe 1t. an
u uight after night Patton dreamed of
n certain piece Of ground. an indentur
: near some trees. and he went to scare
q for the spot that would correspond t
: what he dreamed about ne located tn
. place. and he was going TO show Their
: that God could make rain come throug
the ground that they could drink.
He started to dig for the well. an
: they would not >heip him. He dug dow
Z about thirty three feet and shove
Q spade down into the ground and tn
y water dubbed MP. He stood ther
tuntil the water dubbed nearly to hi
iknees. He was afraid to stoop dow
and drink lest the water should b
: salt and brakish and lest they Nigh
# say. ''Your God is no good, Patio
IS finally Allied his hands and lifted tn
L. .
q was clear and cold and fresh. It
: the only wen Of fresh water that I'm
a ever been found on the island. an
~ because God made water good enoug
i to drink. over twelve hundred canui
balls accepted Jesus Christ, and tn
New HEIR des are whs: they are toda
!. because Cod made good water rain II
through the ground. Marvellous. whe
:, you stop to think Of 1t, that one wei
~ II water turned thousands to Jesus
q SO you can see how God works
u Finney was preaching in New Yorl
x state, Tho religious cor ifttons o
n western and central New York toda
q are due to the blessings OF God undo
Charles G. Fipney He was preachini
q in Ttica. lie went into room II
t one NJ the big mills. One OF the girls
y turning. saw Ftnney there. and her con
g sc enre rehuked her for some sin sh
d had committed. Presently she wa
i weeping as She tho0Eht OF the IRE en-
= was Tying contrasted with what sh
o might live And then others wept
4 After a white, the. owner of TIE mil
I F1imself not a g ~istian. came in. am
q when he Saw Finrey standing Their
s and saw the girls weeping. he said
shut down the mill" Aud he aske'
. Flnney to preach 10 the people. Ill
! said
q 'Tt Is more important that thes
n people should be saved from sin thai
tnat this mill should run"
i FiEney preached and hundreds o
than swept TITO the Kingdom of God
4 and for fifty years, the mills of Utic'
. never passed from that family int
= the hands or non-Christian men.
An Active God.
r. | am not preaching to q God tina
. has eyes and cannot see and ears tina
4 cannot hear. ! am preaching to tn
4 God that made the earth, the sky, tn
} sea. the air and the water. l an
% preaching to the God that can hea
& and answer ond do great and wonder
= ful things.
= Finncy was scheduled to preach ir
i q schoolhouse out in the western par
! uf the state; at 40 he had not come
- Somebody said: Where Is Finney?'