Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-07

der TO develop our spiritual SiuS.
We've got a spiritual nature as we'll
as an intellectual, and so don't i've
without developing both. \ we'll
rounded man or woman is one TO take
care OF his mind and body and soul
Lord. teach us to pray" We are
taught to live. taught to eat, what not
to eat. and il you find out that some
thing you are eating doesn't agree WITH
YOU. why you are a fool to eat 1t, ana
you won't So. that's the way you
care for your body You feed II three
times day, you warm ii when IL Is
cold. you cool il when il is warm, you
send for the doctor when it is sick,
you give il medicine. That is the way
you care for your body-but what
about your soul.
Some of YOU haven't read the Bible
Some of you haven't prayed. Some OF
YOU haven't done the things that take
care of and feed your soul and build
you up spiritually. Prayer is a great
privilege. It is as much of a privilege
to pray as il is to eat when you are
hungry or breathe or drink water when
YOU are thirsty or haN the privilege
of warming yourself when you are
cold.
Lord teach us to pray. A wonder
full privilege that God gives us all
this, IL you are a stranger to prayer,
i pity you for you are strangers TO the
source of the greatest blessing that
comes to humanity. The greatest
blessing that comes to humanity is not
in being able to eat what you want on
buy the most sensible clothes. The
greatest benediction that comes to hu-
mainly. comes through faith in God
and through the spiritual being. So the
Lord wants you to be the best and If
you haven't had that you haven't had
the best yet.
You may not have to ask the price
of anything you buy, If you want It,
but YOU have missed the greatest bless
ing. if you have missed the Lord.
When / pray, / think as God thinks.
Some say l don't need to pray. They
might as we'll say. You don't need
anything to eat" You might as we'll
say. You don't need to drink water.
Try il and see, We will put IL to the
test and see how you get along You
won't get along any better physically.
than you will spiritually without
prayer.
All things whatsoever you shall ask
in prayer -(believing)-"ye shall re-
ceive."
The Lord says, 81 know you need it.
but there Is no way 10 get IL II you
don't ask me for it,"
God says TO the sinner. II know
you need salvation. but if you don't
need it bad enough to ask for it, you
can't have it
So. therefore, the Lord said. II know,
you need food. but if you don't think
you need il bad enough to eat it, that's
all right. That's your business"
The Lord says, II know all these
things now and l will be inquired Of
by the house of Israel to do this for
them"
While the Lord needs it, yet he says
I'D like to have you come and talk
with me about il. If you want me to
do 1t. talk it over and it shall be given
YOU"
And other people say. We'll don't
set what / pray for"'
All right, that may be true. but
don't blame God. don't blame the Lord.
If you didn't incline to do it, 1 ask
you TO stop. that isn't fair thing; 10
isn't womanly, don't blame God. You
might as we'll refuse to eat, then blame
God because you starve to death You
might as well go out here and jump
in the river, then blame God If you
drown. God made a fish for the water.
IL a fish tries to live on land it will
die. Keep it in your element and it,
will die
is a reason, You say. Il don't get
what l pray for" In John XIV, l read
III YOU abide in me and my words
abide in you. ye shall ask what we will.
and il shall be done unto you"
/ regard that as one of the most re-
markable verses in the Bible. III ye
abide in me- not gossip, not doctrine.
IF We abide in me-" not creed off
we abide in me, the living, reigning
Christ and my words abide in YOU, then
you who abide in me and in whom
my words abide shall ask what YOU
will and il shall be done because you
abide i'm me and my words abide in
you ,
See the inseparable connection, men
and women?-"If We abide in me, it
shall be done unto you"
In James ", I read, I'VE ask, and re-
ceive not. because you ask amiss, that
ye may consume it upon your lusts," or
vice versa your measures are your
lusts.
Don't pray any man or woman to
come and simply be saved and let the
world go TO the devil God asks you
to come and be saved and then 60 out
and try to help save somebody else.
That is what God wants you to do. He
don't ask you to come and be saved
alone. If he asked me to come and be
simply saved, I'd go. and let you go to
thunder, but he asked me to be saved
and then come and try and help bring
you to Christ. That is the plan of sal
walton. So "Ye ask, and receive not,
because ye ask amiss, that we may con-
sumo il upon your lusts."
Isaiah lix:I Behold. the Lords hand
is not shortened. that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that il cannot
hear But your sins have separated be-
tween you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you, that he
will not hear you
Now. il you want TO be saved and
God hasn't provided salvation. blame
God. but when God has provided saliva
ton and you are lost, blame yourself.
III you had wanted food and God
hadn't provided it, blame the Lord, but
when God has provided it and you are
too lazy to eat it, blame yourself! The
Lords sand is not shortened that he
cannot save, neither is his ear heavy
that he cannot hear"
couldn't save ~, then the Lord
wouldn't have I you, but if the
Lord has pro salvation and you
are not saved are then to blame.
The Lords not shortened that
he cannot save Either is his ear heavy
that he cannot hear. but your sins have
separated between you and your God.
and your sins have hid his face from