The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-13
PLEADS WITH E1EARE rs TO DO THE WILL OF GOD

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, In your lower nature you love none
! or these things. No. you love thu
| flesh and your tusts of the flesh and
all that. And your life finds its high
est delights aad choicest expression;
tn the qualification OF the desires
I which appeal to the flesh. Find your
delight In doing things opposite:
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IN tas. >srssss..ls s2 IN their eyes. They
are following the flesh instead Of the
spirit "As many rs ara led by the
spirit, they are the spirit OF God"
Not as many As have been bap-
ttxed- Not as many that know the
thirty-nfne articles of confession. Not
as many rs know the cAtcchfsm and
have been sanctif1ed. Help! Help!
u with show you something about what
sAncttfication means.
A not Of people today. they feed
tho x<san andihay starve the sheep.
NO wonder they are following the
nesh. And the story Of Dr. Jekyii
and Mr.. Hyde 10 Just repeaAcd over
and over in their lives.
II Peter had spent ~ Ynscn time
with the gang that Judas did, perha %
Peter would have been tho one that
denied Jesus instead OF Judas It
wasn't prophesied that Judas would
deny Him. It was prophesied that one
OF His disciples would deny Him, bot
Judas fulfilled the prophecy. When
Jesus said. Let him derry himself.
take up his cross daily and follow
me-" He meant there should be no
compromise between the two natnrea
A~f
expects me to be = hermit I don't
believe that God Almighty expects
me 70 wear hair shirt and cruelty
my natural Affections I don't be-
heve that God expects me 70 crawl on
MY hands and knees and sleep ON
spikes and smear myself with Nth
like the Hfndus--no SIR.
True Dlsc1pao Of JesuA.
true disciple of Jesus Christ
means love OF everyday life. Jesus
Christ didn't wear hair shirt hide
Himself in q cave-no! He lived
among the people. He rubbed ell
bows with tho people. He spent HI
life going around doing good. Dry
ing tears on the cheeks Of the afrlict-
ed, driving out or alieyiating misery
or suffering, casting out devils, clears
ing leperA That II what Jesus did.
THAT'S what He expects His follow
ers to DO. not wear . hair shirt and
whine. "Oh, but ISN'T II hot?" WONT
They'd drive a man to drink.
believe in Hts own rffe-He
gave me an example of what He
wants me to be and do. Get out and
HIT this old. dn-cursed world into His
arms. HE that saith he abfdeth IN
Him. ought himself 30 to walk even
as He walked
And let him deny himself Say
mo" when saying ~YcS' means sin.
Say Yes when saying -No'' means
heaven Gay NO" when sxyfnE
yes means that the angels cxv and
the devfls cheer No, NO! NO! Say
NO" so loud that God WIN stop max
ing worlds and look down to see what
you are doing That's what It means
II you ars going to foIfow the Lord.
Sometimes you get annoyed. agra
waited. Certainly, great styx! Some
I do about every two days See some
guy want to punch. But ] ten yon.
II you do. then You win kick over IN
two minutes an the good you can do
In years. Deny yourself! Put tho
Kicking straps on angels and starve
the devil. Deny yourself. take up
your cross daily" That shows when
you get religion 1t win stay with you
all the time.
Don't be saint on Sunday and a
devil on Monday. Don't shine for
Sunday and then be like a London fog
the rest Of the week. No! No! No!
And Hive 10 that fellow won't have
to tag you to church and watch you
take communion to find out II yvu
arc protesting Christian. No! No!
Wherever You 60.
And you'l1 take religion wherever
you go. you wiH take II with you on
the train--yep!
You with take IL with yvu on tho
street. in the street cars-yep.
And the cars. when YOU go swny
from home you will take religion
with you and your wife won't have
70 hire a detective to watch you to
see IL you are on the square.
Let him deny himself, take Up his
Gloss daily" That win hold him
steady in q horse trail
That win keep him from making
eyes 1t some other woman-yep!
That means ne win sl1ire ~ bright
in business as he does at Christian
Erdeavor Epworth feasuc convention
-1eps
That means that hh religion WIN
~ Sh~Sse p<h&N VI AANA AZ LIE
smile or hts hair--yep!
II some or you women up there
would take all the hair OF that tsn't
srowing On You, you'd look like .
humniing bird In a rain storm.
Take up your cross daily. That n
4 uniform continuous performances for
Jesus Christ. Oh, the world. / think,
would have been sawed long ago n It
HADN'T been for This miserabie, up
on the mountain top to-day. and down
In the valley tomorrow. -
So you be the pollen Of insptra-
ton which fertiffzes the spiritual acta-
vities in everybody that rubs elbows
with You. Don't be like the rooster
I told about one might. Every time
he'd crow he'd throv his fegs out of
Joint and they'd havo to 60 and set
him UP before he could crow again.
That's the way with lot Of peo-
pie and what they do today. They
knock over what they did yegter1ay,
ana many a poor preacher has got
to put his whole time IN chasing
around. setting them up on their
feet. patttng them on the back. Eet-