The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28

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moment OF time"
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wen his nrst battle when he was efgh~
teen: king Of Macedonia, when he was
twenty. He sat down on the shore OF
the Aegean sea, wrapped the drapery
of his cough about him and lay down
to eternal sleep. the conqueror OF AN
unknown world. when he was only thir-
ty-ave years old.
go to Napoleon Bonaparte. Victor
Hugo called him the archangel of war.
He arose In tho air of the nineteenth
century like a meteor. His run arose
at Austerlitz: 1t set at Waterloo. He
leaped over the slain Of this country
men to the presidency of his country:
then he was FIRST consul and then he
vaulted to the chair OF tho emperor
of France.
But II was The cruel wanton achieve
ment Of insatiate and unsAnctfned am
bition and It led to the barren St He
lena IslA A. tha storm beat upon
the rock onos more b. fought at the
head Of his troops At Austerlitz, at
Mt. Tabor. and the Pyramida.
Once more he cried I'm still tho
head Of the army" and he fell back
into the arms Of death. and the great
est warrior the world has known since
the days Of Joshua was no more.
Tonight on the banks Of the Seine he
HtS IN HAS nd8uJuC6HL Win hto
marshals sleeping whore he can sum-
mon them. and the battle naEs he nnade
famous draped around him. and from
the four corners Of the earth students
and travellers turn aside to do homage
to the great military geniua
SO here We are In the mfdst OF
plenty. the very apex Of commercial
development. yet there IN rust ons
aource-"For God so loved tbs world
that he gave his only begotten son. that
whosoever beiicveth In him should not
perish but have everlasting life"
Search the annals OF time and the
pages Of history and where do you
find those wordsr Only in the Bfbss.
Get II Honestly.
How can I get Il, All you have or
win have. you Win como into posses-
sion of in one OF three ways--honsstly.
dishonesty, or as gift Only you
viii work for IT, II you get Il hon
estIy Dishonesty. you win steal r.
And the gift you will inherit You
have got to work for anything you
get on earth---reiigion or anything else.
Most people believe in high moral
ity. They deal honestly In business
ana they are charitable. But you can
not hire \ substitute In religion You
can't do some deed Of Kindness or
act OF philanthropy and substitute That
for the necessity OF repentance and
faith in Jesus Christ
Did not Jesus Christ come to gfve
morality: why doesn't morality save.
Because morality without Jesus Chftst
In incomplete. man or woman can
he morally good and not be a true
On rtstian.
But nobody can be a Christian WITH
out being moral, There In no such
thing as being Christian and not be-
inr moral. But the fact that Won are
a fs Ar1n n
Some people win acknowledge their
ain in the world. struggle on without
Jesus Christ, and do their best to live
honorable, upright lives Your MORAL
ity viii make ron better man or
woman. II is the best thing you have
Christ But morality does not save
yon.
Here is a tree II bears sour apples
and the man wants to change the ma
ture Of IT, One would Gay prure II and
YOU would buy 4 pruning hook and
cut on the supernucus rfnbs- sun the
apples are sour.
Another says to fertffs.s n and you
Fertiiize II and stfn II doesn't change
the nature of IL
Graft of ARs<Aer variety.
Finally som conc says introduce n
graft Of another variety.
when was = little rey, one Day
nv grandfather said 70 me--<uy father
went away to war IN August and 7
WAS born In November 20 never
Eaw him and no lived with my grand
father--"come on SON." and he took a
ladder. q knife. some bcsswax string.
sticks and some oic<A. and We went
down into the valley.
He leaned thu ladder against = sour
crabapple treA. climbed up and sawed
off some OF the limbs. and split them
and showed IN them some little pear
sprouts a. big ~ my finger and twice
as long. and around them he tide =
string and pat IN some beeswax
l said. ura1dpA what srs you DO
mgr
He saM 7 am Grating par svrouss
into the sour appls treA~
said, what win grow. pears or
crabappiesr~
He said. -reass. dou.t know that
TIL Two to eat the pearl hops I
rnay-but know yog WIN"
I lived to So tAoss sprouts which
were NO longer than my flnEer grow
the tree and picked and ate the pears
He introduced . graft Of another va
,riesy and that chsnged ths nature Of
the tree.
So what you nssd b . nav na4ure.
IT does not make any differeoos wne<h-
err you ars rich are poor. learned Or n
ltterate, you need something else. And
that has got to sosns ~ fAitA IN Jssus
Christ
Here ara two usn- One man Norn
with hereditary teadencies toward bad,
a bad father. . had mother and bad
grandparents. He hAa bad blood In his
veins and he turns naturally 70 sin ~
n duck 10 water.
There he n = 4own-and-outer. a
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