The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-05
No Man Cared For My Soul
preached by Rev Billy Sunday at City Auditorium Night Of
February A.
February 4.

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sspssas,ip attracted h. ak klein.
/ walked down the street with him.
and we engaged in conversation. and
presently / put to him the inevitable
question:
! "Are you a Christian?~
| He said: mo, I am not"
Father and mother -aiive7'
Yes, sir."
Father a Christian7"
| Il don't know: he ia a steward in
the Methodist church."
! is your mother a Christian ?"
| I don't know; she II a superintend-
emit OF the Sunday school in. the Same
church"
!, Have you a brother or sistsrf'
i have . sister,
is she a Christianr
! Il don't know: she teaches m me
primary department In the Sunday
school"
do you h.vs family prayer In
your homer
| mo, sir"
| Ask the blessing 1t chs tabss1'
HAS your father or your rnsgher
or your sister ever asked yuu to Be
IN. tears trieAeid down hts cheeks
and he said:
"Mr. Sunday. 90 you believe my
father and mother think I'm lokr A
long a. I can remember. my father,
mother or sister have never asked me
to be a Christian"
! Certainly. that young man has q
right to say, OF his own flesh and
blood. the father whose name he bore,
the mother whose breast he nursed,
and the sister he loved. that they did
not care for his soul
Possibly before 20 any further
this may need . little explanation.
You may think you are unworthy.
Then get worthy or get out
| People estimate religion BY what
they see In the lives Of the people
who profess to be ChristIans. Your
life may be far from what you de-
sire It to be, and yet believe your
/, life is Just what you want Il to Be.
| You can bc what you want to b.
and II you are not . Christian II n
because you don't want to be. because
to b . Christian you would have to
change . lot Of things In your life,
and you are not man enough to Dc. IT
You may feel NO man ever cared
for my soul"
A sermon. n n - criptural Dropped
IN IN audience. win do its work. God
nor Emerson'a not Browninga, not
Carfyie's- MY word'-uot some
mans opinion about God's word MY
word with no Apoiogfes) shan not
return unto me votd,- and II won't
/. sermon dropped In an audiences
win DO tn work. but II this world
will ever be won to Jesus Christ II
viii not be by an unafdd clergy. and
when preacher or an evangelist
I ~ u hi
the world. God Almighty viii have to
cali In another Luther and have an
other Reformation
There may be thosc VINO WIN use
the words David did In the part tense
and put them In the present tense
and say: mo man cares for my soul.
Let % not betray Jesus Christ
with guilty silence. How have you
Influenced people today. In your home
on the street or wherever you have
met them
VIII II Be possible for snyDody to
| say in the day Of Judgment: u
brought groceries to your home: you
same TO the store ana I sold you dry
goods; yea, ws talked about religion;
We TALKED about politics; W tARed
about the meetings. You paid ms
my wnseA ] worked for you in your
homo. O. IN your stors. or your once,
or your shop. or your farm. but you
never talked to mo about yesus Christ.
You never asked mo 70 b . Chris
ton"
I wonder n n wfn b possible on
the day OF Judgment for ANYBODY q
say that 10 you? What h IT, trou-
bief I'll tell you. You fan to real
ixs that without Jesus Christ they
arc lost.
I Would Pray for HushaMd.
There 10 q man By your sids; Jon
are his wife: you beAr his name; he h
. good man: he pays his debts, and
you arc eatisfled - long a. he viii
buy yon q nsw hat provide The money
for you to get q new drssA ray thu
house rent or tho taxes: yoa arc per.
! fectly satisfied
/ But when you begin 10 xwaken u
the fact that that man n lost and II
he would die tonight you would never
SOC him again. you would begtn "a
pray and work for hi salvatSon.
Neither b there salvation In any
other way but ~ accepting Jesus
Christ.
:, l was 1t ono time In . town in
Iowa, and they kept esiling me abou,
ono man. the mayor Of the town, And
I said:
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