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

right on his side. The right of way. De-
livering them. have been in places If God
had not helped me I never would have
gotten out of. L promise you that much. l
have had the forces of hell arrayed
against me, and have had the powers of
darkness with their threats against me,
but 1 want to tell you 1 believe here's
one man that has gone through America
preaching the plainest gospel America
ever heard, and 1 beheve l will die nat
ural death. 1 believe l will breathe my
last peacefully upon dying couch and go
home to God. Got the right of way. /
want to say just one more thing, without
any egotism in ii at all: have not only
gone where 1 pleased but / have always
got a hearing. Never in my life have
preached to empty benches, empty ware
houses, tabernacles or empty churches.
have always had a hearing, and you don't
know what that's worth to a fellow that
has got something to say.
Now, St. Paul, you go forth for what?
Listen, ITO open their eyes" Brethren,
you will never get the world to see until
you get the world to looking. Open their
eyes. Get your eyes open, and Paul 1t
is your job to open the eyes of the peO-
pie. Say something that will get their
attention. Get up a sensation. My, my.
you know they talk about sensational
preachers today just like 1T was a sin or
a crime to be a sensational preacher, but
of all the sensational preachers that
ever stood before the people, St. Paul
created the biggest sensation. You know
what sensation means? When you go
into its chronology. its analysis. it means
life. and when you say a preacher is
sensational preacher, you say he is alive,
brother. Stagnation is the next station
this side of damnation, and when a fell
low gets there his baggage is usually
checked on through. God deliver us
from stagnation. Sensation is right on
towards God and a better life; stagna-
nation is right on the way to hell. God
deliver us from stagnation and give us
sensation-more life, more life. oh my!
sometimes go to hear brother who has
no sensation, and when I get up ana
start home I feel just like a baby had
slobbered in my ear, / know something
has gone in, but can't tell what it was.
Listen, "Open their eyes," and when you
are going to do something they are going
to look at you, and if something is go
ing to be said they are going to wake up.
1 have been preaching thirty years,
and don't believe ever saw thirty peo-
pie asleep while was preaching in the
thirty years 1 feed but don't lodge.
run a religious restaurant but never
keep any lodging rooms to rent. When
ever a fellow goes to sleep when I am
preaching / know he has got softening of
the brain or a natural-borned idiot. Open
their eyes that they may see something,
and what, listen, LEAD them from dark
ness to light"
LEAD them out from darkness into
light" and what else: From the power
of Satan unto God" Brethren, we are
going to swap kings Brethren, we are
going to swap emperors. We are going to
swap potentates. From under the power
of Satan unto God. And while 1 have
walked the streets of Gainesville with
the devil my master, my king, and doing
his bidding, to the wreck of my manhood
and to the ruin of my home, blessed be
God, thirty years ago this last August.
I snapped emperors, 1 snapped kings,
and 1 have from that day to this stood
in the interest of my manhood, the honor
of my Savior and the salvation of the
human race. Snapped emperors. Breth-
rem, for thirty years have had my gun
and my ammunition, and headquarters
has never given me an order that 1 have
not gone to the front 1 am afraid OF
the devil. 1 know him, but 1 am
afraid of his cunning and power. He
might get my boy, or might finally get
and damn a girl of my home. am
afraid of him, I am afraid of him. But
IL we could get every child of every
home to swap emperors, swap kings. and
come out with us on Gods side, believe
the devil would tell us goodbye and
go on back to hell Swap emperors. The
Lords my king.
Now listen, not only receive forgiveness
of sin, but hear me now. listen. but an
inheritance among them which are sane