The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-05

Do you think would stand up here
and work as hard as / do IL didn't
care?
Every board In the tabernacle,
every nall, every electric light. u ain
evidence that people care and want
to see you saved. There are men that
have always been in the soul-saving
are preaching and praying and sweat
ing and dying to bring men to Jesus
Christ.
] Yes, they care. God cares. or He
&.sss nsHvett ns~.te 1s~easr~>.Ak.yie -. (,
OF redemption.
Every thorn In His brow and every
! nall In the cross, and every drop OF
blood that He shed. puts 1t square up
to you and tells you that God wants
you to go to heaven instead of he'll.
He Is anxious; He cares. That's
| the reason Jesus came. 1t was only
six miles from where Jesus was born
TO where he died on the cross--six
miles.
On He came. denounced. villiied.
, they hurled and beIched out their
msiledlctions. but on He came. They
stoned Him and drove Him out of
| their cities. He had TO lie down with
the canopy OF God for a covering, hair
wet with the dew and drenched with
| rain. NO man gave Him to eat, but
| He kept on and on.
| What for? For you and for me.
To open up plan Of redemption to
keep you out OF hell
And yet men will pass 1t up with
| Indifference.
wonder that God has not given
up the task and let some. go to hell.
Go out and work. The trouble Ia a
lot OF you take It too easy. You rub
elbows with people. and never a
prayer goes from your lips. You
| never had a drop Of sweat go down
your face trying to keep people out of
perditiop.
| No wonder you sit there with a curl
| on your lip when some one is trying
to preach. Jesus Christ cares, my
| friends
Story OF Father Who Waited for BOY.
heard friend Of mine tell a story,
| and the man who he said told it
met one day in Chicago
I | said: Hello. Mr.. Brown; I heard
a friend of mine tell story that you
! told Now I want yon to tell 1t to
me-
! He said: Come up to the Y. NJ. C.
! 4. and ! will This Is the story:
He was preaching in Oconomowoc
Wis. and the last night. or next to the
last night, there was young fellow
cashier In one of the banks. whom
they had tried to get to give his hear,
to God. He wouldn't listen to them
He was leader among the young
men.
| Ny friend closed the meeting
SHORTY after that he received a let
ter from the boys father saying tina,
we had a letter from him saying
that he would come back some time
but FOR us not to bother: that W.
| wouldn't know where he was, but tina
| when he made up his mind to come
home he would come. I have writer
to You to ask you IL you see or heal
anything of him, tell him we love him
Mother is just dying.
My friend told me that two years
later he went back to that town. ant
the first man that he met when h,
got off the train was James Stewart
the father of this boy. 1t was a cole
day, and my friend said
why. Mr.. Stewart. what are yot
doing here today?'
The father said: My boy" y
i Hasn't he come YETI
No, SIR
My friend transacted his bushes.
and left. Eleven years after he wen
back TO that town. On the train HI
He would walk nervously UP ant
down the aisle, would pick out the
landmarks as they came along and
then sit down and talk to himself
Every Thorn and Nall
! When the train stopped he followed
the crowd out OF the front door. AND
my friend went out the rear. and a.
he stepped from the platform tn,
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