The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-15

Goo. Tu9y p0lIt q Adctn00DS cnurcu
out OF II that cost hundreds OF thou
lcommunity, WAS stirred. Oh, the
spirit % God fiees from strife and
4 revival II needed when there arc
| prAjudicAs and fueds and factions
and fusses. And q revival II needed
when there u . worldly spirit 1t
lisn't neconHAry 70 do something gross
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morality and decency. No! A ship
win ride the waves until the water
gets into her: she was made to ride
the water and not for the water to
be IN her.
Church o. X.
The casurch II all right az long as
she's in the wofld; she's all wrong
when the world u in her. and one OF
i the troubles Of the church today. my
i friends, 10 that she's Joined the world
and that's the reason why the world
Won't Join the church, has lowered
the standard OF II In the universe
Oh. the world Il lousy with humbugs
ltoday--Abs1lutely.
And the churches are full OF sour
faced religious crahappies that arc
trying to hand God q lemon.
You bet that whoever works for the
devil Will ret his pay from the devil.
He win give you hell here and he'll
when you are through, and you play
both ends against the middle. You're
Z biz fool to follow the devil. tell
you religion has done too much good
for this old world for any buck oyster
and saw-dust Allied fellow to knock.
Don't forget that! No. sir! There
are some men in some churches who
are bigger rogaes than some of the
convicts In Sing Sing. You bet!
Live the way you ought to live for
God. He'll Is seldom preached nova
days and that may be one reason
why we've gotten SO much hell here
on earth. it's not preached enough,
We don't preach enough OF It to the
people. II you don't want to hear
about he'll don't come around here
II don't believe in Gahenna or Hades
II believe in plain old-fashioned
h-e-l-l. hell.
/ No Room for Argument.
!! II in no argument against religion
!. my friends. that there are blach
sheep In the flock. Please remember
that the devil at one time lived in
heaven. He had a chance but he
passed II up. So II you will mind
/ your own faults you will have less
time to tind. fault with other people
It will keep you busy looking out for
youfvelf.
20 Lord, Revive Thy Works" A re.
vival Is needed when there is spiritual
dasolation among the multitude.
read In the paper that $4,000 Presby-
tertans went to New York and back.
slid and you couldn't md them with
ia fine tooth comb, or a search war.
rant Lost. Not doing a thing fol-
the church Of God!
You will find them in every de-
mountaineering EPISCOPAL. the Meth
4 odist, the Baptist, the Lutheran. the
Reformed and all! We have 10o,-
Il 100000 population In the United
States and there are 72.000.000 Of
them that are not identified with any
church, Catholic or Protestant! And
last year 1900 churches made reports
that not one accession on confession
Of faith did they have. They're lo'
OF dead oneS-a lot OF dead ones
That's what's the matter:
4 oh, we need a panic In religion
The world doesn't need reforming
the world needs Transforming by ths
blood OF Jesus Christ! Mighty few
people are being saved. Every church
has Its constituency. Some men &
to church-you. Methodist, you. I
Reformed; you. q Lutheran; you. ~
Episcopailan; you, Presbyterian
why7 O, your wife goes there. you
mother was . member there. YOU
children go to that Sunday school
religion in your wife's name.
Has Its Constituency.
Every church has its constituency
whenever you go. you go there. Il
you feel at home -Ander these cir
!. cufnstances, ali right Take the sun
day school. How few Of the Snnda,
school scholars are being saved ant
brought into the church, How few
people. are being saved! Most mer
are touched By church influences
sometime but they are allowed K
drift away--no family affairs In oul
homes! Oh. We are letting our chill
dren grown up like win ass's colts to-
day! No family altar, no wonde,
4 they are going to the devil No won
der that, with the dew OF youth OF
} their brows. your girls feed the req
light! No wonder the age OF thu
prostitute in the last nine years In Thu
country has fallen from twenty thre@
and twcnty-six down to fifteen and
Of the prostitute today--hfteen to
! seventeen: Ten years ago It was from
twenty-thrce TO twenty-six- No won
der.
Seventy-two per cent OF our crimi
nails are young men under twenty
one.
!, 20 Lord. Revive Thy Works" Yielt
success that attends the preaching O.
the word. II the preacher stands VI
to speak the truth. some God-for
saken old mountebank viii object
but take It from me. Bud, I want Il
tell you you've got no more business
TO run the church because you've go
a little dough than that Fellow WIKI
J sits there that hasn't got sou. TAX,
! your money and go to the devil with
H. You can dictate to some preach
era because you've rot little money
but you won't tell this preacher how
to preach. You've put your eyebai
! on one you can't tell how to preach
1t won't do you any good. Not tina
!. ] know all about II. but know I an
preaching for God. am preaching
to the people. There's q big diffar
ence between preaching for God ass
preaching to God. Any time yol
don't hike It you can beat It.
20 Lord. Revive Thy York." An
} other thing. A revival IL needed
when sinners are careless: liccntious
grating. Sabbath breakers. N,
friends, we've got to have Z genera
rrisstons awaken4nx In IA His country O.
It with mean the dissolution or TIN