The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-21
God Commands All Men
10 Repent
(sermou Delivered by Rev. William A. Sunday in City Audi
forum, Thursday Night February 2Ol

Thas evening the text In In Acts
the seventeenth chapter, thirtieth
versa.
God commands all men every
where to repent" Not I. God. God
commando. He doesn't entreat Ha
commands all men. the rich and the
poor. the black and the white learn
ed or un,,arned, natigs or foreign.
lie cornmands all men everywhere,
oftice. shop, store. factory. bank. leg
islattve han, college. university, on
the street. the hnunts OF sin and vice
-Eod com nands all men every
/ whsrs to repent"
Religion Is not = product OF the
emotions Religion liz obedience to
command % God. and God corn
rnands AL nen everywhere to re-
ipent
; The nrst ching John the Baptis.
preached about was repentance. The
first thing tho disciples preached
you hear sermon on repentance
today. There arc plenty of preach
ers who in the course Of long min
, istry have given repentance q wide
| berth. possibly .cr the same reason
that the old colored preacher never
preached about stealing chickens. for
he said the audience froae up to-
wards him and people were cold.
But the man who breaches repent
anre In the power Of God Ii bound
to stir up snakes. 1t doesn't take
It is a good Deaf easier to hold their
JOB and have their salaries increased
occasionally II they will make peo-
pie satisfied with themselves.
All OF N hats above everything
else, anything that reveals ourselves
to ourselves We all hate anything
that shows US om faults or biemlshea.
No photographer could make a liv-
Ing II he took an honest photograph
Of everybody that comes te him for
a picture II he didn't retouch. thfs
negative ana remove the warts and
pimples. the woman that had a
eqnint and the man with q big wart
Oh his nose wcqlA 20 some where else
for Z picture.
They say an elephant viii not
drink from q clear stream of water,
because his image n reflected In the
water and one sight Of his ugly taco
throws him into . fever and wrath,
and he lnshos the water with FAIRY
with hts trunk
There must Be = streak Of human
nature In m elephant
Don't IAle B1fan.
NStsu k0O5Ou WAY - EVV0 Aihkxy wv
pie don't uke the Bible ie because
II makes thrn1 $50 ehejr wicked hearts
and they can't bear that They don't
like the preaching that goes after
them rocsh-shci ara touches up the
sc-e spcts They want the sermons
Of tAe. Observation-Disclosures
you v1rsety''-<he preaching that
pats them on tho head and makcs
.hem feel. Ike = boy with his mouth
.sas. o. ba.ts.scctch. r. good preach
Ing to them. ..
God admired him and couldn't run
THE universe without him and you
will be 4 great preacher to that fell
low.
Wen John the Baptist. wasn't that
kind Of preacher. neither WIS Jesus
Christ, neither were the Disciples,
except old Judas. That's why John.
was put In prison. That's why they
cut or his head. He opened the Bible
square In the middle and cried, Ere
pent, repent" and ne took dead aim
at the old sinners In front. No
wonder he stirred up hornets nest.
whcnevef you hear preacher say
that he doesn't believe In a perso nal
devil. you can bet thousands OF dol :
lars TO doughnuts that he never
nreached sermon on repentance,
for II he had he would know there
was . devil. for ne would have heard
him roar against his preaching al
uaya
A sinner couldn't feel comfortable
under the r-~achinE OF John the Ba p
list He held up the clear glass Of
GoA's word and let them see their
faces. Oh. John had . backbone big
ger than some mems bodies. that
have met-and with no more finch
In hts preaching than yon could have
found in . Quarker meeting. He
cried out to King Herod. at isn'1
lawful for you to have your brothei
Phillips wife: you are living IN sin"
EhAt'a Why thav ~ vkaSene ham