The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-05-01
WORK AMONG WOMEN
SHOWS BIG GROWTH

ing the groups OF girls are better.
And with the change in place, Mrs
Asher has made changes in dates, so
that the business women's conferences
now meet on Wednesday and Thurs
day noon instead of on Tuesday and
Wednesday,
The weekly meeting of the Business
Women's invitation committee which
was held last week on Tuesday after
noon at 2;30 p. M, will hereafter be
held on Wednesday afternoon at the
same hour but in the Reid Memorial
church instead of the First Presbyter-
ian church.
The Council Girls will still meet at
the close of business on Thursday
night, and after their conference and
lunch will attend the evening services
in body, but they will meet hereafter
at the Reid Memorial church instead
of at the First Presbyterian church
Russia. Louis XIV, Louis XIV, Louis
XVI, Madam du Barry, Madam Pom
padour-oh, they all are gone.
We will perpetuate it in art There
will be other Raphaels, there will be
other Angeloes, there will be other
Murrilos, there will be other da Vim
els, there will be other Rubens, there
will be other Corots, other Millets,
other Munkacsys to paint Christ be
fore Plate"
Christ's Name
Is Perpetuated.
We will perpetuate the name of
Jesus in art. in literature and in song
There will be other Cowpers that
will write, God moves In a mysterious
way His wonders to perform; He
plants his footsteps in the sea and
rides upon the storm"
There will be other Topladys who
will write "The Rock of Ages" There
will be- other Blisses who will write
Almost Persuaded" There will be
other Fanny Crosbys who will write
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross"
pass Me Not, o Gentle Saviour"
Once was Blind-Now I Can See"
There will be other Charles Wesleys,
who will write Jesus Lover OF My
Soul, Let Me to Thy Bosom Fly"
We will perpetuate it in architec-
ture, Catholicism and Professionalism
Oh, there will be other st. Pauls;
there will be ather ST. Peters; there
will be other st. Johns, ST. Johns the
| Divine; there will be other Kremlins
/
/ drals at Cologne; there will be other
/ Madeleins at Paris
Oh, you can cut, burn and cruelty
| 1t you will, but If he who thus dies
stands for some immortal truth, his
soul will merge from his rnutiIated
casket and go sweeping triumphant
down the halls of time.
Look at the love the pure and holv
bear Him. See what an object Of love
He is with them in heaven. Look
at Him when he got ready to come to
this old earth. The angels had to
come down to sing to the shepherds
that There is born this day a Savior
who is Christ the Lord"
Look at Him in His baptism of
John, when God the Father stopped
making worlds and leaned over the
battlements of heaven and said:
This is my beloved Son in Whom
| am well pleased; hear We Him"
Herschel, the astronomer, was a
Christian. Jonathan Edwards. Black
stone, Gladstone, Washington, Lincoln
Lee, Queen Victoria. Grant; honored
as no man has ever been honored be-
fore in his tour around the world
! When he reached Jerusalem, they pro-
posed for him a feast and he said:
mo, not in this city where my Savior
bled and died. Let me get alone;
want to weep"
Look at the love the pure and holy
bear Him.
What shall | do then with Jesus,
which is called the Christi"
Christ Lives Today
As Generations Aoo.
And l am not worshipping sleep
ing Christ in the tomb of Joseph of
Arimathea, but living, ruling reign
ing Christ at the right hand of Cod
who is coming to judge the quick and
the dead
What shall do then with Jesus.
which is called the Christi" You
ought to have to do because Of the
sacrifice he made for you
If Shakespeare should enter this
tabernacle we would all stand up and
bow. If Jesus Christ should sweep
down that aisle we would all kneeI
and bow our heads in humility as He
would sweep by in all His regal spIen-
dor, sir.
SavonaroIa stood speaking In the
square at Florence and the people
sureed around Gods lion-hearted
preacher that told that gang of ecIe-
siastlcai crooks and thugs where to
head in. And he hurled the anathemas
of God at them until they incinerated
him to ashes because he dared rebuke
their erookedness and their infamy.
And Savanoralo stood preaching. He
knew that these were the questions
uppermost in the minds of the ItaI-
ian. What sort of government will
emerge from all this? Will it be a
republic form or will it continue the
: monarchy with the king? The second
question was, what will be our reIig-
ion? Will it be the star and the eres-
cent of the Mohammedan or will II be
the cross of Jesus Christ?
Those were the questions, and as
they all surged to hear him, he climb.
ed on top of his pulpit, where the
great crowd could see him, and cried
out, Jesus Christie al nostero sino
salvatoro"-Jesus Christ, our King
and Savior.
Down the streets of Florence they
sprged. Through every building and
every alley they met the oncoming
crowd and they caught the spirit Ou:
into the country they went until il
seemed to leap as by magic from
mountain peak to mountain peak un-
til all Italy rang with the cry: Jesus
Christ is our King and Savior" and
tonight the cross of Jesus Christ
waves over Italy instead of the staI
! and crescent of the Mohammedan.