The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12

Thou shat no. commit adultery"
That isn't hard to understand tx it?
"Thou shalt not bear false witness
'gainst thy neighhor" That Isn't
hard to understand. IS il, you Old
liar? SO don't worry about the
things YOU can't understand, If you
are oheying the things YOU can un-
ders;and
God Isn't foot He won't hold
haven't got sense enough 10 under
stand. 1t 10 said that man is judged
according TO what he knows. You
may know something about God that
/ don't. Other people may know
something about God that You o.
don't. But God will hold nc respon-
stble for what do, not for what you
and tho other fellow are doing
Seek We first The Kingdom Of
God" then the Bible will he an oren
book 10 you. You say, y can't IN
deretand how Christ died for nay
sins" You don't have to know
That isn't necessary All you need
to do i to believe that He did and
accept the salvation that's yours
only through faith In Jesus Christ
Repentance does not come through
explaining God to the mind-no,
God is not an explanation. God is a
, TeNeiaG0n.
| J put a seed into the Fround-hou
The mineral kingdom is born again
tn the vegetable kingdom. / do not
know, But when l plow the ground
and plant the seed the seed makes a
revelation of the fact that II can he
done but how, nobody on God'.s earth
ca explain.
You need no explanation. it is a
revelation, and when you pillow the
ground and plant the seed you trust
to law you cannot understand.
originate, or control--thc law OF
Nature. You've nothing 70 90 with
it. Your task ends when vow pillow
the ground and plant the seed It's
UP TO God 10 make it grow There
fore, when I accept Jesus Chris =
! does it, I don't know. How God
makes the seed grow, don't know.
That's none of my business.
can't explain how il is that the
food that eat assimilates to my
body, makes brain. lolecule, aor-
puscles veins and cUticie. I don't
need to understand, all I've got to
g is to sit down and shovel Il down
my throat'--that's all I've got to do.
But am going to be fool and
sit nj a table and starve because
cant explain how It's done? on. /
I am not that big n fool. may be
a fool about some things. but not
about that
; salvation does rot come. my
friends by comprehcndinr God win
the mind, but knowing Him in the
heart--thats how il comes to you
( in the world!
Now, YOU say there are hypocrites
in the church. Yes. and there are
people in the church that are not
too. There are hypocrites in tho
Masonic lodge and there are fellows
that are not There are hypocrites
in The Odd Fellows and Elks and all
the lodges, and there are fellows
that are not, but that doesn't keep
The good fellows out of the lodge
because there are some in there who
don't I've up to the way they ought
TO.
Oh. yes, and there are fellows that
arc not true to their wives. but that
doesn't keep YOU from being true To
yours. does it? Oh. no.
You say there are hypocrites Ger
tatnly. and If you wait until the
church is living the way they ought
TO before YOU so to church. you will
so To llcli--yes, you will, old top!
Nov, YOU say there are hypocrites.
! will admit il won't argue il.
" nat mat TO YOU l.?
~seek ye the Lord" Heaven
vouloa't @ look right II YOU looked
a il through the devils glasses and
whan YOU look at religion throGgh
hyp"trtte; you've got the devils
specs on, Take II from ne,
HSprcIi.cs Outside the Church
Nh@n you find God. you will find
thousand hypocrites outside the
church 10 one inside of tho church.
You VIII be dumb founded To find
out what a good crowd we are
There lis nothing bright about the
sunlight when you look at it through
smoked glasses and ] don't woAier
religion doesn't look very good 10
YOU IT. YOU look ar II through a hyp-
critic. Finding God viii not only
MAKE you right. but IL will take the
kinks cut of lot OF other folks too.
yes!
Yau viii ana that your aeighncrss.
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