The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-23
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conducted In Lyons, France, Try q
Methodist minister. and referred tht
matter 10 any rich persons who might
he within his hearing. He stated thai
people from all over France are
bringing children to live in the two
Protestant ssylurns, wkich is regard
I'D a. one of the most unique features
OF the reconstruction work in that
country.
! Rodeheaver then introduced Mr.
and Mrs. Omohundro, from washing
ton. visitors 10 this city. Mr.. ONO
hundro was the chief usher at the
Biliy sun lay revival in the nations
capitol, and has come TO Richmond
10 arrange with Mr.. Sunday for an
address In Washington next month,
Hundreds Eager To Work
Hundreds OF people in every town
are anxious to win somebody for
Jesus Christ. Mir. Sunday told his au-
/ dience. but declared they were wait
ing for somebody to tell them how to
do IL.
They are getting tired of just beat
irr worn path from home to the
church and back again on Sunday" ne
said. They never pray in their
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never visit the eick. never try to allie
viate human suffering, never try TO
win anybody f3r Jesus Christ II
everybody did no more than you DO
the world would be in hell. and there
are thousands of people who have got
TO ava ken and come to the rescue II
this old sim cursed world liz going to
! be won for Jesus Christ"
Two-thirds OF our church mem
don't have family prayer. You feed
your physical body three meals day,
you wash 1t. comb it's hair, give It
something to drink. Why don't you
feed your souI?" He advised those
persons who have been lying idle all
, these years. to get busy and talk to
someone whom they know has never
protested faith. and bring them to
! God. And If you've been lying about
some body" he declared, you ought
TO say something. IL you're a dead
t,eat and owe your merchant come
thing. go down and pay your debts
I'D then you can talk religion to
him"
Personal Work IL Rest.
MIR sunday believes that personal
work in q religious movement is the
most effective means Of turning men
and women to the right path, and told
numerous instances in which women
of the world, and men who had not
been inside a church for years, had
been touched and persuaded to
change their manners OF living by
someone who had asked them to give
their souls to GOD.
Get some good in, and drive the
bad out" is the prescription Mr.. Sun,
day recommends to church members
whom he believes have not been do
ing their duty. Tho devil, the evan
gelist points out. Ia doing the oppo-
site OF this and that's why some force
ia necessary to offset his works.
J. don't see why 7 have to work
SO hard to get people to sec it's for
your own good; I'm not working for
my own good, Sunday declared. I'm
saved. II were selfish I'd fold my
.arfaa ara say. You Gan SO To the
devil: I'm all right But I'm NOT
going to do that / want you to have
what I've got. I'm working for your
GOOD and trying to give You the gest
there Is"
Five Glasses of People.
Mr.. Sunday believes that personal
people which Will embrace every man
and woman In nil the world The
first clas is Of those who cannot at
tend char~h. He pointed to that class
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from church services. because hotels,
restaurants, railroad trains, and such
things have 20 be run on Sunday. and
the people who run them must stay
away frcm church.
The second class In OF those who
can go 10 church, but do not. "Oh.
Murder, oh pjs&race!" he exclaimed.
II feel like hanging my head. in
shame t. stand on e platform beneath
a a
people we've got seventy million in
the Cnited States that are not in any
church,"
Third. are those who can attend
church. do attend. but are not moved
by the preaching. Some people come
out Of curiosity" he thought Il
don't know. perhaps you may be here
for that purpose this afternoon. Some
body has vomitcd lie into your ears.
All right If you believe q lie and
come around and hear the truth.
that's all right don't give a
pIcaune why you are here"
Fourth in his catalog are those
who can attend church, do attend and
are convicted but not converted.
There isn't man or woman" he
said. that won't 20 out OF here with
"a new ,1ea OF Godtand a new hatred
of sin
Fifth; he said, are those who can
attend church. do go. and are con-
s4ceed and converted. and need
STRENGTHENING and help. Somebody
asks where they can be found--these
liyc classes~-ask me where you can't
find them. and I'll tell YOU there is
just one place where you won't And
hem and that's out in the ccme-
terry"
stop and Save Men.
He made IN appeal to the church
neople TO stop overlooking the un-
saved men and women who are all
about them today-the washer
woman. perhaps. or the laundryman
who comes 20 the door every, week.
And he drew on his past life to show
that some of the greatest men and
women ON earth would never have at
aimed their great success but for the
encouraging word or the friendly talk
with someone who wished to bring
them. into the kingdom.
He told OF a woman in the west