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

lIrnint on strychnine. but that won't
change the fact that the p son In
The bottle is strychnine.
II You can cali 1t affinity, but that
don't change the fact that II Is adul-
terry. Absolutely no! Labels don't
/ amount to anything.
4 Up Come His Soldiers.
1 The next thing old Herod liz gal
looping away In his chariot, and up
iion-hearted preacher and lead him
away Perhaps he feels be ter now
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couldn't get away from the truth
that John the Baptist, had pumped
Into him any more than you can lock
up the winds in an air box
| Ono OF the awful things about sin
In that IL grows 80 fast. You take
one drink and by the end OF the year
start with one thing and II Crews so
fast
-. John 'hc Baptist, prea ched repent
ance, and all sorts of sinners came
and crict out. What must we do to
be saved %
And sohu told them what TO do
and muititudes turned from their
sin.
| God will give light to the man
in Gods way, You Will be saved in
Gods way or you Will 30 to hell.
There is no other way to be saved
than Gods way. I have no way.
Some fools here in town talk about
Bills hell You big idiots, / haven't
any hell! II is Gods. 1t isn't mine.
But l am preaching 1t to you. you
false leader! You pose as though
you were preaching GODS truth and
! Sv@sx Il tr.Sr
the crowd and sending them straight
! to hell and you will go there with
the rest of them, ! will tell Won that
much!
Now. 1t may help up 70 look Mt
some things that repentance is not
God commands all men everywhere
to repent"
Repentance Ia not fear. On,
good many have Il mistaken idea
They think that nobody can repent
in way that will please God until
he is half scared to death. Some
people think that before man can
ever become Christian. he has got
10 be dragged to the very brink OF
he pit OF hell, and ne has got TO
see the ire and hrirr STONE and look
with staring eyes into the depths of
iniquity.
Oh, he has got to be filled so full
eat. ind he has got to be so filed
with fear that he will turn pale and
shiver and his teeth will rattle like
castanets every time he sees a cof
an That isn't SO. .-..-.
II q man discovers that he is on
q wrong train he doesn't reed to be
afraid OF Il hotdup or wreck. Just
simply step off. and say, This Is the
wrong train" and get on the right.
4 -g.-4+ IL
living wrong n man doesn't need 20
he afraid OF going TO hell. He can
saS. This isn't the right way to live,
um going to live right" and then
be man enough to live right FOR God
and for Gods truth. That's all the
Lord wants you 10 do.
Jesus said there was an endless
hell for the sinner, He only gave
us one view, my friends. but that's
was true and It wouldn't help any
more If He had given US a hundred.
He only pulled the curtain aside
once and let US look into the pit; no
attempt at frightening men ara
women 10 be repentant. Repentance
doesn't come that way and II 1t does.
it doesn't last any longer than the
fear. When the fear is gone, reli-
gion will 70 with II, The man who
Will be damned IL he doesn't Is no
more good at heart than "A lion In g.
lamb, or pole cat Is n Guinea pig.
Oh. you can't scare people into heaven,
no moe than yos can drive poison
from the fangs OF rattlesnake by
sticking g. clothes pin on the end OF
his tail.
Dcathbed Responsiveness
We have all seen, most OF us. casea
OF deathbcd repentauces which con-
vince It's that they are uncertain.
do rot say that none are genuine.
DO say. ! believe only 2. few I don't
condemn ali.
The Bible mentions one. That was
the thief on the cross. hut that was
he first time he ever saw Jesus
Christ or ever heard Him. He ac-
cepted the first invitation. Some of
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