The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-19

But to the reasonable, faith, belief.
the acceptance OF the truth on me
authority of others is the basic OF our
judgments In court, our conclusions
and our reasoning In, every depart
ment OF life.
have never been in Rome, but
can tell you of st. Peter. / caa tell
you OF the Coliseum. ! have never
been In Athens but I can tell you OF
Mars am, I've never been IN Paris
but / can tell you OF The tofab OF Ma
: s,ap, tai soa ,o1i about 'TTtafSsar
Square. t can tell you about Bucking-
ham Palace, about the London Tower,
about Windsor Castle on the authori-
ty OF others. / did not live in the days
OF Jesus Christ, but 1 accept the gos-
pei as genuine, authentic history on
the testimony OF others, ] believe
what they said.
| never saw Moses and he only
lived five hundred years before HON.
6 I've never seen Alexander the
Great. but / believe, on the author
| ity OF others. The newspapers tell
me they are having a war in Europe.
| How do / know? l hSEe never heard
a gun fired, They tell me the air
ship made a raid on England. !
haven't seen them but / believe on
! The authority of others. i am fool
not 10 oeueVe IL.
fellow writes me and says his
mother Is dead. How do | know she
is dead? He said SO in the letter [
believe on the authority OF others.
Ny doctor tells me have pneumonia
or appendicitis. ! believe 1t.
DR., Arthur =. Bevan, president OF
1.-The American Medical society, says The
medical fraternity viii welcome ma
tional prohibition. Chemists tell ma
that two gases, If mixed together, pro-
duce water. How DO know it? His
tory tells me julius Caesar was muir
dered, How DO / know? | believe
on the authority of others. OH see
And so you must believe on the au-
thority of others or cease to live right
now. I don't give a rap how shept'cat
you are, YOU are compelled 10 believe
| on The authority of others or rease 10
live. Then l am n fool 10 believe IN
Jesus Christ? No, sir. You are a
fool because you don't The other IS,
set the machine in motion. start her
up and see If 1t will make the egg
crate filters. and II II does, you've get
/ to believe u hat the fellow says, All
fright, set the machine in r1otion. Be-
gin 10 do the will of God and see Il
God won't do for you what he said he
would.
Your WIN.
|
from your will You are a doctor be-
cause you will, you are a lawyer be-
cause YOU WILL you are n banker be-
cause you will. You are bore tonight
because you will No activity in life
| is apart II pm our will, Your viii Is
1.-THE base line OF your character your
viii is sovereign; your will is supreme.
The natural man Us in rebellion
against God. The development Of one
sy- rNH
. may make him an intellectual. muSl~
! cal or financial genius, The develop
nent of one faculty may make man
d genius but it can never make n1an
n Christian
was out at Chautauaga one time
III tho West. They had merry 80
round. and ! stoed and watched thaln.
Up came girl with little fHtE
fluffy sort o. a - ess on ard Gaines
horo hat She had on lavender shoes
and stockings and lavender ribbon
around her, and she was chewing
gum. end she said, Il think ! VIII
take "A ride. So she climbed up "a
| the back OF duck
! Then along came a little girl ar
said, II think l will take a ride on .tse
swan" Up came guy smoking a.
4 cigarette had q hat on the bach Of his
! head that hooked like p r~i.d egg.
/ lie had on - pair OF white duck trous-
ers and had on white shoes lie
said. Guess Ill take ride on the
tiger"
lie climbed up and sat down ana
~ eaw an ola ruhe come along AMI
he was nutting his bird-taH whiskers
and he came along and said, "liy
Gosh prxsr rid" or one Of them
fa ngled things before. l guess I'll try
this here automobile.
watched the crowd as they al
NJ a. lar
and the gate fellow gave the stsn
AND they turned on the juice and away
she went They all went in the same
direction for they were all pivatea 0n
tho sar7s center. old. young, rich and
poor. Here lis a crowd Of people Here
Is rich man. POOR nam. intellectual.
iiliterate they all reject Jesus Christ
They are all going. TO hell for the are
all pivrted ON the same center, Afhcy
won't do Gods will
Here's another crowd. They all DO
the will of God. they will 20 TO heaven
, for they are all pivoted on Gods will
II Is the question OF whether you are
doing Gods will or whether you are
not. Every man and woman has a per
verified Will Your will Is set en- bless
ling yourself. that is what the thief
does. He steals to please himself
That's what the get rich quick" fell
low does. And so that's what The TEL
| low does that sticks a gun under your
! nose. plcasea himself. He does the
| things because II pleases him TO do 1t.
| Although it may not please GU to
/ lie, to get drunk. to steal, to swear. but
| you are doing what you do because
/ IL pleases you to do that, But when
God imparts his spirit to you and his
nature, then YOU will want TO please
God because you have Gods spirit and
! nature In you. and when yon will to
do Gods VIII. it will be your pleasure
TO please God. because you have Gods
nature. Then If you will do that II
will lead you TO a knowledge OF sin
and you win he sorry for 1t.
All scripture IS given by inspiration
! of God and ts profitable for correc
I ton, reproof and instruction IN riga
(, teousness and I believe that practice
/; is more so srf believe Il man viii ne
convicted of sin in proportion as he
/ tries to do the will OF God believe
! q man will nave Cody sorrow for his
j sin TN proportion as he tries to be
Codlike and do the win of God. I be
lieve the nearer you get to God the
more sensitive Won are to sin.
! Like speck in your eye initiates and
agiJates. why? Because It is sersi-
( tive The nearer you get to. God the
more sensitive YOU are tn sin Paul