The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-07
The Second Coming
.n Preached Afternoon and Night at City Auditorium,
II February g.

WATCHED and waited for His first. com
r-'s'' w, ~,~e ,srsontu ne ~,tyexa,rr - m
: Waiting ftsT aiF'@s &7T'iT7s-., . II "a not
enough 10 say, ''Oh, Tn? i Christian
I'm all right" We are rot all right
unless we obey the command TO
watch. for IT Is certainly AZ much
of command go look for he COM
ing Of the Lord as 1t 10 to keep the
Sabbath holy, Nothing else will DO
SO much to keep US right where we
should Re In our religious experience.
Knowing that the bank examiner may
drop in at any ne nrnent keeps many
q cashier from becoming dishonest
! 4 great many say. II believe the
millennium will come first then
Christ will come at the end of II. IS
What people think has nothing to do
| win 1t. but what God say. has evrrv-
thing to do with 1t. Many have
Missed railroad trains because they
believed they would come at a tir,e
i mar did not correspond with rho
ofrcial time card You will see Godss
time card IL you carefully read ths
/ Bible. Not word can be found IN
me Bible that gives the siirhtes, hone
/ Tor the millennium heforr tho return
or Christ; but you can find plenty
/ or veises that tell vou to look for the
/ COLI ing of the Lord first.
As we look back over the 2,ooo
years since Christ. how far we seem
to be away from the time when the
VIII of God shall be done on earth
as il is in heaven. Every edition at
he press seems to make 1t clear that
/ the devil is still having his way,
Look al the reirn OF wickedness in
our great cities In both high life and
low. No college has ever vet uaas
a saint. or ever will, Education may
improve conditions, but Il can never
change or cleanse the heart. Look
at the lukewarmness and indifference
in the churches everywhere, and see
what many OF them are compelled to
resort TO in order to keep from going
under, See to what schemes and
lodges and foolishness so,ne preach
ers nave to resort to. to get anybo<sy
TO go and hear them.
Satan L. Bound
There can be no millennium until
Jesus comes: 1t Ia His presence that
makes the millennium. You might
as wei talk of daylight not COMING
until the sun goes down. Tho mil
lenniurn caanos begin until Satan has
been bound In the pit Nothing II
more certain than that the glory OF
GOD shan cover the earth, but It will
be after Jesus comes
Many have an idea the world VIII
: grow better and better until the com.
Ing OF the millennium. and everybody
viii be converted. and you hear tina,
stun preached. hut the Bible doc
not teach any such trash.
|. On the day before the mood there
, were no doubt many people who wert
sincere In thinking that the world wa,
, growing better. and yet Il was ss
hopelessiy wicked that God had Il
, destroy IT. Some of the men whs
/ married into the family OF Lot hav.
made The same claim for Sodom, onl,
. n day or two before it's destruction
: no doubt Lots wife was of the sam,
opinion. ON the day before tn,
crualnxfon there were men in Jeru
, saFern who undoubtedly agreed will
each other that the world was grow
ing better. The world will! grow
worse and worse. Thy did eat, the,
, drank, they married wives. they wer
I given In marriage until the day tina
9 Noah entered the ark and the fioot
, came and destroyed them all. Like
= wise alec as Il was In the days OF Lot
/ they did eat, they drank, they bough,
they seld. they planted. they buiided
/ Rus the same day, that Lot went ou
t OF Sodom It rained Are and brine
. stone from Heaven and dcstroye,
them nil. Even thus shall II be Il
; the day when the Son OF Man In re
! walled. fLuke 17:37-3o.) LAwiess
! ness, vice and crime viii increase
= communism. nihilism, anarchy. adui
terry. divorce, graft, all viii continu
) to grow until they win finally ripe,
Into the nnti-Christ-
> Many think and preach that tn,
} bi!lennium will be brought about b.
the increase of knowledge, culture
| great discoveries. such as the gasolin
engine. automobile, e lectrictt y
D radtum. iiuusfied air. wireless teIe
= praphy. airships. etc. These hau
$ nothing to do with bringing the mil
lennium. II In the personal reign o
$ Christ that brings the millennium
, Those who have been the creates
= blessing TO the world were filled will
, this nope---and preached H.
:. The word OF God was vstiated an,
/ neutrai.zed by the traditions OF me-
@ when Jesus first came, and that
r very largely the trouble In presen
time. Instead OF going to the BibI
10 nnd out what God says. tn
, preacher Is too apt to go to his books
= church have to say about II, and al
their preaching and te~chinx take
4 its color from the giasses the rabbi
i wear, Just as was the .-ase In the tim,
OF Jesus, The fact that Jesus wa
, not recognized by the highup au
! thorities. but was rejected and cru
) cified as an impostor. shows what
dangerous and deadly thing II h I,
i: accept the traditions Of men rathe
: than what God says about thingA
: In the Dark.
: Too many who are now masters II
3 fsrae, are AS much In the dark q
, Nicodemus was. The truth was n
harder TO get at than corn on the cob
II we will first strip or the husk ant
shell H. We need 10 depend NOR
, upon the Holy Spirit and less upoi
: our libraries If we would preach q,
! that those who hear us will also heal
; the voice of God in our message.
is no. what Doctor This or Professor
That has to say about II that Eettles
the qeustion. and settles II right, bu
how reads ths Word? what does tn,
Bible say about it? And what w,
reed 30 do IL TO take the Bible a.
IL reads, not AS some big man says
means. Big men have been mis-.
! iahen about vital things just nbou
70 ofte.. as little ones 1.-The safes
pilot Ia not the one who wears tn,
IhlpPnTt hat, but the one who knows
the channel the best We should LEI
The Bible speak to MS Just as Goo