The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31
IST HAS LEFT TO MAN THE TASK OF FEEDING HIS FLOCK

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viding you will take Jesus Christ with
you. but when you drop Jesus Christ.
goodnight!
will 20 with you arm in arm, rs
long "a you viii take Jesus with you.
hut when you kick Jesus Christ out.
then you can go alone SO far as / am
concerned.
Now. the Church Is the one and
the only divine, authorized and APP
pointed institution to feed thei
spiEituaJ hunger of the world, You
mulii,ndes. > f. erlatea 9he food sod and
he asked the disciples to distribute
what he created. Jesus was the
creator, not the waiter at that ban
quet. He was not the fiunky there.
Jesus was The creator. not the waiter.
Jesus created salvation by his life,
death and resurrection That Is the
food to feed the spiritual hunger of
ghis world. But the task of dis
tributins this food 10 the hungry
wo IL is put in the hands of his fol-
lowers, How much have you ever
passed out for God? You get up and
let me know.
Some OF you have been in the
Church for forty or fifty years. Did
you ever win a soul for Jesus Christ?
Not at all He has provided saliva
ton. but he did not send angels here
to hand out this spiritual food. He
put that in earthen vessels. 1t ts as
though Milton had suddenly become
tired writing Paradise Lost" and
said; MY hand is weary, my brain
is tired. here's the pen, you finish II"
Jesus created and said: You hand
it out" lust as IL Shakespeare had
grown tired and stopped wriin.
King Lear and said: You take the
pen and finish it"
Food for Spiritual Hunger
He created the food for spiritual
hunger of this world, but you pass 1t
out That is why we have Bibles and
tabernacIes--to pass out the food to
The spiritual hunger of the world.
Don't you see what a fool you are
when you knock any effort that is be-
ing made TO fed this world? Jesus
of Nazareth provided salvation, but
he handed the task over. of telling
the world, to those who are his fol-
lowers. There are a good many in
situations that enter into competition
with the Church in preaching certain
phases of religion, but not !n preach
ing religion itself.
What do / mean by that? First
associated charities. They some
times preach charity with more en-
phasis than the Church. There are
some organizations that enter into
competition with the Church in
preaching phases of religion but not
in preaching religion itself. None
for they can't
And then here, some individuals
thunder against vice ana graft with
more emphasis than the pulpit All
right. They preach one or more
phases and forms of religion, but 1t
is to the Church that humanity must
always turn for the last word. sir, on
the problems of human life, salvation
and their eternal destiny.
i5ut when you put II fool up In the
pulpit that breaches that Jesus Is
not the Christ, that he did not per-
form miracles and that salvation is
by character. then what Ia the hungry
world going TO do. when that big
idiot Is standing up here and preach
ing heresy poppy-cock. I blame the
pulpits more than ! do the pews
You bet your boots' You've got a
lot OF the rankest. good for nothing
infidels in your country in orthodox
pulpits too.
The world don't want IL. why don't
they go down there and get it? Why
do they come up here to the taberna-
don't get anything but pure. unadulte =
rated gospel SO far as ] am able to
understand it and preach it, They are
hungry for Jesus. Give ye them to
cat" said the Lord
Now people are dissatisfied with
philosophy and science and new
thought 'ism" and ethical culture
ism" and metaphysical healing ism
and lot of other "isms" and sims"
| It doesn't amount TO anything when
! you have a dead child in the house
! 1t doesn't solace the troubled woes OF
| this world. and they will tell you when
| they were sick. and the doors Of eter-
nifty were opening into their faces, they
will tell you. the only comfort they
Christ.
Christianity is the only one sympa-
thetic religion that has ever made its
way into the world, because II La the
only religion that came from the heart
of God. There will never be anything
better than Christianity, than the sun,
than old mother earth to make things
grow. There will never be anything
better than a bubbiing spring.
! You can take your scientific conso-
! latlon and go into room whore =
mother has lost her child and try your
! doctrine of survival of the attest
! Walk in and tell her that the child that
lived. All right. according to that
some old blatant, Itbertine OF "a saloon
keeper that is alive LIS moro At to live
than that child.
| Co try your doctrine OF tho survival
| Of the attest and see IL that will give
her any comfort. And you go to that
dying man ard tell him to pluck DIP
courage for the future, tell him he
ought to be confident in the great ever
| lasting, now and eternal What Ia II
and where Is II and when will II be!
| You go to that poor widowed soul tell
her IL was a geological necessity for
her husband to die. Just Az, In the
course of evolution. It was necessary
for the Megatherium to pass out of
existence Oh murder!
Then you 60 on with your scientific
consolation until you reach the sublime
fact that 5000 years from now we will
all be scientific specimens on a geogicai
shelf, petrilcd specimens of a geologi-
cal race, and after you get through with
your scientiffc. eugenic, evolution,
-protoplasm. jackass nonsense II she
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