The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-24

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the fortuitous concurrence OF atoms
produced in a protoplasm. Call on
your old goddess protoplasms now
Come on, biasfsbemers, scoffsrs
scathed by the lightning and canopisd
By tho thunder peais! Open the bur-
ial places OF your memory and stand
leaning upon your tombstone!
"CUmc On, s,rcp4ics:"
Gene on. skeptics. ifa your Anal
tria. in belief! VIII you parley with
the thunder peals ana the trumpet
blasts, and the lightning Pushes like
you did with stn and heaven. VIII
you mock at God then, the way you
mock at the preachersy
Come on, prayeriess bn.foon. stand
UP. tell the world what a fool you
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Come on, come on, princes and piefi-
potentiaries Of the intellect. you who
magnified human reason above the
divine.
Come on, you that took some old
German professors theories and put
Jesus Christ ont OF business and made
No, sir! worshippers OF mammon.
idolaters Of gain. you dsdained the
commerce Of heaven: you had no b.
BILE but your ledger and your day
book; you made q bank vault out Of
your heart! Gold WAS your god; the
pretty face OF that woman was your
god.
Look on the world now, old fellow!
Come on, muster your deeds and your
stocks and your bonda. Oh. all of
these are lost while your soul remains
that you put no insurance on when
God gave you the chance.
will be the outcome OF the combina-
tons of capital to tight labor. and the
combinations OF labor to fight capital.
Il don't know. But will give you a
tip. l know this much. that God has
appointed a day in which he will judge
the world, and there win be no class
judgment then. The millionaire will
get it In the neck the same as the
hobo.
Whoever rejects Jesus Christ, my
friends. they are unfortunate: 1t does
not make any difference who they are
God Is no respecter OF persons.
don't know when it will take place
GOD has appointed day In which he
a great meeting II all the unheiievers
are there? n my preaching gets tOo
hoe for any OF you guys. You can get
mp and beat 1t. and II you don't like
TO you oon't need to come.
But there will be one meeting where
everybody will be there whether they
want to be or not You don't have
TO come hare, hut there Ia one meet
ing where. you win 90 and ~ou can't
go away IL It gets too hot, either! You
have got to stay there!
Meet Your Sins.
You win meet your sirs Sometimes
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prevent the ships from entering only
at high tide. And sin IS the bar tina.
prevents the stnner from entering the
harbor OF salvation.
The love OF God through Jesus
Christ-that is the noon tide, and then
you can sweep In on the love OF God
over the sand bars Of sins ard blum
ders and II puils your life into Gods
harbor Of peace. but you must come
in when she IN at the flood tide. and
she In at the flood tide now.
Years ago. my friend Crittenden--
Charles M. Crtttenden--lived In New
York. His little girl died and ne es-
tabi!shed missions after his little girl
He was out in San Francisco speaking
for that purpose and one day he re-
ceived a letter. 1t read something
like thia:
Dear My. Crittenden:
Il wish you'd think and think your
way down until you came to the low
est level upon which you ever found
a human being living.
II have been to hear you every night
j haven't always been thus There
was n time that I had home and a
wife that / loved. One day there
came q woman into my home. We
sinned and fled.
'For a time worked and supported
her, then l drove her ont to sell her
body. took the money and spent
u for drink and for dope and giant
bling
zone night I was down IN an un-
derwrvund grogxcry. breathing the vi
tiated air. listening to the faends Of
both sexes that consregated in that
cesspooi OF iniquity. when a man came
In and put note on the table. read
II and II said. Hurry, come quick. Liz.
zie is dying
II put my hat on and staggered out
OF that stale-beer joint. I went down
the street for blocks. then I turned
into an alley and went up a rickety
stairway into = building. and down O
long hallway into the room on the
right. There on d bundle Of straw
and rags lay . woman. and at the
sound Of my voice and footsteps she
aroused he<seif. opened her eyes and
sitting upright. said: Goo damn and
curse yout am your victim: this IL
your work. Look on the wreck and
she fell back into the arms OF infamy !"
God Pity YOU
God pity you: he will meet his sin
unless his sin II buried under grace
through repentance and fear By faith
In Jesus Christ. He win meet his sin.
ut II appointed wnto man once to
die. but after death. tho Judgment"
God offers you tfa way OF escape
now. II yuu are char xod with = crime,
there are just one Of three ways you
can get out. First, they hear the evi-
des,ce. The Judge says, Prisoner 10
He IL not criminal. He
hasn't violated . law. therefore ne IL
not amsnAolc to the NV, fur there was
nothing in the law that said he should
not do what he did, He IL not a crfm-
inal He escapes BY fssce Of law."
Surprising = man n charged with 4
crime, b ARRESTED and pleads, mot
Guilty. ard h<0 lawyer . dsfand
him. Thu jury hears tho evidence and
says, Not Guilty. He escaped b.
force Of testimony.
Suppoes he p charged with 4 crime
and pleas. mot suiity." He hires .
lawyer and prepares tor defsnsA The
jury hears the evideuce and they and
him. 'uuilty." He b ssntsocsd.
We have an had our TRIAL. God has
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