The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-15
Defence Of REVIVAL
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pa my. "A revival is an abnormal
Condiffon."
And / shy. "You lier'
say % you that a revival is . nor
nal condition; and this low. dead life
psoposar1oA: 80 yom msarN 20 "r.ssdrss
Dad BY saying that anything that
makes man pray, kiss Ms wife in
stead Of beating her DIP, pay his debts
do you mean to tell me that that's
An abnormal condition? DO You mean
~ ray that when man goes home
drunk that that's normal! Or that
when he y sober and decent that
that's abnormal? Forget itr
Not Followed by Reaction.
You say. 1T Il followed By rsac-
tioa..
say. That's a lie" again.
II isn't true, and II II were true It's
worth ali the money spent. all the
energy put forth, all the sieeplesa
nights and all the meals you forget.
for by and through revival, the
hearts and minds OF q community
will be grtpped and turned toward
God, ana the tide will be turned ffom
the saloons toward the church, to-
ward the Sunday school. toward de-
cency. toward sobriety, toward vir-
tue.
r. You have O child that's Ill and
you summon . physician. and he
diagnoses the difhcuity. prescribes
TOR the malady, and the medicine
bands up the disintegrating tissue and
pats the bloom Of health on the cheek
Of your little one so that it may stay
In your arms twelve months longer
than II could have done had the doc
that you've paid him for the happt-
neeo and the Joy you have had. of
ktssinx your baby twelve months
longer than you could have done X
he hadnt come. And II some man
win otAgger down that aisle and give
mo hio hand and walk home sober for
. year and give his wife his pay and
have His children climb on his knees
and rub their hands through his hair
--af IT the. end OF year he stag
gers home drunk. II was worth every
dollar spent TO let that wife sleep for
twelve months. 20 Lord. revive thy
Woehs!. The history OF the church,
- history Of revival, and don't see
how any minister has the audacity to
1nsuit God by lifting himself against
Fevtvals and still claim to be a
preacher. In my opinion he's q dis
grace to tho church. II he's your
preacher ycu can tall him so; don't
care whether he buttons his collar ~
frQut or behind.
You ask the man or woman who
sits By your side. when did you
turn from sin to Jesus Christi" and
you will be dumfounded to discover
that about seven out OF every ten
viii say. AT a time Of . special awak-
ening."
Sunday Takes Issue.
/ take issue with you right there.
The economy OF Nature provides
for the occasional copious downpour
OF rain. but you'd be fool to grum-
BILE because II didn't rain all the time.
1t isn't unwise TO have REVEALS IN
husiness--oh. no! never heard OF
= community or commercial cruz
saying thay were doing too much
business. It ISN'T unwise to have q
revival in politics--not At afl!--and
the government spends millions OF
dollars on educational buildings and
books and teachers. and once In four
years. we hire halls. newspapers. edi-
tors. magazines and orators ana this
republic becomes a university IN
them have backslidden and therefore
some Democrats are going to vote
the Republican ticket. and some Re-
pubaicans are going to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket: some arc utterly IN
different. 80 we've got POLITICAL re-
vtsAl. and they have q political evan
eelist chasing up ana down tbs coun-
~ eponting their doctrines from tbs
rear end Of trAin--it's nothing but
great polittcs1 revival OF n1aken zen.
int, that's bdlng had, that's all! And
70. al through. no matter what II
may be.
In the business world you've got
to make a market for the goods a.
ven ~ TO make the xc0ds. A man
mAy b an Aut0maton and make the
goods but It takes q higher grade OF
sfafelIfgence to mako market Tor the
gU0ts thnn to make the goodS- The
highest grade OF intelligence you can
and today IA any one class IL the
travelling man for he has to be a
feflow with a good bean on him to
sell the goods.
What . Revival b.
$50 every community has a chamber
Of commerce.. and al that, to create
d business revival. We have nm autn
d show--&hat's nothing but an auto
revival 10 show us the new designs
ana ali that. We have . horse show
that's nothing but 4 horse revival
10 show how mAxnfflcently we are
developing horse i1eeh to = standard
OF perfection. Colleges observe
commencements--th keeps up the
spir1t OF loyalty. What commerce.
ment b 70 colleges, revival Us to re1ig-
Ton, what health II TO an individuAl,
revival q to religion: what educa-
ZION - 70 culture. revival is to relig'
Ion.
Martin Luther saved Europe from
spiritual death and Wesley saved
1pg1and from the in4idelity OF the
French revolution. Jonathan Ed
Wirds. Charles q. f1nncy and p. l..
Moody lifted America from moral
death. The prophets were all evan
Gellgts. they appealed 70 heart. to
heAd. 10 emotion. to passion-any-
thing 10 make . man or woman sick
and disgusted and l,auseatsd with ain.
John the Baptist. the greatest man
born Of woman, was IN evangelist.
He had . great revival. Tho church
VS. born in time az revival. Panl
was an evangelist and they had to
call out the cops to rescuo him. and
everywhere no went either he had Z
T10g OF fgvtv1f. - $500 -
Jesus Christ wAs q great distnrbeF
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