The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31

son than for Jesus Christ. IL there
is God. ] defy him. Let him strike
me dead now"
} He hit the floor down like that,
and they have star on the floor TO
mark the place where he fell TO this
day. He hit the floor like that and
he never spoke from that day to
this. They carried him home and In
thirty-six hours they carried him to
I the graveyard.
I went down to see his wife and
4 KS ~ S!s.c-s T. K ~.
of his blooming infidelity. but they
were so astounded by it, that they
gave their hearts to Jesus Christ.
And when ] was in Omaha preach
ing. the girl came up, her mother
had gone to heaven. I say every
thing seems to consprie against IT,.
was in another town. was
preaching and we were holding a
meeting in the town. One night a
leading fellow In the town, a butcher.
was converted. The next morning a
lawyer went in to buy some beef
steak He said, We'll I heard some
body shy that you went up and took
that blankety- blank by the hand"
He said, Yes, I did"
The lawyer said, "Do you mean TO
tan"
He said. IT prayer for the first
time last night with my wife and
children
We'll" he said. III you want to
be a damned fool, go ahead. but you
can't have my trade II you are going
around there"
He said. II am very sorry. ia like
to have your trade. but II it comes
| tn r,-l,a yh mi
Christ or your trade, you can take
your trade and go to the devil l
don't want it, All right" and he
| took the meat back.
! Afterwards the man said Here's
the money. give me the meat"
| The butcher said, NO"
| The lawyer said. II admire your
grit"
"All right" he said. IN stand up
for Jesus Christ I'd stand up for
my wife If you stood there and talk
ed about her"
Well" the lawyer said. If you
want to be a blankety- blank fool.
go ahead"
| He lived down the street in beau
tiful home. He walked up on the
| doorstep, but he never walked IN.
He put his hand on the door knob
| and he hit the porch like that They
carried it to the graveyard two days
| lateN say everything seems to
conspire against the fellow that lives
| in sin, while 1t seems to reward that
which was right. to serve God and
| keep his commandments
BE sure your sins will find you
out" They will find you out in your
conscience. Conscience is that IN
corruptible warrior who guards with
|
| hearts.
| Conscience, 1t blanched BelshaZ-
zar's cheeks until. they looked like
Arctic snow drifts while the fingers
| of God wrote his sentence upon the
| frieze of the banquet halls. You
are weighed in the balances, and are
found wanting"
from the eyes of Darius while Dan
tel snored in the lions den. while the
angels lowered over Gods servant,
land there weren't lions enough on
Gods earth to pull a hair out OF his
head. for He was guarding the man
who dared stand for the truth.
/ Conscience 1t startled old Herold
/ into midnight terror as he dreamed
that John the Baptist. whom he had
| beheaded at the behest OF that old
! hag Herodius with whom he was NV
i ing in sin. had arisen. sir!
! Conscience. II bounded the traitor
Judas until he went out, sir, ana
threw down the dirty money at the
! feet of the men that had persuaded
! him to take it to betray Jesus Christ.
went out and put rope around his
neck and committed suicide.
| Conscience. "Out. out, out, damn
ed spot" cried Lady Macbeth as she
| looked at her lily-white hand. VIII
not all great Neptune's seas wash
! this blood away"
/ There was no blood there. 1t was
| the blood of murdered Duncan on
her miserable guilty conscience. NO
sir!
BE sure your sins will find you
outs They will do 1t. They VIII
find you out everywhere. And they
will find you out in your own chill
dren.
Domination Of InnOcents.
/ One Of the awful things about
vinning is that the damnation OF It
! has to fall on other folks. IL the
sinner was the only one that sur
fered II would be bad enough ana
| ia work just as hard as l do to help
you to be free. but when you sin
you hurt somebody else. When you
sin you hurt your mother. your
children You cannot confine the
results Of our transgression to your
self. 1t would be bad enough II YOU
could. but great God. YOU can't do
that. No, sir, you can't do 1t!
| Now you may complain and wall
| about It, but it is unauesionAbiy
fact no matter how much you COM
/ plain.
Now. wire man doesn't stop to
think SO much about what he'd 90
! to have true as he does TO think
about the things that are true. lie
doesn't stop to find fault about things
that are true, he's got to take them
as they come. You let man he
, drinking man. He may not be
drunkard. all right. but he vii! be
| queath that appetite to others
I knew OF man who was a con-
slant. but moderate drinker. He was
never known to be what we call
drunk. He abhorred total abstinence,
always. talked against, II. but ne
| drank a little. He had three sons
and they were my playmates. and
every one of them have died drunk
| ards. Every one OF them! Every
| one of them have died drunkards!
Although he himself never was drunk.
but he was moderate drinker. he
abhorred total abstinence. He Is gone
and they are gone.
knew of a girl didn't know