Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-09-04
ONLY MEN OF BURNING
HEARTS MOVE THE WORLD
Christianity Wins Way Under
Lead of Enthusiasts Whom
World Calls Mad.
"Merr Sn'inr Of Ones own Soul Is
Little job for Man," says states
mnn; Another Thinks e Impn~sihIe
for n Christian.


mnn' Another Thinks e Impossible
for n Christian.
Rev. " L Abcrnc,hy. H. u. 81
Portsmouth,. preached In vcuabio
street Baptist church yesterday. in
part, as follows:
New Testament writer's agree on
the supreme essential az Christians
.iy On love 10 God. and it's corrolate
love TO mon Christ hangs all IN. law
and the prophets. Paul puts :, above
learning. charity. even mor,yrdum:
ana makes faith and hope bow be-
Tore thoir queen. the greatest Of
;hcs" Is l"v" James crowns 10 as
/ the royal law which II you Keep.
y" maze done all John makes +;
IL" Christians credeutiuIs .,ye ilnow
~" have passed from death unto life
becaus" We love tho brethren
Peter builds n stairway Of pcarls:
iaith. virtue, knowledge. temperance.
/ patience. rodlincss. brothcrly kind
nesS-thcn the topmOst richest runc
lows In the text, h. calls i
| fervent. hot. boiling. burning Chris
! tianity is white hot passion. il
lives In love not logic. God appeared
! In the burning bush. pillar OF fire,
and melting mountain. John the
! Raptis, said lie shall baptiz. thee
! with Ere. Jesus said, I ann come 10
| send Are on the earth Rude, in
cloaucnc mon revolu;ionlzcd the en-
| pire because there sat upon them
! cloven tongues as Of IRE TOO much
/ we acclaim fcCorum ana Iccrv emo
! t!"n Only mcu OF burning hearts
! move the world. ana Christianity has
! won its way under tn" lead OF en-
| thusias's whom tho world called
mad. Christ. Paul. Luther Living
stone. Carey. Judsou
Devotion ASSURES Victory.
When woman wasted her llv-
| Christ gave her an enduring monu-
mcmt. When the Earl ~ Cardigan
with coo sabers behind him. rode
against the Russian army "A French
officer said, Magnificent but not
war Maybe not. but II was evidence
OF Il fevercnt devotion that assured
I victory. When thirty-two Americans
bowie knitted their way through 5000
M"Nicans. for the sole honor OF dying
I with their friends i'm the Alamo. il
may not have been war. but il fred
tho soldiers who set the stars and
I stripes above the conquered capital
I Of Santa Ana. when Charles Whit
| ticscy. ringcd in the ArEonnc FOR
I've days and nights, withou, food or
/ water, under the fire Of foes, and the
harrase OF friends, rcsoluteiy refused
TO surrender. Il may not have been
| war but II was Il sure prophecy OF
the fan Of the butcher OF Berlin
In the inscription on the marble
Son at Thcrmopylaa 90 tell at
/ Sparta we lie here in obedience to
1nyI n1;
law. not duty but Sparta When
Nelson said, England expects every
man 10 do his duty the word which
siinencd every soldiers sword arm
, was not duty but 'b,ngla nd
Jesus said violent men take the
kingdom, not parlor knights Luther
did not write per.umed notes on
pink paper to the Pope: he hurled
his heavy gauntlet full In his face
Savonarola did not say. II you
please. Prince Lorenzo. He said
BY the eternal God. you shall stop
TRANSLATION of word.
hut the exact translation OF the
word rendered fervent is stretched
out The same word used OF
Christs stretching out His hand TO
the ieper and To sinking Peter. y
stretching out love. love that
links the church into ono compact
solidarity, and then reaches out to
the lost. The greatest statesman
Of the century, Woodrow Wilson,
said: The mere saving of ones own
soul is a little job Tor u man In
deed think 1t impossible for a
Christian
"a traveller went up the pass TO
tho ST. Bernard Convent one night.
First on her vision gleamed the
lighted cross. not Yet the symbol of
the church. Later she felt the
warmth radiating from the open
doors and windows not yet tho final
and fttest symbol! One night
a traveller los, his way: the deadly
cold touched his brain. visions OF his
own heart-fre; then huge monster
sprang over the drifts, with glarinE
eyes and cleaning fangs and fear
full taions. He drew his knife and
struck, then fell. He walked I'm the
warmth and shelter OF the convent.
dead by his he'd. n great St Bernard
dog. that. with his hearts blood
oozing at every step, had found and
carried him home Let that be the
symbol Of Christian love.
Peter concludes Love shall
cover the multitude OF sins Whose
sins" Not ours. no, that: but the
Chris;-iovc in us viii beset blessed
blindness and gracious deafness to
tile faults Of our fellows In the
tropics the vast rOtting trunks OF
the trees so infect the air that no
human life could survive. hut the
orchids thrust their long floating
rootlcts into the air. cover the de p
formity Of the rotten houghS with
their festoouery. absorb and trans
form all the poisonous cfiluvia into
the beauty and fragrance OF the per
feet dover. Christian love is the
orchid of life"