The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-27
(OU ARE LOST TO HAPPINESS IF OUT OF JESUS CHRIST

and pray with a great many men
! that had been redeemed from all
sorts and kinds of sin. gamblers
i drunkards, thieves, thugs and all
Whenever they'd sin. of course,
they'd always pray and go back again
to God. Many OF them weakened
and stumbled and fell. One day this
friend of mine was going from one
meeting to another with a man and
he said: "I could have wished that
IL might have been a drunkard that
II might he able 10 symnathize with
ssrs s-sJ - X . . ~ .. ~s~s1~> - : r ~tss
| petitcs asskt ,hemselves and they
yield to this temptation"
The man grabbed him by the arm
and ne said: Don't you ever say
that again" He said: II was held
| for fifteen years IN the power OF
strong drink, / was ensiaved by it
and" he said, 81 would have given
anything to have been free, and I
have been free for these years, but
during those years that I was held
in It's power, II has left q mark up
on me and left habit upon me that
viii cling to me, against which
will have to fight, with the fear that
It will get the better of me before
get into the cofIin.''
You haven't any right 70 triffe with
your sin. If you sin, God will forgive
you, that's true, for Jesus Christ is
ready to do it.
Or. Hodges tells a story OF a coll
ored boy in the Bahama Islands who
was out on day in furious rain
storm and he took refuge under
bushes that were growing near. The
dripping water from the bushes fell
on his face and he was horribly poi
soned and n few days later he died
in terrible agony with excruciatIng
pain. That led Dir. Hodges to inTes-
tgate II and he asked an old native
about It, He said: 'Why. that bush
is poisonous and when the water Dire %
upon. the leaves. the water becomes
hush growing right near It, and II
you will take the leaves from that ard
rub 1t over your body, It will counter
act the poison dropping from the
leaves.
SO. their was the antidote grow
Ing mar. Wherever there IS SIN
rcr, tho Crcse OF Jesus Christ is close
enough to reach out and be touched.
wherever there is transErcGsor.
Jesus Christ is near enough to always
reach out and help him.
The Apache Indians out IN Arizona
and New Mexico know OF an herb
that will cure the bite of rattle
snake, the most deadly serpent that
cr5 Wis on earth is n diamond back
rattiesnake and there is an unwritten
law among the Araches that they will
not reveal the secret 70 any Other
tribe or any. white man, AID death
Ia he penalty II they do.
That's the reason 1t took General
Niles so long to make his capture.
He'd led the soldiers out into the
herbs that the indians could eat that
fu nished them with water and a sort
Of nourishme7t. ana the horses OF
the Ind ans could eat that same herb
and ii furnished them with moisture
and also with nourishment. The only
way they cysr got old Geronimo was
to bribe two or three of his tribe
who knew .his secret ana revealed il
TO General Miles and the soldiers.
He'd leaf them ono hundred and fifty
miles into the desert and when they'd
got in there, the water that they took
with tn IN and the food would give
ont before they could get back again.
SO they never would have got him
If II hadn't been that some OF them
revealed what that plant was. and the
soldiers ate it and gave it to the
horses.
Bu. until the day he died the old
chief never would salute Union SOL
der. To the day he diee he never
would touch his hat to a Union soldier
So they had to let the old Indian do
az he pleased
His grandson was converted In the
meeting down at Wichita and he said
to me: "Biil. my mission Is to go
cut and work among the drunken
Indians" He said; The white trash
go out and sell whiskey TO my people
end make them drunk. He said:
. My grandfather could shoot"
Well. his grandson, could shoot
too IL be ever drew Il head on you,
phone for the undertaker--that's all
there waE to II. That's all!
Ant. so. sin presumes upon ones
own strength Of character. The great
est thing In this world lie not genius
Some people seem to think they have
something inherer { within them that
they can develop by culture or philan-
thropy 10 a stage whereby they wan
resist It. So they presume upon their
Inherent characters that that's enough
TO resist.
Oh! You never can win without
Jesus Christ, Please don't he a fool
Don't sit there and put yourself up
as though God made a mistake when
ne gave the plan OF saIvati ton, that
you could have gotten along without
Jesus Christ. II you can get along