The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
THRILLS HEARERS WITH STIRRING DISCOURSEs

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lIf you are Sunday school teacher. are
j you succeeding. Are you teaching .
lesson to make II read or just to Kill
i time till. the bell rings!
Are Sermoas Hst AtTt
I IL you are a preacher. are your SER
mons 10 much hot air. or do they make
the Feiixs and AgErippas that SIT In
the audiences squirm and trembie and
cry out
Much learning hath. made you mad.
Thou almost persuadest me to be y
lChrtstianT' .,.,-.,-s,1s a,
r3yks r. .a,-..-1E $50. $50 M :
preach. DO I get my sermons from the
| word Of God7 Are You drawing peo-
pie to oodf Are you doing moro for
the church than the organ ana the bell
or the tanitor! Are you In the pulpit
because God wants you there, or be.
cause you have got = pun with the Of
iciais and they keep you there? How
do you know f--
what am preaching? Am max
ing It easier for people to do right
and harder to do wrongf Am cast
ing out devils? II the church isn't
casting out devils. is it because there
are no devils in people to cast out?
What is the trouble7 I tell you X the
church throughout the world. II the
church IN this city win get down on
her knees and AJAX, why could not we
cast him out" the devil and the brewer
and the white SLAYER will work harder
than they do for all they got
Why? Why? Come on back to the
text a minute. why could not we
cast him out?''
Jesus Christ said, This kind
cometh not forth but by prayer and
fasting
+ That is all he said, that was enough.
They understood. That put them
wise, that gave them all the Tight
they needed and 1t made each one
In there made him speeches.. for he
knew what WAS in there that had
made them fail.
They didn't say they had been too
busy. And Jesus turned the search
light on little stronger and said.
What, was It that you disputed
among yourselves?"
Disciples Speeches.
And they were speechless because
they had been disputing who would
be greatest. Now. you know why they
couldn't pray. Now you know why
they are not casting out devils. The
preacher that has to stand mp in the
pulpit and tell his audience why he
don't like me and my preaching. Is
preacher that never sees ANYBODY
converted in his old ice-house. That
Is the reason why he is preaching to
wood and varnish, too.
| what difference Is II to me whether
he likes me or not? Neither does the
devil, neither do the brewers, neither
do the saloon keepers. 7 can tell you
a very prominent man in this coun-
try---and when they were asking me
TO go to a certain city, he opposed my
corning. and he said: :.
when I saw the cfowd that lined
up against Mr.. Sunday there was only
one thing for me to do to be doesn't
and that was to take the other SIDE, ]
saw all the saloon keepers, the brew
ers. the distil1ers, the gamblers. the
! tin horn panderers, the madams OF
the red Tight, and the people that feed
and fatten and gormandine Off moth
RS were against him. That made me
think II was going to line up with
bunch like that
I You've got to take sides. Make up
your minds whether you're going to
be decent or not It's up to Won, not
TO me. Now You know why they
hadn't neen praying. don't you. And
fasting9 Now do you know why no
been cutting the wire between them
and the powerhouse.
Get Power From God.
/ Now listen! No failure is so sure
as the failure that Is sure to come 70
the man or the woman who tries to
do something for God without first
getting power from God to do what
God wants done. You Just try u and
sec where you win come out Never
In the world, II would be as foolish
to try and do what God wants done
without first satting pownr from God
to do II as il would be to try and run
a trolley car when the trolley waAa't
!, within ten feet Of the wire. You
couldn't do It, There may be church
pillars here this afternoon but they
NAV be only pillar shams. And your
! children arc going MS straight to the
devil as the bird can fly, Do you
know why? win tell YOU: Nc
altar, TO place Of prayer, no time for
prayer. no devotional habits. no Tea
Tspiritnal life. -
Christianity Ia mot simply n system
of teaching Christianity is a system
Of teaching life. Christianity Is not
simply a creed. Christianity IL creed
plus Jesus Christ. The creed without
Jesus won't save you. Not at all!
I. Now Christianity means a new
mind. what you see depends on the
mind you've got. Now. II you've gpt
the mind OF christ In Won. Christian
ity means new mind. IT means q
new will God gives you new viii:
that gives yon new force. like coaI
and water give force TO n LOGON olive
And Christianity IL new affection
You love the things you used TO hate
and hate the things you used Ito love,
. Set your affections on things above
not on things below.
"Mortffy therefore your members"
not .Gratify. therefore your mem
bers" ~~A~
You read It in one way hut you in.
/ terpret 1T In another. The Rfhle SAYS
'sMortify" and when anything is NOR
titled. It is dead and you bury IT.
''Mortify. therefore, your members
which are upon the earth----forrica-
ton. nrcleanness covetousnees. which
IS idolatry. for which things sake the
wrath Of God cometh upon the chill
dren OF disobedience."
No man risaS higher than his mo-
'ltives,--tl1e idea that moves, and no
BODY can 60 faster than the dynamo
that .irnpels and drives him.
Some OF Won have got new mind
to-