The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-23

man ana where did you ever find
him?"
"oh." said the minister. SISTER,
would have given 800 II he had
not been here tonight was
chagrinned from the time he com
menced until he was through and
hope you are not offended. those are
simply his viewR.'
Listen! Her black eyes blazed and
the tears rolled down her cheeks like
rivers Of water. She said.
.kpow ~ssrs Is kae yees,,4 9rnisa4 s,,s.
his views are the right views and ii
my poor boy had heard preaching like
that. he would not be sleeping under
the snow out in the cemetery.
think you ought to talk to us like that
and tell US what we ought to do and
how We ought to live"
Objects Of Admiration.
We admire whoever tells us tho
truth and tries to help us live for
Christ. The hour has come for
plainness OF speech. the hour has
come to believe in revivals. Some
people don't; some preachers don't;
neither does the devil. 50 they are like
their daddy. Put me down In favor
OF everything the DEVILS against.
put me down against everything the
devifs IN, favor OF Put me down
against everything the devil gets
most of his. recruits out OF, put me
down against 1t with every brain cell.
icie and corpuscle! ! No SIR! O. I
know there are some stiff necked.
twentieth century, theological. homi-
letical, high browed, exegetical. bell
wethers for the devil, hyprocrits that
don't believe in . revival They say.
20. we'll we don't approve OF your
methods.
Old Nebuchadnezzar did not ap-
prove OF the methods of the three
Jews that would not bow down and
worship the idols OF gold until he
threw them into the furnace heated
seven times over.
He didn't approve because he could
not dictate to Shadrach and Meshach
and Abednego.
o, the political grafters, they did
not approve of Daniels methods that
kept their hands out of the public
crib and kept them from filching
from the public treasury. for that
brave. God-fearing, loyal Jew stood
Arm and an immovable as Gibraltar.
o. the traitorous. treacherous, Absa-
Ion didn't approve OF the way his
father David was running the king
uUfn anu 20 NC II up III Mil
his father and put the crown on his
own head and sit down ON the throne.
O, the Pharisees. didn't approve of
the methods OF Jesus Christ. when
he drove the scalpel OF Gods eternal
truth into their rotten. striking. put
rifying. Abces1es. that bered their
way to their vitais and they nailed
him on the cfces and they spit In his
face-yes, spit in his face as they
walked down the street
But God Almighty raised him from
the dead. put him at the right hand
OF God. the Father.
Oh: the ecclesiastical crooks did
not agree with Savonarola and Mar
tin Luther and they in~inernted Saw
onarola 70 ashes. They'd have put
ii over on Martin Luther IL they
could. They didn't agree with him,
Oh. you don't agree. The drunkards
that have been made sober from the
Atlantic to the Pacific they agree and
the wives who are happy now. they
agree. The little children who have
plenty to eat and plenty to wear, they
agree.
sometf ago when Daddy came
home.
us kids would run and hide.
For he was full of dirty booze
And he was bad inside.
But now we're glad to met our Dad,
He never, never falls.
To kiss LIS and caress us,
Since he hit hit the sawdust trail.
OF clothes we hadn't very much
And they were ragged too,
Our little shoes were all worn cut.
AID OLAF toes were sticking trough,
But now we've dandy clothes to wear.
And Maxwell, she don't look SO pale,
Gee WHIT she's got brand new suit.
Since Daddy hit the trail.
ia. Ha, They agree. They agree.
And the poor girl who became heart
sick and disguised with a life Of sin
and she crcpt and crawled out or
the uuagmire OF rith and the cess
pool Of vice and she went home with
the tears of repentance coursfng down
her beautiful cheeks. Oh. She doesn't
think I'm vulgar.
MOL Another says he In sensational.
Nothing would be more sensational
than If some Of you would be decent
Nothing good was ever accomplished
without sensation. Sensation la life.
StaSnation Is dAmnation. The bound
IAK, EuShlA6, ACaiiLGr
plunging mountain stream is sensa
tionai. yes; the stagnant pool breed
ing miasmattc germs and miasma,
that is vile. choose Christian en-
thusiasm In place OF putrid stagna-
ton any day. T would rather be a
guide post than q tom bstone any DAY.
It is q high time we brought up the
cavalry: some OF our big guns are
stuck in the mud. brink up the rank
and file. One reason why sin
triumphe. think is because It is
treated as though 1t were a cream
puff instead of a. rattle snake, You
can't brush away sin with u feather
duster. Prudery Is no more sign
Of virtue than a wig IL OF hafr-both
are used to cover 4 bald spot Relig-
ion. / think. is too often associated
with dellarx In political conventions
everybody Is awake ard on the que
vive hut in religious Assem- hlag es,
where Christ used 70 be crowned. they
are commandment In financial
gatherings. where dollars and cents
arc at stake. everybody la alert but in
religious gatherings where men arc
either going TO be mansioned In heav-
en- or uauperized in hell they are
apathetic-
In a courtroom, where man Is on
trial and lighting for his life every
hodv sits forward and scarcely