The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-29

MY Old Kentucky Home"
Somebody paid three thousand dol
lars not long ago for The table OF
which Robert Burns wrote "Shoult
Aud Acquaintance BE Forgot" Three
thousand dollars.
! Most Of your enemies are within.
may have enemies out there. that ma!
Islander me and they may want t
Kill me, but, o. the people who tall
about you never harm you When
hear anybody talking about somebod!
-@'~eJ D1.ys -.s s-A* .-s.--s S,-xs-s--,,ca ,hsa
they are0 trying 20 ha1s scr.ehea,
down to the low. sinking. God-for
/ saken cesspool level where they live
and they can't stand to see anybod,
else higher up.
Oh, word Is an arrow poisoned will
| pain,
| Or thorn or rose or serpent o.
/ stings,
Or tear or a smile or a joyous re-
frain,
| Or the noe of song that with mel
| ody rings.
| IL God had possession OF ouI
mouths, we would see the greatest re
vival the world has ever known. Nc
lie, no Misrepresentation. no deceit
no wrong. no back biting, no knock
ing, no sinners. Everybody would tel
the truth, everybody would speal
words Of encouragement. Everybod!
would give you the glad hand. No
body criticizing. No white-lies. NJ
black lists.
Oh. If God Almighty only had oul
mouths how much he could keep on
that the devil stuffs In. Oh what {
| time we would have.
| Oh. there won't be 30 much mon
ely spent for tobacco. when that timt
comes. There would not be SO much
| money spent for beer, for cocktails
and so little given to the church O
God Almighty.
Some of our church pillars woult
not be so noisy in politics and so quie
in religion, If God Almighty ownet
! their mouths. and there would b.
more preaching out Of the Bible ant
less high-brow preaching.
| If God had your mouths you wouit
| be better all around. How hard i
would he for a sinner to get away L
everybody were looking for Christ
How many troubled hearts you car
comfort every day? How many tear
would soon be wiped away? How
| many homes of saualor and wan
would be made glad? How man!
willing hands would be lifting bur
dens? How many things you woult
| find pleasure in doing. you would stoI
doing. il God only had your hands
| Things that we do that make III
proud. make us selfish. make us devi
| fish. make us unclean, make us up
Christian.
| present your bodies That bod.
\ 1ifa Tha
| body that can bleed That body tina
| Fan suffer That body that can en-
dure That body that can die.
Wants You to Trust Him.
| Oh. that body that can show tn
| face OF Jesus Christ 70 the fallen SON
| of man, God wants you to trust hin
with it.
| Are you willing to walk up AM
| say. Here. God, take it,
! You go down to the banks and say
Here, take my money"
| Why don't you say: Here. God
you can take all have My feet
Work out through me your gloriou
plan of salvation"
| 1t is part of our religion 70 TAX
care of our bodies. If you did. dis
sipation would stop. late hours woul
stop, loose habits would stop, over
eating would stop, under-sleepin
would stop. We'd play the gam
right. and we would pay better atten
ton to our health.
Present your bodies" That mean
you shall love the Lord your God witt
all your heart, your mind and you
soul
Present your bodies" Past
! present or future. Your strength
your weakness, your wisdom, you
| ignorance--all you have suffered, al
you have heard, all you have loved
all you have enjoyed-give the Who'll
thing to God.
Il beseech you. brethren. by tn
mercies of Cod
Never was there a victory won tina
| did not cost suffering. Paul preache
and they chopped off his head. Jesu
| Christ demonstrated and they naile
him on the cross. Abraham Lincol
signed the emancipation proclama
ton and John Wilkes Booth pai
him with bullet.
| Never was there victory withcu
suffering. 1 do not care whether
comes in birth or ....,. :. or il
business or sins Of heart or anywher
eslse.
Present your bodies as a Twin
sacrifice" That is what the wifi
does. She says, Z give myself who'll
to the husband" And he says. e
give myself wholly to the wife"
Lots OF people shy at that wor,
| wholly" II that were our watch
| word in business what a wonderful
world this would be. What STAN
pede there would be in short yard
sticks.
| Graft would be unknown. No lyin
in advertisements. No Fire Sale
when there had bes no fire within
one hundred blocks of it, Their
would be no difference in Goodness II
business and Goodness in the Church
If that were true there would be n
licensed saloons. no vomiting AM
spewing out their drunken horde. n
drunkards Keeling and staggering L
the judgments of God. No fallen wo
men merchandising their woman
hood. No thieves. Nobody to sticl
a gun under your nose or mine an
say. Your money or your life" n
infidelity. Nobody to wriggle thei
| carcass across our threshold and tr
to seduce your wife and wreck GU
home.
Oh, l think one of the ,noblest at
tributes OF God Is reason. I think h
is never unreasonable. God only ask
his rights. God only asks you to d
what makes you better IL you do an
what hurts you II you don't do.
i believe no law was ever mad