The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12

Multitudes rruase mead first int
church membership, and on Sunday
morning they will bob up In their
pews and keep a little spot seventeen
inches square, warm while they lis
ten to sermonette, and sing Jesus
Paid 1t AIR and 'T Am Standing on a
Solid Rock" and maybe they are stuck
In pair, of shoes they have not paid
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i tiAcate of church membership. God
viii not send the wind to drive our
ships unless we have got faith enough
to raise our sails. Then he will do Il
If we will only believe and trust In
him.
Lord. is it T. And then in thaefast
! with the mob, right here near the
edge OF the garden, here, there.
Difference in size, The mob, eight,
three, one.
Difference In revelation. sit 70
here"
watch and pray. lest you enter iato
Father If it be possible, remove thia
cup from mo-"
/ Progressive stages of revelation.
Remove this cup watch and pray"
/ sit yet here" mot a word"
/ Difference in the last place. In duty
repent repent, repert!"
! God has nothing for you to do untTl
you repent. That is your farst duty.
! sit We here. That 10 all. Nins
people out OF ten in the church--that
Ia all they do.
| sit We here" Nothing else. No use
10 ask them, they don't know any
/ thing. O. God, how much there is to
. do and yet how few the Lord seems to
be able to depend unon
AND these, watch and pray" What
! DUTY had Christ to bear the sins OF
the world. He had something nobody
else could do. my friends, and we. they
did not do what he asked them.
| on, let us arouse ourselves, Don't
| be like an undertaken and third rate
preacher The minister did not ap-
I pear. SO he thought 1t would not be
right to have u funeral without a few
appropriate remarks. 20 he stepped to
the edge of the coffin and he satd
FRIENDS, this corpse has been mem
Der of this church for forty years"
! Arouse and do something. do Some
! thing for the Lord.
/ Cruelty him. belched from the re-
lentless rahbie. and the deliberations
! Of the infuriated mob shook the old
town from her foundation stones to
her turret tops
often In evil commotfon has been
witnessed some such animoetty Of thu
multitudcs, but nothing that compared
with the fury OF the mob that day.
All the phantoms Of he'll seemed u
have assembled In Jerusalem. and ont
through the funeral gate Jerusalem
vornited her bowling. ciamoring. blood
thirsty mob. yonder comes the gang.
led bv Judas. one of the twelve. and
he said TO them, The one that / kiss.
that Is this man Jesus and Judas
rushed up. threw his arms AROUND him
and kissed him and said, Hall Mas-
ter"
And Jesus whiried around and said,
Judas, hetrayest thou the son of man
with kiss" and they that followed
staggered to their feet and seized him.
and they put the cross on his shoulders
and the disciples forscok him and t'ed.
and ne staggered with the cross.
, Three ttmes he fell under the burden
and then they took the crors ami
put 4, on the shoulders OF
colored man SIMON of Cyrona,
Oh! the colored race has borne many
burdens in the Advancement of civiii-
zation, hut there never was laid upon
the shoulders of white or black
nobier burden than the honor OF
helping Jesus Christ bear hts cross.
And they forseok him and fed and,
my friends. the late Bishop Mcintyre
pictures In ornate language, the scene
as he inagineS IL took place. II we
could have been there we'd have seen
the heavens filled with angels. house
tops covered, tree-tops fned. and
they nailed Chrtst TO the cross ar 1
lifted him between the two thieves
and then Jesus Christ cried: Y
thirst"
And Jew ran and dipped a sponw.
in worn1wood and gall and put II or
the end OF reed and showed it to his
lips and he turned away and then
cried My God, hast thou forsaker
me?"
And he pictures Michael leaning
over the battlement of heaven AMI
crying: oh Master. X you want ma
to come and sweep that bowling,
oodthirsty mob into he'll lift up
your head and look up and I viii
take that as "a signal and VIII
come
But Jesus Christ WIS paying the
penalty for your sins and mine. and
he struggled on ana on until ! can
imagine Michael leaning ever the bat
Elements OF glory and snouting down:
20 Master. il you want mo to come,
tear your right hand loose from tho
cross and wave it and i will be thers
with twelve legions OF angels TO fight
for you"
But Jesus Christ gritted his teetA
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