The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-01

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lthey climb over me, and wherever
igo, the little children come troopinE
after me in great numbers.
why I beat even my wife and chill
Idren, anS terror-scricken, they fed from
line at sight. One day when ! was at
my very worst, all covered with blood
from ~seif-inficted wounds, / saw a
, boat coming across the lake over near
where my dwelling was In the Tomhs
I rushed down to meet them. intend
|, ing to kill the whole crowd thas was
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1.-THE wates. the Nevis IN ne .crs~a oss1
yPessss ysswe 1se sssg DO w&sh stSAees edesps,
, thou son of God Art thou come hither
TO torment us before our timer
Jesus said to the devils, Come out
Come out! and when they were gone,
found myself clothed in my right mind,
tame and gentle and kind as you see
me now.
THE people who used TO fear me
don't fear me any more. because Jesus
Is In my heart. Who was JesusT Why.
He Is the one that sent me back home
from the TonIhs where 7 used to live.
Jesus is the one that sent the little
children to take me by the hand-they
used to run I'm terror from me when
I had the devil in me"
>"Who was jesus These words
glared at me from the headlines of a
newspaper, where some man had tried
to write an article. Although HE
article WAS anything but orthodox. 1
! said / will not take the view OF
that old professor, but I VIII GO
back two thousand years ago.. and
7 will ummon the people who knew
Jesus Christ. That guy doesn't know
Him. / am not going TO take what
ne says-no, mol
I asked the little children. Who
was Jesus" and they stopped skip
ping the rope. They stopped rolling
the hoop. They stopped playing duck
on-the-rock. They say, Jesus was
the good man who o US up In His
arms and kissed us and said. Suffer
little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not for Of such Is the
Kingdom of Heaven"
7 asked Martha and Mary, who
was Jesus?"
why, He was our friend, and His
visits to our home made our home
an ante-room to heaven. When our
brother Lazarus was dead. we sent and
brought Him back and He went to
the tomb and He said. lazarus. come
forth!' and our brother leaped into
life. n He dried the tears on our
checks by giving us back our dead
brother"
Who was Jesus7" I asked n wo~
man with crepe on her hat and a
black dress. and her face was sad. She
was going down the street with a
funeral procession, and | said: WHO
was JesueY"
She said IT was taking my only
= e0H out - the graveyard TO bury
him. and do you know, on the road
We nCt a man all covered with dust
and his face was wet with perspira-
/ ton and He stopped US.
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t boy by the hand. and lie said to him,
Young man, I say unto thee, arise
and my boy got UP and took mo by
{ the arm. This Is my boy here. VIM
was Jesus? lie raised my son from
(. the dead"
/ 7 ask Zaccheus. the publican
= who was Jesus?' He turns to us
S the handwriting of sin has long beer
I removed.
e why. Jesus is the one that came
a into my heart the home and made
a new man out of me. / used to bt
an old scalawag and a schemer ant
!" a thief trying TO pick the. pockets o
l. other people. and put something owe
on them TO get them to cough up thei
: money, that I hadn't manhood enough
II to earn. AS soon as | knew Jesus.
l. stopped stealing and lying and schem
IL Ing. / CAV every man back s
for every 81 I stole from him. WI,
" was Jesus? He made me bankrup
a trying to make me pay back my none.
to the other. fellow. But am happie
. now than when T was rich. Jesu
took all that away. and I'd rathe
have Jesus han that. and what w
- got now is all mine"
a, Cast the First Stone.
I asked the woman about to b
stoned for her sin. The men stoo,
with stone In their hands, and Jesu
came up and said, Hold on, hol,
on! Let him that is among yo'
= without sin cast the fret stone" oh
oh. and h g whole gan Wake
away.
a She said. Then Jesus took me b
~ the hand n said to me, Neither a
I condemn you. You go and sin II
n; That's Jesus. Do you want to khot
"a who He TSP Well I wouldn't thin
n or doing anything that would dis
a. please Him, when He stopped .thos
I'd brutal men. Every fellow that wa
going to throw a stone was as vii
~ as I was. only they were the official
and wasn't, That's all. They wer
hiding under their robes, but thei
r. hearts were black as mine"
III ] asked the ttmid woman, VIII
crawled through the GROVE one da
ne in Caperneum when Jesus was goin
d, up into the home OF Jairus to rails
at his dead child.
why" she said. II spent all m
Ie money trying to be cleansed fror
this issue of blood that had been ea-
ing away my life. I reached out int
"a the crowd and touched Just the her
al OF His garment. and 1 have bee
whole from that day until this"
l asked Jairus. the ruler, "Wh
- was jesus" "Oh, He gave back m
=, child to life. He turned my tear
~ into JOY, my sorrow into laughter
that was jesus"
~ hen / asked h great multitud
as | see them. who was Jesus?" an
70 with glad voices they shouted, "Oi
ey Tesus ave us hearing. He gave I
az sight. He made the lame to walk. II
cleansed the lepers. He fed us whe
lg we were hungry.-that was Jesus!"
And I asked Barabbas. I see
III fellow coming down the streets {
n Jerusalemn, his wife on one side an
tn leading a little boy by the land.
lis stopped him and said, who wa
q. Jesus?"
lis Why" he said. Jesus was the on
shat died In my place. ! was cor
.e. demned to death, and Justly. too. fo