The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31

will do for you in the matter Of char
acter. in the matter of responsibility
and the matter of health here on the
face OF this old earth, you ought to
stand for Jesus Christ. Therefore,
morality means right relationship. al
ways, to Gods will, recognized in
human beings
recognize that when I act in har-
mony with Gods will. am a better
man than IL / act contrary to God )
win. / am more respectable and
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Morals are derived from God. Morals
came from heaven. they didn't
come from hell Morals came from
God, not from infidelity. SO. morals,
my friends, are the basis of all law,
and morals are derived only from
God.
All sins have physical eonse-
auences. Oh. the sufrerings when
some men or women commit some
sins may not be immediate. You
may commit sin and you may not
Immediately suffer for that sin.
There are other SINS, that II you
commit. you will have to suffer for
Immediately. You may wait for
weeks, or months. and possibly years
before the suffering viii come to you
law and trampled Gods law beneath
your feet.
Scarcely a day goes by that some
body doesn't come to me. suffering
the physical torments Of hell because
OF the result of their own stn and
they VIII ten me with the tears
streaming down their cheeks. When
you see others suffering the terrible
consequences Of their transgresston
OF Gods law, why. in Gods name,
will you go committing the same sin
that you know they committed to
bring the suffering that they are hav-
ing now.
II the man or woman living in that
suffering because of their sins, should
ask you. How much win you give
me TO take away my suffering and
my disease that + have brought on
myself because OF the trangression ,"
you haven't got enough money to do
that, you wouldn't give it, and yet
you Will go ahead and commit the
same sin that you knew brought that
suffering to them knowing 1t will
bring il to you just the same as
1t did TO them. You will go right
ahead and do the very same thing
not withstanding all the preacher can
say or all anybody can do to warn
you. Persons will see a man steal
II
and then will go right out and steal.
When a man sees a man staggering
down the street he will go and do
the same thing that made that II
will make him drunkard. When a
man has delirium tremens, he knows
what brought II to him, and yet he
will go and do the same thing that
brought IL TO him.
Why do 50 many people have
broken bodies and shattered inteliecrs-
Their sins have found them out. And
they find you out in your individual
body, they md you out Ia deiirfum
tremens which goes with alcoholism:
they find you out in locomotor ataxfa.
they find you out In paralysis OF the
young. although you yourself might
not have sinned or your young might
not have sinned, somebody sinned
and the germs OF their sin are in IL
and they strike your child DOWN.
So you have got TO suffer, not because
OF your sin. but because somebody
else sinned and all that because some
body was a euss: because somebody
didn't live right
SO therefore, You have got a grave
out there with your baby lying in it
because come other devil wouldn't
be decent. So. you have got 10 carry
your baby out in the graveyard and
bury ii. just to pay for the trans
erosion OF some other God forsaken
reprohate, Oh, It makes me hot!
You see, you can't confne it. II
you could confine 1t to yourself, why,
that wouldn't be so bad but you
can't. Somebody else has got TO
suffer for II. IT wifi find you out in
the diseases OF the spinal cord. dis
eases OF the brain. diseases of the kid
ney, diseases OF the heart diseases OF
the nervous system.
Now II we could eliminate all dis
eases caused by our own voluntary
acts. A large part of insanity is
preventable. A large part OF blind
ness Is preventable. A large part of
the insanity. tuberculosis and blind
ness come as a result OF voluntary
sins. sins that you voluntarily COM
NIT. Although you may be blind
and you committed nothing that made
you blind. Somebody else did.
SO. most all OF this is preventable.
that's what I mean by II and IL men
and women would only get on their
knees, confess their sins and quit iiv-
ing in sin, you'd be dumbfounded
TO see how little disease would re-
main in the world. You know that.
You bet your life. and you can't get
around II.
OF course. disease may be heredi.
t1Fy 1JaseA6c may De inc RESULT VI
accident. Disease may come through
misfortune. I will admit all that.
I wilt take an the diseases that come
that are hereditary. that are trans
mitted on down from generations
will take all that. I will put them
here. will take all the disease that
comes from accident Many times a
cancer VIII start from accident You
will bruise the tissues. A cancer is
not hereditary. You can't transmit
that down. You can transmit other
things, but you can't cancer. 1t
will come by affliction.
All right, after I have an that.
repeat my statementI II men and
women would only quit SHINING there
wouldn't he very much disease in the
world. and II we want to have our
nation damned with disease, go ahead
and live as You haveahcen. No. Why
can't you get people to see that sin
is their enemy and when l am
preaching, am preaching for your
good am your friend. trying to
warm you Of the very thing that
threatens to curse and blight and drag
you down.
Anger VI. Health
Now take anger. All right. When
you get mad, your blood is distorted.
IL Affects .yeur stomach That in