Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-23

l like to see a person look after their
health, after their physical condition.
The fact that Y. NJ. c. AS have gym
nasiums shows that that is necessary.
And one gerat trouble with our social
ed social service ana welfare work is
that we are looking purely after the
physical and intellectual and We are do
ing nothing for the spiritual side Of the
people So. that is all right You can
do for the physical and intellectual. but
i'm Gods name why neglect the spiritual
side of il?
You can have all there is on the
physical and intellectual that won't take
you to hell. You can have that and
be the hest man and woman in the world
for God. If you backslide, one hundred
people may lose their soul over your In
consistency. So take time for medita-
ton. prayer. to read your Bible, to go to
prayer meeting, to do personal work,
talk to people about their souls, time
to have family prayer. The time you
spend waiting on God is not wasted.
All right. then, if you don't pray. you
are going TO die and wither up spiritual
Nv. The time YOU spend eating food is
not lost and the time you spend pray
ing is not lost The time the farmer
spends blowing is not lost. If he didn't
pillow he wouldn't have anything.
Pure religion and undefiled wouldn't
sit i'm the shade and sing, "Think of the
Home over There" and when the Roll
Is Called Up Yonder I'll Be There when
YOU ought to be out in the field, dig
ging up gophers and shooting skunks.
The world is just chuck-full Of dark
spots and the Lord wants US to tighten
these dark places up. No matter wheth-
err you are a ffty-candle power or
one-candle power light. shine for God.
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preacher, I am going to shine as much
as Bill Sunday can shine.
So Jesus said. aye are the light OF
the world" What is light for? Illu-
mination. You put a light anywhere and
il will shine. That electric light will
blaze Just as bright in your parlor as
II will in a dark alley. SO will g, Chris
tian. they won't comfine their life simply
to church on Sunday morning, they
will shine in their home.
Suppose this light above my head
could say, IF you want me to shine.
nut me in a church with a carpet on
the floor and L will shine TO beat the
band" That light will shine no mat
ter where 1t is.
Light is a positive. Jesus says, we
are the light of the world" Christianity
is light, sin is dark ALI the darkness
there is in the world came from sin
and the devil.
Heartaches and groans and all, from
the devil. So. aye are the light of the
world"
So we are to be to this world morally,
what a light is to the darkness of the
world.
Jesus said, Eye are the salt of the
earth What is salt for? Preserva'
| tion.
A boy sees his father pick up some
thing and hold il to his nose. He says.
'Tt has begun to disintegrate." That 1T
has no effec ton the boy. But if the father
would say. cit is rotten" the boy would
reach for his nose.
That is why / use those good old
Anglo Saxon words. everybody under
stands them.
Abe Lincoln, writing a message to
congress, put in the word, sugar
coated
stanton said it would never do for the
nress. and. seward said it would never
do. ESQ
Abe said. "You put the word in that
will mean Inore.S
Seward worked. all night and he said
II can't find anything that expresses
IL so well as sugar-coated."
Abe said. 81 know It, that is the rea-
son / put 1T In"
So therefore when you say disinteg-
rating by the formation of new chemi-
cal compounds, that is just simply an
other way of saying it is rotten. What
makes a piece of meat rotten? The air
is full of bacteria. and the bacteria will
light on the meat. and they have the
power of instant multiplication. When
milk is drawn from the udder of COW
9s and a fraction is the temperature.
Now the bacteria there will multiply at
that temperature many times in twenty
minutes. There are over 1000 bacteria
in milk and we only know the names
Of four Of them. Hence they get down
the temperature and keep 1t at that.
Now. then. that is why you have diph-
liberia. The bacteria get in and lodged
in your throat. and they will build
across the windpipe and choke your
child to death. So they have to have
something that will kill bacteria. The
best thing is Cayenne pepper. Now 1t Is
done by antitoxin. the same as vaccina-
ton. Now, when the bacteria hit the
salt they die That is why you put salt
in meat, because that kills the bacteria.
and IL the bacteria lights on 1t they
die. and salt preserves. SO Jesus said.
I've are the salt of the earth"
If IL was rot for Christianity. our
communities would rot in hell and when
a man stands up and sneers and mocks
at God. I say he has not any right to
be called an American citizen. In my
mind, the man who would fight against
Christianity is bitter enemy. You
take away religion and Christianity and
see where your morals will be. There
fore, Christianity does TO the world
what salt does to meat, and we are as
decent as we are because of religion.
Then He said. I'VE are the leaven.
When he commenced to talk about maxi
ing bread every woman sat up and
urtcked up her ears. They wouldn't
nowadays because they Guy ii already
baked Tf this world was one big lump
OF dough. you could hide a piece OF
yeast i'm il no bigger than your thumb.
and If you gave IL time enough. II would
change that lump Of dough. Yeast is
for assimilation. Jesus said, aye
are the light of the world" eye are tho
salt of the earth" Preserve II. EYE
are the leaven."
He said. 81 will drop you down there
in that neigh borhood. and because you
are a Christian. l would expect you to
turn everybody to Christianity"
He said to the Phsrisees. You look
out for that bunch of crooks. you look
out for that bunch of heretics don't you
listen to their doctrine. don't you fol-
low their way, if you do they Will curse
you"
Beware of the leaven of these 'isms'
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