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

continent would sink into tho sea-
Couldn't God speak, blow his
breath and twist your skyscrapers I'M
til they would lie in ruins at your
feet? Couldn't God speak and every
one of us drop dead? Why shouldn't
Don't God hold In his hands the
seas as they wash to and fro? Doesn't
he hold in his hands the winds as
they blow? Certainly he does. but the
Son of Man; tempted as we are tempt
M ,tstef .h7 VIC, ,.HEf Kte3Ss ph9 .she
stoops 10Y inc wz,hoe % nesi' ever !.
tempest Tossed and discouraged soul
ON earth. The Son Of GID in power.
the Son Of Man In sympathy. he
him.
Did you ever read OF the parting
of Hector from his wife? Hector
came out to go to battle, and the
nurse came with his little baby boy.
The child failed to recognize the faith
er with his helmet on and he removed
IL and the little one recognized the
father and ieaped into his arms. He
kissed the child and was away to bat
tie.
When I look at Jesus Christ, II IL
God with the helmet on and when he
lays II off he Is the Son of God in
power, and the Son Of Man In SYM
pathy, come to help me.
oh. there IL big difference be-
tween seeking and looking. II
should get Off this platform tonight
and walk down that aisle and across
the end and then / said to the min
listers. Last night lost something"
They would have a right to ask two
things. First. what lost and II it had
any value, and second. II l were will
ing to spend any time in the search.
II so they would gather all the shay
ings and go through them all in
search of It That would be seeking.
THE Son OF Man has come to seek
and to save that which LIS lost"
The trouble Is Jesus Christ has
your back on him. Turn around and
you will find him right here and
ready to throw his arms around you.
The Son of Man has come to seek
and to save that which Is lost" and
ne has been seeking some OF you for
ten. twenty. thirty, fifty years and
you have not found him. For he is
come to seek and save the lost.
] wish | were able TO put into that
one word all that 1t will mean to you
IL ii ever becomes a reality, which |
pray from the depths OF my heart IL
never will, then / could startle you
and the time will come when you
would give ten thousand worlds like
this to have the chance TO accept
Jesus
Say, If God would give me the priv
ilege to go to he'll and preach one
sermon and give the invitation. J
could depopulate hell In fifteen min
utes: just one sermon. They that are
in there would give the world to get
out and you big fool, you are trying
to get In Don't you do it. Don't you
do 1t.
could take two ribbons. One Of
one color apd:one OF another; on one
ribbon could print one word on tho
other ribbon. another. and i could
leave this platform and go down
around here and through this audi
ence, down through the vestibuies
where you stand. go down the st, eet
could stop the automobiles, go
through the haunts of Sin and Vice
and l can pin one or the other on the
breast Of every man or woman. Upon
one would be printed the word Lost"
and on the other Saved" and the
cross of Jesus Christ divides the peo-
Pile, nothing else.
1t isn't intellectually. culture or
anything else but religion. You are
lost You are lost
preached down at Ocen Grove
last sumner, and up at Seabright
point proiectinr ont where the wind
and the waves hit IT terrificly and
some of them pounded until they have
washed the great driveways and torn
the beautiful palasial homes and rip
ped them and throw them into the
sea. and now II seems designed to win
the battle even yet
Years ago friend OF mine stood
down there at Seabright and looking
or he saw Spanish bark going to
pieces upon the sand oar out there
ana tney 2uncneo the nIe- oo4t out
.he "ino anu INC WAves peat tneni
oAck. Oh Tunes uey ,rIeo " out Win
no succs 1s snu men Iney ga" man
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onr $3.50 &C.. MI hn3,.s saw 49, :, ~ snS ,h
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,~,,,rnat ,n h;s uns ahoxa ~ rnar -
the wavos and about Tot" Iatsr
on. ~ IN mas a.. "a me- vrshinp in AID
his hodv clunr fast 10 ~
wish could make men and
women realize thei position like the
stranded sailor off Seabright. You