The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-24
MUST FOLLOW CtIRISTS IDEAS OF LIFE TO REAP REWARD

table life, from the seed. the birds "a
the air'and the fish Of the rea.
Reason has also SCARED above the
globe and II has found the magnitude
and the distance Of the planets.
Reason tells you and me ffty-one
years from tonight there will b an
eclipse Of the moon. But man. with
God---nol As for any way whereby
. sinner might be reconciled to God
oh. 1t never entered the mind Of
nan until was revealed to us In Jesus
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Man. with all his wisdom, couidnt
find out way to be saved until Jssua
made the revelation. Man. with his
knowledge, knows not. and he never
will. Man. by his wisdom has never
never win know God. II 10 q relation
to Jesus Christ and to His truth.
Man may study minerology, buS
that won't tell you Of the pearl Of
greatest price. You may study
biology, But that won't tell you about
the man. Christ Jesus Man may
study astronomy. but that won't tell
you OF the Star of bethlehem. You
can study all about It.
Lightning il nothing but the lustew
Of Gods eye. The thunder In simply
and silver. diamonds, rubics. sapphires.
pearls and emeralds are nothing but
rubbish and dirt that God sweeps out
OF His workshop when HIS days toll
Ia over with the world.
Man never knows God by wisdom.
Take consciousness. What Is consct-
business? 1t IL that power OF mind
by which / know Of the operations Of
the laws OF life. and my life n pre-
nc Axv fSx.Ys Av.A g.
myself according to my knowledge.
When I am hungry. my knowledgs
says. Eat When ] am thirsty. my
knowledge says, Drink and 20 X
drink.
Consciousn ess--what IN thats That
Is the faculty OF my mind by which
i know OF the laws OF life and their
operations. and my life "a preserved
by caring for myself according TO my
knowledge. Yes--and build a frv
To warm myself. put on clothes.
use All UNI brella~--I do all that,
/ know some things about myself
That you don't know. You may know
some things about yourself that I do
not know. But there arc thiRsN
about yourself and myself that neither
you know nor / know, nor the doctor.
nor anybody else knows.
There are multitudes Of thsnRs the
doctors don't know. They gues ~
them. They know that Quinine fs
itch. and they know that ergot viii
stop the flow Of blood. and chloro-
form and ether viii put you to sleep
and strychnine will kill you. And
so We care for ourselves according
to our knowledge, but there are things
about ourselves that our knowledge
doesn't know the a, r, Cs Of.
Am going 10 refuse 10 eat because
I can't explain 1t all? No! Then I
edge and what don't know Abont
God. the Lord will take care OF.
Here are mysteries on every hand
that / am compelled to believe or
cease TO exist Stop rfsh. now. So
you've got TO believe them although
you cant explain II or you will die
right where you are.
II you'd have lived In tho times
OF Homer. II you'd have asked them
have told you 1t rested upon the
shoulders Of huge giant named Atlas.
who held up the world while Atlas
ate and siept7 When Was q hid
going to school in iowa. I had a
geography and on the front page WINS
great. big giant bent over with
world on his back and II said. "Atias.~
Tho Hindco Laughed
The Hindu laughed at the Greek.
He Says this world reats on the back
OF an elephant. who In turn stands on
the back OF a turtle and whenever
he moves, that causes the sun to rise
and set. and the ebb and flow OF the
tide. and tbs recurrence OF the ses-
sons. spring summer, autumn. and
winter.
They believe q mystery. but the
modern scientist Ia your day ana mine
who liz n1niscient. IL you accept his
testimony about himself. he swells up
with great rride and says. Mr.. sun
day. they are both wong"
He swells up with rride ana sticks
nis thumbs In his vest pockets: ne
says. This world 10 held In place by
two forces. one called centripetal and
the other centrifugal The operation
of t.hese tvs laws. one trying 70 rot
10 the center and tho other trying
K get away from the center. pro"
duces what we call force.
What is rorceg That which pro-
Juces motion. whss In tina. which
produces nctionr Fc-ee What 10
& ce7 That which produces molten
wheel. Nobody on earth ever saw.
felt or measured force. See here. you
have felt the effects o: force See
here, you don't see forcs: you heard
when my hand struck feel it for