The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-16

anything for the Lord.
| so 1t IL the personal effort that
lod VIII honor and that God viii
bless. And listen! Let me tell you
something! There are fifteen million
young men In this country between
the agra OF sixteen and thfrty-n
fourteen million OF them are not
members OF any church. Catholic or
Protestant. Seven million Of them
s!.sna seuEca eesasipnenY sMPs
church door from one years end to
another.
After the Iroquois fire IN Chicago
the Iroquois theatre, burned-six
hundred people burned to death-A
g1ri about seventeen years OF asN
fought her way through the IRE ana
the smokt and over the dead ana the
dying. end through the great torrents
OF blood and crushed and eharred
ana baked ffesh, her hair stNxeda her
eyebrows burned on. her fhce Nand
hands biistered. her clothing hanging
IN charred rags. She got on the
street car to 10 home and she was
moaning and signing. she'd wiring her
hands ana say. 20 God! O God!" A
lady next to her sad:
We'll. you ought to be thankful
that you got out. alive"
She said. II am but didn't help
anybody else out. It was all could
do TO get out" and what she was
moaning about was the fact that
others had to die because she didn't
help them. Yet she was sitting by
people who had not thought Of help
ing othere-letting them 30 to hen.
Oh, he that winneth souls 10 wise.
Ie wisel You'd feel different, per-
haps. Il It were some Of your own. bud
remember, II tie not your flesh and
blood 1t Is somebody else's.
Out In pennsytvania they had a
cave-in. Men were caught In the
mine. The alarm was sounded and
men came and volunteered ana with
pick and shovel, picking, my friends.
to dig quickly to the men lest they
die. Up tottered an old man seven-
ty-ave years olS threw Off his. can
hands and picking uo the pick. he
picked and picked. Then the shovel,
and he ehoveled untilt he sweat roll
ed down his cheeks. He stool totter-
Ing. about ready to fall. and some Of
the younger men said to him, "Grand-
pa, get away and let us young fell
lows do this"
Work For An.
He said, Great God. boys, I've got
three sons down In there; 7 must
do something"
And II it isn't your boy. it's some
body else's. II II isn't your girl,
it's somebody else's Take my ad-
vice.
That'e the trouble with the world
today. We don't care a rap what be-
comes Of others 90 long as we geo
through the world. Now you may
die and you may live and they may
die. / die or You way die: both may
live and both may die hut no matter
whether you 90 first or last you've
got to meet at the judgment. That's
settled. You've got to do that!
A casket containing the body Of
a beautiful girl, seventeen years of
age, with the dew OF youth on her
brow. was being borne from the
church to the graveyard They, were
griends stood around the grave and
as they lowered 1t down a Sunday
school teacher stood there. She
shrieked and screamed and wrung her
hands In grief. and as the carriage
| was driven away and after things mad
been cleaned up tho. minister went TO
see this girl and he said, II noticed
your hysteric grief at the grave" He
said. WAS she Christian
She said, Il noticed her growing
careless with her companions and go
ing into places that the best you could
say Of them was that they were
questionable. and the girl said L. to
| him: &C.,
well. was sure you'd speak to
| her, for you knew more about those
| things."
And he said, mo. didn't speak
to her, i intended to but" he said,
ST didn't. I was sure you would. SIZE
was a girl and you were girl and
| you better understood one another.
Let's 70 and see her mother and the
| minister and the Sunday school