The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12
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| Al band OF Arabs put a man to
! death. they are called upon to FIRST
take him to his people and hear his
! case, even II he lives on the other
been known to kill any one withou,
doing that They are duty bound to
! take him there. and hear the case
] n4d their decisiofiS. ~ npsorurh ar,t
maj 600 viii stop 1haKins NOR NO 81
to listen to you, IL You win do His
will
Call and also forsake. Let him
call upon the Lord and forsake his
way" There must be Q change OF
your old company, a change OF the
old crowd. II you are going to be q
| Christian. You can't be loyal In two
! Opposing armies-~no siri
A fellow was converted in one OF
my meetings one time. He was a
painter and had his shop over a ga
1 loon. I said:
Jack, you win either change you.
uaint shop or you'll change your part
ner. You with either say goodbye to
1od or move-as sure as you love!
Mixed His Paints.
He gave me the laugh, but I had
IL right It wasn't long before We
saw Jack staggering down the street
He wouldn't forsake the old spot
and get q new place. He couldn't win
| out
| A friend OF mine was preaching
| IN what Is known as little He'll In
! chicago Ho asked me to come
| down and preach for him one nigh,
! In tent So / went down, and after
| the meeting. was out in the audience
urging the people to give their hearts
to Christ. and I saw a poor old whis-
key soaked. degenerate, vermin -cover-
ed. filthy stub Of humanity Il think
the worst / have ever seen), hair all
matted--looked like a cows tail full
OF cookie burrs in the fall: his eyes
were bloodshot and at the corners OF
| them they were filled with matter
| Oh. ne had a breath on him that
| would drive poiecats out OF their
den!
/ He had a straw hat on, half OF
the rim torn OF. and he had gone
out In an alley and gotten an old
! pair of shoes. Of which the soles were
/ about gone. and tied them on. He
| had gone into the alley or garbage
l can and gotten out an old coat that
someone had thrown away. He put
! II on and II came down to about there.
i He had gotten rags and wrapped them
i around his legs and tied them. They
stopped just below the knees. with
about six or seven inches between the
! place where they stopped and his
shoes
| He had no stockings on. and his
/ coatsleeves were torn of and he had
| no vest on, and no shirt. He had
little thin undershirt fun of holes.
and had the collar of his coat turn
ed up and pinned with safety pin
I walked up to him and said.
"Pard. how do you do? You look
as though you were having a hard
time"
He said. That's my long suit"
/ said to him, why don't you give
your heart to Christi
He said, ''It won't do any good
/ said. II know better. for I've tried
1t, I've tried it,
He said. ''Pard. you're stringing me.
I've tried it. too"
Didn't it do any good -
He said. 'Tt did while it assed"
Whose fault rs II that 1t isn't last
ing now. yours or God's?"
Well. guess it's mine"
WELL" l said. why don't you
start over? Ask God To forgive YOU
He said. ''Pard. l have disgraced
the Y. n. c. A. and the church and
all my friends. I don't know any
! body that win trust me-
said. God will He will give
you another chance Come on, and
see if He don't help you"
L 4
got a weakness"
You drink? %
How did you guess it2"
said, Would any man take two
guesses on a thing like that in your
case?" {His breath would kin a ny
at thirty yearIs.)
Look here" said, having started
for Heaven why don't you get up and
try for it?''
He said, "Pard. I tried that
l asked him where he lived. 'faA3
South Haisted street"
said. That's up over booze
Joint. isn't it?"
"Yes"
How do you suppose that you
can make a success roosting up over
a joint like that, breathing the double.
distilled damnation in your lungs at
every breath ?"
He said. Say, Pard. 1 get hand
out, with every schooner and scrub
the old joint once a day, and I've
got a place to crawl in"
said. You can never succeed
serving God up over a joint rSa
that. and you'n either have to turn
from the old gang and your crowd.
or you'n become q wreck again and
II won't be long until you'll be out
IA the morgue and they'll send you
4
will have your body in the medical
institution"
well. Pard. 1t amt not use. to
windjam to me. I'm too far gone.
The DEVILS got rope around my
neck and a ring in my nose. Good
bye, pard." and he shuffied out into
the dark. He wouldn't forsake the
gang Certainly he never could make
success Of II!
"CAll we upon the Lord and let
Him return" The best words, my
friends. in the English language, or
any other language. are little words.
God. home. heaven, peace, rest. hope.
wife, mother. children. Jesus. Let
Him come back.
Chance to Start Over.
How many Of you would like to
get back to the days of your child
hood. How many Of Us would like
to have 4 chance to start over? I'd
jump ir there with you and stand
by YOU Wouldn't like to have
another chance! II had known as
much then. a. / know now. there
wouldn't be so many things In my
life that / wish had never done.
Thank God! 1t has been buried in
grace for thirty years. and ii the
Lord can afford to forget it. l can.
But wish It hadn't been done.