The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

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a1Doe1ng In the auditorium. He liken'
- g. cleansing of the temple to the
II NnUnn1nR Of the heart. the temple oil
- ooul Of the home, the temple OF
- family and Of the Church-chiefis
- Attor-And told of his own exre-
& 411DQe4 before he was converted Has
S1kHsuu. IN full. follows:
N the Second Chronicles the
a4Nanty-rfnth chapter, twenty-seventh
\ y0KBe. when the burnt Offering be-
IAN. the song OF the Lord began also
The difference between the twenty
e1Ghth and the twenty ninth OF Chron-
s tcje1 IN the difference you can nnd
n0metines manifest in the Church
! perioas of great enthusiasm and zeal,
Uuly to be followed by q great lapse,
~ nd people seem to have no interest
~ anything that pertains TO ne
Church. We see il oftimes in indi-
/ viduals. There are men and women
whose names used TO be connected
ACTIVELY with religion and for some
reason they have grown athletic and
indifferent and when you hcar their
nAmes pronounced today II is never In
4eonnec4ion with anything that Per
fAino to the advancement of Coos
camse and Kingdom
I can tell you of families whose
names used to be intimately assso-
ciAted with everything that had for its
object the uplifting of the cause OF
God and bringing men and women TO
Jesus Christ, but because they have
climbed a few rounds higher in the
social ladder, ard have gotten little
money nowadays that comes In dol
lars where ii used 10 come in pennies,
they seem to have correspondingfy
decreased In interest In the cause or
Jesus
Ahax was the eleventh king of
Judah He was the son of lothian.
one of the Coolest men that ever
lived. but he Was one of The most dis
reputable scoundreIs that ever dis
Kraced the human race He was the
eleventh king of Judah. and l read
this:
.'Ahax was twenty years old when
he began to reign and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. but he
did not that which WAS right accord
n Is David. his father, had done, for
he walked In the ways OF the kings Of
Israel and he made molten images,
and moreover he burnt incense in the
valley of the son of Hinnone and
burnt his children in the fire, after
the denominations of the heather
whom the Lord had cast out.
Practiccd idoiatry.
cense In the high places and on the
hills and under every green tree
That Is an illustration OF the power
OF stn--what II can lead man to do.
and degrade and poifute his character
and his ability until he makes the
world q carbuncle In which he hves-
And he piundered the temple. He
didn't stop a. that Ahaz took away
= portion out Of the house of the
rxts SsS hSx hayIGa n
king and out OF the house of the
princess and he gave /. % the king
OF Assyria. but he help. him not
There was no worse sin that a Jew
could commit than to desecrate the
temple and to go in ana take the
vessels used for the worship of God
hy the high priest and then turn them
over to some God-forsaken Leathen
simply because of some political OF
some financial alliance with him
And AhAz gathered together the
vessels of the house OF God, and cut
tfI pieces the vessels OF the house OF
God. and he shut up the doors OF the
house OF the Lord. and he made many
affairs In every corner OF Jerusalem
md In every city of Judah. and he
made high places to burn incense and
Y b provoke etae Lord God of his
fathers to anged. At last he died. and
Ahax slept with his fathers and they
buried him In the city. even in Jeru-
salem. but they brought him not into
the sepuichre OF the kings OF Israel.
He lived such a oisreputahle, idola-
troua, God forsaken. Ubiquitous. ilcen-
tious life that when he died they
wouldn't disgrace the bones of bis
dead ancestors by putting his old sin
soaked carcass by the side of them
him % honor at
being buried In Jerusalem. because
he had been n king, but they didn't
bury him in the sccpulchre OF the
kings
A friend of mine, walking through
q cem1tery out in Iowa. went past a
treat monument that lowered ur
twenty feet high. and on ii was the
name of a man whose name was
synonymous with everything pure
noble, virtuous and religious and
after hooking at that monument Of
granite ne was led over into remote
corner of the same graveyard There
Was n little marble slab about three
feet high and eight inches wide, and
they pulled aside the weeds and read
on that the Same thing that was on
this big granite monument He was
Acld That's the son Of the man whose
Aonument we passed a while ago.
~
beside his father?~
That fellow made the family name
SYNONYMOUS with everything that per
tanned TO theft, wickedness hariotry
and whiskey. and did a term In the
+ Iienitentiary. and ne was a stencil &c
decent people. When he died they
fit they would disgrace his fathers
homes by putting him there, beside
him. and they wouldn't bury him In
\ - snxne grave. -~They did bury him
Z n the same graveyard but not in the
umzne grave"
AhAx died and they buried him In
Ay0u1Aiem, but 1t would have been a
n0od thing II they'd put him some
1890 else. but they didn't That's UP
= them. not to me
They buried him IN Jerusalem. but
I 10y brought him not into the sepui-
~onro OF the kings OF Israel"
Fur and Against.
HoxektAh. his son. reigned instead
4 HEGu1ktah, from the parental heritage
/ I'D good deal against him. He had
- thing In his favor--he had for a
sIo&her one of the noblest, Coolest
sWoSnen that ever lived. Her name was
\ H&11aA. and she was the daughter Of
1Exchariah, and he was Cody man
1T Hezekiah had for "A father the
H1eUt good God -fersaker
y 10orOHafe that ever disgraced the