The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-26

Judas and the devil had nodded hi
features thus after nine years.
Yet God SO loved the world, that
He gave his only begotten Son that
whosoever believeth in HIM should not
perish. but have everlasting life"
And he came down and set US free.
Halleiujah! / will begin to shout
when there is a Presbyterian shouting.
1 will tell you that.
H. Every sin or act or word bring a
scar on your soul. s55eA.,.
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Was strangely gwen 70 sIne siiri oi anger
and several times q day he would fly
into a rage and almost kill you. And
the father reproved him but also with
out effect
One day seeing his boy in a fit of
anger, the father brought him a box
of nails and a hammer and he SAID.
whenever you are angry l want you
TO go drive a nail in that post"
And the boy inwardly resolved. II
will drive mighty few nails. believe
me-"
the son met at that post, and he said:
See here, my son. why the top of this
post is full Of nails" And he said:
My son, that is just the way your soul
looks in the sight of God. correspond
ing with every wound the nail has
made. Sin mars and makes your
image and yet God came to change all
OF that by our faith in Jesus Christ"
Wicked Act Mars Soul
Every time you perform a wicked
act or utter an unhoIy word, every
time you harbor' an impure thought.
you drive a nail that will dishgure
your very soul and there is nothing
but the blood of Jesus Christ that can
cleanse US from all sin.
And there is nothing on this old
earth that can change our guilt into
innocence and pardon us for our trans
gressions; and there is nothing in the
power to take away guilt but faith in
they blood OF Christ Philanthropy
won't do it; nothing but faith in the
blood OF Jesus Christ
The story is told of Martin Luther
that one night the devil. the king of
he'll, appeared to enter his room, and
with an air of insolent triumph. He
had a huge roll of parchment under
his arm.
What is that?" asked Martin Lu-
Their.
He said: That Is the cataIox of all
the sins that you have ever commit
ted and Luther leaped from his bed
IN mortal terror. and beads of perspi-
ration stood on his brow, and be was
In death-ike agony. And the devil
opened the scroll. and Luther was
compelled to sit there hour after hour
and read the damning list of sing and
he groaned as he recalled some vile
SINS he mad committed and forgotten.
How long the list looked How
black the ink in which they were writ
ten! How tightly and gleefully the
devil seemed to hold the scroll in his
scaly fingers. Sins just as God would
set before him in the day OF Judgment.
Suddenly the devil called him by
name, saying: Martin Luther, ali sin,
all sin," and Luther began to SILVER.
and his agony was intense and hell
seemed to yawn and wait for him to
stumble over into the abyss. And the
devil kept on screaming. "All sin, gil
sin" -
Luther knew something Of the word
OF God. and he said. where does the
word OF God say All Sin?' and he
Ieaped forward and tore the scroll
from the devils hands. but the devil
had. Oh. so beautifully hid the words.
| the blood Of Jesus Christ cleanses us
from all sin." and he tried to hide the
fact that the blood Of the Son OF God
cleanses US from all sin. That Is the
devils business.
| A Story Of Love.
Years ago of the coast Of Cornwall