The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12


(Copyright) Underwood IL Underwood.
Just wash your own windows. The
man who looks through cobweb sees
nothing but spiGes. The man who
looks at womanhood through prosti-
tuition, thinks they are all bad. The
> man that looks at Christianity
through A hypocrite. thinks We AFRO
all hJpocritcs, Well. you are a fool.
! Certainly. there are hypocrites,
! but there are a lot OF folks that are
not hSpocrites. Don't forget that,
Now. you say. "T never did any
harm That has nothing to DO with
the question At all, my friends, ah-
soluteiy. Conduct is not an issue
here So far "a | can find out. There
are plenty Of snakes in The grass that
! have never bitten anSh dcy yet, but
YOU wouldn't Let your child play with
! that one. would YOU" II is only a
lauestion Of time until It would. No
loose, because IT had. b,ttcn any
body yet.
! You say some people haven't done
Isnv harm yet II ls.-enly a question
of time until they will. If they have
got ATTY Of The devil in them.
H.. Character is what God approves
or opposes, not conduct. lr Gods
sight, there is no difference between
being wrong aud doing wrong, and
the reason you do wrong * because
you are wrong. And the reason why
you arc wrong is because you won't
yield to God-thats the reason you
are wrong in the world
. Nov. Seek We the Lord" A man
gets into lodge ON the pass word.
b not because he rs president OF a
hank--not at all You ret into
Hoo rtfh
poor. learned or iliiterate You get
into Heaven by the pass word--the
pass word * Jesus Thrisf not money.
The pass word is Jesus Christ. rot
culture. You 90 up and try to get
into "a lodge when you don't know
the pasa word, and see how quickly
they will gave you the hot-foot.
: You say, Well. / can do all right
! ! can be Christian and not belong
10 A church" Well. not now. That
doesn't enter into this question.
Maybe you could, / couldn't and
don believe you can. | never saw
&. Christian in my life that stayed
can vt tho church.
, You viii need all the help YOU can
. get, and that's the institution thar
God Almighty has destined TO help
Iyou Whenever a man is truly con-
verted. the first place he hunts for
is a church, that is If ho Is truly
saved
You give Your heart to Jesus Christ.
and want to tell You tho church
membership viii take care Of itself.
as SUR as YOU live and breathe.
You cay, II can e. to Heaven and
not be a member Of The church"
Why, some men can live with wo-
man hey are not married to. but that
isn't may way-no, I live another
way
Icu can lose your soul. simply he
cause yon woa't yield to Jesus Christ.
bership will take care OF itself. and
take IL from me. If you sock God,
you Will seek the church, just IS cure
as You live and breath e--I Will bank
my life on that. no matter who YOU
Al cases of delay come from the
deVil. they don't com" from the
"a ii, none of them. seek We the
Lord" Don't think about il Don't
conclude that you will think about
II tomorrow. DO it now DO il with
all year might and do II in earnest.
until you have found God, and He
has given His word that Ife VIII save
you. Oh. II viii be easier for the
Heavens to dissolve than that God S
~ rd should fail
II you only had n certain prom Use
that you'd find gold and diamonds
when yon search for them, there are
muititudcs of people that would do
nothing else in the world. The big
Gest lie the devil ever persuaded any
body 70 believe is that God is hard
to find and that He DIV ellis afar off
and THAI you'll have 10 make a long
Journey.
, oh, God IL nearer IL you that the
air you breathe. or the man or wo-
man that rubs elbows with YOU. or
the light that pours upon you head.
He will be found when you seek for
Him with willing heart.
/ ''Ses.k We the Lord"
T Seek We the Lord" God can only
be found when you do so with the
same earuestness that You would
SO k health. or that YOU would seek
for gold, or that men seek for an
/ education. or To become famous In
the world when God has not been
found, II Is because you've sought
Him too late or you've sought Him
with Il divided heart. You wanted
/ TO keep sin in your life and have
! God too, AMI YOU can't do II. You
couldn / do that any more than old
/ Ierod could have his brother Philips
/ wife. and he gave UP Jesus Christ
Ard kept on living with the woman.
There is such thing as delaying
seeking anything too iong--oh, yes.
There is no doubt about that. Null
titudes of people have died from APP
pendicitis because they waited too
lon~ before they went onto the
operating table, Multitndes OF pco-
pie have gone to premature graves
because they waited too long before
they. went to Colorado, Arizona, or
New Mexico to breath a rarified air.
te cure tuberculosis Multitudes of
ople are in their graves that would
have still been on earth enjoy7ng
life. but they waited too long
There are multitudes Of people In
Hell that never expected to he there
amy more than you do. but they wait
ed too long and lei fhe opportunity
\ ~. Their hearts became hardNaaA
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