The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12


r know we are in favor of some was
!, measure.
= al you are "A drinker, stop. 20. :
yoa say, we need the saioons to keep
Inc psnitentiary tiled, TO keep the
3aai5 fuu, Ia keep the poornoass
! nlicd."
a Every saloon gives the devn a bet
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. Anu IL you Mane % orive .ne ossll
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something.
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disG-eius and lacy .uA4u Au. >s-.s. A.....
, out"
certainly this card-playing. beer
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SA@i4e S1ppos4nG ~ your IrlenuS,
you l!ean everybody lhaA. saAaAes VA
uana ana saJ-s law ~ On az. ioou
iAornAhS. 1sA'se got ScAos "a IneA
suppose ny sour ArashoA. S~u EA~AAA
eNsfJ Ian ALAG every wvAAaa Whv N.li
l~~~ Se@a t&.AA AI@c0 when yUAA
so"u nAAA4e - eSoAsa of. You haven :
very iAAL.y 1r4slus .t.at ~ uoupte
.heAr K4s.s ANA keil THAI fellow he In
piacA-nes1 .ed. aegeAera.s Lar.
Il saLDusaiis ~ e4uGaAoa, maAn
every InAn &a4 WOMAN AnAA can reau
AAa Wflie. we have Ia lhs ueAxu-
oofhco1 " eighiy Odd niiloo III l.AsA.l
"a sa' h, TED oA.es. 4su. suLlus.
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"cn.i.u Hho L@ a srnsluat vi a h.lA
school Inc per cent in one-tlI "a
from The ualse1siuos aI.l Colleges
one IL =. one par ceuI AAd a. 4
lnuhioefs that aanere TO IL, IA
hiousn as / increase The principle. /
Sas"t 10 corTespoiuAnsiy l4lIease The
IG11hEeTs shAt :" ia aonsre Us a,
Si.po"ins Ly a Christian, | a.xan
every man or woman who aaz MAJ
Hdn4e on ~ nrch record Ia3fs are
aooat .Alray five or innty-.. mil.
uoA OF ineii, about equally "a sri. Il
bts" Ca.hoi,c anu frotes,Ant,
: pul sopposinE by Christian. 1 mean
story iAAn AID WOMAN walilns To d.
oac tEiAS. and mat - Goa Will il
IL pas ,henl In the coffin. We have
: Is lanents.pie lew and a don's peli~ye
mere are zen nniiioA oua OF lhe tnr-
~ .Ate milton tAal knows what Al Is
10 1--we an absolutely. fully surrend-
J cred. uncdfuprotnls.ng hte, for Jesus
iChrlst The sra Of God
Anu So on The world goes. Obi 1t
IL not more men or mere money or
more women, Tho church neeaa, II LIZ
more people mat are lisht M4Lh GOD
i~i+Al 4he olo word neeGs : ..--
was IN a Southern city one time
preaching and l. SAID TO the pastor
OF Tie Cumberland Presby .erlan
church, "Doceor. how many mem-
beers nave your
"E.sne hundred soventy-two, blu.
Two hundred seventy eight of them
l doh't count"
Said: "How many are helping
you IN the meetings as ushers, serv-
ing on comnAittees, singing in the
lGhor. etcy"
lie led me back on the stage where
was preaching in The opera hous.
He said MIR. Sunday. Inc largss.
number Of my members / nave been
aole 10 get TO serve on Committees
, ushers, or singing In The choir has
been twenty "eight. and If my life de-
pended Oh making 1t hundred. Ia
have to die"
Those eight hundred seventy .wo
did not amount 10 eight hundred sew
leny-tWo snaps of your finger when
ichrist,
Sims OF Omission
, The trouble with the church today
is not the doing OF things that God
: Tells you not 10 do, 80 much az IL u
Of not doing The things that God
tells you. The SINS of commission.
Curved be thou. for you came not
= 10 The help OF God against the
: mighty"
That is what the church needs and
what this campaign needs, II you
would look at IA good many people In
The church, you would think they
had H. through ticket to heaven in
a parlor car and had asked tho port.
ers to call them when they headed
into the yards or the New Jerusa-
lem. But you will DO side~tracke
V tn hot box. old man. before you
get there.
And il had hundred tongues and
. every tongue Was speaking a differ
ent language In a different key at
! the same time, I could not do JUS
. uce TO the splendid chaos that the
worldly indifferent people have
brought to the cause Of Jesus Christ
. and 10 his truth. I tell you there Is
, but one voice from faithful preachers
, and faithful church members. faith
, ful officials. about the church, and
. that La. she Is sick.
, But we say II In such painless
, terms, and we won't work over her
in such a tender delicate message
that on the whole, she seems to en-
. JOY. IL not court and plead for a con-
, unued invaiidity. But am no
, spiritual osterath, l am no spiritual
inasseur. l am surgeon ana l bring
my scalpel ana my trocar. and drive
1t to the very hilt In the purifying
= abcesses that are boring their way
to her spiritual and moral vitals. And
J some salaried qquack cries out: Tie
has stabbed the church"
!, But hurl back. You Iiei I arm
trying to remove that which threatens
the life of the church
Faithful are the wounds Of 4
friend, but the kiss OF an enemy il
deceitful and am trying to take
away the thing that threatens to take
away from her, her spiritual power
and spiritual life.
Four out OF five with their names
on church records are doing nothing
~ bring tbs world to Christ O. the
church is courting the world and In
bringing her down 10 the level Of tina
ungodly. and as a satisfaction for