The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31

This evening the text is: Numbers.
thirty second chapter, twenty third
verse.
BE sure your sins will find you
out"
No man or woman can ever es-
cape from his or her sins. Every
sin will find you out. call you to ac-
count and make you pay. Some
time. ii not instantly, sometime. No
man or woman ever committed a sin
that aid not have to pay in some
way. | am not simply talking about
dollars and cents. No man or wo-
man ever committed sin that WASH t
IA loser by it. Why will you do a
thing when YOU know you are los
ing every time you do it? Never
has a man or woman committed Il
sin, never will a man or woman com
nit sin that pays.
The most Stupendous and gigan-
tic folly that can possess any man
or woman Is to imagine that YOU gain
anything by doing wrong. You lose
in character, reputation and health
You lose in respectable in every
thing that is decent. that God admires
and men respect. You gain nothing
Absolutely nothing.
| challenge any man or woman on
earth to show me where anybody has
ever gained anything by doing
wrong.
There may be those here tonight
who are contem plating committing
some sin. You may be here in order
TO alay suspicion that there is in
your mind or heart the slightest
inclination toward sin. You may
hour presents itself. You may have
dropped in here because ii is nicely
lighted, and comfortable and you'd
like to hear the speaking and sing
ing. II that is true, please remem-
Der the words of my text. BE sure
your sin viii find you out"
There are some things we are not
sure about. You are not sure you.
will die. Jesus Christ may return
ever seeing death.
You are not sure that the sun
Will rise tomorrow. 1t has risen.
regularly ever since God said Let
there be light" and swung in the
skies TO travel in it's orbit. but there
isn't one word of authority in the
word of God that the sun will rise.
We are not sure that we will die.
but tho Bible says, BE sure your
sins will find your out"
You needn't come here to find out
whether my text is true. You needn't
read The Bible. You needn't read
the newspapers Just go down to
the prisons, go down to the death
h uses, go through the hospitals. go
through the homes for feeble minded.
go through the asylums, go down
through the haunts of sin. see the
wrecks and the derelicts OF human
ity. Scared. bruised, filthy. stencil
arising from Il decayed body because
of sin. Their sins have founded them
out.
There is an inscription on a monu-
ment in Egypt, which Jays. The
impious shall commit inquitv with
recompense. but not without remorse."
If you are bound to sin, you will
suffer, remember that II you put
your hand into the fire. you must
expect to be burned by doing IT.
Therefore, when you sin. you must
expect tho reward for that sin and
that's punishment. surely.
Now, why do you do the thing
that you positively, absolutely know
is a detriment ITO you from every
viewpoint and every angle that YOU
can, or men and women can argue?
Absolutely from every viewpoint. No
exception.
got to plead to get a man or wo-
me why you have to plead with a
man to be Christian: get up and toll
man or woman to get them to do
what God wants them to do. To be
a Christian is what God wants you
to be. and when you are what God
wants you to be, you are the best
on earth. Then for any man or
woman to refuse to be what God
wants them to bel want you to
get up and show me. Come on. /
want to see.
Sins. VIII Find You Ont.
BE sure your sins will find you
tot." You may escape the law but