The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-29
Personal Work-No. 3
he'd by Billy Sunday at City Auditorium Afternoon Of
January 3s)

- favor SsSio thena .'o n es'as Oh gIsti !.
, 1rs tSa~ Freat est "frfirg "a wig 'cs'fh sis'
for her husband. or a husband for
wife: It's the greatest thing parent
can do for child. or chilli for
parent; It's the greatest thing you can
d. for YOUR neichhor, or members or
your lodge or your club. and X you
want to please Christ do that. and II
you want to dispiease the Gevfl do
IT. Say. you ought 10 break your
neck to please God and you ought to
take supreme delight In making Jesus
Christ smile and the devil Eroan.
lie awake nights studying up some
hing the devil doesn't want done and
then gn and do 1t
II requires effort to save people. I
worked on a farm when ! was only
ten years old, MIXED ten cows night
and morning. | used to bind oats be-
fore Mccormick invented the self
binder. and ! was only eleven years
old. I fired for railroad; I've played
baseball; I've been an athlete, my
friends. You'd naturally think It's
the easiest thing on earth TO get peo-
pie to do right--weil. it's the hardest
thing. and yet it's no compliment to
any man or woman to know they are
nc a Christian. I would be 4shamed
w .Pffk a OHttut tuhu VI ~othan III thc
face ana say I was not a Christian.
my friend! IF TO be a Christian meanc
TO be something dlsreputab}e. l would
understand why anyone would defuse
Il but when II means to be the highest
and nobiest man or woman on GODS
dirt, tell me why you refuse and ex-
pect people to respect you.
And you need courage. Oh, there
rs nothing harder. seemingly. than to
get out md talk--talk to somebody
about being a Christian. You can talk
about business. about politics. about
society-~that doesn't hurt the devils
cause but when you begin your as
sault on his Kingdom, all the devils
in hell will be on your back.
Brace Up.
Don't be afraid: don't 60 around
with your head hanging down like a
oulrush as though you are going to
fail. Many fail from lack of cour-
age.
suppose 7 read tho story of Noah
and the food twenty times before l
got this lesson out OF It: God told
Noath to build that ark, and he butt
IL and he wss a hundred and twenty
years in building II. And when he
got Ii complete he couldn't convince
anybody hut his wife. his three CONS
ana their VINCE tfah ztI dN SpiHS
to destroy the world. In other words,
after a hundred and twenty years, ne
could only convince seven people. and
only eight went into the ark with
hlrusefl
60. Jesus Christ lived on this earth
thirtv-threc years and at Pentecost he
could muster orc hundred and twenty
"A fter -hirtv-three years of work and
OF preaching Some of them fol-
lowed him as long as he'd feed them,
but whom he cut the commissary de-
partment OFT. hey stopped They
INST followed him for the luavcs and
fishes
| got that lesson out RI It. and vet
Jesus Christ said. He that belleyeth
on me, tho works that I do shall he
10 also: and greater works than these
shall he do because / go unto my
Father"
/ live out in Indiana / was born in
Iowa. live In Indiana. In a heauti-
fui park at Winona Lake. Ind. One
day heard the birds calling and
chstier'rg and making q great noise
and went out TO zee what was the
matter. and / found a fedglinv OF a
robin had fallen out of the nest and
there we're the robins and sparrows
and blue Jays and the fiickers and
woodpeckers and blackbirds and the
orioles all chattering. This little
robin would make a struggle and get
about ten feet above the ground and
then fall back again and all the birds
were irving to do something. express
ing their sym pathy but unable TO do
ANYTHING more than chatter. So
went hack TO the house and got lad
der and came down and picked up
the little bird and climbed ~ and put
t.s< .~ 10. "A "a No ri "a
increased their chatter, they all seem
ed 10 say
Thank you! Thank YOU Thank
youi" All trying to express their
sympathy
I got a lesson from the bird-how
they show sympathy TO the one that's
down and needs a little hit of help;
and yet the church is doing nothing to
help bring the world nearer Christ.
'+rhy soul must overflow II thou
other souls would reach" And II Is
"a great privilege: not hat God needs
IVA bur that eve need him. and yet
though that may sound strange. he
does need US.
God could send angels down here TO
ring the church bells and preach and
sing. but God has put that in earthen
vessels and unless we do II. II WON'T
be done. am staggered to think that
Cod hcnors us by asking human be-
ings 10 carry on his work. God wants
you. Rut don't look and act and talk
as though IL was a great task and
duty but a wonderful privilege to go
cut and do ching FOR Jesus Christ
The Great Worker.
Jesus was a great worker He said.
~ must work the works OF him that
send me"
when his disciples came along as
he sat on the well of Sychar they
went on into the town TO buy bread.
and while he was sitting there. there
came ont woman with a pitcher up
on her shoulder 20 draw water from
the we1i and Jesus asked her to give
him drink She said:
mo. YOU are a Jew: 7 am Samarf-
tan. We have no dealings one with
another" ~
You can bet your life the racial
lines were raishty finely drawn when
hat Samaritan woman wouldn't give
Jesus 4 drink because ne WINS a Jew.
They wouldn't have any dealings one
with me other"
II arm Samaritan; you are n Jew:
we have NO dealings" she sai6,.
And Jesus said, IF you only knew
who IL was that was asking you. you'd
ask Of him the living water"
And she became materialist and
said Lord. give mo that water that
came not hither to draw"