Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-21

me an example of what He wants me
to be and do Get out and lift this
old, sin-cursed world into His arms He
that saith he abideth in Him, ought
himself so to walk even as He walk
ed"
And let him deny himself. Say No
when saying Yes means sin. Say Yes
when saying mo" means heaven. Say
mo" when saying Yes" means that the
angels cry and the devils cheer. No!
No! No! Say NO so loud that God will
stop making world and look down to
see what you are doing. That's what
it means if you are going to follow
the Lord.
Sometimes you get annoyed, aggra-
waited. Certainly, great Styx! Some
times you want to knock people down
l do about every two days. See some
guy l want to punch. But tell you
if you do, then you will kick over in
two minutes all the good you can dc
in years. Deny yourself! Put the kick
ing straps on angels and starve the
devil. Deny yourself, take up your
cross daily" That shows when you
get religion it will stay with you al
the time.
Don't be a saint on Sunday and a
devil on Monday Don't shine for Jesus
Christ like a California sun on Sunday
and then be like London fog for the
rest of the week. No! No! No! And
live so that a fellow won't have to tag
you to church and watch you take COM
munion to find out if you are a. profess
sing Christian. No! No.
And you'll take religion wherever you
go, you will take it with you on the
train-yep!
You will take it with you on the
street, in the street car-yep!
And the cars, when you go away
from home you will take religion with
you and your wife won't have to hire
are nthe square.
Let him deny himself. take up his
cross daily" That will hold him steady
in a horse trail.
That will keep him from making
eyes at some other woman-yep
That means that his religion will be
as much a part of him as his smile
or his hair-yep!
If some of you women up there would
take all the hair off that isn't growing
on you, you'd look like humming bird
in a rain storm.
Take up your cross daily. That is
uniform continuous performance for
Jesus Christ. Oh, the world, L think,
hadn't been for this miserable, up to the
mountain top today, and down in the
valley tomorrow.
Tells Story of Rooster
Who Crow DISCOUNTED
So you be the pollen of inspiration
which fertilizes the spiritual activities
in everybody that rubs elbows with you
he
one night. Every time he'd crow he'd
throw his legs out of joint and they'd
have to go and set him up before he
could crow again.
That's the way with a LOT of people
and what they do today. They knock
over what they did yesterday, and many
a poor preacher has got to put his whole
time in chasing around, setting them
up on their feet, patting them on the
back, getting them good natured so they
will come to church on Sunday morning.
The Lord help you get where you won't
keep falling off the fence all the time!
Dear me! If you are going to follow
Christ, nail your flag of resolution to
the mast, with nails that clinch and
that all hell can't pull out, then you will
win for Gods truth. Be like David. He
said, 81 will bless the Lord at all times. -
The greatest thing said about Job is,
THUS did Job continually"
He kept going for God as steady as
an eight-day clock. No wonder he kept
the devil to and fro going up and down
the land. The man or the woman whose
religion is of the evergreen variety and
not the grounding brand is going to win
in this old world.
Take up your cross daily, determine
your life will count every hour, every
day, week. month and year. Christiani-
ty is continuous performance for God
and his truth. Keep close to God AL
mighty in the battle and the warfare of
Christian life and you will have plenty
of chance.
Christianity is not drifting down the
rose-lined shores of time to the sound
of sackbut and flute and cornet and
brass band. Put on the whole armour
of God. Being a Christian will furnish
you with ample scope for all the cour-
age and all the backbone and all the
grit and all the vim, ginger, tabasco
sauce and pepperino you've, got pumping
through your old veins.
The Cross wasn't covered with velvet
No sir! Oh, 1 want to tell you, my
friends, the knots and the splinters were
IlOl ny JdCh IOSeS anu
nots when Jesus hung on the cross. He
took up the cross.
When He did there was no crown in
sight for Him. To bear the cross means
to keep with Jesus Christ, to be on
Gods side in every question. That's
what it means to follow Jesus Christ. If
you are not willing to be a Christian IN
Christ's way, in Gods name stop pro-
Tossing that you are one at all, for you
are not yourself, a four-flusher, you are
a fake.
In the picture that Jesus gave US.
He just divided the world into two
classes The saved and the lost. No
shading from black to brown and brown
to gray. Just pure white, jet black.
Saved-lost. Just two classes in all this
world.
Those that are on the right side, He
said to them, "Inasmuch as We did it,"
and to those on the left He said, 'Inas-
much as We did it not"
Well, there are just two kinds of
that will stand by it
and those that won't. The others, moth
ing doing. There are just two kinds
of people in the world-saved-lost
That's the way God divided the world
You and I subdivided; rich. poor
black. white; and today our only chance
is to get out of the wrong crowd and
get into the right one, if we are not
there, and to decide we will stop fol-
lowing the devil and follow Jesus Christ
and do His will.