Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-09

prayer meeting instead of lodge meeting.
| am not against them | think they
| are doing a magnificent work. | pull
| my hat off to them for the magnificent
| things that they are doing. And they
had no reasts. no suppers, no dances, no
| card parties. all other Things had TO get
! out OF their way for God. When house
! clea ming comes at the same time as a
! revival YOU know which suffers most.
! And they had nothing that would pre-
! vent them from doing the work OF God.
/ You DO the same thing and see what God
/ will DO here in Atlanta
PULL Il GUN ON ME,
BUT NOT YOUR WATCH"
! The Lords cause had the right Of
way. They planned to be present at
/ the meetings. The last verse of Luke
shows how completely they fulfilled 1t,
! for | read. "They were continuously IN
/ the temple praising and blessing God
! They had all-day meetings. Nobody
was anxious to get home by o'clolE
/ They had no clocks to watch. | preach
ed in a church where they had a clock
screwed up on the front of the pulpit
and ] think the devil used the screw
Griver, You will never have a revival
when the people are watching the clock.
| 1t makes me sick to see some fellow
trespassing on his time. If you want
to pull a gun on me. all right but don't
pull watch.
They took time TO be religious
! They took time to pray. They took
. time 70 praise God. 1t is as lmpoEsi-
he TO pray earnestly when you are Oil
the run as it is to run an automobile
with dish water or pink tea. They TOOK
time 10 consider who God was. They
| took time to consider what God was DO
| ing for them. And the disciples gave
time and thought for God.
Then. another thing. The brethren
were there, too. l think if more men
turned out we'd have better meetings,
pot that men have monopoly on rell-
eion. God knows they haven't Judg-
ing from church attendance, heaven
won't be overly crowded with men, III
they nave enough to scare up male
chorus they will do well.
/ have no doubt that the dlsclpleS
had Just as pressing business as your
husbands-iust exact1y-but they found
time to lay it aside and give COO
chance every once in awhile. They were
there and they stayed through the
meeting. They didn't get up and hike
out. Some people feel uneasy some
people have the capacity of thlmble;
others q hogshead. If you can get Nh
ed up quick. why, I'll let you go.
NO DOGGY" HAND SHAKING
FOR WILLIAM A. SUNDAY.
Then. / find another thing. They
had warm. fervent meetings, no shak-
ing hands with two fingers, none OIL
this doggy kind of shaking. When
see woman shaking hands l Wonder
if she had a boil under her arm. ike
/ the GOOD old pole-hapdle fashion. II
III
and sawdust business! oh, gentlemen!
Warm meeting-no danger Of catching
/ cold by sitting down in some seat that
/ had lust been vacated by some member
! of the Official board. No ice water IN
/ that meeting, no marble heart, no klon-
] dixie. Nothing of that sort. A warm
/ fervent meeting.
! "And they were all with one accord.
They all wanted something. they al
wanted it intently. They all wanted the
same thing. And they all took hold OF
God in. earnest, and all together ana
thew would not let go, and they all
prayed in the same way. they all prayed
| for the same thing, they all prayed
with one accord No matter who pray
ed, everybody said. amen.
Nobody said NOW, l wonder II he
will pray all night? He will never get
through If / couldn't pray better than
| that. | wouldn't start None of that
spirit in it,. No, none at all. Nobody
criticised nobody found fault; nobody
knocked; nobody listened through their
prejudice; nobody grumbled. / wonder
/ in Gods name if we'll ever have an
other like it. Evidently we never have
for we have never seen the results, and
| it is a disgrace that you have to walk
back two thousand years in history to
get an illustration of Gods power to
save because the Church of God from
that day to this has not fulfilled the
comm :ssions they fulfilled then.
with one accord and in one place"
bet my life even if your own churches
are lined up back of this meeting. I'll
bet your own preachers are knocking II.
Be on the square now. Didn't you come
here in the spirit of a woman last
night AS she went by she said, 81
didn't know whether 1 would like you
or not but i do" So evidently she
came here determined not to.
Out in Iowa one time they went around
TO a woman who was very wealthy, and
asked her if she would entertain me IN
her home while I was there. She said,
"T don't know whether I'd like him or
not" Finally she decided to take a
chance on me. And so she did and her
prejudice dissolved. and she said. well.
I didn't know whether I would like
you Mr. Sunday"
| said, Gosh, I don't know whether
I'd like you" / said at would be
just as inconvenient for me to be en-
tertained in your home if I didn't like
you as if you didn't like me-" And don't
you think that because you can buy
Persian rugs, and sit behind a power
of wealth, and you have a button on
your table and press the button-z-z-z-z
and have somebody running; it is all
on your side, sissy.
CULTURED FOLKS CAN BE
CROOKS, SAYS SUNDAY.
"They were all with one accord We
need zone accord i'm the churches more
than we need high church steeples. We
need "one accord" more than we need
la pipe-organ backed up IN the corner.
We need zone accord" more than we
need cookstoves. We need "one accord
more than we need dishes. We need
zone accord" more than we need a grand
opera singer up in the choir loft scrap
ing calcimine off the ceiling and you
can't understand a word she says. We
need zone accord more than we need
multi-millionaires sitting in the pews
God isn't going to pour out his spirit
because some rich duck sits in your
pews. We need zone accord" more than