The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-04

NO, sir. / would not
And you don't enow that you
wifi be living tomorrow to draw an
other cent and yet you will sell your
soul to the devil for few dirty dol
lars"
was preaching in West Pullman,
Ut and there were lot OF depart
n1ert store girls there and said.
I Girls why don't you give your hearts
TO Christi"
Forced TO IAe.
They eaid. I'VE have 70 WORK in
store ard stand behind a counter
and sell goods that is mjsrepresent-
ed. We cannot do that and be Chris
tians.''
God will damn you IN the hottest
IfeIl II you make your clerks lie.
II you sell goods of your shelves
that are misreprcsented. just to make
few dirty dollars.
/ would rather walk over rougn
and story road 20 Heaven than to
ride to He'll on dirt money.
There Ia many fellow that gets
ITCH rohbing the orphan, or the widow
and he is too slick TO get caught
In the meshes Of the Law. And he
goes down the street and so and SO
says. There he goes" And his
name Is nCnOTfu anu II Us oIsis ucNco-
sary 70 attach his name TO any project
to insure success.
Bye and bye he dies and there IL
an uproar and fuss. and a pow
pow over his old carcass at the fune-
raj and they pass resolutions as long
as from here to the back door, and
sind copy, to his wife and the mem
bers of the club. and the lodges and
the ether things he was member OF.
stating whereascs and whereises and
resolves. etc. while the bones OF his
victims lie in the potter's field.
DO Won mean 10 tell me there is no
Hell for n guy like that?
Many fellow lives today without
thought of God in his business, So
cietv. politics or horne. No thought
of God in his lodge; no thought OF
God In his church.
would rather undertake TO save
Ten drunkards for Jesus Christ than
one fellow who will scheme TO get
rich quick.
A friend Of mine was up In Min
reapolis. Minneapolis is one OF the
best towns In this country. Mime
apolts, Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit
and Buffalo: Mustn't forget Buffalo
for she Is corning fast, with Niagara to
furnish the juice.
| Well. he was up there In Mime
| apolis and he left to go back to his
| home down in Ohio. And when he got
| back there a neighhor Of his was
| very III and my friend offered to
help the family by relieving them
of The nfghtwatch by his bedside.
| And ne sat with him one night
about midnight and he was then only
| six hours from the coffin. Did no
| take down his Bible and read it2 No.
| To yat fr friend ssT1n now
a place where I can invest my money
at per cent first mortgagesf-
am only getting 3 with the money in
the bank"
Instead of getting ready to meet
Cod he was wondering how he could
| invest his money to better advan-
tage.
The world can give YOU present
possessions but the world cannot give
YOU future hope. You don't know
you will be alive tomorrow.
Some people will say. "Bill you
can take your future hope. Give me
present possession" That Is all fool
/ ishness.
/ Suppose tonight you were worth
! a million dollars but you knew thai
when the sun rose In the morning
YOU would be proved to bc default
er and an embezzler and spend the
rest of your days In the peniten'
tiary.
Or suppose you were hobo o.
! q Weary Write tonight xnd 'yoy
! knew that. tomorrow morning wher
the sun rises you would be heir &c
a million dollars?
Which, would you rather have. tn.
future hope OF the hobo or the pres-
ent possessions of the millionaire
that were to end In Hell7
All the wealth of the world viii
not and cannot give US assurance OF
life, You don't know but that you
are listening to your funeral sermon
today.
There was Vanderbilt IN the
beautiful palstial home with all The
luxuries OF life surrounding him. he
was talking with George Garret, the
president OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, when suddenly. ne gasped
moaued and fell dead. All the money
lie had could not give him the assur'
ance Of sitting there and talking over
that business transaction.
! The world can not SELL that There
! Ia no assurance. You don't know
that you willTiive to see the morrow
yet you will say. II will choose the
Jesus Christ"
/ Do you mean 20 say that you can
not have a good time unless you are
q devil? The only way to have a
good time Is to sin? Then the pros
titute's life II the only happy lie
living IN sin? You insult God.
| | sec a great many people who are
old grcy-hnired, or bnid-hsadcd
! with no hair on your head between
you ard perdition and you think that
/ after a while you will turn to Christ.
The longer you live the less soy you
will extract from the things of M,
/ world hut the tithes OF the world
will grin your old shriveied. weazen-
"a IN SOC There is MARY Il young
man needs '~sus but no ia unwtll-
I Ing 10 turn from re gang.
| Years ago a yC4'-g girl came to
DIR. Hall and she si. 'Dr. Hall, l
want to Join the churcA,
'Tt Is one thing to Join church
and It liz another TO be "a g.. tian."
said DR.. Hall. you will h. to
agree to certain things"
What do you mean. II you mean
! that In order TO become Christian,
! / must give up dancing, i will not
! do IT,
"But you win II God wants You
to-"
''Dr. Hall. II II comes to choosing
between Jesus Christ and the dance.
I have no hesitancy In telling you