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

Breakers aheadn' She struck headon
and down she went and all but one were
lost What happened. Tt was the keep
er'S birthday. He had gone ashore ana
gotten some friends and whiskey, came
back to celebrate. They drank the
liquor and at o'clock they fell asleep
and it was toward morning before they
ever wakened.
No friendly rays from Eddystone.
Multitudes today have let their light go
out. Let your light so shine
A friend of mine was general man
ager of a railroad down south. They
had an accident and the railroad train
struck the street car at the crossing
and killed the mule team they hauled
the car with, and the street car COM
pany sued the railroad The fellow at
the crossing was a colored man and
the lawyer said, Now. Nose. look out.
Stick to your story. You give him
signal?"
He said, II done sure waved that Ian
term
"You stick to your story
81 will do that"
When he got on the witness stand
the lawyer said: "You were there
yes"
Did you wave that lanterns"
Yes, but she did not stop.
When they got through they gave the
decision in favor of the railroad COM
pany and my friend said. "Mose, you
did fine on the witness stand
He said, "That lawyer man almost
.flabbergasted me, and / was done scar
ed to death for fear he'd ask me II
that lantern was done lighted
Let your light so shine before men
that they may see your good WORKS.
I'd rather be a burning match IN the
right place than an arc light that hao
gone out. I'd rather lie man with Inn
tied intelligence telling the story than
to be a man with a brain as big as
hogshead and keep my mouth shut.
A friend of mine was lost in Mammoth
Cave He was in there for two days and
his mind began to give way. Al last ne
was found and 1t took six months be-
| fore he regained a normal condition, and
he said to a friend of mine. Il wouIo
have given 1900 for a candle only two
inches long, for it would have llghted
me out of the labyrinth to home and HE
and children"
What if you can't talk as we'll as any
body else, pray as we'll as they can pray,
YOU can live as wen as anybody, can't
you? Sure you can! Then, all right
| that IL what God wants. Let your light
shine before men," And the Lord wants
right living and not great praying or
singing. If you can preach, all right.
A Christians life is the inner man
and inner woman in that house OF clay
AS | told you / don't see you ana you
don't see me. You know what KIND oil
man lives in this house, and what you
make it do, 1t is not my arm that raises
il is the spirit within me. 1 can cut my
hand and 1t is not my hand that hurts, It
is the shirt in me- You can take an
opiate and the same thing is true put
you on an operating table.
James Y Simms was one OF the great
est benefactors of the human race, VINO
discovered chloroform and ether.
So. let the world know that Jesus
Christ loves sinners and they will re-
pent of their sins. And the lie OF q
true Christian is as much OF the PROOF
of the existence of God, as that hght
over my head is of the existence OF a
dvnamo. If the dynamo was not run
ming. there'd be no light above my head.
Skeptics may tear the Bible TO pieces.
thew NAV rail at God and mock at Jesus
Christ. but q Christian life is an I'M
answerable argument in favor OF chris
tianity. One explains and accounts for
the other. If It was not for Christianity
Won could not live as you do, and IL IS
Christianity that makes you live as you
do Light explains the dynamo and the
dynamo explains the light. God ex-
Mains Christianity, Christianity ex-
plains God. Let your light so shine be-
fore men"
You take away all the preaching and
Christian living In the world; but when
there is nightly little Christian living
and mighty little Christian preaching
that is true Christian preaching you see
why the world is going to the devil. AS
a matter of fact, there Is more rear
Christianity in the pulpit than there is
anywhere else in this country. can
name a whole lot of fellows that are
preaching the biggest lot of poppycock
this side of perdition and calling 1t re-
Iigion. Let your light so shine--don't
worry about mine
Some people are worrying about my
vocabulary. Don't lose any sleep over
my vocabulary, take care of your own
Let your light shine-never mind
mine
I read over in the fifth chapter Of
Luke, "They were washing their nets.
Lots of people want to wash other peo-
ple's Go home and wash your own.
That is ane reason why you can't catch
more fish for God-you rnet needs to
be scrubbed up and cleaned up. Let
your light shine-that is a personal
charge. No preacher is called to high
err standard of living than you are. Your
preacher has just as good a right to live
the way you live, and yet If he lived
the way you live. you wouldn't give one
snoop for his preaching.
Let your light shine. Some people
are so anxious for other people to shine
they forget all about their own lights
believe the millennium would be here
now if everybody would live the way
they expected everybody else to live.
believe it!
A preacher--Ohi he has got to preach
just so! God knows, I pity lot of
preachers o heavens! The gang that
want to run things in church because
they've got a little bit Of money, sit
there and dictate the principles and the
mannerisms and the methods-Oh!
Sunday school teacher has got to be
an angel without wings, and the deacons
and elders and stewards and every
church member has to shine like q
star. while they can live like the devil
Live for Him who died for you. And,
If by living for God and pleasing God,
you displease somebody else, I compli-
ment you. but l pity them. Shine for
Cod Let God be first in your plans,
first in your aims, first in your homes.
In your prayers, have a spirit-filled life
and you will be equipped for any emer-
gency He will help you to keep sweet
when you are provoked and He will help
you to he kind to those who treat you