Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-22

II there is only four / will one of the four;
If there is two, God helping me, | will
stand with the other one; and If there is
only one l claim II, 1 shall be one all my
life to stand alone for God and right.
oh! how we need Christianity like that.
You Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians,
and Episcopalians, when you get that sort
of Christianity and Barlow county knows
it, the question of saloons and dispense
ries will never be spoken of except in
whisper as the dirty gangs gather about
the jugs that are shipped to our town.
God Almighty give us a Christianity the
devil is afraid of; give US Christianity
that makes the devils gang look on and
say: Boys, don't tackle them, they will
clean you up off of the face of the earth"
Let's drink II, and patronize our jugs, but
don't ever mention saloons or dispensaries
for old Barlow county, for she has got
Christianity that stands for God and
stands against saloons, dispensaries and
sin"
There is not a one from President Roose-
welt down to the little negro tot that
walks in my lot that don't know how Sam
Jones stands upon all questions that bless
and curse and blight and help human life,
and thank God for 1t. sometimes think
the devil ought to get me for the way
have done, but want to live so that the
devil won't have me. oh, my God, If
ever walk across the crested waves OF
damnatiqn with it's seething fires tapping
around me. as stepped from one wave to
another / would tell them how l loved the
right. how fought for 1t and stood by 1t
and championed II while 1 lived. And If
1 shall go to hell at last, 1 will fight ev-
erything that the devil approves and keep
up a commotion in hell while eternity
lasts. l am against 1t.
Hear me, my -countrymen, today: Rise
and stand upon your feet, and 1 will
make thee a minister, for 1 have appeared
unto thee for this purpose" and / thank
God l have had a vision of the Christ,
He appeared unto me. The time was
when I was a pusillanimous coward. L
have fled when no man pursued l have
taken to my heels when danger was not
NIGH have skulked and hidden away a
thousand times, but since He appeared
unto me l bless God i have never shown
the white feather or run an inch. And
for this have 1 appeared unto thee" LIS
ten, for this purpose, That make thee
minister" Thank God for that. A minister.
1 want to tell you, the greatest benefac-
ton next to the Holy Ghost and the Di-
vine Christ that God ever gave this world
is a faithful minister. The greatest bene-
factor on the earth today is a faithful
minister. You may take all of your other
characters. You may talk about Clay
and Calhoun and Webster as the great
American statesmen; you can talk about
Roosevelt as the great president OF the
people, you may talk about Kaiser Will
liam as the unique personality OF Eu-
rope: you may talk about Queen Victoria
as the most renowned queen that ever
reigned, and they all go back into insig-
nifcance compared to the faithful minis
ter of the Son of God. Listen to me today,
If heaven were to come and bid me take
my choice, today had rather be stand
ing right where ! am with the witness
and with the soul and preach the gospel
as an humble minister of God than to be
Kaiser William of Germany, or Roose-
Welt of the United States. Bless God my
lob lasts till / am dead, and there are no
assassins on my track, and when my job
Is done down here then 1 will be a king
and a priest unto God and reign world
without end.
I thank God, brethren, that the earnest
preacher has the right of way now. There
have been times when they crucihed them,
cut their heads off, and imprisoned them
and beat them, but 1 thank God today
that a minister that breaches the truth
has the right OF way. Unfaithful as
have been, thank God, from the old At
lantic on this side TO the Pacific over
there and from the northern boundaries
of Canada to the southern chimes OF Gal
weston, have gone forth preaching the
gospel / have gone wherever pleased,
] have stayed as long as pleased when
I got there; / have said whatever l
pleased while was there, and 1 have left
when I pleased, and I thank God fel-
low has the right Of way if he has got