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

living In. / would not want to live
In 1t either, would you?
Make haste! Make haste!
Years ago friend Of mine wa.
} preaching up in Saginaw, Michigan
and bright. keen looking fellow en-.
J tered and sat down. And when he
gave the invitation he was the frs,
to walk down and take his stand for
Jesus Christ. That man was Colonel
A. t. Bliss, the ex-governor OF thai
state srd the CONGRESSMAN.
4: And vEhAn went TO Saginaw, some.
door who wants to get In"
And It was Mrs. Bliss and / had
the honor OF taking them up on the
platform.
Conversion OF Colonel BIisa.
Later on when we went to Detroi,
we asked Colonel Bliss to say few
words and then he said: when the
war broke out / was young man. a
trtfie under age, and my mother
urged me to give my heart to Chris,
before I went away. for she said: You
may be killed."
He went out a private and ne came
PACK q colonel but he still said NO
TO God
And he said, IF I could only be.
come very rich could use my SUR
plus on Jesus Christ"
And he became a multi millionaire
and he said No" to God
Then he said. III I could only rep
resent this district at Washington"
And yet he said No to God.
IL you want to know from me, |
would say that now Is the best tim q
to be n Christian Now, The be ST
the best time Is the time you have
left. Your best time has become his
tory. Your best Is now. and If you sit
there and listen to me you should
know that now is the best time
When Zacchaeus came down from,
that tree he drew himself up with all
the dignity of his little dwarfed body
and he stood in the presence of Jesus
and said to him:
why, Jesus. you don't know who
am. j am the richest duck in this
town. Why. am Zacchaeus, the tax
gatheTer. | wish you would honor me
by coming up to my house to dinner -
Did he do thatT Mo.
He talked of restitution; he said:
Half of my goods give TO the poor. -
Jesus did not ask him what kind of
life he had lived, but when he
Skinned down that tree and stood In
the presence of Jesus, he said: THE
half OF my goods / will give to the
poor"
He was already giving the half Of
MS goods to the poor, trying 10 make
up and trying TO have his gifts act as
a sort OF disinfectant for the way he
got the money in the first place.
He said: THE half of my goods 7
will give to the poor
He spoke OF restitution OH sn
many will have to yank out their
check books and write ii check on the
bank and pay back some money they
skinned somebody out of in some
transaction, before they will ever find
Jesus Christ
/ Years ago in n town out West, Az
ron. ohio. was young man who
worked for the Adams Express cor,
pany and one night they missed n
package containing $4,000 in green
backs. They searched everywhere ard
could not locate 1t and finally they
I arrested Il clerk on suspicion He
| readily proved his Innocence, and vet
some people stiil thought that he took
| that money,
! They would have him around no
| longer, so he left and went up and
down the land. Some months later
| he went To Chicago and went around
the FarweIi Hall and heard Moody.
/ tie spoke something about making
the wrongs In your life right IL you
| can.
! l win tell you there are things in
the lives OF everybody that we cannot
make right And there are some
| things that II you had your life TO
live over again you would do and
would not do. And so Mis- young
man went to hear Moody. When he
got through ne said. II want to talk
| to you
Moody said. Il am tired
The young man said. II arm sure
you will be glad to hear what have
to say"
Moody said. EFT II !. confession
I Will gladly listen to it,
II am thief. l stole that money
And he told Moody where $4,000 OF
IL was hidden. ard said 1T only took
$500 Of IT, VIVA. will do7"
Moody said. Go back and give
yourself up"
But" he said, hee will send. me
to the penitentiary II 10"
Moody said. You ought 70 be
there"
And he went back. and his father
ana Few friends made up the $500,
and they walked into the Adams Ex-
press company office ard they laid the
$40 geo on the desk and said. Here
is the money!
What did they do They sentenced
him to the penitentiary at Columbus
Tor two yearA When he walked be-
hind the prison bars. for the frst time
in his life he was a free man. He
only served for = little less than a
year. and he was pardoned, and he
went out and brought his father.
mother and sister to Christ. and then
died within a short time.
! am glad to tell you on the an.
thority of God that It is not q oues-
ton OF what you have been or what
you have done, II you are ready and
willing to forsake your sins, God will
forgive you. The kind Of sin never
enters into 1t with God. 1t Is not a
question of what the sin IL: the ques-
ton is are you willing TO accept Jesus
Christ as your Saviour? That in ALI
that God asks Of you.
Come down from your perch OF Gu
riosity. What brought you here to-
night - Because you had listened to
the dirty, iack-hearted lies Of some
OF these degenerates of he'll around
the street. and you thought you would
come in to see what I looked like.
There are some men that can't bear
to see anybody decent No, no, be-
cause they know II people are con-
vcrted they will have to go out OF
their dirty Business and they, can't
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