The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-29

is helpless to do it. and that Is all He
is doing and the only way He can do
it
/, Now, are you willing to let GOO
say where you shall live? Are you
willing to let God say whether He
wants you here. in China, in Japan,
or on the Malay Peninsula? Are you
willing to let God take your body
and do as He pleases with It?
: In this you have got the greatest
question ever put to a human being.
over tha oar,iemen{s vf glory ara
they are looking down to see how
you will answer the question when
! 1t L. put up to you.
| "By the mercies OF COD" At the
beginning of the Civil War I heard
of q fellow who was wonderfully
stirred. He said: This union mus,
and shall be preserved. The rebellion
must be put down, no matter wha;
the cost is In blood and in treasures
He was willing that every able
bodied man Of military age should 60
on the firing line and become bullet
meat for thirteen dollars month,
and eat sow-belly and bareback and
sleep in the trenches and the storm
and the sunshine, but he never went
a step.
| Oh, God has a warfare on hand.
1t Is right against wrong, heaven
against hell, Christ against the devil,
virtue against vice, sobrfety against
drunkenness God has n warfare on
hand the same as our nation has
warfare on hand. and God and the
country are calling for volunteers.
God doesn't want to draft you Il YOU
are not willing to come. oeseecn
you by the mercies OF God"
! And If God could only get posses
! sion of the flesh and blood that be-
longs to Him, what commouon he q
create on earth and In hell. And II
GOD had some of your feet. He'd point
your toes in different directions from
what they have ever gone before. God
would make some of you fellows walk
straighter In politics and religion than
you ever have done in the past. take
il from me.
"By the mercies of God; beseech
you. therefore, brethren, by the mer-
cies of God" He would make some
| of you begin to wear out shoes, max
ing things right that have been
wrong. He would keep some OF you
busy carrying back goods and money
that you have swindlcd somebody out
of. that you have acquired by crooked
practices or cunning. Some OF you
haven't been to prayer meeting FOR
/ years, and you'd give the preacher
nervous prostration II he saw your old
map walk into the church and CIV.
a testim ony. It's a Gods fact. III
bet my life some OF you haven't been
to church for year. now on tbs
square
by the mercies Of God. I beseech
you" II God had the feet that be-
long to Him you wouldn't let the devil
use them. trotting around, gossiping
about your neighhors. No. II God
had your feet. you'd find Il easier to
| walk toward the church, harder to GO
towards the haunts of sin. and you
wouldn't be so busy that you couldn't
get down on your knees and look up
to heaven. and you'd make every
step of your life conform to the Col
den Rule and the Sermon on the
Mount Some people do all their
work for God with their mouth. God
wants that part OF you that Is on the
ground as web as mp in the air.
What would Uncle Sam do with m
their feet. What would he do II all
they did was to sit around the camp
and watch the bacon fry and chew
the rag, How many battles would he
win with bunch IKE that:
Some of you have never done any
more for God than that, Then.
know some preachers whose study
cushions need halfsoling more than
their shoes.
Ye@--all 7 have said about the
preachers. can say II about you and
add one hundred per cent and then
double II and I could not get within
gun shot of you.
! If God had fun control OF our
hands. II beseech you. by the nercies
OF God, he would present your bodies
as a living sacrifice"
IT God Had Full Control
/ II God had full control Of our
hands. how many things you would
let hold Of that you are holding on
now with a death-iike grip, What
have you In your hand that God wants
lyou to drop?
There are things In our possession
that we must let 60 OF or they will
drag US to hell How many dollars
have you baked In that belonged to
somebody else. Oh! give your hands
TO God and see how quickly he will
prv open your fingerA
Some people are working so hard
with the muck rake they are going to
lose the crown that God has stretched
iabove their head.
A friend OF mine started to learn
sticks. He became so proficient that
ne can rattle OF one hundred and
twenty words a minute on trial. You
let God have your hands and he will
train them to do things with them
that will, make the angels wonder and
look with jealousy.
How many burdens you would Be
lifting On that day. you would never
touch your fingers to. How many
tears you would see that you would
stop to wipe away II God Almigh',
only had your hands. This old world
would be a vestibule to glory and a
suburb to heaven, If God only had
your hands.
Down in a southern city. was q
syoung lady They were having what
they called dress ball. -un-
dressed barr would he nearer right
They did not have clothes enough on
them to make = pad for a crutch
And presently a young fellow stood
there and ne did not dance and one
of these society bellies. with a scft
liquid, Gaelic expression: straight
lGrecian nose. large iustrous brown
Ieyes that set far apart: het hair like
a ravens wing. her teeth looked Ike
Lodges of pearl and Arctic snowdrtfts;
her neck like n swan she same nr