The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-26

ner forges link by link as he INDUCES
his sin OF desires.
Sin IL the sexton that digs the grave
in which the human soul is to be buried
after tho devil has murdered and as
sassinated II.
Sin Is a stoksr that feeds the hot
fires of passion and lusts like they
shovel coal into the furnace of a
great battleship.
]. Sin is q siren which lures men into
n, I--.~-..- -~sr,. <..~.s WIN 4slstn
/ into the sarKin g*sea of fofS ~ 'NA
Sin: Yet God so loved the world,
! that he gave his only begottenl son.
II that whosoever believeth In him
should not perish. but have everlasting
life"
Sin BIights Youth.
Sin blights the fairest bloom Of
youth. Sin breaks the parents heart.
Sin brings grey hairs and sorrow to
| them, Sin sends them to their graves.
| Sin transforms children into wolves.
mothers into tigers. fathers into cruel
monsters.
Sin will turn the purest. the gentlest
heart of a man or a woman into gran
lite or steel.
God is the enemy OF sin, and sin is
the enemy of God.
Which side are you lined UP with
The Lord or the devil?
The first sin will lead TO the second:
the second to the third and the third
will lead to the fourth and SO on
| At first sin lis like slender spider
thread that you can break but at last
| 1t becomes rope.
friend of mine sometime ago went
into the office Of Mr. Mccormick, gem
eral passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific out In Frisco and said to my
friend. Have you seen the Dig trees
Of California;
mo"
He said. Don't you go back without
seeing them"
He took out an affidavit which a
man had made after he had measured
one of those big trees and the tree
was los feet in circumference and 35
feet in diameter and nearly 400 feet
, high.
Those trees stood there before Jesus
was born in the manager at Bethlehem.
Perhaps" he said. ~you would like
to see the seed. from which these huge
monsters Of the Pacific grow"
He thought he would have the fell
low wheel in on a cart seed as big
az n fourteen-inch she'll. Mccormick
reached up into the pigeon hole of his
desk. he took out an envelope and
dumped out some seeds no larger than
lettuce seeds. He dumped them out
and said,
There. that IL the seed from which
those monsters grow
You take the first drink. You see
that hieary-eyed feliow--he started
with that You zee that girl selling
her womanhood--it started with that
innocent Irritation which she is feed
ing with her womanhood and her vir-
tue.
There are thousands and tens OF
: hrp As ~ fS. ria
that have lost their grip and there are
thousands of them that are gradually
slipping toward hen. BY assoctating
with the vile, by consorting with
drunkards you become drunkards; by
deiighting TO accompany the vile, you
become vile.
Svirxfn1 was Torture.
In the days Of the Spanish incutsi-
tion they had in their underground
prisons an instrument OF torture which
they sneeringiy called the Virgin -
There stood the semhlance Of q beau
tifui woman dressed in the richest
robes with an inviting seductive smile
on her iirs. waiting to receive with
outstretched arms whoever might be
pushed toward her. The victim OF re-
liEious hate was pushed forward to
kiss this virgin and as he did. suddenly
moved by n secret spring she would
throw her arms about him, and he
would be pierced with 100 razor-like
blades that would shoot from little
openings all through the body and i'm
pale him, and he would stand there
screaming as his life blood ooxed away
Sin Is like that Sin can put up a
cracker1ack Of an exterior and smfl-
ingly invite you to take her arm and
walk along the deadly paths of worldly
delight
Oh. Oh. Oh. On, hear me. certain
death awaits any man or woman that
dare kiss her treacherous lips. Yet
God SO loved the world that he gave
his only begotten SON. that whatsoever
beiieveth In him should not perish, but
have everlasting life" That Is what
God did.
Sin Is deadly. The same a. one hole
win sink the biggest ship that ever
| noated: 30 one stab In the heart with
penknife VIII kill you Just the same
i as II you were hit with fourteen-inch
she'll; or drop OF poison will cause
instant death
Out In the state Of Nevada when q
man In convicted OF murder and SEN
| fenced 70 be executed. they let him
choose the mode. He can either be
hanged. shot or poisoned. and he can
choose which method II he elects to
be poisoned. one-haIf hour before the
hour. the doctor walks into his cell,
mixes the deadly poison. cyanide OF
potassium. or something like Il that
win kin instantly: puts the glass in
there and says to him. ~You have half
an hour to make up your mind whether
you win drink the poison"
II he does not drink IL, the poison
Is thrown out ana they take him out
and hang him.
When the state exercises sovercixnty
they say, "Hang him" They have
those three methods. Take poison. be
shot, or hang. and he can select.
One drop OF that poison on hts Tins
and he win fall dead instantly, he il
gone.
Sin stfngs I'm After Years.
now. tho sin you might commit today
may sting you years and years later.
Like the wound inflicted by a mad dog
may heal, months pass but the virus
In still there and you begin to froth
Mt. the mouth, howf ana bark and you
have hydrophobiA So with sin.
Yet God 30 loved the world that ne
gave his only begottcn Son that who
soever believeth In him should not per
tsh, but have everlasting life"
Sin can mar the fairest face in the
world. No incident that I have ever
remembered In history better illus
trates, than the one you may have
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