The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-26
}NGS PROSPERITY AND JOY TO A CHRISTIAN

Christ in my presence" He said, Nov
promise me you will turn from your
sins"
The young fellow said, "I win do
nothing of the kind. ! believe there
Is hell and ! am on the way to
he'll" and with string OF oaths and
hinspEemy he turned back and walked
to the bar. He emptied his glass and
went out into the dark.
BY it's malignity! I'll venture there
are men and women here tonight that
haven't had conviction of sin, felt
they needed Jesus Christ. steeled their
hearts and plunged into their sin until
the spirit of God left them and now
assArttzy.s~ : --~'''s & e gHg'tnses..
Years ago / went to the town Of
Garner. Hancock county. Iowa !
preached one night and saw man
coming down the aisle on the run. The
usher said. do you Know that man. 90
"No. never saw him before
He's the richest man in the country
owns $500 acres of land"
| said to this man. what was 10 in
my sermon that moved you 500
He said. "Nothincw
Put must nave. said something
NO. ne Sa4d, VIII NPft you.
went to Chicago twenty years ago tc
sell cattle and hogs. After Id sold
them and got my money. we had our
supper and were stroiling around
Moody was preaching in Chicago. We
ad heard good deal about Moody and
said, Lets go hear this man Moody
I'VE went around and tho building
was filed but we stood in the doorway
listening. When he got throug b.
Moody said. Any man or woman tha'
win give their heart to Jesus Chris;
walk down and take my hand.
turned to my friend and said, TIM GO
ing mp and take Moody by the hand
He said. Don't give up to this ex-
element said. II never was cooler
In my life." He said. We'll. you can
wait until you get home and do IT.
Passes No Good.
II said. Tn thirty-eight years old
and ] haven't done II yet; what evil
dence have that I will do It when
get homer Ho said, Look here
We have forty -eight minutes before
our train leaves and you will get down
there and get tangled up in the crowd
and our passes are no good after to-
night
II said. 7 am able to pay my way
home. can afford to pay my car fare
home
we stood there and debated the
question and bye and bye when J
looked at my watch we just had time
and I turned my back on Moody and
from that day until this. when 1 walked
in here tonight. I never had a desire
to be a Christian"
Why the spirit of God called him
that night az he stood there looking
at Moody. He turned and went back
and became rich aria the spirit of God
called him that night and he yielded
and so. by letting Christ conquer, he
yielded to the Lord.
I have never said here or any
where. that all unbelievers are In
agony. Ordinarily a man dies as he
has lived. I don't go very much or
so-called deathbed repentances-
think it's a mean, dirty, sinking
low-down. contemplate, unmanly
unwomanly thing to keep the control
or your life in your own hands, in
dulging I'm your pleasures and your
desires whenever iudulgences diamet-
rfcally opposed your conscience and
and the Word OF God. when Gods
spirit bcgs and pleads with you tc
forsake your sin, then when you are
lying on your deathhed whine like
a sick cat and whine for the preacher
to save your carcass. After you've
drained the cup OF life. then you
throw the dregs into the face of God
after you've burned the candle OF life
In the service OF the devil. have the
audac}ty to blow the smoke in Gods
face
presume there are men and wo-
men who have never stopped to con-
slider their soufs eternal destiny, who
may take time to consider and yield
on their deathbed- IT you never had
a chance before and never had an
other. you'd go out and squeeze this
old world like you would a lemon.
But, by the eternal God. men and
women, while / am in possession OF
the very apex of my physical and in
tellectual development and power,
want to give that to God and to Jesu.
Christ and humanity 80 when / drift
out with the tide won't have &c
spend my time whining and snufYlinr
to God and confessing my sins. when
I ought to have done IL and been get.
ing ready years ago
NOW, l Lay Me-
In q western state lived q boy, his
mother taught him the prayer that
millions have 'isped at their moth.
ers knee-Now hay me down to
Sleep
When. he. left hons. to win. tan,s
and fortune, she begged him to take
Nv" "tN's oSt no I.
Knocked at mems faith as being child
ish and unworthy of men and he
studied law. my friends At night he
worked hard, saved hts money. went
through college and there young men
begged him to accept Jesus Christ
and he refused.
He was a man of wonderful intel
iect and no decided to go through life
without God He was elected As.
sistant Prosecuting Attorney out In
that city and they had been in the
habit OF swearing the witnesses In
court In the old-fashioncd way, by
asking them to stoop and kiss the
Bible.
There it lay on the judges desk
with It's lea--es fraycd where thou
sands OF lips had reverently kissed
the sacred Word Of God before they
took the oaths OF office. and the frs,
day he took the oath OF office he
picked up tho Bible and he threw II
across the room and said to tho col
ored porter:
Take that damned book out Of
here" He said. Don't you leave /,
here q minute, There will never be
another witness sworn by kissing tina,
book while I'm here You might a.
well use a. dime novel for the pro-
cess"
He rose in the world, invested In
real estate. became rich. He was
elected a Judge out there, Of a high
vVf III.