The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-30

Finally he agreed to do so and he
got up one morning and told about
the visit and conversation. and he for
got his set sermon and gave little
impromptu, ofrhand sort OF talk and
he closed by saying this.
I III there is anybody here who wants
TO talk with mo about their souls, I
wish you'd come to my study tomor-
row night"
/ And F'inncy tells us that forty two
men and women raped on the study
~ o1 me -S,aexsm,,n was a mar.aa
that went out by faith to meet Jesus.
Mary sat still in the house. Oh you
have got your Marthaa. think you
have got about as fine a crowd OF Mar
thaa here in this city as anywhere.
willing to go and willing to serve on
committees. but you have got big
bunch of Marys too. that do nothing
but keep a little spot seventeen inches
square warm.
welk>> now, we are pretty nearly
through with this sermon. but listen:
the best part is to come. Martha
went out and had little talk with
said: Jesus Is coming. oh, let's go
out and meet Him"
And Mary sat stiil In the house. I
imagine Mary saying, No. l am not
going a stop II you want to go. you
can so. but / don't propose TO go r.
step. He used to come down to our
house and stay all night and we gave
him the beat we had to eat and we
gave him the spare room, and now
when wa send word that our brother
was sick. he hasn't even come near.
He could touch q dirty leper."
The ieper walked up and said.
Lord. II thou wilt. thou canst make
L. n
he reached out and touched him. 1t
was against the Mosaic law to touch
a leper, He was bigger than tho Mo-
siac law. He didn't hav. to take his
hat off before the Mosaic law.
SO Mary said, mo. l am not going.
n you want to so up there and hear
that man. you can, but am not going
want upholstered seats and want
Brussels carpets. No. arm not going
, a step up there and sit on those wood
en- henches"
And you know. q lot of them are
chewing the rag just like that-tn the
church. too. Mary sat sim In the
house. but by her interview with Jesus
Martha learned some things she never
knew before and never would have
learned, IL she had not gone.
Personal Experience.
Oh, there IL nothing Hike personal ex-
perience. sir; and what Mary learned,
she got from Martha. Mary's religion
was secondhand That's what's tho
matter with q lot of you today. You
don't live so that God can show his
power through you. so you can learn
from personal experience.
You know food Is good. why. That's
experience. because You have eaten IT.
But you don't know anything about
God. All you know about Gods power
liz what you heard somebody tell you
or you read II in a book. In the name
Of God. why don't you LIVE 1t 10 you
can get It first-hand from the Lord?
Martha got 1t first-hand She never
learned some things by reading about
them. for she went out there and said
TO Jesus:
/ "Oh, he is dead. and II you had
been here. he wouldn't have died"
/ Jesus said. why. Martha / am the
resurrection and the life. He that liv-
eth and believeth in me, though he be
dead, yet shall he live again"
! So Martha learned out there that
Jesus was tho resurrection and the
life She never knew that before. for
Martha was the nrst" one he ever
told. and Martha came back and told
Mary. She might have gotten It from
Martha She WAS out OF tune In the
house, as near AZ I can figure Il out
/ Now, when all the family went. then
! everybody went When Martha heard
II was Jesus coming. she jumped up.
Don't forget now that Martha Is my
tavorite. Martha heard !esu. was com
ing She jumped up and out she went
! like a twin six; and Martha's friend
saw her and said. where IL Martha
going?"
SHE'S going up to the tabernacle to
hear Mr.. Sunday"
Well, II she goes. think win
60"
But Mary had her friends. too. rs
mo. she don't like him. She thinks
he IL crude"
well. then, / will not TO-"
We went to Detroit On the COM
mittee OF business women was Mrs.
Truman H. Nswberry. Mr.. Newberry
was secretary of the navy under
Roosevelt Mrs. Newberry has millions
whore most people have dollars. She
has culture, too. She has everything,
but Mrs Truman Newburry, Of De-
troit. went everywhere--hoteis restau-
rants. factories--to get information.
and when her friends saw Mrs. New
berry call, they said:
Put US ON the committee II Mrs.
Newberry h willing to do IL. we are
| willing to DO IT,"
And the best folks IN Detroit were
on the committees. lifting for Jesus
Christ. They said. I'VE are willing to
do the work Of God"
! Why not7 He gives you something
to eat and breath. Why should you
hover around7 Don't wait until It be-
comes popular. gripping At the tall
feathers Of success: not ut all.
Now listen. here's tho verso that
staggers me: Jesus was not yet come
into town. but At the place where Mar
tina met him."
Martha met Jesus while he was out
side Of town. want even In town, and
Jesus said. where Ia Maryr
She's At home"
I Didn't she hear ! was comingr'
| Yea
well. why 10 she fitting In the
house! You 20 tell her I want her"
Poor Martha had to hike back over
the hot. dusty road
Oh. j know nothing about the
churches OF this city. / haven't asked
and haven't been. informed. but I
will venture that not all Of them are
interested In this campaign right now.
! And when Martha rushed back she
went to Mary and said. THE Master 10
come and calleth for thee" It only
took eight words to move Mary: ~The
Master IL come and calleth for thee"
|! When she heard that INxua vaa com.