The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-23
.TaE RICHMOND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. JANUARY o. 1919

point on the road that the drives
whipped the of lead mule furiousfy
although he was pulling.
He ssid Why did you do that
That mule wasn't baking, he wa1
working hard"
The driver said: THAT mule always
gets frightened at q certain proJec.
ton. and I'm afraid he'll plunge and
pull this coach down two thousand
] Food and hard. lust before ye Eet
- $50 r<.s kvss,s at~,th h anti 1-s 8y
So DR. Chalmers caught the sdaa "a
The, N. eHpuisive power of new Affse'
! Drive. had Out
| Get some good In and drive the
other out That's what God 10 tryins
to do for the world---that's Just the
| opposite Of what the devil n trying
to do. Tou ought to put something
good In to drive the bad out. and God
drive the bad out. The devil wants
to put disease in and God wants to
| drive ii out; the devil wants to set
your house on fire. the Lord will put
the fire out That's the whole thing.
God wants to do people good. I can't
understand why you've got 70 wear
your life out to get people to
be decent! It's no compliment to
| humanity.
1 don't know why have to work 20
hard to get people to see IT'S for your
| own gooc: I'm not working for my
| own good. I'm saved. III war;
selfish I'd fold my arms and say:
You can 80 to the devil: I'm all
| right" But I'm not going to do that,
I want you to have what i've got
I'm working for your food. and Try
| ing to give You the best there h. We
| all want the best 80 We are looking
Jesus Christ
Now there are i've classes. and they
will touch every man and woman in
this city America or the world.
First. those who capnot attend
church. Some have to work in hotels.
restaurants, In your home, on the rail-
road. steamships. certain institutions
that have to keep going on the Sab
bath the same an any other day. We
have to eat just the same on the Sab
bath People who cannot attend
church--old. decrepit, in the hospital,
sick, SO we owe 1t that we take the
gospel to those that cannot attend
church. That's one kind.
Never Enter Church
Second. those who can but DO not
Oh. murder! It's a disgrace! feel
like hanging my head in shame to
stand on a platform beneath the Stars
and Stripes and tell you people we've
&C., seventy million in the United
enty million! We're q Christian ma
ton at that. Those who can attend
church but do not There arc multi
tudes that never darken a church
door; the only time they are ever in
there is when they die and they take
them in for funeral or they have to
go around there as a pallbearer.
Third, those who can attend church
and DO and are not moved by the
preaching. Some people come out OF
curiosity. don't know. perhaps you
may be here for that purpose this af :
ternoon. Somebody has vomited a lie
into your ears. All right II you be-
ilievc a ite and come around and hear
the truth. that's all right I don't
give picayune why you are here I've
got more respect for you because you
,lare here than / would have IL you did
not come. 1t doesn't make any differ
ence what brought you here.
Fourth, those who can attend church
and do and they are convicted bu!
they are not converted. There isn't
! a man or woman that won't go out OF
here with a new idea Of God and O
new hatred Of sin. The spirit OF God
will convict you bat you need come
thing you haven't got
Fifth, those that can attend church
and do attend church and they are
convicted and they are converted and
they need strengthening and they need
your help.
That will touch every man and
woman on earth~-those FIVE classes
! and everywhere.
Sntnehn3fy Fat6:: wv f,tsre sszsa we Tiia
them >"
Ask me where you can't nnd them
and I will tell you there Is Just one
place where you won't find them and
that's out In the cemetery. You need
| not 20 to the graveyard. they've had
/ their chance Forget 1t, That's the
only place you can so where you don's
need to bother about anybody, where
you can't find anybody you need to
worry about They've had their day
their history Is written. the books are
closed, for them: they've had their
| chance
They're In Your Home.
! You will find them In your horne
the man you'll so home and get sup
ner ready for. the man who IL the
| father of your child or your children
the man whose, muscle earns the
money that buys your clothes and pays
the house rent, Look into his face;
perhaps IL he'd die he'd be in hell be-
fore midnight.
Where will you find them! Ask II
your boy. your grit, who comes home
! from school. your neighbors--how
many people that live in the block
| that you live in are Christians--and
/ bring them to Jesus Christ. And dow1,
at your place 1T business how many OF
you ever ask the people around you II
| they are Christians? How many OF
you ever say anything 70 the girl who
waits ON you down at the store? How
many OF you have asked the telephone
girl when you cali her UP II she's
been to the tabernacle? Do you ever
say anything to the delivery boy? The
newsboy that drops the paper on your
doorstep?
Where are they? Everywhere except
the church--people that need some
body to help them to Jesus Christ.
Years ago q woman went into a
store In London to trade and there was
bright, snappy young fellow IN there
to whom she was attracted by hts
bright mannerism and fine features
and ono day she spoke to him about
religion and he wasn't Christian 10
he ever afterwards fought shy when
he saw her corning. He'd try and get
away If he could But she used lots
!, OF good horse sense and in kind Of
mptherly way dtsarmcd hts prejudice