Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-16

thousands of people who have got to
awaken and come to the rescue if this
old sin-cured world is TO be won to
Jesus Christ.
The first recorded words of Jssus
are. "Wist vet not that I must be about
% Fathers business?"
When he was twelve years of age he
was conscious that he was the Son OF
God. for he uttered those words in the
temple after they'd gone on their jour
ney. when they'd been up to Jerusalem
TO the Passover feast, and they missed
him and his mother went back to look
for him, and they found him in the tenn
pie discussing religion with the doctors
OF the law and he said to them, twist
yet not that / must be about my Faith
er's business?"
This is what 1 came into the world
for" And he has been calling men and
women ever since.
Oh. God wants mothers that will turn
pale over their children going down to
the devil. He wants parents that Will
weep. he wants friends that will grasp.
and he wants workers that will groan;
he wants church members and ministers
that will be concerned and forget TO
eat or sleep over people going to per-
dition and nothing being done to win
AAlGiil-blAN SGAhANG oll6 udg III Swell
Now there are certain gifts, If you are
going TO do il. First of all. salvation
because 1 want TO repeat. multitudes N
the church. / believe, have never been
saved. They don't know what a relig
ious experience is. / don't need to con-
sumo my strength and your time tell
ing you how good bread and butter are,
how good apples are. how good water is
you've eaten, you've drunk. That's
I L..
good, because you have eaten. That's
an experience. Therefore. If you have
ever had the experience you know there
is God. He answers your prayer.
Multitudes of people never have any ex-
perience; they don't know what it is.
They don't live so that God can answer
their prayer. Therefore, all they know
about God is second-hand-they get it
from somebody else.
You can so live that God can mani
| fest his power through you. Then you
know from experience that there is a
God, and you are not going to follow
all these isms and schisms that may
come laundering along to head you
away from Jesus Christ.
Jesus said TO Peter, when thou art
converted. strengthen thy brethren" SO
you are in no position to help anybody
else IL you haven't been helped your
self.
When I played baseball, the first
baseball team that ever took a trip into
| the south to practice down south and
get ready for the spring work was the
old Chicago White SoX Now they all
DO it,-but the first club that ever did
that was the old Chicago White SoX.
We went to Hot Springs. Ark. We went
down there and then we'd take the baths
and train down upder the southern sun
and we'd come back up the first of April
in the pink OF physical condition to
stand the long hard strain of the sea-
sons grind out on the diamond.
And one day we were strolling around
through the Ozark mountains and we
were going to a famous spring we'd
/ been told about. We'd wandered and
rOamed about. half dozen of us, and
We were tired and covered with per-
SEPARATION and VIC couldn't find the
| spring. We met a colored boy. He had
an old fintlock 'gun and a couple of
| squirrels he'd shot and an old yellow
dog trailing at his heels.
+ 1 said. boy, are we on the right road
TO the spring."
He said, NO, sir
said. Here's a quarter; will you
| take u.s."
He said, Sure. boss. the road you're
on now goes TO Little Rock"
| 1 said. I'VE don't want to go to Lit
tie Rock; we are looking for the
spring"
| He took us across a little mountain
stream and up a ravine and bye and
/ bye he said. There's the spring, sir"
We saw great stream, as large or
larger than my body, bubbling and
shooting from the mountain side, and
said to him. How did you know how to
bring US here?"
He said, Boss, lives right up
around there. and we gets our water
out of the spring, and l hunt the squir-
rels up there"
| He'd been there himself SO he was
able 20 take seven great big warm,
/ thirsty fellOEs there. So If you've
| found Jesus Christ as your Saviour,
you are able TO tell some body else about
lit-dOH't you see?. If you've been sick
and some doctor has given you medi-
cine that cured you, you know from ex-
perience that he's all right. so you rec
ommend him to your friends when they
are sick. You say he's a good man, all
right.
So. if Jesus Christ is any good. just
recommend him to the other fellow.
He'd like something good as well as
/ you do.
/ Then you need another thing.
II we've got 10 turn from every KNOWN
i sin if we are going to be any power
for God You can't have your own
way about everything. A lot of people
repeat the Lords prayer-"Our Father
who art in heaven, halIowed be thy
| name"-and never tell il to their dying
day Now that shows you that you
ought to do something out of the ordi-
nary.
/ have always noticed that everybody
considers himself licensed to impede
the progress of an ice wagon, but a
fire engine always has a clear street.
| Learn somethingi Get move on you
and all the devils of hell will begin
to howl. That's why you never stir
up the devil-because you're not doing
anything. so he's been asleep all the
time you've been on the job.
So you need Gods word. Pack your
heart and pack your head full Of the
Word of God. That's the sword Of the
spirit The sword of the spirit! You
can quote Shakespeare, Carlyle, Emer-
son and Herodotus to a Sinner and he
won't bat an eye, because that isn't
what the spirit can use, but when you
go with the Word Of God, that will
nut all the devils on earth to flight.
. Don't you see? So pack your heart
full of it. You want to use ii to~con-
II he's sinner. HOW