The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12

ant to be righteous than to be rich
or famous or cultured. commend
Is,u for your ambition to leave your
wife and children a comfortable in
come when you leave. commend
you for your ambition in order to
have good education good strong
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Seek We the Lord" Tho present
life has n good many things that
are ailu-tng and attractive, and they
are commentaries, too, but wait
minute! am showing that spod
| many people put God out OF thor
life 10 have these things, but you
Possessing until you know God.
knowing God is as essential 70
enjoyment and happiness as sight Is,
my friends, or light. Oh. I'd rather
be an invalid all my days than miss
Heaven at last, when / am through
I'd rather do that I'd rather lose
my sight and grope my way IN dark
ness. I'd rather lose my mind, and
be unable to recognize us. friends or
, wife and children than to have God
turn His back upon me.
Let my days be filled with pain.
and my night with distress. rather
than to miss Heaven. ia rather have
the worst that can come to a man
in IT'S life and have Jesus in Heaven.
than 20 have the best now and not
. have Christ then.
what seekers people are after
health. | don't blame them. would
too. don't blame them sor it, But
J s1y. why should we seek these
! things and not GodT See how they
seek for health, business. education.
fame, pleasure. home, everything
: no sacrifice is too great. no ordeal
too severe. II it only promises health
As \ remuneration for the effort that
you must put forth.
They will sleep out of doors in
zero weather. and they will 1--we on
the mountains and live in deserts, I
vas preaching up in Minnesota The
Methodist preacher said to me one
day. Won't YOU go With me and see
j.. n fellow ~
+ said yes IT'S he sick will go
IL ne la sick. but not II he is we'll"
We drove past a hous.~--it was
twenty etght below zero. and the snow
was piled several feet dcep--and ther IS
W. n rocking chair out under AN
apple tree. IN 1t sat young fellow
reading "a paper. He had on fur
LIT and a fur coat. felt boots, and
biz fur mitte0s. l said. rs that fell
low nuts. sitting out here In rock
ing chair. and II Is twenty eight be-
low Zero"
There was tent about eight feet
ling and FIVE or six feet wide. The
preacher sa!d. No. sir. he lis a con-
sunIptiye and Ia trying to beat tho
undertaken. lie lives cut there. He
just goes into the house To get some
thing to eat lie Is out there day
and night"
He fo.sooa the fireside. wife and
children. comfort. business, every
thing eise. What for -? Oh. he Saut-
ed to oedt fe..th! What was he look
ing tor? H-alth, health.
| w3S aning from san Francisco
down 20 Los Angeles. and l went
down through thu San Joaquin VAL
Icy, through Fresno. The coast line
had been washed out down there
through the south when we went
down and wen, out through rne
Mohave desert Way out there they
were building house.
1t had five stories and contained
seventy five rooms. and cactus were
all you could see. and here and there
a bounding coyote or jack rabbit.
and as fas ar you could see. tho sky
I. ID earth seemed 20 meet
said. What in the world have
they done that for?'
They said. They found spring
out there that has marvellous medt-
cinaI properties. The atmosphere lis
with civilization. That's a sanitar-
ium for consumptives, and already
all the rooms have been taken"
Looking for Health.
People were leaving the East,
leaving the White Wa%, leaving the
glare OF electric lights the appls ,se
~ tho muttitudes, leaving the auto
-.
Mohave desert Why? oh 1t prom
Used health, health They were seek
Ing for health,
II people would seek God like that
there wouldn't be a soul in Hell. nor
ono on the road 10 Hell Seek We
the Lord" Oh. they will part with
their money with their property.
ANYTHING. if 1t only offers health
Let q medicinal spring be discov~
cred I'M the most remote corner of
tho earth. and they will flock there
TO drink the waters that contain the
medicinal properties, to counteract
the disf ase OF which they are a. lict-
ed. which threatens to put them in
the grave.
In The NTH chapter Of John was
sufferer. He had lain for th!r'v-
eight years IN the. ei.-r ~ the poo!
of Bethesda. waiting iaf .he ange!
To trouble the water, but some one
else always got in ahead OF him. He
wasn't discouraged. He didn't lay
down and commit suicide, He waited
and his opportunity came, when Jesus
Christ came.
Yours is here, for He IL surely
here. and you must have eyes In the
, back OF Your head, if you can't see
that Jesus Christ Is moving upon this
city calling men and women 10 q
Christian life
There il The poor woman, who had
, tho issue of blood for twelve years,
, and she touched the hem of His gar
, fnent She Nidnt settle down in terror
when abe heard this Jesus was there
She didn't even stop 10 dress her
hair or change her dress. She crawl
"a right Through the crowd Well,
He. commended her for her faith
Seek we the Lord" Another thing
that people Geek after is wealth. Oh.
10 get the gold. they will give up
everything. 40 pursuit Is too dan
gnrous II 1t promises wealth You
let An explosion take place in a
powder mill and blow a man to atoms
Somebody else is waiting 10 walk right
in. Let there be a wreck on the rail.
road and the engineer killed The
next time the train goes out. some one
else is in tho cab.
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