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

who took me by the hand and gave
his heart to Jesus Christ. I said, Il
thought you told me you didn't care
whether YOU went to heaven or hell.
He said, rive changed my mind.
I've been in hell for three days, and /
don't want any more"
1 said to him, What was 1T that
brought you here7"
He said, when ] told you that L
didn't care whether 1 went to heaven
or hell, and you said there are ohIy
two places to go so I'd have to go to
hell because l surely wasn't going TO
| heaven he said, 81 haven't been able
to sleep since, hardly. l just realized
! that all my money and everything else
wouldn't save my soul. he SAID
/ That's what brought me down mere
| because you gave me one right square
| between the eyes"
Then pray God to give power to what
| you say. and to carry on the WORK
after YOU are through There are spe-
/ cioI andowments YOU need: First
| clean hands, pure heart. DAVID salu,
eff I regard iniquity in my heart Goa
| won't hear me" And second, a Wise
| head. The church of God needs pap
| tism of horse sense roday-predcnel9
| and all the rest of us. Goou morse
sense, 1 tell you that's what we heeo
| "a wise head! - e..
[ Forces 10 Wln-NOu hSSN ~ - -
/ the souls of men and women, desire 10
soc them saved. That's what you have
| in vour home. If loved one is SICK
| Won desire to see them well. and you
! spend your money to get the best phy-
! stefan in the country. l don plAhI
Won YOU ought to have concern 10 see
! people well. but you ought 10 pe coi,-
| cerned to see people saved. Wouluh
YOU rather have everybody In ola AZ
Ilanta praying than cursing! Wouluh
Won rather have everybody going nome
sober than drunk? Wouldn't you rather
have every man and woman pure imam
| :r,nure? wouldn't the community ana
the nation be better? Certainly! l tell
Won. a nation of drunkards can't whip
| a nation of sober people nor a natlCh
/ of libertines a nation of pure people.
/ Never in the world! And the more
man or woman lives in sin. the less ana
less they become part or the hatloh-
/ any individual or anybody.
So we want company OF people that
are constantly alive. full Of faith dead
i'm earnest, thoroughly awake, always at
! II for Jesus Christ. That's what j love
| 70 see. Men have done wonderful Things
! for other things, why not for Religion!
/ [ haven't any sympathy for the man OF
woman that you have to drive to make
4 some sacrifice for the cause or Jesus
/ Christ Men do it for other things.
! Why Newton used to study all nlgh'
/ Just to get a thought or two ana frame
! it into a sentence. and Reynolds would
! sit with a pencil in his hand for thirty
six hours and refuse food and sleep Just
/ in order to write an ode you can read
/ in two or three minutes And carey
! translated the Bible so that three hum
! dred million people can read IT that
couldn't read it before. And Wesley used
to travel five and seven thousand miles
a wear on horseback and do most OF MS
studying and a great deal of his resting
! I'm that way. Peter Cartwright, the itin-
Grant Methodist preacher of Illinois-his
circuit was from Cairo down at the south
! to Galena on the north, and he used to
swim his horse five and ten times a
Idav He'd come to stream, undress,
tie his clothes on his back, swim MS
horse across, dress and ride on. preach
II ing the gospel to the people on the praf-
ries of Illinois, and If overtaken by night
he'd sleep out with the wolves and the
coyotes bowling around him. Hed oulId
fire, for it is known that wild animals
fear fire. That's what men did 80 preach
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now you
won't walk across the street to help
somebody to God.
| With all our, means of conveyances
automobiles ard trolley cars and sub
| v,avs and eleyateds we are so lazy let
I ting the world go to hell that we are
doing nothing, seemingly, TO save II.
| LYMAN Beecher heard John Newton.
That led him to his conversion; and
! then Scott heard Newton preach and
| that led to his conversion.
| One day peddler came up to man
home and sold him book. 1t was re-
ligious book He had boy and he read
that book and that book led to that
boys conversion. That boys name was
Richard Baxter, and he wrote Saints
Rest"
And Philip Godridge read Saints
Rest" and that led to his conversion
and he wrote, "The Rise and Progress
of Religion"
And Canon Wilberforce read God
ridges Rise and Progress of Religion
and that led to his conversion and he
wrote, THE Practical Views of Chris
tianity."
And Dr. Chalmers read The Practical
! Views of Christianity" and that led to
his conversion. He wrote the 'EXpul-
sive Power of a New Affection" and he
got the idea riding on stage coach
lacross the Rock Mountains by the side
of the driver He noticed when they
came to a certain point on the road that
the driver whipped the Off-lead mu lie
furiously. although he was pulling.
He said, why did you do that? That
mule wasn't baking, he was working
hard"
The driver said, THAT mule always
gets frightened at a certain projection
and I'm afraid he'll plunge and pull
this coach down two thousand feet n
the canyon, and if l hit him good and
hard just before we get there, he for
gets about it and goes by
SO DR.. Chalmers caught the idea OF
the expulsive power of a new affection
Get some good in and drive the other
out That's what God is trying to dc
for the world-that's just the opposite
of what the devil is trying to do. You
ought to put something good in to drive
the bad out and God Is putting some
thing good in you to drive the bad out
The devil wants to put disease ip and
God wants to drive 1t out; the devil
wants to set your house on fire, the
Lord will put the fire out. That's the
whole thing God wants to do people
good. I can't understand why you've
got to wear your life out to get people
to be decent! It's mo compliment to
humanity!
I don't know why I have to work Sc
hard to get people to see it's for your
own good; I'm not working for my own
good I'm saved. If 1 were selfish 70