The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-29
GIVE YOUR BODY
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again. and you'll see how/soon he'll
pry your fingers open and take away
that which does not belong to you.
some people are SO busy muck-rak-
ing that they are going to overlook
the crown of glory God is hanging
over their heads" as another impor-
tant thought he gave them. and he
told them the stories of the Life OF
Paul, and of JOB and of Moses and
asked their pardon for reference to
the villifications and oppositions he
had encountered during his career as
a disciple of Christ
God Gives Hard Tasks.
sit was a hard thing that God asked
Moses to do" Billy cried. having
worked himself up to such pitch
that his face dripped with perspira-
ton and the blood vessels made big
creases in his neck. 1T was hard
thing, but He had a reason. And
Moses understands tonight And he is
satisfied
1T was a hard thing that God
asked of Job--to be covered with boiis
from head to foot-and his wife said:
Curse Cod. But did he? No. He said:
Though He slay me, yet will trust
Him.
| 20. God had a reason, and Job un-
derstands tonight and is satisfied.
will admit that God asks some hard
things, but God has a reason
'Tt was a hard thing that God asked
of His only begotten Son, to go down
to earth. be born of the Virgin Mary,
be crucified dead and buried. But
He walked the earth and was spit
| upon, damned, stoned. and nailed
upon the Cross. Yet Jesus Christ I'M
derstoo0 that God had n reason for
this. and he was satisfied"
Sunday made an eloquent appeal
! to Christians to give themselves as
wholly to God as wife gives herself
| to her husband. or a husband to a
| wife. His earnestness could not be
| questioned, even by those of his
| enemies, whom he declares call him
, a fakir and dare not come to his face
and bring their charges. At the close
| of his sermon he whispered to his
manager, Mr.. Pitzer. II am so tired
I'm almost dead"
Fathcrly Attitude.
| His attitude was almost that OF n
father to his child, when he appealed
kindly, smilingly and with peculiar
tenderness to the crowd to come and
| lay themselves at the feet of Jesus
! God does not ask you to do any
thing that is not for your own good. !"
he told those whom he sought to
save. Aren't you glad that he gives
| you Il CHAnCG ~ SiiOW hAAA SlAsAA Soo
| want to give your mind, your thought,
your influence and your all to Jesus
! Christ to help him work out his plan
through your"
When a person gives a present to
friend he would never think OF
asking for It back. Mr.. Sunday points
out. when you give yourself to
God let him keep it. What right
have you to ask him for 1t back z
God wants your face to shine with
tho light Of his love. he declared
and there is only one way In which
to put this light on your countenance
and that is to give yourself to him
and ask him to mould you after his
own likeness.
God has never made a law for
you to keep which you wouldn't have
made for yourself IL you knew things
as he knows them," Mr.. Sunday hurl-
ed at the audience, and defied a con-
tradiction of the statement. In view
of this. which was undenied, he could
not understand why there were per-
sons who could resist the teachings
of the Carpenter OF Nazareth.
Bin Had Hard Job.
In telling OF his experiences, In
which God called upon him to per.
form hard tasks. Mr.. Sunday exclaim-
ed: God said to me. Bill. you take
OF your baseball uniform, your base
bali shoes, lay down your bat and
never mind about the batting aver
age. So followed him, and he
kissed away the stain of sin from my
face and put my name on the Lambs
Book OF God. and went through the