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

don't shine, it is the light that shines.
| So we have to light lot of very re-
/ spectacle people. but they never shine
! for God because they have never been
| born again for God. You take a man
that stands up and is successful in life
! and honors Jesus Christ, you've got a
bigger drag for God than some blear-
/ eyed. bloated-faced. ragged bum, because
! you have a bigger influence for the
Lord And it is because the devil can
make himself as an angel of light. that
| the battles against him have lasted all
| these years.
| 1t doesn't always suit the purpose of
the devil to be painted as he really is.
so he transforms himself into the name
of light. If you could see the devil you
would let your light so shine before
men.
Now. let your light shine. The world
is in darkness about God, it is our bust
ness to set it right, to show what God
is doing for us and if you are full Of
power and influence on the side of Jesus
Christ, you will never be ashamed that
Won took your stand for the Lord.
When a man joins a secret society. the
| first thing he wants is button or
badge Why? / am a Mason. an East
ern Star. All right, that is the way we
do. Sure! / commend you for that
| spirit of loyalty. Now then, let the peo-
pie know that we are on the side or Goo.
We ought to be just as anxious to let
the world know that we are on the side
/ of Jesus Christ as a man is to let you
| know that he is a member OF a secret
! society.
Let your light shine in your home. IL
a man gets religion, the people that live
with him ought to be the first ones that
| find it out. If he gets rheumatism, they
are the first ones that he lets know. I'm
| less there is something daily in your lie
that reminds them that God Almighty
| is with you, then you've got the wrong
brand, that is all / can say. II you
don't brighten your home and brighten
the lives of those that come in contact
with you. you're on the wrong track.
| I hate to see people that are scared to
death over religious enthusiasm. hate
to go down to the haunts of the devil
! to find enthusiasm and smiles and joy.
! Go around to social, and you see ev-
erybody smiling go to a prayer meeting
and they look like a bump on log.
Where did you ever get the idea that
to be religious is to be gloomy? Great
peace have all they that love my law.
| will keep them in perfect peace. A
saloon keeper if he can get more happl-
ness out of keeping a saloon and serV-
| ing the devil, the Lord says, "All right.
| LET your light so shine before men
that they may see your good works ana
elorify your Father which art In heav-
en-" so don't keep turning it down al
the time. Keep shining for Jesus Christ
so that others may light their light in
| your tabernacle for the LORD, ana the
best way to make your loved ones want
| religion is to let them see what IL ooes
for you. See?
Let your light shine In business They
ought to see by dealing with you that
Jesus Christ is with you at the store.
Have weights and measures that won't
shrink in the day of judgment. No per-
son ought to be anything simply to
make money. The money you make that
way, costs you too much, the money
that a saloon keeper makes by selling
booze, costs him too much. The money
your husband may make by--if you have
any money. and you had to lie to get.
| it costs you to much to get 1t! Don't
ever sacrifice principles and religion and
morals and decency in order to make
anything in the world.
Holy I don't mean advertise holiness
on your letterheads and envelopes. Do
your customers know? Does the milk
man know you are Christian? Does
your hired man know you are a Chris
tian, and your chauffeur? Does the
maid in your home know? The butcher,
where you buy your meat, know you are
Christian? Or are YOU too stingy anG
make him deliver ice on Sunday? Tho
newsboy that throws the paper on your
doorstep, does he know that you are a
Christian? Your swasherwoman, either?
II you had to go to heaven on her tes-
timony, could you make it? Do your
clerks in the store know that your hus-
band is member of the church, be-
cause he is kind and considerate in the
way he treats them?
But if he is a member of the church.
and makes them live below the hunger
line, the preacher can preach the best
sermon in the world, but they will
sneer over the hypocrisy that you call
God
LET your light so shine before men
that they may see your good works and
glorify your Father which art in
heaven" All these have all the right
to all the help they can get from you
and me. Let your light shine in your
neighborhood, be an attraction for the
cold and the hungry. and the weary who
are lowering to catch something of
the benediction which only comes
through the human race through per-
sonal touch with God Almighty. BE
something they can warm their hearts
at Don't try to see how much you
can get and how little you can give.
That has cursed the church in all ages
They go to church on Sunday morning
TO get all they can, and the preacher
has to wait.
We all can't preach like Peter, no.
But we can all BE barley loaves and
fishes to feed this old hungry world
with: we can all speak kind words, do
loving deeds. encourage the preacher,