The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-08-31
Arise And Follow Me-
Wednesday Nights
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preached on the text OF Christ's words
TO cripple, Arise and Follow Me. b"
His theme was to urge all the unsav-
ed, spiritual cripples, to lay down
whatever sin or fault kept )esss out
of their lives, and to follow him. run
ming and bounding toward the gates
of heaven as did the physical cripple
run and bound in the steps of Jesus
toward the gates of the old Judean
temple
Bob Jones took of his coat aad im-
vited every man in the audience to do
likewise Then with whole scaled
ardor he attacked the devil and the
devils works which are keeping peo-
pie from God.
Bob jones said it was a mighty hre
thing to read "In His Steps," and
other good books of that sort and it
was beautiful thing for a Christian
to ask himself before every decision
he made, Would Jesus have done
thiS?" But that is not sufficient. The
man of today has troubles to con-
tend with and decisions to make that
Jesus never had, and that the bible
makes no mention of because they
were not possible at tina time the bible
was written.
Jesus Christ" said the evangelist, F"
was not married man, he was not a
father, he was not in business, espec-
tally the modern kind of business. -
So it is impossible to decide from the
records he left, just what Jesus would
have done in every case with which
the modern Christian has to deal. So
it takes something stronger to keep
a man right than trying to follow Je-
sus' footsteps AS HE SEES THEM
WITH HIS OWN FINITE EYES.
The right thing to do, the safe thing
to do, is to have your soul so filled
with the divine spirit of the Almighty
God that His all-powerful hand will
keep you straight because you will be
so like Christ that you can not do the
wrong thing.
The speaker related an incident OF
An old couple in Alabama who had
been married fifty years. The man
was small blond, the woman large
brunette. Their features were of en-
tirely different types. Yet these peo-
pie had lived together so long, think
ing the same thoughts, cherishing the
same ideals and ambitions that they
actually resembled eac hother in their
looks. To look at one of the couple
instantly reminds one of the other
No doubt you, reader, know of a
couple who so resemble each other
because of constant companionship.
Said the evangelist, off two old peo-
pie, originally looking entirely differ
ent each from the other, could a
few years becme so like each other,
a man or woman can through con-
slant companionship and communion
with the spirit of Jesus Christ be, so
they will actually resemble him. whe-
Their or not in feature, certainly in the
Icaste of the soul. And as Jesus Christ
could never be in doubt for an instant
as to right or wrong, His mudane
counterpart possesses the same in
stincts.
But all Church members are not
Christians and are not filled with the
Holy Spirit And there is not a Christ
an retior on the face of Gods green
earth. America is perhaps he near
est to a Christian nation but Bob
Jones begs of you not to Islander God
by calling it one.
He attacked the modern craze for
popularity among people. Many sac
rihce their souls for the passing praise