The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-27

Zaccheus climbed that tree with no
other ambition than to get a giim pse
LOT Jesus Christ. Everybody was
talking about Jesus and they were
discussing Jesus, and SO he wanted
Ito see Jesus
I 1 was preaching out in Iowa and
la fellow went into a saloon to get a
drink and the bar-keeper was calling
me everything he could lay his tongue
to, and Ii all the venom in his heart
|against me and Christianity had Been
tfesaytsf, sinf0 Zig >eaaay ~ ~ystsrss,
'lhave died of black vornit In three mid.
lutes.
/ The fellow threw down his dime
for glass of whiskey and he said
to him, "Have you been up to the
ltabernacle~to hear Billy Sunday?"
i And he said moi And by the enter
lnal blankety- blank blank, 1 don't
propose to go and hear that blank
Vulgar blankety- blank"
4 He was just throwing blankets over
Everything.
This fellow stood and listened to
him and he said, ITO be on the square
il am ashamed to tell you that have
not been up there myself and ii /
got close enough to Billy to shake
hands with him, wouldn't want him
Ito smell the whiskey on my breath.
$50 / guess I'll change my mind. I
don't want the drink. l., am going up
TO hear Bill"
| And he came up to hear me. That
fellow sat there and listened to me
land he had not drawn a sober breath
for fourteen years and had drunk
enough whiskey to float battleship
but there he was, And one night he
came forward and gave his heart to
Jesus Christ. And ne was elected
chairman of the Civic Federation and
he cleaned that God-forsa ken, whis-
key-soaked, infidel town up for Jesus
Christ
/ I preached In Omaha two years
ago and / met the leading lawyer.
Frank Turner. who is mayor of the
icity and i said Frank, how about
iJack?"
| He said, 'yTe went TO heaven two
years ago but he kept the old town
clean for Jesus Christ while he was
on the job"
| All right. don't care what in
,spired or moved you TO come here,
IL you Will only realize THAI you are
here to get glimpse of Jesus
Christ.
/ Come down from your pride. Why.
smultituGes OF men and women are not
saved. because they are too proud to
lcorle near this tabernacle and too
proud to get up and walk down the
aisles and by thai act admit that
There is something they can do that
will make them better and bring them
nearer 10 Jesus Christ They are too
| proud TO admit that they ought to live
| "A different life from what they are
living, and they are willing to go on.
! imagining that II would be humiliat-
| ing.
| Jesus didn't give rap about what
F, the people OF Jerusalem would say
! about Zacchaeus climbing a tree to
! see him. l believe muititudes are
| more concerned about what other
people may say or think than they
are about God Almighty.
Ask them. il their names were call
/ ed in the Judgment, will they pay the
! penalty. Ask them IL they want you
| to steal tonight. il you are arrested IL
| they will pay the penalty. No sir they
: will never do that I suppose there
are men and women here tonight who
| would like to take their stand but are
afraid of the laugh. that some mem
| bers of your lodge. club, literary So
/ ciety, or your socia! circles, would
give you, or what they would say II
! they knew you had taken your stand
| for Jesus Christ
| Any man or woman that tries to
prevent you from being Christian:
| any man or woman that will sheer at
you to make you regret that you did
| it; any man or woman who would
| laugh at you and the fear of those
! criticism would keep you from Jesus
( Christ, he Is SO damnable and low
down, that would not insult pole
cat by comparing 1t with him. And
| II he Is as low in stature as he Is in
principle. he could kiss a rat without
bending his knees Why. he hasn't
brains enough to make desert for
map.
In Philadelphia there was a fellow
worked In one OF the big factories
and he took his stand for Jesus Christ
and he stood at the door of the fac
tory the next morning and he said.
Jack, / took my stand for Jesus
Christ at the tabernacle last night
WIN you help me?
And he told every man that came
|. Ia whats he had done. They boosted
him. They admired the one that had
given his heart TO Jesus Christ
Zachaeus knew he was an old SIN
ner when he ciimed that tree, but
before he struck the ground he was
converted and his sins were all blot
ted away.
Sin--you roll II like a sweet forscl
under your tongue. II may be remun-
erative to you. but don't forget that
the way OF the transgressor is hard.
but the end OF the road is a good deal
harder than the road.
Cln----Wtth liiat oHC WuTus ~,
I can spell all the murders all the
thefts, all the outrage, all the seduc-
ton, the lust. the drunkenness. bias
phemy. brokenhearts, all that
biights like a pestilence and causes
the misery OF this world all with that
one word, 8 n. Come down from
your sin and turn from ii to the name
OF Jesus Christ and do his win.
Come down from your morality. 4
am not conveying thte idea that you
should be immoral, no, but I want
TO convey with all my power. stop
trusting In your morality for saliva
ton. You have got to have something
more than that II you are ever saved.
Morality is Included In Christianity.
but Christianity Is not included in
morality.
Not ParfdoxicAf.
There are lots or good moral men
and women who are not Christians.
but there are not Christians who are
not moral.
THE Son Of Man Is come" Jesus
said to Zacchaeus. The Son Of Man
il come to save the lost" There are
many reasons why he did not say
sxhe Saas Of. God ,-Why2 /. Will tall