The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-01

. diamonds. the richest diamond mines
In the world. The Kimberley mines
are there. 1t has been published to
the world. but 1t is only those that
go there and dig that ever find any
diamonds or the gold.
| Go to the Bible and dig. and you
| will md out, nr friends, that IL is
/ of God. and you will get the gold and
the diamonds the Lord has hid there
! for you.
| Jerry Macauiey was a convict .up
u, n Ar-N n.y., q, y s.<sss .-SAD-x5eIe, ( s.S
OF his. Gardner. went up there and
talked to the prisoners, and In the
course of his talk he quoted a verse
OF Scripture. When Jerry went back
| to his cell he wanted to find the verse
He took out his Bible and started In
/, Genesis to find it. The verse was in
| Hebrews. but he found Jesus Christ
before he ever found that verse, and
he made his name ring throughout
| New York, and New York couldn't
hold 1t, and its piled over into New
Jersey. You couldn't hold 1t there
and It reached away out into the corn
rows OF Iowa And they couldn't keep
J ii there. and SO the truth kept on
| spreading.
Suppose = man told you that the
! title to your property was no good
would you damn him and cuss him
and laugh at him? No, sir: You'd
go hire the best title lawyer and you'd
have him trace that title back to the
government grant You'd see who
had ever owned It and IL there was
any hack taxes unpaid. II there was
| the slightest flaw, you wouldn't rest
IL you knew the title to your prop
erty was no good. We have a lawyer
( in Chicago who does nothing but ex-
anime titles to pieces of property.
There has never been a real estate
I contract of any importance In Chi
cago that Wilson hasn't given his
opinion on It.
John Wilson makes a million dol
lars a year Just giving his opinion
on the value of titles to property, and
! and when he gives his opinion you can
go to bed and go TO sleep and not
worry any more about it A man said
not very long ago:
Yes, paid him $4,000 for his
opinion on a piece OF property, but 1t
took him almost a year to be able to
say It was all right. and now that
he has said it is. can go TO bed and
go to sleep and be certain that the
zeal Is y. h.
| Hire the Besa.
Always hire the best there is in
| the world. That is what we want.
and there Is only one book that can
! tell you the truth about eternity.
Down yonder. in the records OF that
book. If 1t says that your title is good
60 to bed and go to sleep, and you
don't need TO listen to the sneers of
/ q al ia nd hop
the Bible tells you you are on the
road to heaven, then don't worry
about 1t.
! Here is the only book in the uni
verse, my friends. that can teil you
whether you will be saved or lost.
Every man believes he is going to
live forever somewhere, and the Bi-
bic tells him where.
When / was in New York I was in
Tiffany's. and they showed rue dia-
mond worth hundred thousand dol
lars They don't carry that around
and leave IL lying on the counter.
They keep 1t locked up In the safe.
where no thief can get at It. Then
why do you go around with your I'M
mortal soul. which is worth more to
you than anything else in the world,
exposed 10 every infidei and thief and
/ lihertine that comes around and wants
/ 10 rob you OF that precious thing. If
you came down the aisle now and
asked me TO give up my hope in Jesus
/ Christ or take a auit-claim deed for
( I'd rather have standing room in
( heaven--don't you forget that!-than
all the world, and go to hell.
J Now I meet a good many. folks. old
! and Young. who think It is an evil
depce of intellectual freedom and
superiority to question the Bible and
| the existence of God and the divin-
! Try of Jesus Christ. / dispute the
| right of no man or no woman to their
| opinion. but why be fool and be-
iieve that you have no pre-eminence
or prominence over beast?
| You say you can't believe in the
miracles You say you can't believe
! In the resurrection. Let me tell you
! the story OF a greater miracle. the
story OF a poor peasant. member OF
desrised and OF subject race. the
Jews, himself desptsed, the place of
his birth despised, who with few ig-
norant followers went forth to teach.
| There was nothing attractive
about the gospel that he taught to
! the carnal mind, as far as this world
i was concerned. All he offered his
4 followers was poverty. self-sacrif1ce.
:
/ said that was their reward for be-
! lieving and oheying his teachings, and
/ that was all the remuneration at
| .ached. And. furthermore, he went
/ on to try and show them.
He never wrote n line, except n
! few forgotten words which he traced
with his fingers In the sand. He
scattered his precepts abroad and he
! left them to the memories Of men.
| After a little while they nailed him
| on the cress, and he died felon's
/ death. The world all around forgot
/ that he ever lived. and cared less.
! and yet his words have lived on.
!, Philosophy with all its wisdom.
priestcraft with all it's terrors. kings
welding the iron powers OF the
world, have all united to try and re-
| sist and overthrow the strange power
| left behind by this poor Galilean
| peasant. Jesus Christ, who didn't
| have two coats TO his back. and