The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-16
IIIY SUNDAY MAKES ELOQUENT PLEA FOR PERSONA

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| Then he said: 1.-THE increase OF sal.
airy has aliured you and brought you
here for us to ordain."
4 He said. stop where You are.
don't want IT,: I won't take II r. you
lgive IL to me-" and he wouldn't. He
went back TO distributing tracts for
5000 q year, to do something for Jesus
Christ and he was q wonder. God
did marvellous things through him.
| Are you lonesome7' asked q man
NJ * * K IL
lonesome out on this lonesome spot p
He said: Il was before saved four
men from drowning. Is that q boat
out thcre?" He was always on the
lookout for other boats. that he might
save men from q watery grave.
Get somebody else for Jesus Christi
and You will get new vision of life,
a new vision OF what II means Il u
something besides going to church and
keeping a little spot seventeen inches
square warm for half hour and lis
tening to sermonette. while you 90
to the devil six days in the week. You
had better squirm around in your oeat
and htoop down! You'd better duck!
"He that winneth souls Is WISE"
Some people think 1t is beneath their
dignity Then you live on a higher
about doing good wherever He was in
the world.
A lady said. 10 friend Of mine:
do you think that my blindness will
hinder nie?''
"My friend said: 'Tt Is a misfortune,
but don't know. / have the opinion
that It will be helm to you, because
people will come up to express to you
their sympathy for your lack of sight
and that will give you the opportunity
to speak OF Jesus"
"Oh," she said, IT don't mean tn an
effort like that, but to stand on the
platform" She thought the only
way to serve God was to get in the
spotlight. not to be doing something
with the people that you might shake
hands with day by day and in your
home.
Now a man was thinking OF enter
ing evangeiistic work. He came to
my friend. DR.. Chapman and said: II
am thinking of entering evangelistic
work"
He said: "I think that I will begin
out In Colorado-Denver and Colorado
Springs, and out in Pasadena, Cal" ~~
He said: my relatives are there"
My friend said: Have you any
brothers and sisters?"
yes. have"
He said, "Are they Christians7'
WELL he said. II don't know. We
settled up the estate four years ago
and my brother and I had quarrel
over il and we haven't spoken since"
How about your sister,
He said MY sister took my brothers
views Of the proposition and she hasn't
spoken to me since. I haven't been In
her home"
He ReconciIed.
Or. Chapman said, What do you
| intend to do?i
| He said, "Fvangeffstfc work.
He said. THE Bible says. Go. be
reconciled with your brother"" II you
start out the way you are. failure Ia
written all over you. IT I regard
| iniauity in my heart the Lord will not
hear me- the Bible tells me, and SO
there is no use trying to bother your
head about God for He won't listen to
you That's as sure as you live"
| Now, it's a difficult form OF work:
it's more difficult than preaching: It's
more difficult than attending conven-
tions: more difficult than giving goods
to the poor and when you do give
| goods to the poor, don't wait until
! the moths have eaten holes in them.
and when you give them away don't cut
! all the buttons and braid of. Poor
folks like them as well az You do.
That's no act Of charity because you've
taken off all you want then turned
them over to somebody else. No! No!
The angels never record an act like
that. You will never see 1t when you
get to heaven. and you Will never get
to heaven IT you have an easy time,
Oh, you can PIN badge on. usher peo-
pie to their seats. pass the collection
plate. be an elder or deacon or a
steward. and go to +ehurch, sing In
1.-THE choir and be members Of . home
t,'or foreign missionary society--the
devil will let you attend Bible con-
ferences, but the minute you begin to
do personal work. to try to get some
body to take stand for Christ. all
the devils in hell will be on your back
for they know that's a challenge to
the devil and his forces. And 4 hope
that the work Of the leading Of people
! to Christ by personal effort always
will be hard.
i, have no sympathy for folks that
are looking for something easy!
preached out In Salina, Col, q few
years ago. Tho city lies up $500 feet
on one Of the spurs OF the Rocky
Mountains. There was wotnan that
sang in the choir. ! used to drive them
out, to 60 speak to somebody about
+ Jesus Christ. and ono day she came 10
me and said, mr. Sunday. win you
sneak to my husband about being a
Christian
. said, Have you spoken to himr"
She said. NO.
| said. mo, madam. win not"
She bald, 'sWhyT"
| said. 'God wants you 70 go and
you are trying to sidestep and get me
to do It."
said. You go speak to him and
! II you can't win him for Christ, come
and tell me and then win CO."
WELL. che said, You'd have .
fgreater Influence with him than
have"
| said. How long have you been
married.
| She said, 'Five years"
/ Picks Her W0sk.
| said, IT have been In this town
three weeks and II 10 q compliment to
me to say that to me. You have
cooked for him and sewed on buttons
for him for ave years" N
| Finally one night she said. isn't II
hot ?" aup
| said to her. 'You like to sing IN
the choir. don't your"
| She said. IT love to do that"
| "You don't like to do personal