The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-21

StaNu WH6N ne says, ptoW t'Ac
ground and put .hat seed in there.
you can't understand. originate or
control--the law OF nature. why
God wants you TO do It, don't know.
don't know.
Ii you deny hell, just 30 you've got
to deny Coos existence. And he'll Is
the basis upon which Christianity Ia
built Without II Christ's teachings
won't hold together. lie taught of
heaven and hell. and IL ne was wrong
e ere S a. ,s.''S5 :. 4s,,'''sta Z do 10y
ne was wrong in one case. then by all
logic he was wrong in the other and
the plan Of redemption is absolutely
senseiese. useiers.
Why did Jesus became a mann
Why was God incarnated IN the flesh ?
Why did he suffer on the cross and
Be spit upon by men and wear n
crown Of thorns and bleed and die.
except to rescue US from the punish
mcnt OF an eternal damnation? That
Is why he came into Inc world. and
Il there was no punishment for him
10 save us from. there was no use for
him 10 come into IL.
Do You see whore your theory ia
gomez It is Knocked IN the head.
That is why we build churches and
have missionaries and y. Ms and
Y. VS. and all that, to p each the
fact that God has made way to es-
cape. HaIlelutah!
And hell WIS made. as told you.
for the devil and his s.ngels. and NOT
for man st Ell The devil sinned. my
friends, but cnce. He was condemned
without hope. God never gave The
devil land the devil was once a shin
spos ~t
at ALT Man sinned, but God gave
him chance TO repent Now why l
don't know. That is none CT my bus.
mess No, sir,
Alto Forbidden Fruit
So when Adam and Eve ate TIE for
bidder fruit and s.nned. God gave the
promise that the seed OF the woman
should bruiae the serpente head, and
Jesus was born of Mary in the man
ger, conceived by the Holy Ghost, to
give -an a chance TO be saved But
when the angels ~ebeiied and became
devils God has never given them a
chance, and he never win. No. They
never had one ] don't know why,
but no didn't
The plan OF salvation has nothing
to do with them at ali II has TO do
with human beings, which are the
ones that God has offered salvation
TO, and the men and women sin grew
ousiy today, Yet they ore rarely
struck dead Why don't God strike u
man down dead and say, Listen to
me- 1t is because Cod Almighty
wants TO give him chance 10 repent.
that is why,
o. how VIC ought to thank God.
If he iad killed me when | aas a.
sinner, I'd been il neu long ago. in
-
one of the greatest tor!nents will DO
that they had tho means OF escape
offered to them, and thew rejected il,
ana that they. are there's fough sheer
neglect. That ja one of I'll. torments
hat comes TO g man In the peniten-
tiary He eits there and thinks. He
secs where he did The Things that
brought him there and says What
a fool was to do tho thing that
brought me here"
One of the great terrors of punish
ment Is to reflect on the fact that he
needn't to have been there il he had
not been a fool. They told me that
from Sing Sing TO st. Quentin, and
all over the country where have spo-
ken.
Hell is certain. am not giving
you my theories and spocuiations, bu
God knows and God has told us, and
one ounce OF revelation is worth ten
tons OF speculation. We are abso-
iutely certain that 1t is. You say
some scholarly ministers have given
up that belief Well thar may be
true. All right Tha, Is always the
way: favor the argument with fell
low who has weak cause and wants
TO bolster 1t up with a strong asser-
ton. / will admit that, but they do
not give It up because that has never
been taught them in the Bible. They
gave II up for sentimental reasons.
They gave II UP for speculative rea-
sons, to be popular. No man breathes.
l don't care who he is, listen, That
man don't breathe who can go to the
New Testament and read 1t TO find out
what IT teaches in order to preach ie
TO the people, my friends, and them
not stand up and say. There Is an
eternal damnation for the impen-
itent." Suppose all the preach
ers had, that would not prove
the Bible wrong. Facts are facts.
whether anybody believes IL or
not. You don't change or alter
them.
History OF Church.
II you were familiar with the his
tory of the world and of the church.
there is not IN invention nor dis
r0teTY, nor 4 UpTtF1lf~. WnIcn We
know to be absolutely true today, that
weren't radiculed and Knocked when
they were first advocated. Not one.
There was Bacon, he could see by the
laws, which were then in effect.
where the nation was drifting and he
told the people. They sneered and
damned him and he had to spend ten
years In jail because he was cour-
ageous enough to tell them. And
today they take their hats off TO him.
He was right
Gallileo--he said the world moves.
end on his knees he Was compelled to
retract his statement by the profess
scrs OF his day and and scholars who
didn't believe him. on his knees they
forced him down and as he arose he
said. 1T moves Notwithstanding" All
right, who was right" Gall.ieo. or
the people that condemned him?
And DR.. Jenner--he said. II can
cure smallpox"
Ninty EIGHT people out OF a hun
bred used to die from smallpox. To-
day the death rate is only four. DR.
Jenner discovered the power and the
value OF incubation.
They expelled DR.. Jenner. W.
take our hats off to him. There isn't
a thing to-day. a discovery since. Or
invention since. 10 DO compared with