The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-21

been sent to farm and he was sur
rounded by people that didn't un.
derstand him. They brought him
10 Chicago and you should have seen
him when they took him to the rich
| apartments of his father. The father
took the little fellow and said.
| Would you like to see your father p
/ He said, Il don't know
! He said Gould you love him ?"
| He said. 81 don't know"
| He said. did your mother tell
| you of him ?"
| He said, Il don't know"
! Then he said, would you like to
| live here with me?'
The little fellow cried out, II DON'T
know, sir, what I want to do want
my mamma and l want my little sis
ter
The father threw his arms around
him and said. William, 7 am your
father and this Is your bone, and
you never need to go out any more
God commands all men everywhere
to repent"
Repentance Is doing what God com :
mands you with no compromising It
| Is no toning down halfway. 1t Is
either right or wrong.
Some one says, Il suppose you
have a time every night, Bill. before
God all that you have done wrong
during the day.
No! No, wouldn't dare TO DO
that. Whenever God shows me !
have done wrong, / fix 1t up right
there. don't wait until night
The trouble with good many
people is they do business with God
on the passbook plan. They DON'T
fix up with God any oftener than
. hav t.~se 4
of them never do that
will tell you. take tip from me-
Bring your repentance right down or
a spot-cash basis. Every time you
do wrong, make it right, right there.
Whenever you buy anything. don't
| buy it If you can't pay for 1t. That's
a srot-cash proposition. You go to
bad and go to sleep. Make 1t rule
in your life. to get right the instant
you are wrong. You will thank mo
as long as you live Tor the peace
that will come to you II you viii do
it. Simply making good resolutions
won't free yourself from sin any
more than you can cure the small
pox or diphtheria by resolution.
You must forsake it. turn your back
on that sin, blot It out. Let tho
wicked forsake hts way no matter
how pleasant that way. II may be
a path of roses. 1t may be n dream Of
love. oh, but the next step may mean
your immortal ana eternal damna-
ton. forsake il.
Get Out OF II.
No matter how profitable the BUSH
less, IL you are in a business that
God is against. get out OF that BUSH
ness or it will put you In perdition.
1t will be a snake that will drag you
to hell.
That's the trouble with o girl SELL
ing her womanhood. II che wants to
business That's the trouble with a lot
of money you have got in the bank.
You didn't put IT there honestly. you
lied and swindled and cheated some
fellow when you put II there, 20 Il
isn't yours. Oh. il everything that
belongs to people would leave the
one that now have it and go back
to It's rightful owners, there would
be more equal distribution. ThA
earrings that glisten In your ears, the
diamonds and pearls would drop out
touring her finger nails over wash
tub and her husband beat her out
Of her pockethoJk. - 's'
Nobody has any business to be IN,
bad business. Nobody! Hold q doll
lar an inch from some fellows eyes
and he Is blind to everything thft'0
decent, can't see anything in the
world.
They say that John Vassar was .
brewer. He became converted. Some
one said, What are you going TO do
with the brewery, sell II?
He said. IF is il a had busineeA
for me. It would be bad for some
body else"
1t didn't need the preaching Or
John the Baptist, to tell old Herod
he was wrong.
1t didn't need any preaching 70
tell you that you were wrong. You
knew 1t when you came in here. You
know what sin you are holding on.
don't know. and IL knew wouldn'e
tell I have never mentioned any
mans or any Yoman's name Ia con-
nection with any sin In twenty-one
years, and by the eternal God I
never viii. If knew you had CONF
mitted the sins I was preachinR
against I wouldn't say anything about
don't know what your Mn IL
and I wouldn't tell II ! did. will
preach T inst sin with all the power
I have with the hope that II aina holds
Won In fts meaheS and power thai