Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-30

adder. He can't do that
Is there some iniquity or accident
or habit in your life, some secret, some
thought. some impure longings, some
book? l will not read a book that will
sneer and mock at religion and God AL
mighty. I won't have 1t on my shelves.
And we ought to go through our homes
and have a religious revival in litera-
ture.
If some Of you people would go
through your homes and yank out the
books on your library shelves that have
no business there. and burn them, like
they did in Ephesus in the days of Paul,
some of you would not have enough
paper left in your house to bang your
old hair or wad a shotgun.
Something IN your family life. Isn't
that it? Overindulgence?
Oh, heed the appeal OF the govern
ment TO the people that ought to stop
gormandizing, and stop eating four
pounds of beefsteak, when you can get
along with half a pound. Do some
thing for other people! Let's begin to
comply with the requests. Oh, how we'd
be surprised to know how much we
can get along without, how much we
have today that we don't need.
What is the trouble? Do you keep
booze in your home? Go home this
afternoon, throw it in the sewer and
telephone the beer wagon that they
needn't leave any more beer. 1 know
OF a chauffeur q won't tell you whose
car he dTives) who came forth ana
gave his heart to Jesus, and he's
brought five other chauffeurs down,
and he phoned the beer wagon yester-
day and said. "You needn't leave any
more beer at my home. I've cut it
out. I have been converted at the Tab
ernacle."
You go to bars and set there and fill
your old hide up with booze and when
you go home. you are soused and have
got a load on you that would sink
battleship.
What IS the trouble? Is it selfshness,
intemperance, faultfinding with the
preacher because he SKINS you and tells
you where you're wrong? You admire
the skill of physician that comes and
tells you what's the matter with you,
and no matter how bitter and nauseat-
ing his medicine is, you will take it
and it will taste like ice cream soda, If
it will only help you, but when the
preacher tells you you are wrong, why
don't you thank God that he had the
courage to do it?
p Something in your social life? Is
that it? You can't make a success by
serving God and tripping around with
the gang that some of you go with.
Is 1t envy, evil speaking, lying? OH
it takes a big man or woman to see
other people succeed and not raise a
howl about it. Envy is one of the
greatest robbers in the world. If you
can't afford an automobile. you can
ride on the Fifth Avenue bus forNten
cents, and if you can't afford Pierce
Arrow. get a "Tin Lizzie
Now, what is the trouble? If you
don't like the smell of gasoline, don't
knock the fellow who can afford
it; take your trolley ride for a nickel,
don't growl, don't growl!
If some woman can afford to wear
silk and you can't, what is the use of
knocking her and saying, "Shes no
good?"
Poppycock--such darn spirit you have
got around this country-foolish.
IF you can't live on the Avenue, be
content where you can live i can't
afford to live there, but l am having
a good time / am not sore at the fell
low that's got money enough to live
there. The Lord bless him.
I'd rather hunt my own game than
bark with the devil's pack at the foot
of the tree.
Cursed for what
They DID Not Do.
Envy, that's the trouble! Search your
self by the lighted candle of Gods
truth Sin cherished. cancels the bless
ing. So, make up your mind that II
you keep sin, you can't have the bless
ing, and If you want the blessing you've
got to give sin up Now make up your
mind which you'll keep. That was true
in Jercmiah's day and it's true today,
so make up your mind which you want.
IA
to give mp the devil. SO make your
choice, whether you want to go to the
devil or to heaven.
Iniquity persisted in making the prom
ises of noneffect, Don't insist on
living In sin and then growl at God
because He doesn't bless you. It's your
fault and not Gods. So to Israel,
so to us Instead of the blessings, they
became curses to the Jew, because he
lived contrary to what the Lord told
nim to live. 1t may mot be so much the
doing of what God tells you not to do
as il is the not doing of what God
tells you to do.
There are two pillars that support
the gospel. the thou shalt nots" and
the thou shafts" Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou
shalt not kill Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord in vain.
GhOu Shalt love the LOru thy OOu
with all thy heart. with all thy soul
and with all thy strength. Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as myself.
The trouble with lot OF people to-
day is that it is not the things that
God tells them not to do that they do,
but it is the things that God tells them
to do that they don't do. Curse We
Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse
We bitterly the inhabitants thereof; be-
cause they came not to help of the
Lord, to the help of the Lord against
the mighty"
God cursed them not for what they
did. but for what they did not do that
God told them to do. They did not come
up and help God. God says, You are
cursed because you did not do it,
That may be your trouble You are
refusing to apologize to somebody. My
friend Campbell Morgan was preaching
in England. and a lady came up to him
and said, DIR. Morgan, can't you tell
me what's the trouble with me?"
He said. No ma'am, 1 am not a ply
stefan"
Sin Is Doing What
God Says Not TO DO
She said. 1T is not a physical dis
ability with which 1 am afflicted, it is
a spiritual malady. -Four years ago, I
lost the JOY of salvation"
He said, Bless the Lord"