The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-13

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her diaphragm tshe was kind Of q
cold storage propositionl
Required Much Light
She sad, What the church needs
/. IN organization" said. Forget II.
We are organized to death. We've
got 20 much machinery in the aver
age church you can hear II squeak
old enough for the Holy Ghost TO
! grease zone axle Of Gods chariot
1 day. ~ w s "a 81 ins = N & 4. an,
! we've got the Y. W. c. A., we've got
the r. r. 8. C. E., we've got the b.
Y. r. u. we've got the c. E.. we've
got the w. F. N. H, we've got the
J. e. L. and the ]. E. l. l. Y. s. II
gets a man tbughouse.
Drop into an average young peo-
Pies meeting and the leader says In
a weak. negative, falsetoo. apologize,
sissiied sort of mannerism, This Is
q splendid topic this evening. j have
been 90 busy haven't had time for
preparation" It's superhous to say
that. It wouldn't take the bunch long
to find he's all In. II hope you will
gets up and reads a poem from the
Christian Endeavor Herald and then
along comes someone and says.
| Lets sing No. g." and they Sing,
"Oh, to be Nothing. Nothing; Only to
Sit at Hts Feet"
Two-thirds OF them are like in
Alebra. Someone says. Lets sing
No. S4." They all get up and sing.
Throw out the Life Line. Throw out
the Life Line" when they haven't
got strength enough to put up q
iclothes line. Then long pause and
l hear tho organ peaiing that prelude
and then. Let us arise and repeat
our benediction and be adjourned"
THE Lord watch between me and
thee when we are ahNent one from
Eanotaer."
Yes and Gods got hard Job On
his hand.
Did you ever hear anything like
that in this city. You will hear It..
Whats the matter7 Oh nothing, we
are just dead--that's all; we're Just
dead. We don't need an evangelist
SO much as we need an undertaken.
Just dead!
! Oh, life will give organization. but
what I'm talking about Then the
Holy Spirit 10 needed to bring God
in spiritual touch with man, to make
man feel that he needs q Saviour.
J How do you feel that you need a
doctor when you are sick--the fire.
man when there's fire In your
house?
The Holy Spirit Is needed. 1t IL
} the microscope that magnities one
ocean OF redemption. The Holy
Spirit! He is the Joint representa-
tive of the Trinity In the world today
! / think God has not left himself with
out witnesses: the eyes OF the Lord
} run to and fro Throughout. the whole
earth to show himself strong In be-
half of them whose hearts aspire to.
} ward him. How the eyes OF God run
to and fro throughout the earth!
And he picked up Martin Luther
that German monk who was crawling
r on his knees up the stops OF plate al
= Rome. He hurled him as mighty
8 thunder bolt against the ecc'esiasitis
: errors of his day until under God
I, Almighty Martin Luther kindled up
t on the hillstops of Germany the ltgh
] OF reformation which illuminntes ths
world today.
You can bet II Martin Luther wer,
r living in this city today, he would b
9 sitting right down there and saying
Q Go to II, Bill, Go to II. Bill. and CIV,
a 1t to themI"
4 The eyes Of the Lord ran to ant
{ fro until he found Wesley and Whit
n Held and that movement which cry
d stabilized into the Methodist church
n which marshalfed 80 many millions O
i Christians, was the blessing OF Coz
e on earth In the brave days of old.
Eyes of the Lord.
/. Tho eyes Of the Lord are runnint
4 to and fro today. You remembe
reading about the blowing up OF Hell
4 Gate Tho government gave tn,
n contract for the work to Genera
:? Newton. He sunk his cofrerdam. h
v giant powder. nitroglycerin and dy
t Mantle. he made the electric connec
L tons and ran the wires off to hi
home In Brooklyn Heights and the,
the government came and they pu
8 everybody back In boats TAN the PEG
: pie who had assembled in advantage
: Gus places to watch III ana Genera
h Newton. two miles away. called hi
!. little daughter Mary, two years old
: took her on his lap and said. Honey
g put your thumb against that blacl
q button and push when I tell YOU"
d He sat there with receiver t
+; his ear and when the signal came
Y General, we are ready" he said
y Honey. push the BUTTON and sh
g put utI tiny tDumD against the but
e toned and pushed. Two miles ava
a there was mufyled roar and the wat
:. err shot into the air like a typhoor
i and rocks shot into the air ana the
It fell like the autumal leaves in tn
j. November blasts Helplessness itsel
10 was that little girl. hut backed b,
}. the brain and the genius of her illust
It rtous father she was all powerful.
It Heiplessncss itself are you and ]
4. hut by the power Of the spirit O
l. GOD there is not enough force In hel
. to pull one hair out Of your hea
u unless God gives the power. God !
looking for men and women who ar
e willing to 20 down in the marshes o
It sin and from their Shiny suction res
h cue the pershing. care for the dying
o Then. In the last place. the Hol
u Spirit is needed to bring God II
L spiritual touch with man that mai
9 may realize he Ii the representative
Il OF God in the world Did you eve
n realize. my friends. that you and
Il represent Codr I heard DR.. Fink
# who returned from China, tell hov
y the Chinese troops had surrounde,
r the British legation and all the for
(. etgners. and the embassies with thci
y wives had taken refuge in the Brit
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