The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-04-22

CROSS ana ldlQ I1llu III the ScpulCuIS z,
and the hand of man carved the sep
ulchre, and the hand of man has TAX
en- up the torch of salvation and pass
ed it on down to the twentieth CEN
tury..
"He had a withered hand" - but
wait! The man that Jesus saw in
the syna gogue on the Sabbath day
had withered hand.
o, how many people you find of
the same kind everywhere, poor peo-
pie that cannot do the things they
would. ] find them everywhere, in
the church, in the lodge, in society,
in the home, on the street, at places
Of business, everywhere, my friends,
you can find men and women lust
like that, because they have allow
ed something to come into their life
that has withered their womanhood,
assassinated their reputation. There
they are! What fools they are!
Here is a man known as drunk
ard, a woman known as a gossiper,
some man that lies and swears What
is the matter? The poor idiots have
allowed something to come into their
! life. and that something has with
cred their good name. Now, it is
useless to ask them to do personal
work. Often my friends, the hand be-
comes useless because it is no longer
used.
| In Mammoth Cave there are fish
without eyes. There was a time
| that nature made eyes in those fish,
| but having no use for eyes in those
dark, subterranean caves, kindly ma
! ture stopped making what was not
I used and took it up and invested it
/ in fin and scale. and tail. So, if you
have something and lose it you lose
| it because you do not use 1t.
! II You Don't Use
| Faith, You Lose II.
God gives you chance to exer-
else your faith; if you don't exer-
else your faith and use it, you lose
! it. It's true mentally, it's true
physically. and it's true spiritually.
! The processes of nature wither
away through disuse. There was a
time when they could have believed
| on Jesus, but they would not believe.
and now when they wanted to believe
they could not believe. because in the
interim. they had gotten so far away
from God that even though they
wanted to believe they couldn't be-
Iieve And Jesus had given every
evidence that He was the Son of God
| by healing the sick, and calling the
dead into life, and they would not
j believe, stilling the tempests and all
that, and when they could have be-
| lieved they would not believe, and
when they would believe they could
not believe. All right.
1t is true of the drunkard. Here's
a fellow who would not quit when
1,o hon
he wants to quit. There was d time
when he could have quit and when
he could quit he would not, and now
when he wants to, he can't. That is
the price they pay! God gives them
opportunities. There is not a drunk
/ ard on earth that didn't have an oppor-
tunity to quit drinking. There isn't
: a man in Sing Sing that didn't have a
:. chance to stay out of there if he
: wanted to. There isn't a woman
: who's a prostitute, who did not have A
J chance to stay out of it. There isn't
a man or woman in hell who did not
| have chance to go to heaven if they
wanted to.
They do me wrong. who seek no
| more
: When once 1 knock and find you
t not within,
r For every day stand outside
: your door,
And bid you wake and rise and
!, fight and win.
3 Weep not for splendid chances
d passed away,
: Wall not for golden ages on the
wane,
e Each night I burn the records Of
: the day.
], At sunrise, every soul is born
r again.
ei (Why, God gives you chance
! every time the sun comes up over the
4 hills, he gives you a chance to re
: pent for your sins, or keep on just as
f you choose)
e If deep in mire, wiring not your
4 hands and weep,
lend my arms to all who say,
I 81 can,'
d No shame-faced. out-cast ever
II sank so deep
# But yet, may rise and be again
d a man.
5 Art thou mourner, rouse tnee
n from thy spell,
y Art thou a sinner, your sins may
t. be forgiven,
al Each morn l give you wings to
(, fly from hell,
At night star to guide your
If feet to heaven"
t. Everybody has an opportunity
o everybody, it don't make any differ
S ence who! | will give you chanc'
d to come down here and take you
Is chances with the Lord, that is you
IS opportunity.
Every One May
r Help Lords Cause.
d Now, wait a minute! How man,
i. are like the Levites? Oh! there ava.
,eI down in Jericho road they saw th'
e, wounded man and folded their arm
IeI and passed on. Along came the goo'
( Samaritan We have founded upol
Of his good actions one of the great
k est organizations on earth, the Od
1t Fellows. Those Levites had the sam
" chance that the good Samaritan ha6
d. but they passed it by. Had the
turned aside and helped that poo
ID fellow, they might have gained fo
S. themselves imperishable renowT
is Their names might have run dow
ID through the world today with al