The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-20

uon-that transaction. I'm telling
YOU what to do. God has done Hts
part, what are you going to do?
goa mas made the sunshine and
me RAIN and the earth and the seas,
what Is your part? Plow the ground
and plant the seed. If you don't
DO your part you will starve to death.
What must do? God has done
Ills part In salvation. He has given
Jesus Christ, He has made a reycla-
ton OF Himself through the Word
God Will do no more, sir. so / am
telling you what to do.
|str IS pslsr,tss. &c is hg:, < y a.,
don't want to spend your eternity
with bunch you don't care for.
you'd better come into the church
where there are few of them. for
| here won't be hypocrite in heaven.
| they Will all be In hell. What arc
you going to make by refusing to be-
lieve here when you've got to live
with gang like that all your life
You're chump.
You say, 'T can be a Christian
and not be n member OF a church"
Yes. cir, you can go to Europe
, without taking ship but the
sharks and the submarines are wait
Ing for the fellow that takes that
route.
You say TITS mystery"
I'll admit that I'll admit II hnt
there are lots of things that I do
that are mysteries that I can't ex-
plain but I keep on doing. AS I
told you the other night, you can't
explain how the food You eat keeps
Crpuscles, sinews. arteries, Joints,
marrow, cuticie, hair growing and
alive. Your knowledge of IT has moth
ing to do with II.
you can't explain how the medi-
cine that you take which the doc
TOT rrsscribes will bind up the It's
sues and put the bloom Of health
on your cheek and keep you out OF
ne comm. You don't need 70 IN
ders'and Il.
plant Il sect. How u grows 7
don't know. that's none If nv hus,.
ness. that's God business Let the
! Lord alone. That's Gods business,
and the mystery belongs to the Lord.
rye got nothing to do with IT. The
mystery OF making me 1--we ~
breathing and eating food belongs
TO the Lord. I have nothing to do
with IL.
You might as wen say. II won.s
breathe, because I can't understand
You've G. nothing 20 do with
it-keep your mouth slu. ana
breathe through your nose Under.
stand It, No. Do II! Yes, what
FOR? To live.
Understand saiva,iore No! Re-
'ieve 1T Yes. What for Don't
want TO so to hell. want 70 go to
heaven.
Mystery Of Apple.
What must do to ne saved 80
Anybody can dig a hole and plant
an apple tree. Any fool can walk
IN and pluck the apple and eat It.
Eut 1t takes God to make one crow
How the apple grew is n mystery.
Anybody can pluck IT,
How God saves me through Jesus
I don't know. don't worry my head
that's Gods part OF H. So do your
part and let the Lord alone, don't butt
into Him He will never explain II
to ycu anyway. so what's the use Of
foolir~ about IL.
Another thing. He confessed. He was
oapt!sed. am not here TO preach
baptism--f never preached a sermon
on baptism In my life: never expect
TO, I have my views on all OF these
subjects, rs told You folks when I
came here. the first day. and IL I
read truly, without God YOU are lost
and with God You are saved hava
tried TO answer four questions--
~ Are Won ios'7 t.> Are you
saved7 t3) Are you going to heaven.
~ Or are you going to hei17 That's
all there Is to II.
I have my views on II but u is
mistake, my friends. not to con-
and preach that you've got 10 re-
immersed There are Episcora.ans.
he presbyterians and the Metho-
d'sts who don't believe you have
Then, here are the Baptlsts and the
Divine church and they believe In
'mmersing. l say. conform Some
way 10 the plan of God which He
provided and revealed TO UPS.
Confession! On. that's better
than cowardice. Yes, str! submis-
sion That's better than stubborn
make submarine because they hap
1ened 10 make an arc tight. They
win buila up a pile OF brick and 10
hear them talk you'd imagine they
could create n mountain.
An tntidel stood on top OF
mountain and said. IT don't believe
n God. I don't believe In Jesus
Nhrist- II there Is God, lie. Him
strike me dead now with fash CT
lightning from the clear sky
And rnat flew down his throat
md choked him to death.
Oh. God won't use a th.rteen-inch
hell to XII q Canary bird. Not on
~our life, To hear some fellows talk
ou would imagine they could build
ladder and climb up anu blow out
he sun. There is little hope for
he fool that hasn't sense enough to
teat 1t for a cyclone cellar when he
'ees the storm coming--little hope
or the man that doesn't take tina
safe side In every proposition In the
world for God ard for His truth.
Would Write Prescription.
Surprising you are sick and werA
a physician. I'd write out n prcscrip-
ion and then af%er I'd given II to you
you'd say, let me see that. Cut that
out, that's bitter. that's nauseating
] never liked cal6mel, cut II ont.
And II you'd take It down and get
1t filled you would not take 4 remedy
at all. you would take connection :
Ut your own
1t was not mine at nil. 90 DON'T
complain IL you don't get any bcne-
III. When you don't do what God
wants you to do, and tells you to do
don't find fault when you don't get
blessed.
Here is a great physician. God
and He has diagnosed the troubles
of. this old xsin-cursed world and writ