The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-22
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This Sermon Was Delivered by Rev Billy Sunday Tuesday
Ngth January q, at City Auditoriuml

Christ for they have newer beeu horn
again. There VIII b lots Of church
members in hen. Lots Of PrueeslAMtn
in hell. lots OF Catholics II heil-tlsey
never were<converted. they never had
= change Of Hfe, never were born
again.
uAnt Bcaa Down.
You can't beat the devil sister. hs
has been p<eysnx on this Old world
for 6sene ~. yAasR. he nerves. Il Aas
or appendicitis or perfson-
tits. II you get to playing tag with
the devil in his door yard he viii hR
you on the hack and say. tag. you
are IT," You can't put II over on
him.
Some church members have the
hoof and mouth disease. they run
the neighhorhood and widjam
about their neighbors and talk about
them.
preach againet certain Amuse-
ments. you win be aware OF this fact
before I leave this city. I don't do
1t to arouse your antagunism. am
not crank. You can come here and
sit and listen to me, and am not
crank about anything, and my war
fare is for the interest and virtue
and morals Of men and women. !
don't care three whoops who I have
corporation have to night to make
it easier for mon TO get TO heaven
and harder for men to set to he'll,
and more people IN the church
that are kent out from communion
with God. and morn people kept out
side than are coming in. II you
1--we wrong you can't die right so
make up your mind what you want TO
do. Emerson said,
can not hear what you say"
I ten you life is chuck fun OF half
done things. Things started and
never finished: trades begun, then
abandoned: education started. then
stopped. until 100000 boys drop
out of school In this country at the
end Of the eight grade. Foundations
laid. buildings never built on them:
church-going begun. then dropped.
Life is chuck full Of haif- done things
and there are muftitudes Of things
in the life of every one that were in
tended to be done that haven't been
finished to this day: although your
hair Is gray and you can look back
twenty years and see what YOU in
tended to do and never did IT,
l read Of a hound that started at
ter a stag. He chased It while and
then UP jumped a fox and crossed
the trail: ne abandoned the star
and chased the fox. Up Jumped q
rabbit and he abandoned the FOX and
ran after, the, rabbit. When at Iasr
his master over took him he found him
barking at hole where he had freed
q field mouse.
Start ON Royal Rum.
There are multitudes OF pecple
started on royal run and they have
compromised on n rat: started for
heaven. compromised on a bottle ~
beer: started for glory, compromised
on some trininE institution thai
caused you to lose your vision Of God
and Of his truth.
Four things man must learn to do,
II he would make his record tru>
First. to think without confusion.
clearly. 4.s~s..ss,,r.
TO love his fellow man sincerely
To act from honest motive purely
To trust tn God. and heaven surely.
II man finds himself fsIun, IN
ono hne Of business he WIN be wise
u he quits 1t and goes into another
that he can make success OF
Religion b not for time, not for
money. It b not for business. II A.
not Tor society. II Ia not for politics. .
II = TOP God. Il Ia for life and death.
TOT osster Or for worse: to BE- care
Ioity considered before you can take
: etep ana set your fAcs Ike q mint
ana never devsAte from the path that
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