The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

performs a good act you Will be con-
oemned because the motives that
prompted the act was selfshness. You
VIII give money. but you give not be-
cause You want TO feed a hungry man
but in order that you might be giver
and you might have a little eulogy
for It. Listen. Your acts never rise
higher than the motive which prompts
you. You are here this afternoon
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your presence. But i win say thf6;
I've got more respect for the man or
the woman who will go to church than
have for the fellow that won't go,
because they show they've got a good
streak In them or they wouldn't go
that far toward God.
So never mind what prompted your
presence. II you wanted to look at
me from curiosity. IT'S all right with
me- l don't care what brought you
7 here. / can pray to God to help me
to say something that win make you
be disguised with the devil and fall
in love with Jesus Christ.
Christ and yourselves are the pfvots
upon which turn every act of your
! life. You do II to please yourself or
You do 1t to please Jesus Christ.
the recording angel don't write down.
There is no record of 1t there. Mol
Then again the biased trend of life!
Do you mean toward the world or to-
ward the church? Which do your
I used to play basebarl-play II
yet--and a man can take q ball in
his hand like this and pitch it and it
spins around like this, and when he
does this, he can tell If he gives 1t
the bias or the trend; when it leaves
his hand he can tell whether It will
down an nr oil
or whether It will be a splitter. He
is the fellow that gives the whole bias
or the trend Of 1t. and he can tell all
about it.
Now then. between the heaven and
the earth there is q point known as the
point OF eQuipoise, where II you could
reach It. you could walk in the air
just LIKE ] am walking on this plat
form. You could put building there.
Whyf Well, j will tell you. The
power Of the sun comes down so far;
the power of the earth goes up so far:
and there is a point between the
heaven and the earth known as the
point OF eQuipoise and everything
stands stin because II Is neither with
In the upward lift OF the sun or the
downward pull OF the earth But IL
you get few feet toward the earth
you succumb to the power of gravity
few feet toward the gun you'd shoot
up.
i hold my handkerchief! now I let
loose of it Why didn't 1t go up?
Why did it fall? Because It Is within
the power of gravity and gravity
yanks everything to the center of the
earth. That's the reason why when
you stub your toe you go down in
stead of shooting up.
! -, -
nutshell So here you are in this
world and which has got the power
the church or the worldr Do You
think more of Christ or the devil
The Cross, or what?
Power OF the Spirit,
I claim that the spirit of God can
come into your life and the spirit can
counteract any trend which pulls you
toward the world. The church, the
spirit, can take you toward the church,
and the church can keep you there,
keep you living for Jesus Christ. keep
you honest and virtuous If you will do
what the Lord wants you to do.
/ Down south there are some colored
/ preachers that can't read or write.
They will go around to some white
preacher and they vii Task him for his
text and they will go preach from
the same text I heard OF coiored
preacher who went around to some
brother and said: Brother, what are
you going to preach on?" He said
I'm going to preach The muittudes
came unto Him and He healed them
OF divers diseases.
The mex; day he got up and said
to his congregations: brothers and
Sisters and Ushers and Folks: I've got
the most dangerous text betwixt the
leaves of the Bible, 'Multitudes came
to Him and He healed them of divers
diseases Sometimes doctors car
cure these diseases when he comes In
time. Som etimes they can cure the
yellow fever; sometimes they can cure
the smallpox, but In the words OF my
text. when you get the divers, you are
gone"
SO when I see q church member
taking n header into saloon. taking
header into a theater, you've got the
divers.
And then the personal pronoun--
the Life. God shows you some al
tar for you to put the sacrifice on and
you say. mo. can't do It," Go home
and read your Bible and have fAmily
and try to win your husband. mo.
can't do It." Go home and try tc
get that little wined, champagned
frizZle-headed sissy you call you,
daughter--get her down on her knees
to pray. You say, Il can't do it," Get
out your family Bible: get 1t open
God shows you come altar but you
won't put the sacrifice on it. He
shows you path but you say. Lord
I can't walk that; it's too crooke ed
it's too dark" Whatever God asks
you to do. God stands pledged to help
you do
The Lord will never forsake you!
/ When played baseball we used
to- quit and went into the Y. NJ c,
A. in Chicago. and the sudden change
| from the outdoor athletic life to an
indoor office life, drinking coffee and
eating sinkers and ham sandwiches
and beans; II kind of got on my nerves
and so I resigned and went up to Lake
Geneva in Wisconsin to the Y. NJ. c.
A. camp. That's the prettiest body
OF water beneath the Stars and Stripes
Lake Geneva, Wis. l went up there
and they were having a Y. M. c. A.
international convention and one eve
ming when l was a little convalescent
strolled around to hear a returned
missionary making an address.
They said she didn't see this. but a
friend of hers did who told her. She
stood one day watching the devotees
Of Buddha as they walked in and cast