The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-16
PERSONAL Work Proverbs
nom Delivered at City Auditorium Wednesday Afternoon

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! And they watched the town and
when the votes were counted Ben
Harrison went to Washington instead
of Grover Cleveland. And that was
| the way they put 1t over.
/ Now that's what Jesus Christ said.
| In other words. men will work harder
| to win In business and politics than
! The Church will in religion. l am
/ disguised with them ALL You think
/ you. can just open your church door
and ring a bell and you expect peo-
Z pie to come. That's been going on
| long enough. The Church has got
! to wake up and do something.
! You just simply think that because
the calendar announces that it's the
Sabbath Day that that's all you have
to do. and that If you put on a little
better dress and look little more
pious that that's serving the Lord.
and You go to the devil SIX days in
the week"
know of a varnish company In
this country that pays a man ten
I thousand dollars a year just to look
nice. He's a good dresseH he's a
good mixer. He's got a smile that
. don't come off. He never tries to sell
varnish but he paves the way for
the fellow who comes from the firm
TO sell the varnish to the big rail-
roads and the big institutions that
buy ii. So all he does is just simply
sort OF win their friendship and make
1t easy for the guy that does sell the
varnish. And they pay him ten thou
sand dollars a year just for that
that's all! Just to look nice.
That's the way people do In order
to succeed In business. What's the
Church doing to win people for
/ Christ? I bet a lot of you people
right to this day don't know the peo-
pie right around in your neighbour
! hood--whether they are Christians or
not. We never do anything--no won
der the world Is going to the devils
Another thing. 1t lis the simplest
Andrew wins Peter; Peter turns
around and wins three thousand at
Pentecost.
Moody's Conversion.
Years ago a man went into a boot
! and shoe store in Boston and found
a young fellow selling shoes and
boots. He talked to him about Jesus
Christ and won him for Christ The
| name of that little boy was Dwight
l. Moody. Do you know the name
OF the man that won Moody fog
Christi 1 don't suppose there are
| FIVE people in this audience that do.
/ $50" 1HNAhF was hiHIpdti, anu SD NyOu
used kimba1l TO win Moody, but he
used Moody to win the multitude.
| Andrew didn't have sense enough
| to win the multitude, but Peter did.
! That's the way God works. Oh, get
| so sick of people being dead--you've
sat around so long you've mildewed.
The Earl of Salisbury, who gave
sixty five years of his life working
among the costermongers and the
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! siils OF London, was won to Jesus
Christ by servant girl in their home.
He was wavering. going down the
line with the gang of young bloods
and his father died, This servant
girl. cody girl. said: "You inherit
all the honor and all the wealth that
goes with the name of SALISBURY
and are you going to ,go to prema.
ture grave the way you're going. the
life you are living. and bring disgrace
upon your fathers memory and your
mothef's?"
! The Earl of SALISBURY, when
eighteen years -agerfeHE his
I knees and gave hts heart to Jesus
Christ and when he died his funeral
was the greatest ever held in Eng.
land except when a king or a queen
- had died. -
/ See what she did, CHE won hin,
to the Lord and then the Lord took
him and used him to win the multi
tudes.
Charles G.. Finney. after iearnins
the name Of man or woman, In
variabiy asked. Are you a Chris.
tian?"
John Vassar was one of the great.
est personal workers Of the nfneteer
century. He never preached q ser.
mon but he did personal work and hs
n mn,
man one time in a town, a preacher
He met Vassar at the depot and az
they were walking down to the hotel
they went past a blacksmith shop. He
said: There's blacksmith in there
he's got great drag with his crowd
but he never comes to chuAch. If we
could only win him, he would win
scores In his class
He said: Have you talked to him p
oh. we are afraid. He will cuss
any preacher that comes near him.
He said: +wait a minute until ]
take my turn"
He went In and the man WINS shoe
ing . mule-and that isn't a good time
TO talk religion to man, take it from
me--out he had good sense and walt
ed until the fellow was through and
had disarmed his prejudice and in If
teen minutes he had him on his knees
! WoSpAuB 1iA6 u CuliQ.
He went up to the hotel where he
was to be entertained and he regis
tered and strolled around, looking for
somebody to speak to him He went
into q little reception room and there
sat a finely dressed lady. He walked
up and said to her:
Lady, are you a Chrisfian?~
She said. Yes, / am
Il beg your pardon" he said. Il
1 didn't mean that kind He said
II mean. have you been born again r.
"Oh." she said. we've gotten over
that here In Boston"
WELL" he said. lady, you've got
ten over Jesus Christ in Boston, too.
You've gotten over God"
He talked with her little while
until her prejudice was disarmed and
t,tears trfrkfrd down her cheeks and he
said: May pray for your"
She said: IT wish you would. God
knows need II, although Tn a mem.
Der OF the church."
He prayed. She wept and he slipped
out and her husband came In and mo-
ticed her eyes were red He said !:
Has anybody insulted your
She said: THE queerest little man
was here little while ago and he
talked SO nice to me about Jesus
He said. "If / had been here ia