The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12
ND URGES THEM TO PURGE THEMSELVES OF INIOUUTY

comply with your requests. My re-
fusals are all pangs Of regret
when you go some place and they
put everything on the table, IL you
can't eat everything. they think you
are stuck up and II you do eat every.
thing. they think you are q pig.
But suppose I just trot around to
your house tomorrow, never knock,
just open the door and walk in I
sit down In the parlor and read the
s1Aper.. and YOU come In and say, Il
1Xs- <.A,ssssSs,a s-sx-~, 5~2 -, NV ~
You lie, you are not. You could
not help but gay. He Is q queer man.
didn't ask him to come today and
he didn't tell me he was coming. He
just butted tn You couldn't help
It.
Suppose we have been living here
in town ave weeks. and ] have been
down to some beautiful homes. Sup
pose ! say. There II = cracker1ack
OF home. Let's 60 down and have
them entertain w the rest Of the
time. We will stop taking collections
and we will drive mp In front OF this
house. tAind you. We haven't been
invtted) say, Take my trunk right
up there in the front room"
The lady would say. '-6ir. what
does this meanf''
II / did that, ia b no more well
come In your home than Jesus Christ
would b In your heart without =
welcome. All right, for Jesus Christ
to be welcome In your heart you've
got to do the Inviting.
.non.a ~ ~,.r snvst.,ion .nd ~ Won
dnrss ,r~,,s Me. ~ -ti1 ..vsr ~ro..
vour tnrssnrn1a us .,snd. and
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mead rim INT IL vo,, .re not man NJ
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e. 10 al, r..sr na A " ~0A0
"a 49, e. su
s~ ~No ~"A ~Ao
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anu na sNs,. maze UP my .niMu ~nero
= IVY 20 AosA. $3.50 "s.o IA LIE SoH
oouo many one co"s hAse
opened me ooor ana set MN m ana
some s'and Win tne1 nahd on the
latcn. heSitAunS Wneths! tney Will OK
"hetner tnsy wan noS' tHey arc
counting the cost. out don.t Forget
heaven or nell are * me emo OF your
destination.
some others nave heard the sum
mons ana they are tfouoied. Then
they ought 70 yleid Tnere are others
that are trying to drown the pieadings
OF coos spirit In dissipation The devil
WIN resort ana Ieeo people 70 10
things THAI under ordinary conditions
they wouldn't think OF doing. What
fof! On. ne 10 trying 70 drown the
pieadings OF COOS spirit. some have
said, Il VIII not
Listen to mo! believe there arc
men here just ~ truly damned as Ii
they were IN hell tonight Why They
have heard ana they have refused
Some have let him In. but not very
far. not Tar enough. You have not
let him in far enough to stop talking
about your nsighhors, to tell the brew
cry wagon to stop coming to your
house. to pay your debts, to give tes-
timony In public. He Ia Ia little way.
but not very tar.
Some have let him in, but they have
shat him up In spare room. DID you
ever see spare room! 1t 10 usually
northwest corner room. where the
frost gathers thick on the window. I'd
as soon crawl in between two cakes Of
ice as between the sheets In the bed Of
a spare room
You know they usually send the
preachers to steep IN the bed or the
spare room We had spare room In
the house In which l was born tn Iowa
II was sort OF holy OF hoises. We
cen rae BED clothes from m!fdewfng.
We always turned the strangers In our
u dSe mao that room TO sleep. Thsy
Always mad my sympathy.
1T was the only room IN the house
Una, nae wan paper on the walls. the
figures In II were pohywoss. lizards.
md erocodiiea !. was the only room
IN the house thAt hAd carpet: II had =
uftie pascn OF Green carpet IN 'front.' or
the pea ana the nsnres IN the carpet
fnA.ched the nsofes On the Val paper
ihere was an upnoisSereo iouhke In
H. had donc service Tor generations
TX vas very snek'
My k1no1stneI maoe sns reo. Daen
pos. hao a greaa founa globe on II
ana .eoseo hke AuAs opnoIo,nk
,ne worM vas mAde N surnins
satne on. OF oiAcN walnut Inc oeo
"Au NO siatA no !A1a. NO sprhks
VIC mao noses IN tne rs"s Ano We
useo 70 put ropes through tnefe ana
wno ueI UP WIN inc w'nuss aho
nsnssn u nAo no m.s Du.
"au is"cr ooo s"o wv
sot up IN ahe mornIne' your BACK
"euia 'oos nke "e
ns oen naa some ssun nansin9
ao~n on 'ne Oo mao
spoonS .ppe "ce ~ M I"eu
somoeninn wa. unoeI tnen way 20
poa"oe gu, mo k NJ oulo "os
HANo eiopt thcEe Asa uRus II you ma