Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-16

all others are false There is only one
way 10 be saved-that's through Jesus
Christ. That's all.
Then, show him what to do to make
Jesus his Saviour-that he must repent,
forsake his sins, acknowledge that Jesus
Christ was his substitute. Jesus became
his security; Jesus took his place on the
cross, and God let you escape the curse
of the law by your acceptance of Jesus
as your substitute. He took your place
and if you turn your back on Jesus
Christ you will be eternally damned, 1t
doesn't make any difference who you
are. God can't save you If you turn your
back on Jesus So you need the Holy
Spirit without him you can do nothing.
But please remember that the spirit of
God works through clean people and the
work of the spirit of God is to make you
feel that you need this salvation that
Jesus has provided. The Holy Ghost
doesn't save you; it's your faith in
Jesus that saves you. But the Holy
Ghost says to YOU, You're a sinner"
and then leads you to Jesus to be saved
The Holy Spirit makes you feel that you
need the salvation that Jesus Christ
provided when he died on the cross. It's
the work of the Holy Spirit to make you
realize that you need a Saviour. But II
doesn't save you; faith in Jesus Christ
saves you. That's why it's THE Father,
Son and Holy Ghost
And prayer! Two-thirds of the church
members, 1 believe, do not have family
prayer. l think it was the master stroke
of the devil when he got the church to
give up prayer. All of you have had
your breakfast, your dinner, you have all
dressed Gf you didn't and came out on
ha Cfr mt I
der how many of you have read your b.
Bile and prayed today. l just wonder
I'm not going to ask you for a show
of hands, won't do that, l never do
But here, 1 wouldn't need to ask you
how many have had a meal; you've all
had a meal. That's the way you care for
your physical body; all right, / wouldn't
have you do less.
You feed this old body three meals a
day, you wash 1t, comb it's hair, you
give 1t something to eat, something 20
drink, and If you took no better care of
your physical manhood and womanhood
than you do your spiritual you'd be as
dried up and useless and good-for-noth-
ing physically as you are spiritually.
Why don't you feed your soul? You've
got a spiritual nature the same as
you've got a physical nature yet you
don't feed II. You feed your spiritual
nature by prayer, by reading the Bible
by doing the things of God; you feed
your physical manhood with meat,
bread, potatoes, tea, coffee, milk-the
food that you have. All right, go ahead
and feed it but in Heavens name don't
starve your spiritual and moral nature!
Pray God to lead you to the right per-
son: you may have more influence with
some person than another but if you
have been lying about somebody, you
ought to say something, and if you're
headbeat and you owe a merchant
something, go down and pay your debts
and then you can talk religion to him.
If you've been talking about your
neighbor, stop and tell her that you're
an old gossip. Keep your old mouth
shut Then they will have some re-
spect for you. / want to say to you
that this old world would be a mighty
good world If everybody would mind
their own business. You bet your life!
1 notice these people that are always
butting into somebody else's affairs
don't even attend to their own If
they'd let other folks alone, they'd set
along a darned sight better. Pray God
to help you to save someone.
I was preaching il a town in Iowa
some years ago and 1 stepped out into
the audience and spoke to a bright,
snappy young fellow about seventeen.
His father had just died and the will
was probated and left this fellow about
hundred and fifty thousand. He
thought every girl in town was breaking
her fool neck to marry him. He was so
chesty you couldn't get within forty
feet of him. I didn't know this at the
time 7 spoke to him. ] walked down
and said
How do you do? Are you a Chris
tian?" and he gave me the cold Shout
der and he said, mo"
I said, You ought to be-"
He said, Forget it,
And I said to him. "Oh. a bright-look-
ing young fellow like you, with n good
suit-you didn't buy in Sears-RoebuclI
or Montgomery & Wards; that looks
! like a tailor made-why. a young fell
low like you, you don't mean that"
| He said. 81 don't care about your re-
/ Iigion, sir"
1 said. do understand you to mean
you don't care whether you go to
/ heaven or hell?'
! He said. NO"
| l said. well, all right go to hell
| then" l said. There are only two
/ places to go. and it's dead sure you're
not going to heaven"
And I said to hm, Now, look here
young fellow. If I live in this town
/ fifty years, I'll never ask you to be
Christian again; I'm through"
The next day / was out taking a
/ little walk with Mrs. Sunday and
met this young fellow. He'd been
/ down to a sale and bought several
head of high-blood cattle. and he was
/ driving them home. He paid five thou
sand dollars for one. And he was driv-
| ing them home and I walked down the
/ fbad with him mile, and he tried to
/ open up the subject of religion but !
/ side-stepped, and I talked about every
/ thing under heaven but religion. i
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