The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-27

! When | yield myself 70 Jesus
Christ, Gods spirit comes to me and
l can go out and do the things that
please God and / am representative
of Christ. Without his mind
couldn't do It. The most brilliant men
on earth can't do II without Jesus
Christ's spirit within them. They know
of God but they never will know him
truly until they yield to Christ.
! Once wild briar was growing by
a ditch and gardner came along
srsssSSs ~,e,es yfxs< II 4s,las> a9tal# Is
"a fable. And the efiar sain: "he
don't know what q worthless thing l
am or he would let me grow by the
roadside in the dirt"
| The gardner took It 10 the garden
and planted it among the roses and
the old briar said: My, what mis-
take to plant me among the roses.
And the gardner came with his
knife and he cut off the branches and
slit it down and budded IL with roses
and in the summer. lovely roses
hloomed and shed their fragrance and
beauty from the old plant and the
due TO what came out Of you, but it
is due to whatVI put in YOU
So the beauty of your character is
due to the spirit OF God dwelling in
you. 1t isn't due to anything else
but that. and you've got to have the
spirit OF God in you first before the
beauty can come out. Try 1t, then
you will be all right
A man says he expects to turn from
sin. All right, one of two things will
happen If he does. II he turns from
one sin on his own strength he will
turn to another sin and If he tries
nv eli nj hn will n.ts
the power to make a success of it One
of two things, as sure as God reigns,
will happen. 1 have seen them try
II. Then In the last place God gives
Us assisting grace He helps me.
halleluiah!
Jesus Helps.
Jesus helps you to overcome your
sins, When siysy years Old an old
colored woman started to go to
school and she said TO the teacher:
Miss, show me how to spell Jesus
first and that will make everything
else easy
So. get the right start. That will
be an assistance 10 you. So the Lord
will do 1t IL you start right.
A friend OF mine took his little
boy TO the hospital for an operation
and they examined the child's heart
and his pulse and said to the father:
His heart won't stand the chlore-
form and ether. He win have to SIM
ply stand this by sheer grit" He
said: IT'S going to be "A delicate oper-
alton and we are unable to give him
the anaesthetic and Il will be pain
full so we think You had better go
out"
The father went out of the oper-
ating room and he thought: Well
IL the boy has got to stand IL / ought
70 be able 10 stand it," and he raped
on the door and he said To my fried
the surgeon, who was going to do
the job.
I've been thinking it over and If
ny boy has to lie there and so
through that pain and suffering with
out any anaestheiic, / ought to I've
able to stand 1t and see you do Il,
maybe l can help you"
Very well. II you think You can
you are welcome to stay In"
He walked up and took the little
boy by the hand and eripped his ill
tie hand SO tight in his. my friends.
that the great beads of perspiration
stood out on his brow and The Jug
ular vein looked as though il would
break and he gripped II and the boy
went through the operation with
scarcely n complaint" Somehow ri
seem to imagine that the power OF
that father made its way into the |
boy so as to help h,m stand it. where |
otherwise he couldn't.
When / yield 10 Jesus Christ. all !
the power of heaven comes into me
and l don't fear all the devils that /