The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-29
"Present Your Bodies
(Sermon Preached by Billy Sunday at City Auditorium Night
of January 2S
of January 2S.

what great things God is doing for
him, and II you will SO back for juse
one year to find place TO begin. you
will cry with David: According to
the multitude of thy tender mer-
cies."
An old lady one time heard a ser
mon that filled her heart with graft
tude for the goodness OF the Lord
She said: Il have never tried 10 count
His mercies In my life. and | am go
ing to just spend tomorrow doing
nothing else"
In one hour she was confused and
at noon she was tagged out. and she
went TO bed at o'clock. tired, and
said: They come three times faster
than l can count them"
SO we SIT down and sing. Count
your many blessings. name them one
by one" 1t Will surprise you what
the Lord has done.
A visitor WAS walking through the
beautiful and well-kept grounds of an
insane asylum out West, and he heard
a. voice shrieking TO him from the
fourth story Looking UP, he saw a.
man standing at the grated bars. shak-
ing them. and he shrieked down 10 my
friend and said: Stranger. did you
ever thank God for your reason
He said it startled him and made
him think. Up to that time he could
not recall that he ever had. but he
never allowed day to go by after that
that he didn't do it.
Have you ever thanked God for your
reason? Did you ever do 1t, or YOU.
or you? On, IL not, 7 beg OF you.
begin now. There are people just as
good as you yonder in the insane
asylum that don't even know the
mother who gave them birth and at
whose breast they nursed. Oh. how
grand 1t liz to be clothed and In your
right mind and not locked up In
mad-house!
think 1t would be a thousand times
easier to follow my child TO the grave
yard and listen to the clods fall with
unutterable agony and fill the grave
myself. than TO see one Of them lose
his mind and pound his brains out
in cell in an insane asylum.
Did you ever thank God for your
eyesight? Whenever you look into
the sightiess eyes OF man or woman
you ought to thank God that He has
given you eyes to see this old world.
filled with beauty: to see the rose
and the sky. the waterfall. the snow
covered mountains. the sunrise. IL
sunset, the rainbow and the storm
cease Oh. never again look into the
face of your mother or your children
without thanking God that you can
see. while others just as good as you
are cropping and feeling their way to
hearse.
by the mercies OF Godr DID you
ever thank God that you can hear
hear the voice of your friends, your
dear ones. your wife or your children.
and the sound of little children. at
play; that you can drink in the melody
with which God has niled this whole
world: hear tho word preached and
hear them sing II? You can hear the
voice of your mother or your child
step to a telephone. hear your loved
ones in Chicago or San Francisco.
An Awful Calamity.
Oh, what an awful calamity TO be
deaf. and to lose all the good that
comes through being able to hear!
And can you think Of such great
blessing come to you through such q
wonderful privilege and not have your
heart quicken with gratitude to God?
Then never hear sound again without
thanking God that you can hear. BY
the mercies Of God.
Did you ever thank God for the
blessings OF taste. You know there
arc people that cannot tell BY taste
whether they are eating strawberries
and cream or baled shavings There
are other people that have such vicious
tastes II 10 almost impossible to eat:
and you ought TO thank God for maxi
Ing % many good things taste good.
God might have made our food taste
like quinine or garbage, but ne dldn't.
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