The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-24

70 Soiieu you, you are not you, Dut
It:
80. my dear. Just. remain where
you are and ultimately. by some in
herent quality within you. inteilec-
tual and physical. you will emerge
into q state of perfection like the but
terfiy bursting from the cocoon"
SO, here's the old devil. yet. Then
up comes Ethical Culture. "oh. you
desire to emerge and leave what you
are and step into what you should
be. Well. NOW that ts matter OF
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OF tho culture OF the mind. and so
II is something inherent within you
which you can develop by your as
sociations and companions, and you
will ultimately emerge"
The poor devil Ia still there. Here's
what he Ia. All these "isms' and
| struggling. damned. cursed bias
phemed humanity out of what it is
into what 1t ought to be, they have
all failed. and there he sits.
But up comes Jesus Christ and
says. "Oh, you want to get out OF
| what you are into what you ought
to be. The only power that has ever
come into the world or ever will
that In able to take you out Of what
you are and put you into what you
ought to be is faith in Ma. viii you
take my arm ?"
And that isn't an. He VIII take
them out Of what they are, put them
into what thes ought to I've, and He
win keep them In the way they ought
to be kept.
So, for that purpose, Jesus came
| into the world. born OF the Virgin
Mary and suffered under Ponttus ri
late. and He built this great big era
die we call Christianity. He stops
and He rocks and rocks and rocks His
cradle, and He says, II am going to
make great men and great women Of
whom the world Ia worthy"
He Rocks, and Rocks.
So He rocks and rocks and forth
comes the Apostle Paul. the perse-
! cutor, the murderer. the bigot, the
greatest teacher, the greatest preach
| er. the greatest missionary. Account
for the transformation OF Paul from
a bigot and a murderer into a preach
! er of Jesus Christ without the incar-
nation OF Jesus Christ. and you make
Paul a liar, for he says, I'VE have be-
| lieved In Christ that we might be
saved by the faith of Christ and not
by the deeds Of the law
so Christ took Paul ont OF Hell
and put him into Heaven.
And He rocks and rocks this era
die we call Christianity and forth
comes Augustine. the worst OF men
into the wisest and best Of men. He
was the greatest thinker for a thous.
and years. He was and is the god
Of theology and at whose throne the
! theologians worship. Account for the
sinful Augustine being taken out and
/ put into the Saint Augustine, with
out the incarnation OF Jesus Christ
You make Augustine liar. for he
said, 1T was the power OF Christ that
took me out Of what I vas and ~;
me into what / ought to be-"
Martin Luther crawling on hi'
knees up the steps Of 81. Peters
where he stood and preached saliva.
ton by faith and not by works. ana
str. he kindled uon the hilitops OF
4 Germany the light of the reforrna
ton which Eliminates the world. Ac.
count for Martin Luther's transfer
nation: account for the reformation
without the incarnation of Jesus
Christ You make him liar and 4
bigot.
! Down in the Bowery thirty ode
years ago, ono dark. stormy nigh
went missionary. thinly clad. H.
saw q saloon door open and out reel
cd and staggered drunkard. push
ed by a harkeeper. He struck tn.
pavem ent and the blood guJhed from
the wound. The u ssionary lifted
him up and handed han tract
/ And the drunkard said. IF yot
want to do anything to help me. givt
me your overcoat"
| The missionary stripped off hi,
overcoat and he wrapped 1T around
the shivering form OF the drunkard
, He said. Come up and hear thu
story"
| Heard tho Gospcl.
The drunkard went up. heard tn,
Gospel OF Jesus Christ, and liked 1
and staggered up 70 give his hear
to God. Oh. he'd served Elk terms IL
Sing Sing--out. back: out. back; out
back: one day an old pal told fh'
story of his conversion TO the met
behind the stonewall and this mar
went into his cell and trying to fint
l. Il, he started AT Genesis. bns .th-
verse was over In Hebrews. He go
out and stood, and In his crude yer
nacular, he told the story OF Jes,n
4 Christ
/ One night when many had conn
TO the front weeping. a hne-lookin:
| clean-cut, well-dressed man, clad n
q Prince Albert coat, very intelligent