The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31

become infidels, become drunkards,
become jobbers, become anarchists.
Some OF us wandered far away In
sin in our young days. but we couldn't
! find 1t In our hearts, even then to
J do on the Sabbath day what we do
on other days. because we were taught
and trained to have respect for the
Sabbath day.
| tell you there are spectacles &c
he witnessed in the backwards Of
! homes for feeble-ninded, that are
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and fights with the denizens of the
forest, displays no more true hero
, iSm than do those who daily wait
upon these foul children, and these
! feeble minded, deformed children.
J these anaemics. They fight because
/ they are mere animal. They fell be-
cause there is slow nerve commune
! cation between the eye and tho
brain and the muscles, and they are
| vicious because viciousness has been
! bred into them, by their drunken
parents. They are Lustful because
/ they are the children of uncontrolled
iusts, and they cut their flesh and it
| heals slowly because their blood Is
J thin, watery and vitiated, the inherf-
,tance from diseased fathers and
! mothers They fall and their bones
Z break like chalk or a stick of candy,
| and the inheritance OF their fathers
and mothers that live without God,
and their broken bones knit slowly
il they ever actually reknit.
! oh, they are so cunning, they win
elude the most watchful and II there
| was one attendant to every child,
even then many of the things that
occur could not be prevented.
No words can convex IDEA OF
, the scenes to be witnessed In an
! hours journey through an institu-
/ ton for feeble-minded children.
/ Nothing described can impart. my
friends. the horrors, that the faces
of one or 1000 OF these idotic. i'm
| becilc children in all stages OF
idiocy and imbecility can fix upon the
plates of your memory. They are
nictures that once seen, you will never
! forget.
Sins of tf... Fathers.
! Wait a minute. These children
| are what they are through no fault
! of their own. The fault of their
own, through any transgression OF
| themselves. did not bring those dis
! eases to their bodies. They are the
| hopeless. helpless lifelong inmates
| of an institution that lis supported
by the taxpayers Of the state. where
/ their physical comfort is looked az
ter by the state, where their hands
are guided into a sort Of an auto
matte process TO do certain things
they are the retribution. they are the
/ hell, they are the fruits. sir. that
visit themselves upon the living.
! They are the truth of my text: the
sins have found them out in their
children" hopeless. helpless. hapiess,
not for anything they did, but be
cause your blood flows through their
veins and you lived in sin.
! There they are, there they are, sin.
/ that's what ! am preaching against
Sin that's what I try to get every
body 10 line up against That's the
stuff that does this business and
curses the world. Why should l
l have to kill myself to get people to
live for God and live for Jesus Christ
and for his truth?
/ Now, i. will find you out in eter-
| nifty. Spain had on her coins two
pillars. One represented what is now
Gibraltar and the other the prom
ontory in Africa just across the
Strait of Gibraltar. They call those
two pillars the pillars of Hercules,
and then a scroll united those pill
lars and on that scroll they had
these words, me Plus Ultra That
/, is, there is nothing beyond. That
/
world and Spain carved that on her
coin, me Plus Ultra" nothing be-
You'd. but when Christopher Column
bus discovered America, they erased
/ the NE" and made II IRE Plus Ul-
ira" there is more beyond.
! Go ahead. Live your life. as
though it were Ne Plus Ultra, put
that on your bans, but just please
rub out the Plus Ultra There
+ l.. q havnnd
He'll is beyond This life isn't all,
absolutely no. There is future life
and the acts and the consequences
will follow you to that future life
and if sin doesn't find you out here.
il will there. In eternity we Will
reap the consequences of every sin
we have sown here on earth
/ Men may rob windows. they may
drive other men to beg. they may in
crease their wealth by crooked
methods and all that. and no act OF
! munificence can blot out the rec
ords OF an ignoble life.
You may lay traps for girls and
drag them down to ruin until they
J will become outcasts of this old
! arth. There may be those who will
/ be admitted to the best of society
but 1t will not always be so, Their
sins will find them out in the world
to come. and God will make every
thing right Men despise God. and
theS laugh al his word, and they will
4 damn the preacher and tranpie I'M
! der the foot the blood of the Son OF
God. They will live in sin and God
/ let's them live. They will laugh and
mock and rail and scoff and they
will deride. All right. go ahead. but
! remember my text. BE sure your
/ sins will find you out"
I, But many have sinned. What are
we going to do" somebody says.
u will tell you. There is only one
thing to do, that's to fly to Jesus
| Christ There Ia only one way to
escape, my friends, from the penal
| ty OF the law. Christ has redeemed
| us from the curse of the law, having
made retribution for us. Then you
will be happy because your sins are
forgiven. / am happy. ! am happ
I because my sins are forgiven In the
world Nobody knows they are for
given bu, a Christian. and nobody's
sins are forgiven but Christians.
Somebody says, How may l know? ?"
/ Because we know this. that IAN who
believed are Justified from all things
from which they could not be justi-
/ fed by the law of Moses" And
! therefore. you needn't worry, you
! can just yield yourself to Jesus