Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-20

day.
Present-do il now. right off the reel.
That is what God wants. Make pres
ent. The most glorious present is not
the one that presents the most. God
wants us to make him a present and
God wants us TO show it by giving Him
our hearts.
When you give a gift. it has left your
hands; it has gone forever.
little girl was showing a friend Of
mine some Christmas present and the
friend said, How beautiful. but how
long can you keep them?"
They are presents; I don't have 10
give them back"
Yet there are some people that Will
snatch themselves back from God when
their ardOr cools a little bit.
A man will rob God a good deal quick
er than he will rob a fellow man. Yet
you can rob God of your money and rob
Him right and left and think nothing
of it.
And your bodies-that takes your head
as we'll as your hands. God wants brains
as we'll as muscles and bones. His bust
ness is the greatest in the world and He
wants your help.
Oh. is there any reasonable. rational
intelligent being that would refuse 70
give God his help? Would you refuse 20
give your country help? Then you don't
deserve 10 have decent person spit on
you.
/ repeat. Gods business is the largest
in all the world. He wants our help and
we ought to do our best and the best
things and the best planning in the
world for the Lord.
And God put so much emphasis on
loving God with the mind and the heart
by showing that God wanted intelligence
in prayer and ip effort as well as the
lift and pull with all your might. for
the Lord
The farmer shuts his eyes and throws
away his common sense If he still plows
with fork and stick.
Bishop Taylor of Africa said. Il prom
ised God that l would do as much hard
work and hard thinking for Him as one
man will do for another man for money.
That is what Paul did He made
converts in the house Of Caesar. Peter
did. Martin Luther did. when he was
toiling on his knees; and that is what
John Wesley did: when he used to ride
five to seven thousand miles year IN
his saddle. If there is a better way OF
carrying the work of God on now than
thtre was one hundred years ago, lets
d, it.
We found out that electricity was
better to light with than a tallow dip
We found out that battleshiO with
mer. enough and powder enough to wreck
kingdom was better than the old
wooden sailing vessel. We found out
that the trolley cars were better than
horse cars
Now. if there is a better way II
doing Gods work, let's do it. This idea
of ringing the bell on Sunday mornn G
to get people to come to church is past
it has gone on long enough.
In business, machines that will not
produce results-we get rid Of A III
If you have a machine installed an
some fellow comes in with something
that will increase the output and DC
crease the cost of product on. you will
rip out the old machine and throw it in
the scrap heap. You want up-to-date
methods in business.
In religion we keep on shooting with
the same old flint-lock, smooth-bore
muzzle loader. We keep lighting with
the same old tallow dips. We Kee,I
travelling over the same old course. We
keep rolling our eyes up to the ceiling
like a dying calf and say. "Su. ely it is
not the Lords set time to work
God Almighty's time is any time and
all the time.
1t was always Coils time to give US
machinery. Always Gods time to give
us steam. 1t was Gods TIM to give
us electricity long before Benjamin
Flanklin flew his kite. IT has always
been Gods time to give us labor-saving
machinery.
Give God your brains and then oil
them up and he will dig out a thou
sand things that you never knew were
there. That is what he did for multi
tudes and there is no reason why ne
cannot do the same thing for you.
Andrew, the humble, became the first
disciple. He was a world power for he
used his brain as we'll as his heart. o,
what a drawing power you will have
If you give your hands to God. They
would beat a porous plaster. Give your
hands and your faces will go with it.
And the face or every Christian ought
to have a light such as only God can
give. and If you have the long-faced
brand. get rid of it. You never got
that from God Almighty. That IS the
kind the Pharisees had and Jesus Christ
gave them a solar pleXus through the
eyes.
Give God your faces. shine up for
Jesus Christ. And when fellow
starts out to make a man of himself
without any help from God about the
first thing he does is to get a face
long enough to make a fre-escape out of
it.
And lots of people have been claim
ing that Gods yoke is easy ana his
burden light, but it profits them little
when they look into the mirror and
see what they do see. Why. the devil
would bank his fires and lock the doors
of hell to go to church and hear a fell
low like that give his testimony.
God doesn't want us to look as
though having religion was worse than
having a toothache. Let your light
shine for Jesus Christ. my friends.
Brighten up and see what the Lord will
do and if God has our faces he will
have our mouths.
Language-that is one of the greatest
gifts to mankind. The latest dictionary
gives four hundred thousand six hun
dred words in the English language.
They say Shakespeare had the most ex-
tensive vocabulary of any human being.
He could use fifteen thousand words.
The average man or woman uses about
one thousand Rufus Choate could use
eleven thousand words. and Milton could
use eight thousand words. Enrich your
vocabulary. Every word coined or copied
increases your capacity to express your
thought,
Someone has said. IF you will divide
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