Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-20

ing that lie should do what He pleases
with that man"
Moody jumped to his feet and said.
"Narley, by the grace of God, I will
kbe that man.; and God took him and
hurled him as a mighty thunderbolt
and shook the world for Jesus Christ
with His truth.
And are YOU willing 10 let God my
friend, have a chance TO show through
you to the world what religion is? The
college shows through its graduates
what they can do. the medical school,
the law school. Let God show the world
through you what Christianity is in the
world. He is helpless to do it and that
is all He is doing and the only way He
can do il.
Now, are you willing TO let God say
where you shall live? Are you willing
to let God say whether He wants you
here. in China, in Japan, or on the Ma
lay Peninsula? Are you willing to let
God take your body and do as He
pleases with it?
In this you have got the greatest
question ever put to a human being, and
think the angels are leaning over the
battlements of glory and they are look
ing down to see how you will answer
the question when it is put up TO you.
BY the mercies of God!" At the be-
fellow who was wonderfully stirred. He
said, This union must and shall be pre-
served The rebellion must be put down,
no matter what the cost is in blood and
in treasures"
He was willing that every able-boded
man Of military age should go on the
fring-lne and become bullet-meat for
thirteen dollars a month. and eat SOW
belly and hard tack and sleep in the
trenches and the storm and the sun
shine, but he never went a step.
Oh, God has a warfare on hand. 1t is
right against wrong, heaven against
hell, Christ against the devil virtue
against vice. sobriety against drunken
ness God has a warfare on hand the
same as our nation has a warfare on
hand, and God and the country are call
ing for volunteers. God doesn't want
to draft you il you are not willing to
come. 81 beseech you by the mercies OF
God"
And il God could only get possession
of the flesh and blood that belongs to
Him. what a commotion He'd create on
earth and in hell. And if God had some
of your feet, He'd point your toes in diff
ferent directions from what they have
ever gone before. God would make some
of YOU fellows walk straighter in poll
tics and religion than you ever have
done in the past. take il from me.
BY the mercies OF God ! beseech
YOU. therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of Cod" He would make some of you
begin to wear out shoes, making things
right that have been wrong. He would
keep some Of you busy carrying back
goods and money that you have SWIM
died somebody out OF. that you have ac-
ouired by crooked practices or cunning.
Some of you haven't been TO prayer
meetings for years, and you'd give the
preacher nervous prostration If ne saw
your old map walk into the church ana
give a testimony. It's a Gods fact. III
bet my life some Of you haven't oeeh 10
church for a year. now on the square.
"Rv the mercies of God. 1 beseech
YOU" If God had the feet that belong
to Him YOU wouldn't let the devil use
them, trotting around. gossiping about
vour neighbors. No. II God had your
feet, you'd find it easier to walk toward
the church, harder to go towards the
haunts of sin, and you wouldn't De SO
busy that you couldn't get down on
YOUR knees and look up to heaven ana
you'd make every step of your Ire con-
form to the Golden Rule and the ser
mon on the Mount. Some people do all
their work for God with their mouth.
God wants that part Of you that Is on
the ground as well as up in the air
What would Uncle Sam do with an
army if he did not have control OF tner
feet What would he do ii all they
did was to sit around the camp ana
watch the bacon fry and chew the rag
How many battles would he win with
bunch like that?
some of Won have never done any
more for God than that. Then, l know
some preachers whose study cushions
mead half-soling more than their shoes
Yes-aIl l have said about the preach
ers. I can say it about you and add 100
ner cent and then double it and couId
not get within gun shot of you.
If God had full control of our hands
al beseech you. by the mercies OF GOO,
he would present your bodies as a Nv
ing sacrifice"
II God had full control of our hancs,
how many things you would let go
of that you are holding on now with
death-like grip. What have you in your
hand that God wants you to drop:
There are things in our possession
that we must let go of or they will
drag us to hell. How many dollars nave
Won. raked in that belonged to some
body else? Oh! give your hands to Goo
and see how quickly he will pry opSn
your fingers.
Some people are working so hard with
the muck rake they are going TO lose
the crown that God has stretched above
their head
friend of mine started to learn type
writing. His fingers were like STICKS.
He became so proficient that he can rat
tie off one hundred and twenty words
minute on trial. You let God have your
hands and He will train them to do
things that will make the angels won
der and look with jealousy.
How many burdens you would be lift
ing on that day. you would never touch
YOUR fingers to. How many tears you
would see that you would stop to wipe
away if God Almighty only had your
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