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

OID-FASHIONED THEOLOGY.
His night sermon was composed
Of old fash Toned theology delivered Iva
new way. II was u purely Billy
Sunday Interpretation OF the reason
why Christ wills sacrificed that his
blood might atone for the Gins OF the
world. The evangelist established as
= fact that God Furnishes the innocent
| for the guilty.
You only have To he unfortunate
enough to be married to "a God-f for
Aaken triple extract Of heIl to know
who suffers most, the husband or the
wife. the guilty or the innocent
And he went on to tell why Cod s.
plan Of salvation thrauG the blood Of
his son was the only way.
strcu are savede because you ar~
eept Christ as your Saviour Sunday
said. mot hecaSise you arc better than
anybody eise Your PROFESSION OF
Christ makes hirt your hordsn,sAn.
puts you in the class of those for
whom God gave Jesus 20 breed and
die. The man who fails to believe In
the divinity of Jesus il committing
intellectual and moral suicide. some
nav that Christ was not God because
he didn't predict submarines and
railroad trains and electric lights. hut
do YOU reckon that God who made the
mn which gives life to 1900 900 GOO
and who makes worlds. gives a hang
about little things like submarines
Why. Jonah took a ride in enc of
Gods submarines, anyway. And do
SOU think that God pays any attention
10 mans little railroad trains and
t<lertric lights~~he. the being who
made the sun. the ocean, the stars
the trees
The Rlood OF Christ.
when YOU take the blood or
Christ out of salvation II tS like tax
3nS the blood out OF your body: the
Nv rights, anyway He offered to
nave AZ many who wanted salvation,
ant we belong 10 him by reason Of
his r,ssaue at our eous You can ar
rue against Christ and against the
Hlhle IL YOU like. bat can any Of you
ttrssne against sim Sin, the power
which fills our 3ails. which makes
Gus worry and destroys our sleep. Can
Any OF YOU SAY there In no rtnF'
In Sundays late afternoon sermon
nc divided critics of the Christian reli-
zion into three classes those who are
10 mean that they don't want the
Hihle to tell them anything tn reform
|fhen, those who ape sch rship and
hide behind the philosophy hatched
I'm the beer soaked atmosphere OF
aeideIberE and Le!psic. where
3aeitsche and Schopenauer. schlity and
Anheus~r- Busch came from, and
8 appreciate the tolerance OF the
Iibie.
n "shcot away. old critics. You
night A. we'll try TO break up Gfhrai-
~ with peas from popEun or ride
across the Atlantic on a milestone
hFRwu by two cockroachess~
Sundays Ideal In Life.
The eccentric evanSelists whole
theory OF his work as preacher was
1fycn yesterday afternoon. People
~ me II modern evangelism Is a suc-
fass. do not know. ! do not use
n. Gospel ID as old as the hills and
nv evangelism liz not modern, and I
~ not have to apologize fer it, My
fSh. n 20 drive II in. and when / stand
~ TO preach and / see people going
~ sleep In my congregation. quit,
n cannot make preaching as attrac-
- as any other gathering to which
~ people go. will know that / have
~ my vision and I will quit An
Sxher thing. IL / ever get UP before
~ audience at any time and do not
~ thrill from those people and
- inspiration to carry out my mis-
sSrn to the fullest extent OF my pow
~. will stop preaching then and
here"
The vision OF better things set up
afore US by Christ was compared by
.rnday 10 the selfish ideals of the
ncIshcyiks. who live for anarchy and
~ Tor the world. He, scored the pa
.Sflsts. who could not see the justice
~ fIxhting for the peace OF the world
"a the principles Of liberty until all
~ danger TO their own hides was
~ver. and he set many people to
hinking by his practical ideas about
rselnshness, which he delivered in
way which literally forced them
.,vns into the brains OF his hearers.
Pcws VS.. Pulpit.
- also. took occasion to repeat
.me OF the things which he has
%a,nd wrong with the modern church.
WINK that In many eases there was
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