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SACRIFICES ASKED
SOMETIMES HARD,
NEVER UNREASONABLE
Here Is Full Text of Sermon
With Which Evangelist
Closed Second Week of His
Campaign in Atlanta

SundayD
In Romans, the twelfth chapter anC
2 The rirst verse. Il beseech We. therefore
/ brethren. by the mercies of God, that "
] present your bodies a living sacrifice
/ holy. acceptable unto Cod
We nave here a call for volunteer!
and not an order for draft The army
4 Of God is never made up Of drafted mel
and women God has never owned Z
slave. All the service that weighs al
ounce in the sight of God is that which
\ is prompted by love. IL isn't call TO z
hard duty but TO a glorious privilege
/ IL is not a command or bid 20 la
bOrer to take~a hoe and spade and 20
/ out in the field and dig. but a loving in
vitation to a son TO do the thing that
| can express your gratitude.
See the motive that prompts our ac
\ tion 81 beseech you by the mercy oil
I God''-not the judgments OF God. moi
the seventies of God. not the anger OF
( God. 1t is Calvary TO which the text
points and not Sinai 1t is the Gospel
I and not the law through which Co
+ makes the appeal. and the compelling
/ force is gratitude. not fear
| No child will ever do its best II II is
/ kept half scared to death for Tear II
Will be licked IL il doesn't and if il II
doing its best. and you appreciate that
/ il will encourage il to do better.
/ We are not commanded to do IL. but
we are entreated. and that's the amazing
thing. God has the right and the power
] TO make you or me do anything He wants
done. but He isn't dealing with you In
thar way. not at all. He is giving you a
I chance to show Him that you love Him
by the mercies of God What dc
they mean to u.s. Has God been good TO
/ Us. and if so, how good has He been and
/ now much? Have we anything 10 De
grateful for. and il so. what?
| The man who loves his wife. he viii
take time. no matter how many bust
ness cares and duties crowd in upon him
to sit down and think back and recall
how good she has been, the sacriflces
she has made, and If he does that his
heart will never grow cold and you Will
never find him whining around the
courthouse for a divorce.
And the professed child of God that
doesn't do a similar thing for the LORD
he isn't worth a nickel-a-bunch and Coo
knows that and God wants to keep our
hearts warm by having US frequently
consider what God has done for us and IL
doing. and theonly thing that he can in
spire gratitude is His goodness.
Let's 20 back and see If We have any
thing 40 be thankful for. if God has done
anything for you worth considering. !
don't care. you can sit there "a vile SIN
ner. and vet God Almighty has done
something for you that is worth consid-
ering. although you have never taken
His name on your lips except in olas-
phemy and derision.
All. "by the mercies of Cod Let's 90
: a little counting Mark Guy Pierce was
out sne evening with his little girl. IL
was a beautiful night, without cloud
| in the Sky and the stars were twinklinG
and she threw her head back and said
"Oh. papa. look at the stars. My aren't
/ here lot of them! /, 2, 3, {. 5. 6, -
lis. 1875. 1876" She said, I'm tired.
didn't know there were so many
They have counted sixty-five million
and haven't started yet. The mercies OF
/ God-you might as we'll try to count
I the drops of water in the ocean. You
might as well attempt to count the
grains of sand by the seashore. You
might as well try to count office seek
ers after a presidential election.
But ii won't hurt you to try, and
think il will help you little bit The
man who has a little God is the one
who never takes time to consider what
great things God is doing for him; and
/ il you will go back for just one year
/ TO find a place 10 begin, you Will cry
/ of Thy tender mercies."
An old lady one time heard sermon
that filled her heart with gratitude for
the goodness of the Lord. She said, i
have never tried to count His mercies
/ in my life and / am going to Just spend
| tomorrow doing nothing else"
I'm one hour she was confused and
a; noon she was tagged out, and she
went to he'd at o'clock, tired, and said
They come three times raster IMAM
can count them"
! So We sit down and sing. Count Your
MANY Blessings One by One; 1t viii
Surprise You What the Lord Has Done.
A visitor was walking through the
beautiful and well-kept grounds or ar
insane ASYLUM out west and he heard q
voice shrieking TO him from the fourth
story. Looking up. he saw man
standing at the grated bars. shaking
! them. and he shrieked down to my
/ friend and said, Stranger. did you ever
thank God for your reason?'
/ He said it startled him and made him
think. I'D to that time he couldn't re-
call that he ever had, but he never al
lowed day to go by after that that he
! didn't do it.
Have YOU ever thanked God for your
/ reason? Did you ever do it, or you, oil
/ YOU? Oh. if not, I beg of yOu' begir
4 There are people just dS sOOu as
/ vous Wonder in the insane asylum thai
don't even know the mother who gave
! Them birth and at whose breast they
/ nursed oh, how grand It is TO b'
I clothed and in your right mind and not
: 'ncked ND in a mad-house,
think IL would be thousand time:
/ easier to follow my child TO the grave
/ ward and listen to the clods fall with
/ unutterable agony. and I'LL the grave
/ rrvseFf. than 70 see one of them lose
! his mind and pound his brains out IN z
/ cell in an insane asylum.
| Did YOU ever thank God for your eye
| siRht2 Whenever YOU look into the
/ sightless eyes OF a man or woman vol
/ ought to thank God that lie has givei
| YOU eyes to see this old world, 1lleC
| with beauty: 20 see the rose and the
| sky the waterfall. the snow-covereC
/ mountains. the sunrise, the sunset. tn,
? rainbow and the storm cease. ON. neve
q. again look into the face Of your mother
! OF YOUR children without thanking Coo
{ that you can see. while others just al
good as you are cropping and feelin.
their way to a hearse.
BY the mercies of God" Did YOU
4 ever thank God that you can hear--heal
7 the voice of your friends. your dear
ones your wife or your children. and
! she sound of little children at play; tina
I YOU can drink in the melody with which
/ God has Tlled this whole world: heal