The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-25


spots Of the church. 1t don't seem
to enter tho mind of the average
church member that there Is anything
for him to do. 1t is the business of q
-four mill to make -four. 1t is the
: business o. the saw-mill to make
lumber. 1t is the business Of a saloon
to make drunkards- 1t Is the busi-
ness OF medical college to make
doctors II IL the business of a Law
school to make lawyera. 1t liz the
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ness: not to entertain them or amuse
, them! Save them for Jesus Christ
Too much OF the work done today Is
like squirrel In q cage--lots Of ac-
tivity but no progress. You have seen
them in a cage with a wheel in it,
going around. but they never get any
where, and so 1t Is with some of US.
we are thinking to beat the band but
we do not make any Roadway.
1t don't require any spiritual life
to play cards. run a bazaar or a rum
mage sale--none at all--but 1t does
to help somebody to be won to Jesus
Christ. II don't require much Wis
dom to win a mans friendship; IL no
rs low down. help him, flatter him,
and you can win him. Oh, you can
get some fellow to vote for you for
few years maybe; IS btu win
sometimes cause q man to do that.
! A man that will sell his vote ought
to be deprived Of citizenship. Any
dirty. black-faced whelp that will
tamper with the American ballot box
ought to be DISTINGUISHED. and where
the minority may defea: tho will OF
the majority they ought to be olsen
franchised and thrown into prison. If
Oh M tn A. x~-at =
where they would be driven. I don't
know whether there would be any
place to send them---I don't think they
want them in hell
I It's marvellous, marvellous. Letters
of testimony never give letters OF
testimony, never give letters OF testi-
,mony or endorse books / have moth
ing to sell YOU; l don't want to buy
anything. II I did. there'd be an
army of people preying on my cred
Utility through my friendship. AS it is.
a lot of fellows go around selling atuff
out on the street: I have nothing to
do with it. I have nothing to sell
you They get my pictures, although
the law doesn't give n man the right
to do IT; but they win go and get the
copies and sell them. / have nothing
to do with It. II 7 had anything to
sell I'd put IL right in the tabernacle.
What little money la made on these
song books give II all 10 Rody.
don't make = cent OF II.
We ret up a few little sermons for
ten cents: sometimes we will sell them
IL the people want them, but what I
get on that l give II away. Now, |
have got no rakeoff from anything.
And another thing here, it don't re-
iquire much friendship. why. you take
n church that wants to get rid of a
preacher. they can give him the most
fattering letter of testimony you ever
read in your life. Why, IL he will
fulhn. all of those requirements.
ought to he pastor OF some of the
metropolitan churches, or some of the
big churches her"
I.ook at the get-rich- quick schemes,
They nlched sloo.0oo.oOo out OF tine
rockets of the poor people in Just p
few months until the government had
to take hold of them. But Some fell
low advertises and he's got plan that
will give you 20 or 40 per cent = on
your Investment; and you can bet your
life he's a fraud on the face of it,
why / win tell you. If he's got good
, gilt-edged security to OFFER he can go
!, down to the bank and put up his stock
and borrow money from the bank az
5 per cent. ! don't find anything lyine
, awake at home at night trying to put
30 per cent In your pocket. l want &c
tell you the United States government
can get all the money II wants at :
per cent: Uncle Sam is gilt-edged Sc
curity. The higher the rate of inter
est, the more dangerous your principal
Is In every time. every time.
And 80 per cent intercollegiate
hours sleep--setter than IS per cent
and insomnia-and then lose your
! principal
, Don't bite. ! am not going TO give
you lecture on finance. Don't bite
Your money is MS good to, you as i;
Is TO the other fellow. Don't bite, dom,
/ bite Go down and put II In and get
, : per cent and go home and go TO bed
and go TO sleep. Anybody can do 1t,
Everybody can't preach. know
what Womb happen il Rody would
, try and preach. Everybody can't sing
; And SO everybody can do some
thing. but ven can't all preach. But
everybody can talk, You can do that
SO that's why. II there we're only loo
Christians in the world right now and
! II they'd each win one soul in year
, that would be 200 at the end of year
,, Then II the gro would each win a soul
. that would be 400 at the end OF the
year: at the end of another year /,
would he 500. and in another year II
would be 1900, DO you know how
! long il wou "a take to win /, 500, 900 600
: or more than the present Inhabitants
of the giobef 1t would take just TWEEN
ty-five years. And Jesus Christ died
over l.StV years ago. anu we nave Rol
. beneath the Stars and Stripes 10000 :
900 people not In any church. Cathoilc
or Protestant.
what Are We DoinEs
What are we doing Nothing tc
: help bring them to the Lord. And you
! can do IT any place. You can't preach
any place! + can't preach in q store
. I can't preach In street car. can't
preach in the street. can preach here
in the tabernacle twice a day. but you
can speak to people no matter where
, you are, while paying the fellow your
car fare. or calling the fellow on the
phone: you can speak TO people when
you 20 out. You go out of here. some
', thousands Of you: you can each speak
to some person this afternoon, and
, therefore you go out and see what you
can de-. Do you see what you'd do?
You'd multiply what you say for God
and for his truth. Now you can do it
any time. any hour of the day or night.
You can't preach any time
Moedy. when he was a young fell
low, was secretary of the Y. NJ. G. A.
In Chicago. and he made a resolve that
he wouldn't go to bed without win
ming somebody for Jesus. He went
to bed one night and It occurred to
him that he hadn't spoken to anybody