The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-12


don't look upon him with degree
of envy. / have no business ability.
All the ability that / have nave de-
! yeloped doing this one thing
preaching.-and ! don't know now
I to do anything else. IL I'd break
down and couldn't preach. l don
know anything that / could turn my
hand fo~ap earn nay living. / | don't
j know ,afTaTalng'l eohl1 40, sensa ", ~.
J havt any spilIty hi StIonrs<ss >. ~
! lying dormant But1 nave bent every
effort and every energy and every
thing / possess in order TO advance
Gods cause In the world.
Other men do it to advance bust
ness, some TO advance politics. These
things are comnendable. You to
your calling. | to mine, and all tina,
in the world.
/ When | come to leave the world
Il want some hing better than wha
could come to me by refiecsing on
the fact that / might have been the
richest man IN Manhattan for tina
viii be of little or no value when
you come to die.
I They say that John Ross could
build shops that would pillow their
way through the Atlantic, laugh al
every disaster. and yet he knew he
couldn't build a ship that would car
for a minister. was baptisei and re-
j ceived into the church just a few
months before he passed away and
left this old world.
! Want Something Better
I Oh, / want something better when
IL go. and L am a Christian today
! for the blessings that come to me
If there were no future I'd still Keep
on living for Jesus here In this old
world. I'd do it and God would
bless me wonderfully for 1t.
| Years ago Coloner Clark started
! the old Pacific Garden Mission in
Chicago. AT meeting one night
he said. Il want the young man
. who thinks Gods done more for
him than anybody else to stand up"
! 4 young fellow jumped up lie
, might nave been twenty five or thir-
ily years or age and you could tell
| by his looks that he'd gone down the
line.
| Wei, sir" he said. y am a grad
I uate of Harvard College. went
he said, My sins and my sinful
companions broke my mothers
hear and sent her to the grave
/ One day his father met him on the
street and he chided that boy as he
came staggering down the street
I holiering and yelling. and the boy
doubled his fist and would have
felled his father to the ground
Wait. \ man grabbed him and he
turned around and spit in his face.
| HIS IA her left him and went
home. The boy ciapped his hands
to his head, uttered shrieks OF agony
that startled the neigh borhood, The
father went home. sat down on the
versnda and sat there sobbing.
when bye and bye the boy came
staggering and reeling up tho wolk
/ to the steps on the veranda, the faith
| er heard him. pushed the tears
from his eyes and looking up he
t jumped to his feet, ran and met the
hey. grabbed him by the shoulder.
turned him around and said to him.
! Il want you to do two things, and
do them now. / want you to leave
home, and change your name. The
farnily name has never been dis
graced but the way you are living
YOU will put a stain upon the es-
cutcheon that nothing can eradicate
Leave home, Change your name.
/. Out Of my heart, out OF my mem
ioryt You've sent your mother to
/ her grave and you've got me so
lam all ready TO stumble into mine
You won't listen to anything say.
! Co."
! The boy started and reeied down
Athe walk. His sister WIS UP stairs
land heard their loud voices as they
quarreled. She came running down
land ran out the walk and overlook
her brother Just as he opened the
gate. lie shut the gate between
them. She reached over the fence.
put her arms around him and kissed
him and said:
Edward Cod pity you! God
help you. Every night as long as
! live, and unless I hear you are
dead. every night at eight O'Clock
ing for you"
| He staggered away with the
tears trickling down his checks. He
went up and down the land, ne went
from bad to worse, and from worse
he went to Chicago. He got so
low down that they used to tell him
not TO come to those barrel houses
down on South Clark street below
1.-THE police dead lire to sleep. Why.
he got SO low down he couldn't get
money to buy food. and he made up
his mind he'd end his life,
| He started to walk TO Lake Mich
liean ore night to take the viaduct
route where he could plunge from
the viaduct into Lake Michigan. He
Preached the corner of Dearborn and
Van Burden, the corner In front OF
| the Old Colony building and as he
-, did the clock in the Board of Trade
building at the foot of LaSalle
street struck eight. He leaned up
| against the lamp post and letterbox
, there and began to cry. A fellow
stood there giving out tickets invit-
ing men to come to the Pacific Gar
den mission.
Man he said. whats the mat
t ter with you?"
! TIN a drunken bum. I'm on my
way to the viaduct to take header
! into. ,the lake, My sister is praying
for me back In the little town IN
Ohio"
The young fellow said. Come on
in here"
| Starts IAfe Again.
| He took him back and the bum
staggered in. dropped into a rear
seat and when my friend gave the
invitation. down the aisle he came,
! Knocked down five chairs getting to
the mcurners bench. fell on his
knees, prayed. gave his heart to Goa
and then he started out He came
there every day with his testimony.
and my friend watched him and after
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